I do love Richard Madeley, in a way. I love how Alan Partridge he can be, how he doesn't seem to mind, and how he takes himself embarrassingly seriously but nobody else does. He's the Craig David of daytime TV.
This week's Madeleywatch sees him striding about on Hampstead Heath to a Keane soundtrack, all windswept hair and 'seriousface', wibbling on about the Lib Dems and how they have a chance of power because of last week's TV debate.
Is he a Clegg fan? Is he bandwagon-jumping? Is he just firing seemingly random words out of his face? Who knows? Who cares? Madeley, that's who.
Devastatingly for Nick Clegg, Madeley claims that he reminds him of Tony Blair. He seems to be presenting this as a good thing, but then goes on to mention how devoid of meaning Blair's rhetoric was.
Madeley, as we've discovered before, calls himself a lefty and is certainly a Blairite. What's he saying here? That he likes substanceless politics and that he thinks Clegg is Blair's natural successor? Oh dear. This could be more damaging to the Clegg campaign than any amount of right-wing media muck-raking. If anyone listened to Madeley, that is.
The video is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/8631904.stm
This week's Madeleywatch sees him striding about on Hampstead Heath to a Keane soundtrack, all windswept hair and 'seriousface', wibbling on about the Lib Dems and how they have a chance of power because of last week's TV debate.
Is he a Clegg fan? Is he bandwagon-jumping? Is he just firing seemingly random words out of his face? Who knows? Who cares? Madeley, that's who.
Devastatingly for Nick Clegg, Madeley claims that he reminds him of Tony Blair. He seems to be presenting this as a good thing, but then goes on to mention how devoid of meaning Blair's rhetoric was.
"It [the debate] reminded me of an interview that Judy and I did in 1996 with
Tony Blair, the year before he was elected Prime Minister. He was in
shirtsleeves, he talked a very good game, he looked confident, he looked
suntanned. And afterwards, as we examined what he'd actually said, there was
nothing much of substance there at all, but within three or four minutes of the
interview beginning, it was clear - to both of us at least - that we were
talking to the next Prime Minister."
Madeley, as we've discovered before, calls himself a lefty and is certainly a Blairite. What's he saying here? That he likes substanceless politics and that he thinks Clegg is Blair's natural successor? Oh dear. This could be more damaging to the Clegg campaign than any amount of right-wing media muck-raking. If anyone listened to Madeley, that is.
The video is here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_week/8631904.stm
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