If I was the BBC DG I would have the head of news in my office to discuss this. Both presenters utterly fail here and donβt have the nous to notice quite how inside the bubble they are. Everything thatβs wrong with our media right there.
Because the minute youβre on and in your seat thatβs it. Youβve done your part, responsibility has been handed over and you can relax, read, nap.
Sometimes I worry about my fellow Brits. Heβs the Prime Minister of a G7 country, he is able to launch a nuclear strike, heβs working 18 hour days every day. Yet people want him to get a National Express bus between engagements.
Wreath upside down, failing to sing the national anthem. Really donβt know why Stephen Flynn bothers turning up. The SNP, Scotlandβs constant embarrassment. I suppose one upside is we are spared Ian Blackford and his strained kilt and waistcoat.
I do it all the time when travelling with someone. Then move over to the middle seat. Iβm next to my companion and the middle seater gets the aisle as a bonus. Everyone wins and of course occasionally the original plan works with an empty seat.
Oh dear. The response is βwe are all Americansβ - thatβs it. Not some crazy political cult. Quite incredible you could be so wrong about something so elemental.