DISGRACED presenter Jonathan Ross is returning to our television screens in the new year.
He’s slithered back under the corporation door, and will soon be drawing £6 million of your money, thereby providing ample proof that the new Establishment will always look after its own. It’s business as usual.
How ironic this will be, especially when it is recalled how we used to mock those who ran the shop back in the 1960s. For the people in control these days are far more grotesque than the old guard they replaced.
Pete Townsend most certainly knocked the nail on the head all those years ago when he memorably sang “meet the new boss, same as the old boss”.
The new incumbents swagger, swear, crack unfunny jokes and play to the politically-correct gallery. But as Townsend also wrote, some of us won’t get fooled again.
For I have this feeling that the public’s relationship with Ross will never be the same again. And even though he’s coming back, something tells me his days are numbered.
Britain is in the throes of a downturn. Thousands are losing their jobs and having homes repossessed. Who wants to watch some fat overpaid presenter laugh at them every Friday night?
When the phone harassment story broke, a former 1980s ‘alternative’ comedian wrote a gushing love letter, masquerading as an article in the increasingly silly Independent newspaper, to Russell Brand, a man who rose without trace and has thankfully sunk with equal ease.
My view? Good riddance to the idiot.
Ross and Brand were extremely lucky to escape being charged with a criminal offence, a fact that has been almost universally overlooked. As the pundits agonised over issues of taste, no one – as far as I could see – pointed out that making obscene phone calls is against the law.
In the case of these two individuals, the victim of their abuse was an old man who had once been a victim of the Nazis.
No one should ever, ever forget that.
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