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Do you believe that politicians should read from a script in interviews?

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By *dwalu2 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

If so, then you'll love the interview that Priti Patel gave to LBC after the Corbyn election win was announced.

http://www.lbc.co.uk/how-not-to-react-to-corbyns-win-116125

You can hear the same lines from around 25 Tory MPs if you prefer to hear it from others...oh, and David Cameron too, of course.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Problem is that they all do and for the same reason. The media analyse every word and look for opportunities to twist meaning and imply dissent.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Plus - brain washing, if they say something often enough it becomes true.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, they do. I see to recall very recently a leaked memo outlining the key messages for that day or week, ensuring that everyone is talking consistently and not contradicting each other.

It happens everywhere, in politics and in business. I'm often required to feed the 'company line' out - you might not always agree with it but that's what I'm paid to do!

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria

It all rather smacks of a state of abject panic from Tory HQ. For the last twenty years or so, there has been an unspoken agreement that there are certain areas of debate that the opposition doesn't bring up - most specifically the way mainly Tory MPs continue to milk the expenses system and avoid paying their taxes via the kinds of overseas tax avoidance scheme set up by Cameron's father (and still exploited to the max by Cameron, Osborne and others like them). This convention is now well and truly OFF the table, and the Tories are terrified that it may now become the mainstream subject of parliamentary debate that the majority of the public want it to be - and Corbyn was the only labour candidate likely to bring this about... hence the heavily scripted responses.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"It all rather smacks of a state of abject panic from Tory HQ. For the last twenty years or so, there has been an unspoken agreement that there are certain areas of debate that the opposition doesn't bring up - most specifically the way mainly Tory MPs continue to milk the expenses system and avoid paying their taxes via the kinds of overseas tax avoidance scheme set up by Cameron's father (and still exploited to the max by Cameron, Osborne and others like them). This convention is now well and truly OFF the table, and the Tories are terrified that it may now become the mainstream subject of parliamentary debate that the majority of the public want it to be - and Corbyn was the only labour candidate likely to bring this about... hence the heavily scripted responses."

All parties do this, not just the Tories.

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By *dwalu2 OP   Couple
over a year ago

Bristol

Yes they do. Although I think we'll be seeing a rather different approach from the Corbyn-led Labour Party...will be interesting to see how the Tories cope with politicians saying what they mean. Or even if they can.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

called 'toeing' the party line, lest the whips kick ass..

after a couple of years if Corbyn is still in post the public will have grown bored of it..

bit like the rich tory toff line, Bullingdon etc..

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By *ames6ft5Man
over a year ago

North London / Herts

Have we still got a "Long term economic plan"?

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

Remember that interview that Miliband (E) gave where to every question he gave the same sound bite answer over and over?

He knew that the media need to put *something* on the telly and if that's all he gave, then that's what they'd had to use.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Remember that interview that Miliband (E) gave where to every question he gave the same sound bite answer over and over?

He knew that the media need to put *something* on the telly and if that's all he gave, then that's what they'd had to use. "

Exactly problem with an off the cuff response is its a quick thought you haven't sat down and analysed it for hours seeing every way it can possibly be interperated or spun by the media.

So it's better to use a prepared answer which has already been through that process

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By *opinovMan
over a year ago

Point Nemo, Cumbria


"It all rather smacks of a state of abject panic from Tory HQ. For the last twenty years or so, there has been an unspoken agreement that there are certain areas of debate that the opposition doesn't bring up - most specifically the way mainly Tory MPs continue to milk the expenses system and avoid paying their taxes via the kinds of overseas tax avoidance scheme set up by Cameron's father (and still exploited to the max by Cameron, Osborne and others like them). This convention is now well and truly OFF the table, and the Tories are terrified that it may now become the mainstream subject of parliamentary debate that the majority of the public want it to be - and Corbyn was the only labour candidate likely to bring this about... hence the heavily scripted responses.

All parties do this, not just the Tories. "

Yes, indeed they do - that's what underlies the currently agreed crossparty convention that it is not a subject for debate.

However, with Corbyn now calling the shots for opposition questions in the house, that is now suddenly no longer assured - and everybody who currently benefits financially from that unspoken agreement (from all parties, but especially Tories) is looking at the possibility of public shaming at the very least... with the possibility of much more serious consequences on the horizon.

I very much hope this happens, as it may well lead to the kind of root and branch shake-up and routing of institutionalised corruption that UK politics desperately needs.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think they shouldn't be give scripts at all. It's people's lives there talking about in the end. We live in a world flooded by media, the public doesn't employ actors to run there country, so there no need for scripts. Lifes not movie

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I think they shouldn't be give scripts at all. It's people's lives there talking about in the end. We live in a world flooded by media, the public doesn't employ actors to run there country, so there no need for scripts. Lifes not movie "

They don't make their decisions Based on short notice questions though they make them based on hours and hours of deliberation why should their public statements not reflect that.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Have we still got a "Long term economic plan"?"

Yup hit the poor and disabled and hit them hard!

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By *iamondjoeMan
over a year ago

Glastonbury

"A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do."

Pmsl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

security, stability and working families?

What are you having for dinner... Oh security and stability and working families!

Yeah but Do you think the sky's a lovely blue today... Yes it's blue because we're delivering security and stability for...

Oh for fuck sake shut up you stupid Tory repetitive bitch... Sorry I meant to say, thanks for your time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"security, stability and working families?

What are you having for dinner... Oh security and stability and working families!

Yeah but Do you think the sky's a lovely blue today... Yes it's blue because we're delivering security and stability for...

Oh for fuck sake shut up you stupid Tory repetitive bitch... Sorry I meant to say, thanks for your time

"

It's so that people think the working families are getting everything, so that when their money gets cut nobody will care.

Majority of working families will lose their tax credits next year, because the minimum wage raise will take them over the threshold for claiming them seeing as the amount you need to be earning to claim them also changes too.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Politics is all about the 'message' its not about answering the question that is asked.

Previous posters are right, each speech etc is drafted and redrafted countless times, each word considered for meaning, how its meaning changes when in context etc.

UK isn't as bad as the US yet, you only have to look at the way their campaigns are organised and see just how staged a lot is.

The UK is crying out for a new type of campaign, and thats one of the reasons that Corbyn won. Im no fan of many of his policies, but, he answered the questions asked rather than 'staying on message' as it were. Although that in turn is part of his campaigns message.

The problem with many MP's is that they have one eye on their constituents, one eye on the party and collective ministerial responsibility, and thus lose sight of the actual issue much of the time.

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