Politics doesn't work like this, it really doesn't, sorry.
Well, modern politics certainly, given that it is based on mindless PC soundbites and not much else. Bring back Tony Benn...and Enoch Powell for that matter.
No - no - you misunderstand me. Even Benn or Powell would not have refused a microphone put under their nose, or treated it as if it were low-level harassment. They would have had a pithy word, or even a Benn-type comment about how they'd had a wonderful rally just now and now they were off to the Miners' Gala with a cheese sandwich and a Thermos of tea... but Corbyn seems not to want to engage.
This is the world of 24-hour news. The world of true believers may think there is something noble in the thing; that it can be explained as 'not engaging with mindless PC soundbites' and so on. But I come from Nuneaton, kid. My finger rests on that bellwether. It sees the heir-but-two to Blair shouting angrily at the camera. It's not listening to how these things may be explained away. Corbyn needs to stop doing them in the first place.
This gives even me, most hyper-partisan of the hyper-partisans, not much pleasure.
