'Team Boris' has just a few moments before he may find it too late- Boris has got to show higher morality than Livingstone ever had...

[Most of the following part is in fact written in response to the reported comments on the Ray Lewis events as attributed to former Conservative party leader and still serving MP in the UK House of Commons, Ian Duncan Smith. The MUHAMMAD HAQUE ethical commentary will continue after this part below. The initial comment in response to IDS has already appeared on the web site of the Walthamstow Guardian, dated 1215 Hrs UK Time today Sunday 6 July 2008. The version has been edited in relation to 3 words and one sentence]


By©Muhammad Haque
1130 Hrs GMT
London
Sunday
6 July 2008

'Team Boris' has just a few moments before he may find it too late- Boris has got to show higher morality than Livingstone ever had...


By morality I mean higher probity. Higher ethics. Higher accountability. Higher standard all over. Now!

I would add to what Ian Duncan Smith says and say that the problem that the two resignations from Boris Johnson's’ entourage confirm is the absence of autonomous effective and serious thinking inside whoever constitute the ‘Team Boris’ now!

Secondly, IDS is correct to make the particular criticism of the mass propaganda media.

I entirely agree that none of those who have been damning ray Lewis would do anything really significant to save the kids and other young people.


I have been very aware of this.

And I knew, almost a year ago when Boris was being still rumoured to be the Conservative candidate, that he, Boris, would have to show a higher standard of morality and ethics than Ken Livingstone was showing. I


t was not a pleasant spectacle to see the BBC NEWSNIGHT programme wheel in Ken Livingstone to allegedly give the authoritative comment on the then unfolding ‘story’ around Ray Lewis.


What Living stone said was as insignificant, as irrelevant and as untrue on Thursday night as what Livingstone had said a few weeks before the 1 May 2008 London Assembly and mayor elections.


Livingstone has been allowed an irrationally unrigorously flaunted and allocated promotion and platform by the BBC. And what the BBC does is in effect aped and replicated by the rest of ‘Fleet Street’.

Yet the problems remain.

The BBC has not done one single investigative report on the institutions in London and in the rest of the UK that are fully funded, fully staffed and fully failing. No wonder that there is no solution in sight. Except sound bytes and media appearances.

We have in Britain a thoroughly corrupted set of institutions.


And after the devastating, corrupting of the institutions by Tony Blair in and across the UK, the tragedy for London people - and those youngsters and their families and loved ones is that London is left bereft of political representation.

[To be continued]