Spin-room drama

I knew it! I knew it all along!

Back in January 2018 while reviewing Sunday Morning T.V., I wrote:

“My attention wandered till Barry Gardiner came on. Garry Bardiner. Barry Gardiner painstakingly explained, as if to a class of severely mentally disadvantaged infants, the Labour Party’s policy on the single market and the Customs Union. I think he’s saying we want the best possible deal. We will be leaving the EU by the way. Let me be clear. What we want, what people voted for, what we’re trying to do, each “what” enunciated with a kindly but slightly patronising Barry Gardiner whoosh. When challenged about Jared O”Mara’s and John McDonnell’s obnoxiously misogynistic remarks  a steely look came into his eyes that sent a chill down my spine. Gentle Barry has a nasty side.

And here’s a glimpse of that nasty side. If the Labour Party manages to wrest power from the Jaws of the Tories’  fluctuating 11 point lead, we’ll be seeing a lot more of it, God help us one and all.

“Jeremy Corbyn again can’t answer the basic questions on Brexit” says Conservative Dominic Raab

Labour’s Barry Gardiner says “your supposed Prime Minister had no grasp of numbers tonight”#BBCDebate #GE2019 https://t.co/DY0bhX9Fa7 pic.twitter.com/kIk3RTknyq

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) December 6, 2019

Love the way the cameraman yanked Christian Fraser into position, backwards, by the coat-tails. Pity no-one yanked Gardiner -  if only for the sake of symmetry and balance.

Shocking to see that most of the responses were from Labour supporters.   This country is  ****ed

Contrasting fortunes

Jeremy Corbyn undoubtedly fared better than Dominic Raab on this morning's The Andrew Marr Show.

Part of that is that the Labour leader put in much the better performance. He was so relaxed by the end that it's a wonder he didn't start purring.

That said, Mr Raab, slipping and sliding away from giving straight answers, got the rougher end of the deal when it came to Andrew's questioning - and the intensity of the interruptions.

(Only Jeremy Corbyn got an apology for being interrupted today.)

Will Dominic Raab blame himself or his interviewer?

Andrew Marr asked questions about a Corbyn government's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Israel. I noted that Mr Corbyn sounded a good deal clearer as to his courses of action when it came to Israel. He gave a very precise answer, so he's obviously thought a lot about it. Andrew didn't ask him about antisemitism.