No. 10 White House-style Televised Press Briefings delayed again.

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Allegra Stratton, hired on a salary thought to be around £125,000 in November 2020, and who was to front No.10's televised press briefings (quite separate from the existing Coronavirus press briefings) is going to have to wait a bit longer before being seem as that public face. The briefings have been postponed again, and are now delayed until mid-May according to this piece in the Guardian. There are also continued speculation that Downing Street is having doubts about the idea of televising political press briefings now that the Cummings influence has gone.



This comes after the reported £2.6m refurb for the new briefing room:


Never mind, it's only taxpayers' money after all. Why not waste it on vanity projects.
 
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I don't think people will be interested in watching them. Most will just want edited highlights. It's a vanity project decided on the back of the American briefings and since Trump's departure, they are now not show on the main news stations.
 
The revolution won't be televised???
 
Well Press conferences can be more trouble than they are worth for politicians, especially if Journalists decide to grow a spine and ask tough questions. It's basically spending a couple of million on a snazzy room to hold the lobby briefings Downing Street gives to journalists that isn't televised. The kind of thing the Guardian likes to add into it's live blog mix.
 
The Russians haven't said it's okay to do so yet.

Or there's not enough flags in there.
 
Plans for White House style Press Briefings have been scrapped by the Government

£2.6 million has been spent on upgrading facilities ...... which will now be used by the PM and officials

 
Another Johnson vanity project crashes and burns, with the taxpayer picking up the bill.
 
Another Johnson vanity project crashes and burns, with the taxpayer picking up the bill.
Well this is a chap who can't even comb his own hair, so it's no wonder all his vanity projects fail ;).
 
Another Johnson vanity project crashes and burns, with the taxpayer picking up the bill.


IIRC this is yet another of the "ideas/projects" that emerged when the lunatic and a couple of his acolytes were running the asylum...and the latest to come to nothing except a waste of money.

Now the full on grifter wing is back in the ascendancy there will still be nothing to show for it (like the Dyson Ventilator) but we won't get to find out how much of our money was slipped to whom...and thus be much happier.

Yours in blissful ignorance
GHE
 
The plan to copy the USA Press Briefings may have been revised after Biden and Jen Psaki declared that they would provide transparency and truth.
 

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