Click, brrr. Yes, The Mack this week joins the list of Tories (like Peter Lilley and Nigel Lawson before him), who’ve had a thorough going over on radio.
Rather than Today’s late great Brian Redhead, the inquisitor this time was BBC Northampton’s Joe Pignatello who, last week, pressed the borough leader to the point that he, well, flipped and unilaterally ended a difficult interview over how many staff would lose their jobs when the Guildhall farms out its back-room services.
It’s an excruciating listen. Joe asks: “How many people’s jobs are at risk, how many people are being consulted?” The Mack comes back with a mumbled line about all posts being “in scope” to which he’s rightly challenged by an exasperated JP: “What does that mean? In scope?” It’s then we have the toe-curling silence before we’re told that, despite attempts to retrieve him, The Mack wasn’t coming back. The answer was 200, but the walk-out spoke a thousand words.
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