How COULD the BBC have chosen left-winger Mae Muller who said Boris Johnson should not have been given a hospital bed when he had Covid to sing for Britain at Eurovision next month?
The BBC was under fire last night for selecting a Left-wing Eurovision contestant to represent Britain who hates Boris Johnson and said he should not have been given a hospital bed when he had Covid.
Mae Muller, 25, will perform in Liverpool next month despite having previously declared ‘I hate this country’ amid a row about free school meals and nurses’ pay.
She has also launched foul-mouthed tirades against the former prime minister and Conservative Party plus called on her followers to vote for Jeremy Corbyn.
Her selection has sparked a fresh bias row with the BBC and risks infuriating Ukrainians for whom the UK is hosting the competition this year.
Mr Johnson is a ‘great friend’ of Kyiv for his unwavering support against the Russian invaders while the country takes a dim view of Mr Corbyn because he has called for the West to stop arming them.
Mae Muller, 25, will perform in Liverpool next month despite having previously declared ‘I hate this country’ amid a row about free school meals and nurses’ pay
She has also launched foul-mouthed tirades against the former prime minister and Conservative Party plus called on her followers to vote for Jeremy Corbyn. Her selection has sparked a fresh bias row with the BBC and risks infuriating Ukrainians for whom the UK is hosting the competition this year
Boris Johnson filmed himself during self isolation on April 3, 2020, just days before he was taken to hospital
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said choosing Ms Muller makes the corporation look ‘characteristically foolish’ after the Gary Lineker row and that she is ‘entirely unsuitable’.
He added: ‘Her comments on Boris Johnson are simply unpleasant. I can’t think that one would wish to see somebody like that representing the UK.’
Ukrainian anti-disinformation activist Olga Matveieva described the choice as ‘a kick in the teeth to Ukrainians’ who won the competition last year and should be hosting.
She said: ‘Her ignorance we could forgive, but how has one of our most treasured allies selected someone with such misguided views to represent them at what should be our Eurovision?’
Her fellow countrymen ‘have nothing but the utmost respect’ for Mr Johnson, she added.
BBC bosses selected Ms Muller with management company TaP Music, having stopped leaving candidate selection to the public’s vote in 2019.
The partnership was a hit last year after choosing Sam Ryder, who was runner-up to the Ukrainian act the Kalush Orchestra.
A string of highly political rants on social media by the singer was uncovered by The Sunday Telegraph.
Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg said choosing Ms Muller makes the corporation look ‘characteristically foolish’ after the Gary Lineker row and that she is ‘entirely unsuitable’
As Mr Johnson remained in intensive care for a third day at St Thomas’ Hospital (pictured) in London on April 8, 2020, Ms Muller tweeted: ‘Unpopular opinion but I do not feel sorry for Boris Johnson. ‘Yes, he is human, yes, he has kids, but so do 100s of other people who have actually died due to Tory policies’
As Mr Johnson remained in intensive care for a third day at St Thomas’ Hospital in London on April 8, 2020, Ms Muller tweeted: ‘Unpopular opinion but I do not feel sorry for Boris Johnson.
‘Yes, he is human, yes, he has kids, but so do 100s of other people who have actually died due to Tory policies.
‘Taking up a bed in intensive care but you’re not on a ventilator and in ‘high spirits’? Nah mate.’
She also backed Labour when Mr Corbyn led the party in the 2019 general election, tweeting ‘f*** the Tories’.
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Ms Muller wrote: ‘Please register to vote today! And when you do vote please vote Labour! We have the power to take these racist elitists down so let’s do it!’ She also wrote ‘f*** Boris’ when he triumphed in the election.
Last night there was disappointment at her selection. Conservative MP Sir John Hayes said: ‘No one who hates the UK should represent the UK in an international competition. To do so would be highly hypocritical.
‘It’s not too late for the BBC to pick someone more suitable and more talented.’ Mr Rees-Mogg added: ‘It’s odd to think why she would want to represent her country which she dislikes so much.
‘What she said makes her entirely unsuitable. It also makes the BBC look characteristically foolish.’
He said that after the Lineker row, when he criticised official policy on migrants, that ‘they might have managed to choose somebody who was non-political’.
Mr Rees-Mogg said her selection was ‘not the way to get friendly nations, particularly 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 have beds even for Russians, so to hear that being said about Mr Johnson, a great friend of Ukraine, is saddening.’
Ms Muller’s Eurovision entry, called I Wrote A Song, is in the UK Top 40. Her representative and TaP Music did not respond to a request for comment. The BBC declined to comment.
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