#76 Into the Valley of Spin
Cannon to the left of him. You don’t care about the disadvantaged. You were part of the Tory cuts.
Cannon to the right of him. You don’t care about the disadvantaged. This is a plot against the prime minister and the chancellor and really about Europe.
Cannon to the front of him. We don’t appreciate your holier than thou tone. We want your reputation, your name.
Into the valley of spin rode the 1 – the other 599 nowhere to be seen.
Moving straight ahead, trotting. Calmly: this is about social reform. I have no personal agenda. I haven’t spoken about Europe for ten years. And again, and again. Same message. Keep on going.
And then just before ten, interview finishing. The charge of sorts really begins. Fear, knowing the end is near, pushing him out of his normal timbre, his comfort zone. You cannot have my name it is all I have. Voice quickened, intense. Not found so much in the transcript but in the voice.
The rhythm of a flat out gallop.
Care
“I care for one thing and one thing only.”
“It is that the people that don’t get the choices that my children get are left behind.”
“I do not want them left behind.”
“I want them given that opportunity, and everything I’ve tried to do has been about that.”
Passion
“What I am passionate about is getting that reform done so society is reformed,”
“so that we have more of those people who’ve been left behind brought back into the sphere and the arena where we play daily but they do not.”
“That is my frustration.”
Pain
“It’s not easy. It’s painful to resign.”
“I don’t want to resign, but I’m resigning because I think it’s the only way I can do this”
Gallop stopped by Marr, cutting in, asking another question but also telling him he’s there, stopping him running on, taking a wrong step and falling flat on his face.