It’s Sunday Post TV as we broadcast from backstage at the BBC’s general election debate.
If you want to cut through the spin in modern politics than where better to start than that most modern of political phenomena the spin room? Backstage at Thursday night’s BBC debate politicians and press mingled before, during and after the main event that essentially saw Ed Miliband go up against four of his fellow general election challengers.
I went along armed with a new gizmo – Periscope. It’s an app launched on Twitter that allows anyone to broadcast live and anyone who downloads it (and, for the moment, has an Apple device since an Android version’s not yet available) to watch.
I bumped into some familiar faces from the Westminster beat and some SNP bigwigs bussed in from Scotland.
My first ever Periscope interviewee was Scottish Labour’s Deputy Leader Kezia Dugdale. The app spluttered into life half way through a chat about something else hence a somewhat inauspicious start to my Periscoping (if that’s not a word yet it will be soon) but Kez was in jolly mood and, in her own words, “spaffed a whole heap of nonsense”.
SNP Business Manager Derek MacKay was up next setting out a familiar theme from the Nationalist team – that they were keen to “make common cause” and “extend the hand of friendship” to Labour.
It was a busy night for the Lib Dems’ Jo Swinson – straight after the debate she was due on Question Time. But she found time to come over for a chat about why Nick Clegg wasn’t involved and whether it’s OK to comment on politicians appearance.
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