Boris Johnson’s ‘dead bodies’ critics should take a look in the mirror

In what kind of moral universe would it be considered acceptable for the authors of a war, the people who voted for a war, to get on their high horses over those who make daft or jokey comments about that war? For the people who green-lighted the bombing of a foreign nation to haughtily chastise those who dare to say silly things about the bloody consequences of that bombing? In the warped moral universe of political correctness, that’s where. This is the case of Boris Johnson and his thoughtless ‘dead bodies’ comment about Sirte, the Libyan city where Gaddafi was captured and executed in 2011. At the Conservative conference, Boris was asked about Libya. He talked about Sirte, and its potential, and said it could be ‘the next Dubai’, once they ‘clear the dead bodies away’. Oof. Cue squirming laughs from the audience and another round of hysterical BoJo-bashing in the media and among the Twitterati.