+Monty I don't want to be mean. But "b-by remaining mo-o-tionless, by re-maning motion-less and silent, The-rea became pr-iminister" is not good audio-quality. It sounds like David is swallowing air in between the words. And I'm pretty sure he wasn't.
Monty Skew Why are you being such an arse about what is very legitimate criticism? The video was not watchable. You posted a shite video. If you can't apologise for that ... well, you clearly deserve fuck-all respect. Apart from a personality defect, what the fuck is wrong with you?
This was my first attempt at recording video, and the program I used did not get on with my computer. I posted a link to the original source, in case anyone wanted to watch it with high-quality video. By the time I'd found a better program, Channel 4 had deleted the original source video from their website. As far as I know, this is now the only clip of it on the internet. Sure, it would be nice if David Mitchell's lips moved precisely in time with his words, but that wasn't really the primary purpose of posting the clip. If you disagree, then might I politely suggest you go and watch a Taylor Swift video instead?
y'can't up and leave completely, because your biggest trading partner is 5 feet away across a river, and y'cant sell to your most geographically convenient market without meeting their regulations, and you can't leave them behind, because you are right next to them, and that's where you will be for the next five million years.
I had to look up what underpinned David's joke about Andrea stabbing herself in the children. It's a measure of how micro-managed the talking points are in Westminster-based governments that everyone walks on eggshells during campaigns and/or leadership fights, and their tiptoeing usually results in at least one massive clanger that occurs while they're in a kind of wood-for-the-trees mode. Given that I don't live in the UK and often miss the minutiae of campaign blurtings, I don't know how or even if the 'children' = real stake in the future, therefore 'inability to have children' = no stake in future played with the electorate. Given that David mined it for a dark laugh, I guess it played, to some extent.
I doubt Leadsom's "As a mother..." comments had any cut-through with the population at large, but the rest of the Tory party definitely noticed. Had she not fallen on her sword (to continue the blade-themed metaphors), her reputation would have been gutted by Theresa May's chums talking about her gaffes all summer. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3681695/Fury-Tory-hopeful-Andrea-Leadsom-says-mother-gives-edge-Theresa-just-days-Home-Secretary-speaks-sadness-never-having-children.html
