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Press Officers - the reporting type

I thought I'd quote this story from Scottish Political News - it seems that an Executive Press Officer decided to broadcast her life story on a crowded train, unaware that other people might actually hear what she was saying. The old axiom, 'With friends like these...' springs to mind:
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What I will tell you is her thoughts about the election. It seems that right at the heart of the Executive even the spin meisters themselves have doubts that Jack will hang in there. Apparently they are already being mega careful about being on-message for Executive policy rather than espousing Labour or Liberal propoganda. Makes you ask, were civil servants previously getting paid to promote party lines-to-take? This press officer was certainly all set for a change of government and was just glad that her job didn't rely too much on which party was in power.

I agree with SPN's conclusions: when your press officer starts planning for a new boss, you're in trouble.
Reluctant Hero

Re: Press Officers - the reporting type

macnumpty wrote:

I agree with SPN's conclusions: when your press officer starts planning for a new boss, you're in trouble.


The good news just keeps coming for the independence supporters.

The only thing that I am slightly concerned about is that in 1992, there was a huge wave of optimism that we were about to get rid of the Tory government at the Westminster election, yet it still went belly-up.

I just hope the same thing doesn't happen with the Labour government in May.
macnumpty

Well, Labour are going down the 'tax' route that the Tories took, and we face as hostile a press corps as Kinnock faced. We have to avoid major errors on the scale of Sheffield though.

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