Endless TV Repeats
Ed Miliband has joined the ranks of politicians - including Gordon Brown and his rictus grin - who have ended up on You Tube - but for all the wrong reasons.
In Gordon Brown's case the damage was done in a hastily arranged TV interview straight to camera - announcing even more hastily cobbled together government proposals - to tackle the MPs' expenses scandal.
Unfortunately for the then Prime Minister it was an unmitigated disaster - as Gordon Brown grinned like a Cheshire Cat, but in all the wrong places - as if someone had spiked his green tea or Irn Bru.
Ed Miliband's new found fame on You Tube stems from a TV interview - he gave on the day of the recent pensions strike - as he tried desperately not to depart from the pre-arranged script, presumably agreed with his handlers.
The Labour leader responded to each question in exactly the same way - no matter what he was asked.
The TV reporter - Damon Green - who conducted the interview - said he felt ashamed at the "professional discourtesy" in being used as a "recording device for a scripted soundbite".
Green went on to say that the resulting interview was "so absurd" that it is "perfectly proper" that the full un-edited version of it "has found its way onto YouTube … to be laughed at along with all the clips of cats falling off sofas".
As they say - politics is a rough old business sometimes.
See for yourself at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI
In Gordon Brown's case the damage was done in a hastily arranged TV interview straight to camera - announcing even more hastily cobbled together government proposals - to tackle the MPs' expenses scandal.
Unfortunately for the then Prime Minister it was an unmitigated disaster - as Gordon Brown grinned like a Cheshire Cat, but in all the wrong places - as if someone had spiked his green tea or Irn Bru.
Ed Miliband's new found fame on You Tube stems from a TV interview - he gave on the day of the recent pensions strike - as he tried desperately not to depart from the pre-arranged script, presumably agreed with his handlers.
The Labour leader responded to each question in exactly the same way - no matter what he was asked.
The TV reporter - Damon Green - who conducted the interview - said he felt ashamed at the "professional discourtesy" in being used as a "recording device for a scripted soundbite".
Green went on to say that the resulting interview was "so absurd" that it is "perfectly proper" that the full un-edited version of it "has found its way onto YouTube … to be laughed at along with all the clips of cats falling off sofas".
As they say - politics is a rough old business sometimes.
See for yourself at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZtVm8wtyFI
