Sky News关于EU referendum先访问了Cameron,然后访问了Michael Gove。
对于Michael Gove的表现,不同的报纸有不同解读,不同的解读肯定是有不同的出发点。刚刚看了一下左派报纸Guardian的评论,经常看右派报纸的人不妨也看看左派报纸的观点。
这里是Guardian对访问的描述
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/jun/03/eu-referendum-michael-gove-questioned-on-sky-news
这里是Guaidian评论员的评论
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/03/eu-referendum-our-writers-on-michael-goves-tv-questioning
断章取义的选择一些供大家娱乐。
Deborah Orr: ‘On his rare forays into detail, he was almost comically nonsensical’
Instead Gove says that all experts are corrupt, which is why they all think Britain should stay in the EU, even though the EU is responsible for every bad thing that has happened in the UK since we joined. I particularly liked: “Leaving the EU will help young people to get on the housing ladder.” Try getting on the property ladder in, say, Berlin, chum. Easy-peasy.
Gove says he is “on the side of the people” who are all “so wonderful”. Every one of us. Not the fish. Gove reckons the EU ruined his dad’s Aberdeen fishing business, because it cottoned on to the idea that fish aren’t an inexhaustible resource and did something about it. Their bad. Gove isn’t even a Little Englander. He’s a Little My Dadder.
When Gove says he’s on the side of the people, he means that he’s willing to ride a wave of populism, when it suits him. There’s no doubt that audiences on both nights of these mildly ill-tempered Sky EU grillings have responded enthusiastically to the appeal to nationalism. It’s nice, being told that your tribe is the best tribe.
But on his rare forays into detail, Gove was almost comically nonsensical, blithely and airily dismissive of any negative impact on the wonderful people he loves so much.
Matthew d’Ancona: ‘He challenged the audience to distinguish the cause from its champions’
For the leave campaign, there is clear danger in the idea of its leaders as General Melchett in Blackadder Goes Forth, making plans far away from danger while others pay the price.
Simon Jenkins: ‘He was there to say again and again “take back control”’
Brexit cannot answer specific questions, because its nature is a leap in the dark. What Gove did well was all he could do, present an optimistic, Panglossian view of the future, one markedly absent from Cameron’s project fear the night before. His audience of steel workers, single mothers, small-business owners and expatriate retirees were told they would all apparently blossom and prosper outside the EU. All they had to do was ‘liberate the talents of the British people and make Britain great again.’ That, I fear, was more like Trump.