Rood Eye
Thursday 5th December 2019 9:12pm [Edited]
4,103 posts
Quote: Teddy Paddalack @ 5th December 2019, 8:41 PM
How anyone can justify Johnson's refusal to face Andrew Neil after that challenge is seriously deluded and may I suggest a potential danger to the public and possibly animals.
It's difficult to justify it from a moral or a democratic standpoint but, from a tactical standpoint, Boris's refusal to meet Andrew Neil is exactly the right decision.
If Boris turns up for the interview, Andrew is quite likely to rip him to shreds - and that is going to cost the Tories a huge number of votes in seats where a great many voters are currently undecided. It could very easily cost them the election itself and put Jeremy into Number 10.
However, if Boris doesn't turn up for an interview, the negative impact on the Tory vote will be only a tiny fraction of the negative impact that in all probability would follow such an interview, were it to take place.
If he sits back and does nothing between now and the election, the polls say he'll be home and dry and leading a new Conservative government into 2020.
If he has even half the brains he was born with, he won't go anywhere near Andrew Neil before the election.