monkey wrote:Problem with Beardo's 'meltdown' isn't that he couldn't remember a figure plucked out of a 100 page manifesto. It's that he appeared on that programme specifically to talk about the policy, and wasn't prepared enough to have the figures to hand about how much it costs. He found himself in that situation despite knowing that a) Labour are always going to be asked about their costings and b) other members of his inner circle have been tripped up in interviews with exactly this problem. It's very amateurish. Few people would turn up at meetings at work as unprepared as he was for that interview.
That wouldn't have amounted to anything though if he'd just said "I'm sorry, I can't recall the exact costings off the top of my head. Just give me a moment to find them." At which point, the presenter would have probably supplied them rather than have dead air. And then no one would be talking about this. But, inexplicably, none of them can quite manage even that sliver of honesty when they're caught out like that.
Yes and no. A Tory would have bullshitted their way out by talking for 2 minutes on only something tangentially related to the question of figures, any interruption from the interviewer would have been met with "Sorry can I just finish this point because I think it's a really important issue."LarryDavid wrote:His only crime is not being smarmy enough to bullshit his way out of it.
"Not with these shoes."LarryDavid wrote:Has May appeared on there? I'm betting the questions were far more light and fluffy if so.
"I love your shoes Mrs. May, where did you get them?"
"Is it difficult being so strong & stable, ALL the time?"
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