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- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:40 am
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A bit surprised to find there is no extant thread for this appalling woman, who is the current Heath Secretary, so here’s one I’m starting.
She was doing the 8:10 interview on the R4 Today programme this morning, discussing, I think, the government’s plans to address the quite appalling state of NHS dentistry in the UK.
I say “I think”, because the net result of her approach was that she totally failed to get her message across. Atkins’ approach to these set piece interviews seems to be to adopt a sort of verbal Gatling gun behaviour, simply babbling an unbroken stream of only partly understandable verbiage, even across the interviewer’s best attempts to get a word in edgeways and get her to clarify. To the interviewer Justin Webb’s credit, he stuck calmly to his task and tried to pin Atkins down on one or two key points, but he was swept aside in the continuous gusts of utter guff being emitted by Atkins.
Eventually, of course, the effect on me, at any rate, was that I mentally switched off, no longer even trying to assimilate some meaningful information from Atkins’ stream-of-consciousness pish, which, I should point out, I had already decided early on was worthless, hearing it simply as meaningless background chatter.
I cannot believe that Atkins was being congratulated on her performance by the Tories’ media team. It was simply appalling, and surely, totally counter-productive. I’m pretty sure that the Tories’ alleged “plan” to sort out the dentistry crisis is inadequate bollocks, and Atkins’ shocking performance has done precisely nothing to convince me otherwise. Vishnu on a velocipede, we surely deserve better than this utter shite. The election really cannot come soon enough.
She was doing the 8:10 interview on the R4 Today programme this morning, discussing, I think, the government’s plans to address the quite appalling state of NHS dentistry in the UK.
I say “I think”, because the net result of her approach was that she totally failed to get her message across. Atkins’ approach to these set piece interviews seems to be to adopt a sort of verbal Gatling gun behaviour, simply babbling an unbroken stream of only partly understandable verbiage, even across the interviewer’s best attempts to get a word in edgeways and get her to clarify. To the interviewer Justin Webb’s credit, he stuck calmly to his task and tried to pin Atkins down on one or two key points, but he was swept aside in the continuous gusts of utter guff being emitted by Atkins.
Eventually, of course, the effect on me, at any rate, was that I mentally switched off, no longer even trying to assimilate some meaningful information from Atkins’ stream-of-consciousness pish, which, I should point out, I had already decided early on was worthless, hearing it simply as meaningless background chatter.
I cannot believe that Atkins was being congratulated on her performance by the Tories’ media team. It was simply appalling, and surely, totally counter-productive. I’m pretty sure that the Tories’ alleged “plan” to sort out the dentistry crisis is inadequate bollocks, and Atkins’ shocking performance has done precisely nothing to convince me otherwise. Vishnu on a velocipede, we surely deserve better than this utter shite. The election really cannot come soon enough.
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