Show a repeat of ‘Allo ‘Allo instead
You can see why Gordon Brown would be chary of the prospect of having a televised debate with David Cameron. It’s for the same reason the rest of us don’t go for a drink with whelks. I mean, sure, but what’s in it for Brown? Surely picking his teeth would provide a more useful and edifying experience. Not that I’m any fan of Brown’s, you understand. It’s just that in the intellectual stakes, it’s less David vs Goliath than Davina vs Goliath.
In fact, a televised debate would probably be a further blow to political participation in this country. Watching these two scrap over what little’s left of the political landscape now that most of it’s been hived off to Rupert Murdoch, management consultants and private equity firms is not what we need.
Make too much of the fact that the next election is going to be a straight fight between a doughy, bum-faced advertising executive and a mouth-breathing joy-killer with all the warmth of an Inuit serial killer, and even more of the electorate are going to stay at home. And all for a job with less power than your average Russian oligarch. A televised debate will only rub it in.
Posted on September 5th, 2007 at 10:37 am
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“…. a doughy, bum-faced advertising executive and a mouth-breathing joy-killer with all the warmth of an Inuit serial killer”
Quite…. But that’s the choice on offer init?
Do we really deserve better?
Who’s this ‘we’? I demand and deserve a Jed Bartlett.
That’d be ‘we the sheeple’
But a Jed Bartlett? - more likely to get a Francis Urquhart this side of the pond I reckon.
Thank you Justin thats really cheered me up (ties rope around lampshade and places noose around his neck).
“…. a doughy, bum-faced advertising executive and a mouth-breathing joy-killer with all the warmth of an Inuit serial killerâ€Â
That’s a bit harsh isn’t it? I’m sure that there are some Inuit serial killers with charisma.