The delicious Nick Robinson
Political bloggers are often accused of lowering the tone of political debate and most of the time it’s true. Most political blogs, particularly the top right-whinge ones, are staggeringly and offensively mediocre.
But then you read something like this crap from state-funded gossip Nick Robinson and you realise that the standards of professional political commentary really aren’t all that either:
Platform 5, Birmingham New Street: Delicious. The Panorama team has just seen David Cameron on to the train home to London. Thanks to an extraordinary coincidence, the Tory leader finds himself sitting in the next door carriage to the prime minister, also on his way back from Birmingham. If either needs to pop to the gents or for a cup of tea, they may well meet halfway.
Why is it ‘delicious’? What is this, a pitch for Heat magazine’s readership? Is Robinson hoping for fisticuffs? A stony silence in the queue for the bog? A spot of childish namecalling, perhaps? No doubt an anonymous ’source’ or ‘friend’ of Brown or Cameron will fill him in on the ‘delicious’ details later and Robinson can breathlessly pass the tittle tattle on to us.
Brown and Cameron work in the same building, within walking distance of each other. Is that ‘delicious’? If either needs to pop to the gents or for a cup of tea, they may well meet halfway. Maybe if it was Batman and the Joker it’d be ‘delicious’. Or if it was Robinson and a licence payer wanting to know just what the Hell Robinson thinks he’s doing with our money.
Posted on September 9th, 2008 at 9:08am under Culture, media and sport, UK politics
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If memory serves me correctly, Platform 5 at Birmingham New Street is nothing to get excited about.
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And when they pass in the corridor, will Nick give him ass or crotch? Delicious.
Nick Robinson is Affability Boy, sidekick to Andrew Marr, Softball-Question Man. Both are useless.
See what happens when Old Media tries to keep up with the rehashed tabloid model pushed by Staines and Dale?
Tim Ireland’s latest blog post… "Stop hitting yourself."
It’d be delicious if, when they meet in corridors the Gladiators music started and they had to fight each other with pugel sticks.
It’d be delicious if they met halfway along a 27-mile corridor beneath the surface of the earth, at sufficient combined speed to form a mini-black hole that really, properly sucked.
Philip’s latest blog post… Rivers of Bile
So, like, you don’t like Nick, or what?