The reports in the papers this morning highlighting the breakdown of discipline inside the party will do little to help Labour get its message across. Then up pops Peter Mandelson with a 'how not to do it' performance at this morning's press conference.
Here is a party that is pleading with the media to move the agenda from process to policy and he picks fights with both the Adam Boulton and Nick Robinson, by refusing to answer their questions on public expenditure cuts. If that wasnt enough, he then goes on to decribe Clegg as "slightly arrogant and started to exude the kind of entitlement that we have associated with Mr Cameron and George Osborne".
Mandelson is well-versed to the odd fall-out behind the scenes, but that's no excuse for getting on the wrong side of the media. Then, to cap the session off, he had to reminded about the showing of the latest party election broadcast.
The obvious danger for the party is that they will now lose the sympathy of the media during the final stages of the campaign. Moreover, if the party doesn't make a recovery in the polls and party discipline opening breaks down, Mandelson will become the story.
The press conference did nothing to help Gordon Brown.
Here is a party that is pleading with the media to move the agenda from process to policy and he picks fights with both the Adam Boulton and Nick Robinson, by refusing to answer their questions on public expenditure cuts. If that wasnt enough, he then goes on to decribe Clegg as "slightly arrogant and started to exude the kind of entitlement that we have associated with Mr Cameron and George Osborne".
Mandelson is well-versed to the odd fall-out behind the scenes, but that's no excuse for getting on the wrong side of the media. Then, to cap the session off, he had to reminded about the showing of the latest party election broadcast.
The obvious danger for the party is that they will now lose the sympathy of the media during the final stages of the campaign. Moreover, if the party doesn't make a recovery in the polls and party discipline opening breaks down, Mandelson will become the story.
The press conference did nothing to help Gordon Brown.
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"The obvious danger for the party is that they will now lose the sympathy of the media during the final stages of the campaign."
ReplyDeleteSurely you mean "they will now not regain the sympathy of the media" - they lost a long time ago.
"Here is a party that is pleading with the media to move the agenda from process to policy"
By which they mean making up lies about the Conservative policy, seeing as they dont seem to have any policies of their own. EG the Conservatives will cut pensioner bus passes, the Conservatives will put up VAT, the Conservatives will sack all the nurses, the Conservatives will sack all the police officers...
The media and the country are bored of hearing the same old broken record repeated ad nauseum. Labour's problems are of it's own creation. They dont have a story to tell so cant complain if nobody wants to listen to them.