Respect! Bristol Labour MP Tangram Debonnaire Outclasses Beeb Interviewer

The Bristol Labour MP Tangram Debonnaire was being interviewed this morning by BBC Points West’s David Garmston. Garmston’s a solid, older man with white hair, who looks to my mind like the newsreader Kent Brockman from the Simpsons. I didn’t watch all of the interview, just the bit where he came a cropper asking about her support for Jeremy Corbyn. I always got the impression that Tangram was a member of the Labour right, like Karen Smyth. However, she was the only local Labour MP for the city who turned out to greet Corbyn when he campaigned here in Bristol a year or so ago. Garmston challenged her, saying, ‘But you supported Jeremy Corbyn’. ‘No,’ replied Debonnaire, ‘I( said I wanted a Labour victory. Because any Labour government would be better than a Conservative. Check your videos.’ At which point she got a grim look from Garmston, who then said, ‘Moving swiftly on.’

Ho ho! I’m not sure I agree with everything Debonnaire stands for, but she certainly outmatched the Beeb and their anti-Corbyn angle, although I noticed that she didn’t exactly support him either. But her reply was good enough for me.

Unfortunately, though, I don’t believe that under Starmer a Labour government would be better than a Conservative. It’d just be more of the same, only the people doing it would change.

Tags: BBC, Bristol, Conservatives, David Garmston, Jeremy Corbyn, Karen Smyth, Keir Starmer, Labour Party, Points West, Tangram Debonnaire, The Simpsons