The two-headed snake – Piers Morgan just out of shot
As the Tory Government faces mounting pressure from the media, Getintothis’ Peter Guy argues against the rising clamour in favour of Piers Morgan.
He’s blocked by many on social media. Loathed by many more. His foul-mouthed tirades are infamous – yet he’s a hero of mine.
Irvine Welsh, the man who created a lovable gang of skag addicts and a character who implores his wife to ‘shite in ma mooth‘, is on the money when it comes to making bestial works of fiction become reality.
Given he’s created one of contemporary fiction’s finest villains in Trainspotting‘s Simon ‘Sick Boy’ Williamson, perhaps he should rethink his current take on social media: the championing of Piers Morgan.
Sick Boy, like Morgan, is the ultimate snake.
While one is an amoral pimp, the other ponces about on a sofa on national breakfast television.
Both are the epitome of shallowness matched only by their insidious need for self-gain.
As an avid reader of Welsh‘s fiction, it’s surprising at best to see the novelist in Piers Morgan‘s corner. Even more surprising to see him hailing him as the ‘effective leader of the opposition‘.
Morgan lets remind ourselves, was in charge of the Daily Mirror during the period the paper was implicated in the phone-hacking scandal.
Subsequently, in characteristically blasé fashion, Morgan has made it abundantly clear that phone hacking was no big deal. That he was aware it was common practice.
And he knew how to do it.
However, putting that aside, Morgan represents all that is wrong about populist politics. He’s not interested in our NHS or even holding the Conservative Government to account.
He, like Sick Boy, is only concerned about his own ratings. His own platform. His followers.
Morgan is akin to other vile, extremist commentators like Katie Hopkins.
Merely typing her name has us mainlining disinfectant straight into our vein.
Attention is what they crave. Why else seek one on one interviews with convicted murderers and repeatedly bark in their faces to admit their guilt as Morgan repeatedly does in his Serial Killer series.
Renton and Sick Boy, in Trainspotting.
Morgan, like Sick Boy, is a bully. Punching down is his default setting.
During the current pandemic, his vacuous saluting of NHS front line carers is as empty as his supposed friendship with President Donald Trump.
Like super shitsack Nigel Farage before him, Morgan piggybacked Trump‘s sociopathic ego to add weight to his own broadcasting platform as he bounced from failure in the States to sitting awkwardly on Good Morning Britain‘s reinforced couch. Hard lines Susanna Reid.
Yet, it’s worrying to see the likes of Welsh trumping the Britain’s Got Talent weasel.
At least Morgan‘s fellow judge Simon Cowell is pretty open that the entire charade is for his own entertainment empire.
The irony of this whole maelstrom of nausea is that Morgan is in truth much closer to the one he is intent on slamming, Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson
Here is a Prime Minister who reportedly caught COVID-19 yet returns to work at full tilt much earlier than any doctor can reasonably expect.
Here is a Prime Minister who’s government count one glove as two in order to deceive the public and front line NHS workers who are risking their lives.
Here is a Prime Minister who flagrantly goes against all social distancing advice and shook hands with those that are ill and boasted about it at a press conference.
Here is a Government that has gone out of its way to count every single glove and paper towel delivered to our front line NHS yet is unable to accurately say how many have died caring for us.
Here is a Government forcing hundreds of doctors to reuse PPE intended to be deployed just once owing to a “desperate” shortage.
Here is a Government which retains the ultimate hydra himself, Michael Gove, who claims the Covid-19 crisis could ‘increase chances of EU trade deal‘.
Here is a Government that was advised by an expert committee last June to stockpile PPE yet there were no gowns, visors, swabs or body bags in their provision to the NHS.
I’m not going to speculate on his motivation.
But refreshing to see someone in his position speaking the truth to power and holding it to account.
(Should add I’ve been critical in the past to the extent he’s blocked me from seeing his tweets despite me never following him.) https://t.co/fVOGrzgUy3
— Irvine Welsh (@IrvineWelsh) April 28, 2020
Morgan is correct to hold the Government to account.
So he should. So should any right-minded person in the media.
But don’t mistake anything Morgan says as ‘truth’ – it is mere empty self-promotion.
Together with Sick Boy, Morgan and Johnson could form a Bermuda Triangle of vacuous horrors.
A triptych of twats.
At least Margaret Thatcher was an honest witch, Johnson and Morgan, like their fictional companion Sick Boy, are the very worst – two-headed snakes in the grass.
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