Strictly Politics?
Vince Cable is griping because he wasn’t asked to come on Strictly Come Dancing. He claims that the BBC
were terrified that it would be used to score political points and that Labour and the Conservatives would want their MPs on the show to give it political balance.
Were Vince just another Lib Dem backbencher, no they wouldn’t. But as he is his parties Treasury spokesman and deputy leader, one would rather expect that the BBC are in the right here.
Even ignoring the “political balance” narrative, that Cable wants to go on a light entertainment show when his party is supposedly trying to make itself seem like more than just a repository for protest votes, speaks volumes in itself - even he doesn’t think the Lib Dems are a serious political party.
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Either that, or the BBC don’t want some ageing MP from a decaying party that is desperate for some publicity.
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