That PEB

[muninnhuginn]

Am I the only one who was distracted--to the point of motion-sickness--by the wobbly shots and constant cuts between Tony and Gordon on last night's PEB for Labour? I couldn't listen to the spiel. So for once it wasn't the message that made me wish to throw up. (Oh, Anthony Minghella, how things have changed since you charmed and seduced my ears with Cigarettes and Chocolate. Sighs.)

Actually, what the shooting of the broadcast told me, quite clearly, was that Brown's beaten Blair. The evidence: Blair was often blurred, almost brushed out of the scene, and often shifted to the very edge of the shot; Brown was in sharp focus and central in his shots. Gordon's tie stood out against the pinkish-we're-not-red-at-all background, whilst Tony's blended in (his heart thereby subsumed into the background).

Am I right? We'll see.

Comments

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

An alternative interpretation is not that Brown has beaten Blair, but that Blair now accepts that he is an electoral liability, and is pushing Brown to the fore so that Blair can cling on to power for a little longer. Whether that means Brown has won isn't clear to me, as Blair will remain in the driving seat.