My friend Glyn Davies has speculated in his blog that Guto Harri, who is leaving the BBC to join the PR firm Fleishman-Hillard, must be a Conservative supporter, on the basis that he had also been tipped for the job now held by Andy Coulson.
I didn’t know Coulson was thinking of leaving CCHQ, but, in any event, I am not sure that one hundred per cent dedication to the political cause of the employer is a necessary prerequisite for a good PR man. In fact, a certain professional detachment is probably much more desirable.
The BBC has usually been pretty good at journalistic impartiality; Nick Robinson used to be a Young Conservative national chairman, but you’d never guess it. Andrew Marr was widely known to be a Labour supporter. But he has been known to give Labour ministers a good kicking more than once.
Jim Naughtie, however, did make a famous gaffe in an interview with Ed Balls prior to the 2005 general election, when he asked, “If we win the election, does Gordon Brown want to remain Chancellor?” before hastily correcting himself to: “If you win the election.”
Guto never did anything like that and, so far as I am concerned, I am entirely happy for his politics to remain a matter between him and the ballot box.
I didn’t know Coulson was thinking of leaving CCHQ, but, in any event, I am not sure that one hundred per cent dedication to the political cause of the employer is a necessary prerequisite for a good PR man. In fact, a certain professional detachment is probably much more desirable.
The BBC has usually been pretty good at journalistic impartiality; Nick Robinson used to be a Young Conservative national chairman, but you’d never guess it. Andrew Marr was widely known to be a Labour supporter. But he has been known to give Labour ministers a good kicking more than once.
Jim Naughtie, however, did make a famous gaffe in an interview with Ed Balls prior to the 2005 general election, when he asked, “If we win the election, does Gordon Brown want to remain Chancellor?” before hastily correcting himself to: “If you win the election.”
Guto never did anything like that and, so far as I am concerned, I am entirely happy for his politics to remain a matter between him and the ballot box.
5 comments:
I concede that I may have been adding two and two and getting more than four - and that Iain Dale may have been entirely wrong to suggest that Guto had been tipped for the job Andy Coulson is doing now. But I wouldn't have thought it unreasonable to suppose that anyone considered for that job would not have at least some sympathy for the Conservative cause.
Glyn should spend more time looking afetr his own patch and keep his beak shut on things he knows not a lot about.
Stick to the parish council and he should be fine, or keep up with the night school!!!
Glyn, stick to the assemble and local council, you are better suited to the kind of politics that do not test you too much.
What about Conservative policies for Wales?
what about the waste of money the assembly has proved to be with it's 3rd rate at best members?
Do you really believe all you say about it?
Or is it a case of you been let of the leash and going slightly mad at your new found freedom.
Glyn is shooting his mouth off on a few subjects that perhaps the party members may well take an alternative line on.
Is he as a perspecive member not now suppossed to now be a little more carefull, rather than sound off personal views on important subjects?
What has Cheryl to say about his mouthing off I wonder?
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