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- Fri Jun 02, 2023 10:19 am
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It seems to me that Schofield's dramatic fall (over the radio phone-ins , Sun front page, and everywhere else today), is down to two things, in which he has much in common with Boris Johnson:
a) Revealed mendacity : Schofield has been revealed as, and has admitted to, consistently lying for years about his relationship with a much younger runner on the Good Morning show.
b) Rank hypocrisy : Schofield was vocally and very publicly outraged in disowning his own brother when he (his brother) was recently convicted of grooming and sexually abusing a young boy over a period of three years, and sentenced to a 12 stretch. Though he has this morning been at great pains to insist that his sexual relationship with a younger man who was a runner on his TV morning show began (by Schofield's account), when the younger man was aged 20, what Schofield has done (and lied about) looks uncannily, very similar to the actions of Timothy Schofield.
And that's without mentioning the queue jumping when Brenda was lying in a box in Westminster Hall. Or the extremely worrying dynamic of an older man conducting a relationship with a much younger person in the context of the significant power imbalance that entailed.
The Today programme broadcast an interview Amol Rajan conducted with Schofield this morning in which Schofield professed to have been feeling suicidal. I do have some sympathy with him, of course, on that score, but Phillip Scofield /Boris Johnson equivalence definitely looks like a thing.
a) Revealed mendacity : Schofield has been revealed as, and has admitted to, consistently lying for years about his relationship with a much younger runner on the Good Morning show.
b) Rank hypocrisy : Schofield was vocally and very publicly outraged in disowning his own brother when he (his brother) was recently convicted of grooming and sexually abusing a young boy over a period of three years, and sentenced to a 12 stretch. Though he has this morning been at great pains to insist that his sexual relationship with a younger man who was a runner on his TV morning show began (by Schofield's account), when the younger man was aged 20, what Schofield has done (and lied about) looks uncannily, very similar to the actions of Timothy Schofield.
And that's without mentioning the queue jumping when Brenda was lying in a box in Westminster Hall. Or the extremely worrying dynamic of an older man conducting a relationship with a much younger person in the context of the significant power imbalance that entailed.
The Today programme broadcast an interview Amol Rajan conducted with Schofield this morning in which Schofield professed to have been feeling suicidal. I do have some sympathy with him, of course, on that score, but Phillip Scofield /Boris Johnson equivalence definitely looks like a thing.
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