Yes, Diana Abbott’s interview with Nick Ferrara didn’t cover her in
glory. For whatever reason, Diana bungled the interview and came out of it appearing
amateurish. Yet, just now on Clive Bull’s LBC programme a caller said he could
understand MPs telling lies, dissembling, prevaricating, evading questions,
equivocating, being cagey and even attacking opposition MPs rather than addressing
the question in hand; as somehow such actions are reputable, whereas Abbott’s
behaviour was beyond the pale.
What kind of a world are we inhabiting that would place lying and sharp political
expedient practices above human error. Diana Abbott’s only sin today was that
she lost track of the political message she was charged with spreading. But of
course, our scummy media presenters give greater currency to Diana’s car shunt
than to the real car crash of an interview where a Tory MP maintained that, in
relation to disability benefit’s cuts: "Some
permanent degenerative conditions do degenerate, some stabilise and some do get
better - it's a mixed situation."
Why for the sake of balance wasn't that story given the oxygen of publicity that many disabled people believe it deserved?
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