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Did anyone else just see

56 replies

MrsRuffdiamond · 07/05/2014 19:20

The Party Political Broadcast for Labour on BBC1?

It was stunning, and kind of appalling, but I can't make my mind up whether it was in a good or a bad way!

It was certainly very funny, with Nick Clegg as the Incredible Shrinking Man in a spoof Cabinet meeting dominated by Tories:

"He's shrunk!"
"What shall we do with him?"
"Shall we hunt him?"

Grin
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claig · 07/05/2014 21:36

You're right. It is similar to some of Spitting Image.

Dan Hodges is left wing and supports Labour, but he is a harsh critic of Labour and thinks that Miliband is not a good leader and that labour stand no chance of winning. When I have heard him speak on TV, he comes across as being on the right of the Labour Party rather than on the left, but I may have got that wrong.

MrsRTea · 07/05/2014 21:22

It's a rip-off of Spitting Image's portrayal of David Steel, which was presumably the starting point.

What is Dan Hodge's political position, then? He's the ds of Glenda Jackson, right?

nilbyname · 07/05/2014 21:08

I laughed, I thought it was funny. Didn't really learn much about the Labour Party and thought the pot shots at clegg were distracting. But it was funny.

Still voting green.

claig · 07/05/2014 21:05

No, it's very bad. It's disastrous

Dan Hodges is actually very clever and very astute. I don't agree with him on many things. he gets stuff wrong because he is left wing and therefore can't see the truth sometimes, but he is still one of the best political observers around. He has said that Labour does not stand a chance of winning the next election and that goes against nearly all of the other political pundits.

What is so bad about that party political broadcast is that it is a joke. It patronises the public. But what do you expect from Oxbridge Labour strategists who have gone to what seems to be an ad agency called Lucky Generals. The PPE chumps in Labour who call themselves strategists probably thought they were clever generals and thought they would get lucky with this crap. What is wrong with it is that it is spin . But that is all that these people know, that is all they have up their sleeves and once again they have revealed it to the public. They think the public will applaud their brilliance and laugh, but they can't foresee that the public will only laugh at them.

It sums Labour up - jokers who can only spin, no substance, just an empty shell, no gold, just glitzy glitter drifting in the breeze.

The public does not want jokers, it wants substance. That is why it backs Farage.

MrsRTea · 07/05/2014 19:41

And this comment is quite funny:

"I have just watched it too. I thought someone had poisoned my dinner with LSD."

MrsRTea · 07/05/2014 19:38

I googled for it and found it here:

blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danhodges/100270502/the-un-credible-shrinking-man-broadcast-proof-that-labour-has-gone-insane/

Dan Hodges comments, then a reader adds:

"This may be true but Dan Hodges is unhealthily obsessed with the Labour Party and should get a life."

Which I think is funnier than the broadcast.