Tuesday, September 04, 2007

The editing at Number 10

While it's not clear how much mileage Private Eye will get out of their Stalin model for Gordon Brown's approach to governing (an analogy that was popularised here), there's a strange bit of editing in the transcript of his news conference yesterday --

QUESTION (possibly from Gary O'Donoghue)
Again on that speech yesterday you said that you wanted to break the old sterile Party divides. (Party Political Content)

PRIME MINISTER
Yes, that we work together where we can and as we have done...


The question, which occurred about 10m40s into the video, and which is needed to make the sense of the answer, was --

Can you think of anything positive to say about David Cameron and the Conservative Party?

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