‘Is he a romantic?’
There’s a quite staggeringly inept, patronising and above all obsequious interview with the Prime Minister in this week’s New Statesman. It deserves an award for its vacuity.
Imagine being given hours with the Prime Minister and only coming up with this. I’d never write a public word again. I imagine the only reason the editor didn’t spike it was because there was no way of sending the ‘political editor of GMTV’ back to do it properly.
He talks about his holiday plans and asks about my work and my parents, but has the politician’s knack of ignoring awkward questions. “You really need to hold on to Glasgow, don’t you?” I ask at one point; he appears not to hear - maybe he doesn’t - and continues to flick through his notes.
THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU REPEAT THE SODDING QUESTION, TORQUEMADA?
Who knew GMTV had a political editor. Or needed one. It’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? Like a Bolivian Vice Admiral. That’s probably why she was allowed into Gordon’s presence rather than somebody who would have asked unanswered questions twice and maybe refrained from asking him what he bought his wife for her birthday. Maybe the Prime Minister thought he was being interviewed for Take a Break rather than the New Statesman.
Shocking. Just shocking.
Posted on July 10th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
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I was unable to stop myself from looking up the oxymoronic possibility of Bolivian Vice Admirals. Link:
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8827
Quote from above link: An April 24 ABI news service article reported that the commander of the Bolivian Naval Force, Vice Admiral Jose Luis Cavas Villegas, said that “we are the people in arms, in order to defend the internal security of our population, the Armed Forces are with the people … behind the [national flag], we will defend unity all our lives”.
And to answer your headline question: Is he a romantic? Probably not, given his reluctant acknowledgement of Raymond Chandler. But the article is total fluff, as you’d expect. The guy is on the ropes, so he is hardly likely to go into the ring with Paxman for a quick knockout.
Gloria De Piero is the reason I first set foot in a nightclub. My best friend, a couple of years older than I am, was at UCE with her and I was to be dragged along for moral support as he necked enough courage to ask her out. I can’t remember what happened, but he sure as hell didn’t get off with her.
Sean’s latest blog post… I don’t need a lecture from David Cameron
I read the Staggers for a few issues when it started to oppose the invasion of Iraq but soon got bored with it. It often has this kind of interview with a prominent Labour politician where the follow-up questions just don’t get asked. Presumably these politicians wouldn’t come in for the interview if they thought they were going to get a tough ride, but who wants to read an interview with politicians that doesn’t follow through on their evasive answers?
Nobody writes songs about Gordon Brown do they? Unless they feature the words “Out, out, out”.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Otul8_633yM
Another one in the eye for Christopher Hitchen’s theory that women can’t be funny.
What I got from the whole interview was that she was trying to get the measure of the man, see his personality, the man. She was clearly trying to test out the interpretations of him in other media.
it wasn’t necessarily about the questions that she asked it was about the interaction between the two of them.
‘‘I’ll leave when I finish the jobbie that Blair made me eat, so I can have the legacy of a brown tartan turd.’’
“THEN WHY DIDN’T YOU REPEAT THE SODDING QUESTION, TORQUEMADA?”
Heh heh, worthy of Charlie Brooker
My humblest apologies for leaving a comment which isn’t strictly relevant to this, but, I think this calls for a good, outraged post:
http://tinyurl.com/55vze9
asquith’s latest blog post… The Hell Patrol
And this comes after the ridiculous distraction that was the Heathcliff comment a few days back as well.
Has Brown lost the plot or has the media lost the plot?
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