Sunday 28 January 2024
Yes because it's theatre
Analysis: Are we in for one of the dirtiest election campaigns ever?
There was general agreement at the Institute for Government's Annual conference last week that it would be a good thing for Britain if this year's election campaign is not "dirty".
This highfalutin notion was shot down in seconds with equally universal assumption by the assembled politicians and policy wonks that "that is not going to happen".
A clean campaign would concentrate on policies and competence.
A dirty campaign is built around slurs, distortions and untruths, with those competing for votes slinging mud at each other.
It's theatre. We end up with whatever the media choose to dish up and what most voters deserve for not paying attention.
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Kayfabe. Mick McManus meets Kendo Nagasaki in what promises to be a really dirty grudge-fight, and all the grannies in the audience go "Ooooooohh!!!"
We've already paid for the tickets, though, so we get what we're given.
Not just any theatre - political pantomime. Oh no it's not! Oh yes it is!
And for Rishi Sunak (the principle boy) - He's behind you!
If they concentrate on competence they won’t have much to say, and on policies they’re all the same.
So theatre it is, I guess.
Sam - I remember those days quite well. Even as youngsters it all looked rather iffy once we'd tried the moves ourselves and found they didn't really work. The grannies couldn't do that of course.
DJ - ha ha, I wonder which one is Widow Twankey? Probably a number of them suit the role.
Peter - and at least Boris was fairly good at it.
Sadly, with our joking apart, it's all horribly true.
Tammly - it is, they have left themselves with no other way to play it.
I don't believe it's going to be any dirtier than what's going on in the US.
When Theresa May botched it a few years ago, the first thing I heard on the BBC around 6.00am was utter glee and celebration, which will be the starter this year - with bells on!
Scrobs - I agree, the US is setting new lows for dirty politics.
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