And the reality at the London School of Economics
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July 25, 2014 at 2:00pm
They made it sound like he declaimed from the stage to a packed auditorium. The reality? A lecture room the size of a classroom, with the entire first row taken up by the Maltese delegation and its hangers-on.
Just another day at the office.
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Just wait for his podium next election. Tas-solid.
I heard someone mention that there are a number of Maltese students at the LSE, so you’d have to allow for those filling the seats too.
Not really ciccio. I assure you that if ginger wonder boy decided to make a speech in my living room, I’ll make sure I’d stay on my roof for the duration.
Unlike you, I’d pay good money to see a prime minister do stand-up comedy.
Using highly sophisticated crowd-counting techniques, i.e. what looks like 6 rows by 15 seats, the audience was 90 less the Maltese contingent.
Hallas gahan!
I used a more sophisticated algorithm and found a grand audience total of 67. Minus the Maltese contingent makes it around 55.
Front row, fourth from the left – looks uncannily like Adrian Said (http://www.emcsinternational.com/default.asp?module=content&id=75#Adrian Said). If it is him, then what’s in it for him? Anything to do with the EMCS UK-interest?
And now what a real event looks like.
http://www.georgetown.edu/news/story/obamaspeechreaction.html
Pity the poor clods – I mean those sitting at the second row and further back – who had been hoodwinked into expecting a ‘lectio magisterialis’ of sorts from Malta’s P.M.
Further pity the same – having no visible means of silently sneaking out of the classroom after no more than five minutes of rubbish, balderdash and silly ‘humour’ issuing from the stodgy creature standing behind the lectern.
My first reaction when I saw the photo was that it was one of the smallest lecture rooms at the LSE.
You can take a bunch of Labourites to the London School of Economics, but you cannot take the island mentality out of the Labourite.