The Final Cut by Steven Suttie

Author:Steven Suttie [Suttie, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-27T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Two

The media were going mad for this story. Nothing like this had ever happened before, certainly not in recent history anyway. Plenty of senior officers from the Army, or the NHS, or other police forces had made critical remarks about the government once they’d retired, or resigned. They generally did it to grab a splash of publicity for their autobiography coming out.

But never before had a serving Chief Constable gone on the record with such a vitriolic and scathing attack against the serving government. It was simply unbelievable, and the media centre at MCP headquarters was quite literally full of people who were a little dumfounded and shell-shocked by the remarkable press conference they had just witnessed.

“You’re watching the BBC News Channel, that was a live broadcast, and I’m quite lost for words after that. Let’s listen again to what the Chief Constable had to say.” The BBC news channel started the press conference again, from the beginning, presumably to give staff a chance to catch their breaths, and to provide the opportunity to have a discussion about how the BBC were going to handle this, from a politically neutral standpoint.

“Well, that’s escalated quickly,” said the News Editor of the BBC News Network. “How the hell do we put that back in the box?”

“Do we have to?”

“Do we want the Media, Culture and Sport down here, slashing our budgets again?”

“They couldn’t… could they?”

“Well they cut us by eighty million last time. Come on, you know how this all works. We need to spin this. Somehow.”

“We could frame it as a stunt, maybe it was a stunt?”

“In what way?”

“Well maybe the Chief Constable is playing a trick, showing some pretend empathy in order to appeal to the attacker’s own compassion?”

“Yes. Genius. We’ll run with that. Grab a leading psychologist to come in and provide expert analysis.”

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