Our two esteemed (phah) political leaders have been accusing each other of politicising major events. Like the London Bridge attack. Jeremy Corbyn in particular feels this to be inappropriate. And yet yesterday had no qualms about holding up a photo of a 4 year-old boy, suffering with pneumonia, being treated on the floor of the waiting room at Leeds Royal Infirmary. And blaming Boris. Obviously.

But that’s not politicising anything. No. Boris is the head of Emergency Medicine at Leeds, and the admissions director. He’s also a nurse in the A&E, the porter responsible for finding beds and the administrator of antibiotics to small children.

Oh, apparently he’s not! He’s the Prime Minister. Who’d’a known that???

The picture emerged in the Daily Mirror yesterday morning and was thrust in Boris’s face by a tv journalist, DEMANDING an explanation and to know ‘how Boris feels about THIS!!!’ Boris hadn’t previously seen it. And sensibly obfuscated. Because if you don’t know the facts, you shouldn’t comment. And furthermore, there are events like this happening in every hospital every week. Some would call it ‘thinking outside the box by over-stressed NHS staff’ in that there was no bed, no treatment room, just get the job done. Better than leaving him unattended to wait for some space. It’s not Boris’s fault that A&E rooms are incredibly busy. Nor was it the last PM’s fault when such things happened on their watch. Or any of the 19 previous incumbents when they happened in their terms.

So poor little 4 year-old pneumonia sufferer is now the poster boy for Jeremy Corbyn with which to attack Boris.

I don’t mind attacks on Boris. But this is low. Even by Corbyn’s already exceptionally low standards of everything. As exemplified by his and McDonnell’s new answer to anyone questioning higher taxation or expenditure on nationalisation in which the sums don’t work. Which is ‘because they hate the people of this country’. When the shadow chancellor stated that ‘there’s no place for billionaires in Britain’, the inevitable backlash was greeted with just that. ‘They hate the people of this country’.

I’m no billionaire so I can’t hate all the people. So I just limit it to two, to keep it within my budget. Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonnell.

Happy Tuesday

A xxxx