Have the Tories been SHAMED into bringing their £2.6 million ‘briefing room’ out of mothballs?
£2.6m on a TV studio and it will look much like this: the flags will be there but probably not the fireplace, and Johnson is likely to be speaking from a podium. One thing that is likely to remain absent is a comb.
Funny how the Johnson government has announced it is planning to run daily press conferences from its £2.6m media briefing TV studio, shortly after the social media reported that the space was going unused and the money had been wasted, isn’t it?
This Site’s own story appeared on February 22 and you can read it here.
I said at the time that the spending on a Boris Johnson vanity project showcased his fascination with the United States presidency. Perhaps he wants to seem presidential?
If so, it won’t work because he simply doesn’t have the personality to pull it off. All that will happen is we will be able to identify his lies more quickly, without a layer of client-journalist interpretation to get in our way.
This in turn causes me to speculate on the selection of press representatives who will be allowed access to the briefings.
It seems unlikely that anybody without a Conservative Party membership card in their pocket is likely to get past the Downing Street gates.
With the briefings being televised, that may not matter. But how long will that last?
I can see live briefings turning into “selected highlights” as the novelty diminishes and ratings decline.
And who will select them?
Source: Downing Street: Millions spent on new media briefing room – BBC News
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