On Friday 13th April 2012 the live Newsnight programme was aired on BBC2. This programme discussed the pros and cons of elected mayors. The programme was hosted by Emily Matlis. The fifteen member studio audience consisted of representatives from the smaller parties and plenty of “innits” to make up the numbers!
The British National Party was only invited at the last minute making it difficult for anyone to be available. However, Maldon’s Richard Perry was available. Richard was surprised when the BBC offered to pick him up and take him home again. This made us all very suspicious of a BBC question time style ‘stitch up’. However, since joining the Party only 3 years ago, Richard has steadily gained more and more confidence and is always up for a row so it was decided for him to enter the lions den.
About 20 minutes into the programme, Richard seized the opportunity to plug our mayoral candidate, Carlos Cortiglia, and point out that we were doing very well on the doorsteps in London and that people were going to be surprised at how well we do on election night. He then went on to criticise the lib-lab-cons for being part of hustings where only three candidates were present and ridiculed the two so called main candidates by calling them “Boris and Doris” to which everyone including Emily Maitlis laughed.
No comments:
Post a Comment