Wow, 2 days after 'International Women's Day' (!!!) and the very day after the day reads out names of UK women killed in the parliament, #FionaBruce tries to play down accusations of domestic violence against Stanley Johnson. The problems with Bruce’s comment were obvious, as Twitter users highlighted:
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Stanley Johnson was a wife beaterįiona Bruce: "She said that Stanley Johnson had broken her nose and she'd ended up in hospital… Friends of his have said it did happen, it was a one off" Bruce leapt in to provide some ‘caveats’, including:įriends of his have said it did happen, it was a one-off. BBCQT: defending a violent misogynistĭuring a discussion around Johnson’s potential knighthood, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown brought up him breaking Wahl’s nose. The most serious publicly known incident of Johnson’s DVA was him breaking his late wife Charlotte Wahl’s nose.Ĭlearly, even by the UK political system’s low bar, the former PM’s father is not fit to sit in the House of Lords. Similar allegations were made by the political journalist Ailbhe Rea, while another journalist, Isabel Oakeshott, described him as “handsy”. Nokes, the chair of the Commons women and equalities committee, accused him of forcefully smacking her on the bottom and making a vulgar comment. In 2021, the Tory MP Caroline Nokes publicly accused the former MEP of touching her at a Conservative party conference in 2003. However, the other problem with Johnson’s potential knighthood is that he is clearly a misogynist, sexual predator and perpetrator of DVA. He also talks of "the browns, the blacks and the yellow races", before claiming "there is a really serious differential in the fertility of the immigrant population". In this shocking clip, Stanley Johnson calls for UK birth numbers to be cut so companies profit more from people. Of course, Johnson is also an infamous eugenicist, too: Eight years since Sheku Bayoh died at police hands and nothing has changed – as one video shows.Thanks to a campaign group, people can easily vote tactically in the local elections.The problems with this are fairly obvious – not least the institutionalised nepotism that the former PM repeatedly engages in.Īs one Twitter user pointed out, the Johnson and Johnson furore also encompasses the Tories’ neo-feudal and colonialist approach to running the country: a place where the Johnsons and their mates wield the power and the rest of us are either serfs or invaders:
His son Boris is supposed to be putting him down for a knighthood in his resignation honours list. Stanley Johnson has been hitting the headlines recently. However, one comment simply could not be justified. Bruce’s defence of Johnson’s domestic violence and abuse (DVA) appeared to be in the BBC‘s interests of ridiculous impartiality. It was relating to her comments over Stanley Johnson assaulting his first wife, the late Charlotte Wahl. Content warning: this article contains discussion of domestic violenceīBC Question Time ( BBCQT) host Fiona Bruce caused uproar on Thursday 9 March.
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