UK Politics Thread

irishmufc wrote:

pre Madonna wrote:

You met Partridge or Coogan?

Coogan. He has relations in Westport and funny enough they're called Coonan. He's been coming over for years.

Nice fella. His sunglasses flew off when I shook his hand by accident.

Was a bit starstruck when he came into the shop.

How do you shake someone's hand by accident? I could understand you feeling some burd's arse by accident but shaking a lad's hand by accident Embarrassed

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Jeremy Paxman and Kay Burley grilling the 2 main candidates tonight.

Burley biased as always but Paxman is tearing Cameron a new one. So bad it should be a 18+ show. Clap

Paxman gets straight down and dirty and brings up social welfare and benefits and zero hour contracts Clap

"Last election campaign, you told me to my face twice you wouldn't raise VAT and you still did it"

Brutal stuff from Paxman this Clap

Edited by coyne - 26 Mar 2015 at 9:16pm

Only just tuning in right now. Milliband looks rough. Did Kay Burley do a number on him?

Edited by Landon Donovan - 26 Mar 2015 at 10:16pm

Did he just call Obama "the leader of the free world"?

I thought that "are you alright? " part at the end was a bit below the belt by Paxman. A bit self serving.

The Americans do it in a proper manner. Everything is by the book. Although they do have audiences at times.

I though paxman was actually poor. Too many personal digs at that weasel Miliband. The "North London geek" question was embarrassing. Prime time tv and waste 2 mins with that?? Not enough questions on policies... Dave had an easy ride. Stroll in the park. Miliband might come out better though, especially going second and being on the defensive... "You bet I'm tough enough" before collapsing in his chair at the end looking like he just went 10 with Tyson. Do me a favour eddy. Vladimir would eat you alive in a minute. As for standing up to the leader of the free world??? #cringe

Edited by londonirish - 26 Mar 2015 at 10:50pm

Has Paxman not come out as a "one nation Tory" since leaving Newsnight? If so, why is he involved in this debate?

Paxman was very unfair with Miliband interrupting him constantly and being a lot more aggressive in his interview. Compare that to Cameron where he left "call me Dave" waffle on for an age without too much scrutiny. I thought Ed did well under the circumstances.

Burley changed her tactics with Miliband. She regularly asked Miliband questions when it was supposed to be the audience. I don't recall her doing that with Cameron except for the stupid shreddies question at the end.

What I didn't realise was that Paxman was considered and asked by the Tories to run for Kensington as MP which he turned down. He shouldn't have been there tonight due to his biased position.

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On BBC Question Time tonight it turned once again into an SNP/scottish bashing match without a member of the SNP being present. Little do they know the more they bash the scots the more they'll turn to the SNP.

Edited by colemanY2K - 27 Mar 2015 at 12:36am

"One of the dominant facts in English life during the past three quarters of a century has been the decay of ability in the ruling class." Orwell, 1942.