A tape of this morning's focus group.
This is Mary, she is a focus group legend, right?
Mary? Mary she's called.
Everything that she's said in the last 12 months
in every focus group she's been in
has chimed exactly with the core vote,
and she loved my Arts For Hearts And Minds policy.
Did she now? Yes, she did now.
Arts For Hearts And Minds?
Arts For Hearts And Minds, that's what we're calling it.
She said it chimed brilliantly with stay-at-home mums, like her.
She's really core middle England, is she?
Totally core middle England.
TV: ..if children are put in a position where they've got a bit of responsibility,
I think they'll rise to that challenge, I really do.
Art is all about expression isn't it?
Can I get her in for a sort of one-to-one? Why not?
Yeah absolutely, I can get... Precis the focus group.
Make it a bit more...focussed.
Everybody else basically agrees with what she says.
It's a very good way to work,
I like this, just cut out all the extraneous stuff, you know,
just the facts, man, you know so just the protein, Atkins government.
OK, I'll get her in.
And in fact here they are now.
Hello. Hello.
Hi, I'm Mary.
This is Mary and this is Glenn Cullen.
And this is Mary, our focus group star. Good to meet you.
Shown you on video. Thank you, I keep getting asked back.
You are one of the most, sort of, articulate of our focus groupees now.
That's, yeah...not groupie, "groupees" with two "e"s.
You're very kind, thanks.
All right, well listen erm, just to push on...
I was thinking, that if I am
representative of the public at large,