The BBC came under fire last night for choosing a leftist Eurovision contestant to represent hateful Britain Boris Johnson and said he shouldn’t have been given a hospital bed when he had covid.
Mom Muller25, will perform in Liverpool next month despite previously declaring ‘I hate this country’ amid a row over free school meals and nurses’ wages.
She also launched foul-mouthed tirades against the former prime minister and the Conservative Party, calling on her followers to vote in favour. Jeremy Corbyn.
Her selection has sparked a new bias with the BBC and risks outraging Ukrainians for whom the UK is hosting this year’s contest.
Johnson is a “great friend” of Kyiv for his unwavering support against the Russian invaders, while the country has a dim view of Mr Corbyn for calling on the West to stop arming them.
Mae Muller, 25, to perform in Liverpool next month despite previously declaring ‘I hate this country’ amid row over free school meals and nurses’ pay
She has also launched foul-mouthed rants against the former prime minister and the Conservative Party and called on her followers to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Her selection has sparked another spat with the BBC and risks furious Ukrainians for whom the UK is hosting this year’s contest
Boris Johnson filmed himself self-isolating on April 3, 2020, just days before being taken to hospital
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the choice of Ms Muller makes the company look ‘characteristically silly’ after the row with Gary Lineker and that she is ‘completely unsuitable’.
He added: “Her comments about Boris Johnson are just off-putting. I can’t imagine anyone would want to see someone like that representing the UK.’
Ukrainian anti-disinformation activist Olga Matveieva described the choice as “a kick in the teeth for the Ukrainians” who won last year’s contest and should host it.
It is not too late to choose someone more suitable
She said: “We can forgive her ignorance, but how did one of our dearest allies choose someone with such misguided views to represent them in what should be our Eurovision Song Contest?”
Her compatriots have “nothing but the utmost respect” for Mr Johnson, she added.
BBC bosses selected Ms Muller with management company TaP Music, after no longer leaving the selection of candidates to the public in 2019.
The collaboration was a hit last year after choosing Sam Ryder, who came second to Ukrainian act, the Kalush Orchestra.
A series of highly political social media rants from the singer were uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph.
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said the choice of Ms Muller makes the company look ‘characteristically silly’ after the row with Gary Lineker and that she is ‘completely unsuitable’.
While Mr Johnson spent a third day in intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital (pictured) in London on April 8, 2020, Ms Muller tweeted: ‘Unpopular opinion but I have no pity for Boris Johnson. “Yes he is human, yes he has children, but so are hundreds of other people who have actually died as a result of Tory policies”
While Mr Johnson spent a third day in intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in London on 8 April 2020, Ms Muller tweeted: ‘Unpopular opinion but I have no pity for Boris Johnson.
“Yes, he is human, yes, he has children, but so are hundreds of other people who have actually died as a result of the Tory policy.
‘Do you go to bed in intensive care, but are you not on a ventilator and are you ‘relieved’? No mate.’
She also supported Labor when Mr Corbyn led the party in the 2019 general election, tweeting ‘f*** the Tories’.
Ms. Muller wrote, “Register to vote today! And if you’re going to vote, vote Labour! We have the power to take down these racist elites, so let’s do it!’ She also wrote ‘f*** Boris’ when he won the election.
Last night there was disappointment with her choice. Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: ‘No one who hates the UK should represent the UK in an international competition. This would be very hypocritical.
“It’s not too late for the BBC to choose someone more suitable and talented.” Mr Rees-Mogg added: ‘It’s strange to think why she would want to represent her country, which she hates so much.
“What she said makes her completely unfit. It also makes the BBC look typically silly.’
He said that after Lineker’s row, when he criticized the official migrant policy, that “they might have managed to elect someone who was non-political.”
Mr Rees-Mogg said her selection was ‘not the way to get friendly nations, especially Ukraine, to vote for our candidate’.
Ukrainian Peter Zalmayev, director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, said: “To say someone doesn’t deserve a hospital bed?
“Ukrainians even have beds for Russians, so to hear about Mr. Johnson, a good friend of Ukraine, is saddening.”
Ms Muller’s Eurovision entry, titled I Wrote A Song, is in the UK Top 40. Her representative and TaP Music have not responded to a request for comment. The BBC declined to comment.