Charles Dance thinks Ed Miliband is being held back by his glottal stop. The Game of Thrones star, who was reading last night alongside writers such as Rose Tremain and Lemn Sissay at the Southbank Centre for World Book Night, explained that his politics “like my nose, veers distinctly to the left” but that he is driven crazy by the Labour leader’s poor enunciation.
“I wish he would stop glottal stopping. He’s a good speaker but it completely detracts from what he’s saying and it feels patronising, as if he thinks that’s how he should be talking to the common man.
“You can see the rest of the Labour politicians starting to pick up on it, because they’re thinking ‘Oh, this is how we’re meant to be speaking’. It’s pathetic.”
Does he think there’s any similarity between the bloody politics of Game of Thrones and the bickering of the Coalition? “Certainly not,” said Dance. “We’re sexier and crueller. Though I suppose it might be more entertaining if the Coalition were more like us.”
