Comments on: Ed Miliband Interviewed by Ladywood Kids http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/08/ed-miliband-interviewed-by-ladywood-kids A Liberal Democrat campaigner in Birmingham Ladywood Sun, 23 Jan 2011 19:23:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jock Coats http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/blog/2009/08/ed-miliband-interviewed-by-ladywood-kids/comment-page-1#comment-142 Jock Coats Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:12:01 +0000 http://www.davidnikel.org.uk/?p=384#comment-142 Yes, I saw him on a More4 program a couple of weeks back about how modern ICT can change the way we do government. He did not come over well in that either. Stopping mid-sentence to consider whether he had just gone "off message". Now I would have though that in a professionally made TV program, unless they were trying to trip him up, they would have let him prepare his answers, or at least rehearse them and allow another take. I suppose he can't help the slightly slow and sonorous way he speaks, but it seems to me to make him not a very good communicator. Yes, I saw him on a More4 program a couple of weeks back about how modern ICT can change the way we do government. He did not come over well in that either. Stopping mid-sentence to consider whether he had just gone “off message”.

Now I would have though that in a professionally made TV program, unless they were trying to trip him up, they would have let him prepare his answers, or at least rehearse them and allow another take.

I suppose he can’t help the slightly slow and sonorous way he speaks, but it seems to me to make him not a very good communicator.

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