This would probably be funnier if...
... pretty much *exactly* this thing hadn't already been done, nine years ago, and by an actual politician.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlTggc0uBA8
I remember reading an interview with the bloke asking Milliband the questions that day, and he said something like it being almost like being in a dream while it was happening, and then 30 minutes after it was over wishing he'd thought fast enough to say "Mr. Milliband, do you think these strikes are wrong at a time negotiations are still going on and do you think they should put aside the rhetoric..." etc. - i.e. feed ALL of his prepared bullshit straight back to him word for word as a question. Esprit d'escalier.
(, Wed 27 Jan 2021, 15:44, Reply)
Same songbook, but quite different songs.
Howard was trying to avoid answering a potentially career ending question, while 'reckless and provocative manner' was the soundbite that Miliband was attempting to force the news to carry.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 27 Jan 2021, 18:47,
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My favourite part is when he says they should get round the negotiating table, put aside the rhetoric, and stop this kind of thing from happening again.
(, Wed 27 Jan 2021, 20:48, Reply)
did you threaten to overrule him?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 28 Jan 2021, 8:54,
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Brown, May, Miliband, Starmer
All looked like the minute they become party leader, someone stuck an earpiece in and they stood like a rabbit in the headlights scared shitless of answering even the most basic question.
Didn't look human again until the moment they stood down.
(, Thu 28 Jan 2021, 21:14, Reply)