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With all these comings and goings, in and out of number 10, waiting on one speech of the outgoing lettuce, and the incoming Rusty Richi, plus all the gang of both they would put some kind of entertainment on outside number 10, maybe a juggler would be fitting. It would be better than just looking at this front door. :0)
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A clown in Downing Street? Why did no one suggest that before?
13:21 Tue 25th Oct 2022
If I were PM I'd clear all the journalists and TV crews with their lights and cameras from Downing Street. Apart from when the PM is making a statement from the lectern in front of No10, there is absolutely no need for there to be any press in Downing Street; and certainly no need for networks to broadcast the whole bulletin from there.
Private Eye used to have a feature called 'Going Live', giving instances of reporters broadcasting live from somewhere where there was absolutely nothing happening at that time, and no need for them to be there. Same with all these reports from outside No 10, particularly in the evening news bulletins.
Private Eye used to have a feature called 'Going Live', giving instances of reporters broadcasting live from somewhere where there was absolutely nothing happening at that time, and no need for them to be there. Same with all these reports from outside No 10, particularly in the evening news bulletins.
I was watching an old election night broadcast from 1955 (stop laughing there!). They showed people standing out in the rain at Cheltenham town hall waiting for the first declaration of the night I was puzzled by the odd noises coing from many of them, and it turned out there was a clown on the balcony making them laugh.
A real one.
A real one.
It was on catch up TV Naomi (or may have been one I had recorded - stop laughing I said!)
I love these old programmes - they're a slice of history, and show how much we've changed. I didn't watch the whole thing through: apart from anything else it was a very boring election. As often happened in those days, there was more of less a uniform swing of 2% to the ruling party across most of the country. At least there was no give-away exit poll though!
I love these old programmes - they're a slice of history, and show how much we've changed. I didn't watch the whole thing through: apart from anything else it was a very boring election. As often happened in those days, there was more of less a uniform swing of 2% to the ruling party across most of the country. At least there was no give-away exit poll though!
