UK’s Eurovision entry Mae Muller branded the Tories ‘racist elites’ and Boris Johnson did not deserve his intensive care when he was fighting for his life in hospital with Covid
- Mae Muller said Boris did not deserve ICU bed when he nearly died from Covid
- Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson said Mae ‘Left-wing plant’ but we won’t rejoin EU
Tory MPs have criticised the BBC over their choice of singer to represent the UK at Eurovision as she branded Tories ‘racist elitists’ and said Boris Johnson should not have an intensive care bed when he was fighting for his life in hospital with Covid.
I Wrote A Song singer Mae Muller, who will be performing in Liverpool in May, made the comments as the then-PM was in hospital after he ‘nearly died’ from the virus.
Conservative Party deputy chairman Lee Anderson has slammed the singer for ‘vile Left-wing slurs’ and hit out against the BBC for ‘planting a Left-wing entrant’ into the song contest to somehow get the UK to reenter the EU.
Ms Muller, now 25, tweeted about politics, backing then-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, saying she ‘hated this country’ during arguments over free school meals.
The artist, who became popular on social media video app TikTok, was chosen as the Eurovision contestant by BBC bosses with management company TaP Music, in the hope that she can lead Britain to victory, besting predecessor Sam Ryder, on May 13.
I Wrote A Song singer Mae Muller (pictured) said Boris Johnson didn’t deserve and ICU bed as the then-PM was in hospital after he ‘nearly died’ from the virus
Boris Johnson speaks from self isolation on April 3 just days before he was taken to hospital
While Mr Johnson was in his third day of intensive care at St Thomas’ Hospital in London on April 8, 2020, Ms Muller tweeted her ‘unpopular opinion’ that ‘I do not feel sorry for Boris Johnson’, The Telegraph reports.
She added: ‘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.’
In another tweet she said: ‘The same nurses you praise in your speeches are the same nurses you chose to cut all their benefits, and CHEERED while doing it. The same nurses that can’t even afford protective wear, and are LITERALLY dying because of YOU. Boris does not have my sympathy and NEVER will.’
It had been confirmed the previous night by Downing Street that the PM was ‘stable’ and ‘in good spirits’ – as well as that he did not have pneumonia and was not on a ventilator but was in ICU for ‘close monitoring’.
And leading to the 2019 general election, which saw Tory leader Mr Johnson and Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn battle for No 10, Ms Muller tweeted: ‘f** the Tories.’
She said: ‘Please register to vote today! And when you do vote please vote Labour! We have the power to take those racist elitists down so lets do it!’
Ms Muller’s political views were condemned by Tory MPs, who also said the BBC showed a deficit of ‘common sense’ in choosing her.
Ashfield MP Mr Anderson told The Telegraph that it looked as if ‘vile Left-wing slurs are actually something the BBC requires from people it wants to promote.
He accused the corporation of ‘planting their own Left-wing entrant into Eurovision’ and said ‘they should think again’ if they think it will see the UK rejoin the European Union. He said the days of ‘making our mind up’ are done’.
Tory deputy chair Lee Anderson (pictured) accused the BBC of ‘planting their own Left-wing entrant into Eurovision’ and said ‘they should think again’ if they think it will see the UK rejoin the European Union
St Thomas’s Hospital where Boris Johnson was kept in ICU after suffering from Covid
Tory MP for South Thanet Craig Mackinlay said that ‘foul-mouthed and unpleasant’ comments were ‘the norm’ among employees of the BBC.
Ex-cabinet minister david Jones said that while Ms Muller was ‘genuinely very talented’ and has excellent career prospects that she should ‘be a bit more human’ as ‘Boris Johnson was close to death’.
I Wrote A Song has already been streamed more than three million times on Spotify, already breaching the UK Top 40.
The song is not political and Eurovision rules say it is a ‘non-political event’. The Telegraph newspaper reportedly understands that the BBC will take no action over the tweets as they were made before they started to engage with her over Eurovision.
The paper contacted Ms Muller’s representative and TaP Music for comment but they did not respond.
The BBC declined to comment when contacted by MailOnline.
