True. And also to set news agenda on bbc (sometimes live ffs) while shadowing real issues.
aidThompsin (live, fridays @ 19:30)The outcome was inevitable. But like "2-Tier", "De-Banking", "Family Voting" - the grandstanding was never designed to highlight an actual issue. It was to bolster conspiracy theories & gobble up column inches. Col inches that might otherwise have been populated with Qs about George Cottrell.