I spent the early afternoon at The Glass Centre in Sunderland where GB gave a speech to a packed audience of mostly Labour activists to promote Labour's arts and cultural agenda. I'm glad he mentioned the importance of the UK's videogaming industry: it sounds like something only nerds and teenagers would be interested in (and middle-aged men who can afford to pay £50 for a new game) but in fact it's a cutting edge industry where the UK is punching well above its weight. Videogames are now bigger business than the movies, with first day sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - I repeat, not first month or first week but first day - of $310 million. This is a 21st century industry the UK government strongly needs to encourage.
Predictably, media attention will focus on the heckler who managed to sneak his way into the room. Two things should be borne in mind. First, he will most definitely not be a random member of the public who just so happened to find his way into a room where the PM was giving a keynote speech. Because of the inevitably tight security arrangements in place when the PM is around, someone must have sneaked him in. Second, his heckles were rubbish. If I was going to sneak into a room where David Cameron was giving a keynote speech in order to heckle him -- which obviously I wouldn't! -- I'd make sure (1) I said something memorable (2) I'd say it loud and clear. In the event, the only audible first heckle involved the use of the word 'bigot' (the rest was inaudible), then he shup up for a while, then he said something else also inaudible. He definitely needs coaching. He was ejected from the room not by Labour party bouncers as the press has mistakenly stated, but by a couple of party members one of whom was quite clearly in his 60s. There's no point complaining - this is what happens on the election trail.
I spent the early afternoon at The Glass Centre in Sunderland where GB gave a speech to a packed audience of mostly Labour activists to promote Labour's arts and cultural agenda. I'm glad he mentioned the importance of the UK's videogaming industry: it sounds like something only nerds and teenagers would be interested in (and middle-aged men who can afford to pay £50 for a new game) but in fact it's a cutting edge industry where the UK is punching well above its weight. Videogames are now bigger business than the movies, with first day sales for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare - I repeat, not first month or first week but first day - of $310 million. This is a 21st century industry the UK government strongly needs to encourage.
Predictably, media attention will focus on the heckler who managed to sneak his way into the room. Two things should be borne in mind. First, he will most definitely not be a random member of the public who just so happened to find his way into a room where the PM was giving a keynote speech. Because of the inevitably tight security arrangements in place when the PM is around, someone must have sneaked him in. Second, his heckles were rubbish. If I was going to sneak into a room where David Cameron was giving a keynote speech in order to heckle him -- which obviously I wouldn't! -- I'd make sure (1) I said something memorable (2) I'd say it loud and clear. In the event, the only audible first heckle involved the use of the word 'bigot' (the rest was inaudible), then he shup up for a while, then he said something else also inaudible. He definitely needs coaching. He was ejected from the room not by Labour party bouncers as the press has mistakenly stated, but by a couple of party members one of whom was quite clearly in his 60s. There's no point complaining - this is what happens on the election trail.
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