Yesterday, the BBC obligingly ran with the Labour line that Comrade Ed and the gang had taken the moral decision to move away from the long historical link to the Co op Bank. However it seems not all was as the BBC reported;
As pieces of political spin go, it was up there with the best – even if it concerned the dry subject of Labour’s banking facilities. This morning, the BBC reported that it had “learnt” that the party was looking at ending its 80-year relationship with the Co-operative Bank. It was heavily implied that this was a Labour initiative caused, in part, by recent controversies at the bank which it no longer wished to be a part of.
But as with all things that are spun, there is a risk that they will unravel. And by this afternoon, the party was facing charges that it had been rather economical with the actualité and that it was, in fact, the troubled Co-op that wanted to sever its relationship with Labour, and not the other way round.
And it was the Indy, PAndy Marr’s old haunt and normally a ZaNuLaB orifice which blew the spin right out of the water.
Heavens to Betsy!
As always, though, the mission has been accomplished. Viewers and listeners will have absorbed the storyline as originally presented. Even if there was a correction (some hope of that) the original message has been delivered.
When is a stopping of bankers bonuses NOT the right thing to do?
Apparently only when Osborne does it on behalf of the 80% shareholder that we seem to be.
I detect real sniffiness throughout the liberal media today…the Tories seem to have wrong-footed them, in doing this.
Must have been a Miliband notion, and surely ED and Labour will feign that it was-and the BBC will let them amplify as ever.
Just being a Tory daring to run anything seems to be enough to upset the New Left.
So, it’s a case of rats deserting the sinking rats? Seems pretty clear.
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