How now, Brown clown?
Mark Sweney in the Guardian reports, “The broadcast will attempt to shift the focus towards policy and away from personality, in line with Labour’s attempt to refocus election coverage away from the televised debates.”
Yes, you read that correctly, Labour will be engaging in fiction and focusing on another party’s policies as a scare tactic rather than taking its own record and manifesto to the British people. Yawn, change the record (if only).
And they would rather you didn’t look too closely at the motley crew whose names they are asking you to put your mark against on May 6th.
For me, this speaks a great deal about character (or total lack of it) so I’m not sure their plan to distract the voters from the grubby villains who have spent thirteen years dragging this nation into the gutter is a sure-fire winner. If anything viewers are more likely to end up seeing straight through this “cunning stunt.”
It smacks of desperation. A failed party of catastrophically failed policies running a failed campaign. And it clearly demonstrates the level of contempt they have for the British public. A public Mandy and Ali believe can be conned one last time into making a dreadful mistake it’ll have to live with for another half decade at least.
It also tells us where we are today with modern politics. It’s show business, devoid of substance where the actors no longer bother to pretend the drama is factual.
Welcome to the circus. On the left you can marvel at a little fat man being beaten senseless by two environmentally friendly toffs. On the right a little fat man will amaze you with chillingly spiteful prophecies drawn from a crystal ball. In the centre is Rupert the Media Clown who will lead you to your seats and wire you up. But you don’t get the price of admission until after the show when you attempt to leave.
What a joke. We don’t even get to throw stuff at them any more. I want my money back – all of it. And I want these clowns gone for good.
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