For the second time
this week Nick Clegg has lost his radio mic feed in the middle of a
live broadcast. On Sunday, a few minutes into a double act on the
economy with David Laws (above), people suddenly started scurrying
around in front of the podium with hand-held mics, and all the
photographers were ushered to the back of the room to stop the
barrage of shutter clicks drowning out the resulting rather low-grade audio.
When this work-around proved inadequate, the Lib-Dem leader was taken
into a back room to have his transmitter adjusted. Apparently he was
apoplectic, but managed to re-emerge and continue with gritted teeth
well-hidden.
And earlier today The
World at One (BBC Radio 4) clearly found a microphone malfunction
during the Lib-Dem manifesto launch more interesting than any other
aspect of the event, and played its listeners a generous stretch of
crackle and dropped syllables.
Is this a deliberate
Lib-Dem strategy aimed at livening up what many observers regard as an
(until now) extremely dull campaign - or could it be sabotage? We must
be told. More pictures here.
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