The real problem with Britain’s Political Traitors show is that no one is very faithful to anything for long | Robert Hutton
Bombast, duplicity, distrust: it’s all second nature You join us on a steam train in Scotland as we head to the next episode of the BBC’s hit show Political Traitors.
Key points
- While John and Andy run around shouting about how they have faithfully met their “fiscal rules” in the third year of the forecasts, on our sofas at home we know that this incantation is entirely meaningless.….
- For this week’s task, the players have to construct a “budget” of tiny crowd-pleasing measures, carefully balanced by invisible tax rises.
- For Westminster’s special budget edition of the series, politicians have played to their strengths.
It’s like the celebrity edition, except that everyone is less comely – politics being the practice of show business for ugly people.
What makes the show so compelling is that the players don’t know the whole story.
Additional details
- Only those of us on the outside can see what’s really going on.
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