Chloe Smith new economics secretary
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
he girds his loins with M&S y-fronts you know
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
she got her job steraight out of Uni as well. She'd had a year out (working for the tories), so must still only have been 22/23 herself.
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
Saw lots of people tweeting about this, and assumed they were exaggerating.
Oh dear god. They really weren't.
Oh dear god. They really weren't.
Threshers_Flail
Well-Known Member
I could barely watch it, was so cringe.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
This is what happens when you let non-privately educated, non-oxbridge types do things.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Don't understand the people saying that she got destroyed etc... Of course she played it with a straight bat and looked like a shifty rat of a politician, but she followed the brief well: i.e. don't say anything about when the decision was made or (it's ammo for people who want to call us flip-floppers), don't say anything about which departments are underspending (because we haven't done our homework yet, and anything concrete will come back to bite us).
I don't see what else she could have done in light of a decision that was clearly taken quite recently.
I don't see what else she could have done in light of a decision that was clearly taken quite recently.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
her wiki is updated already:
She is best known for her appearance on Newsnight, broadcast on 26th June 2012, in which she struggled to deal with questioning from Jeremy Paxman (his questions to her included "Is this some sort of joke?" and "Do you ever think you're incompetent?"). Parallels were drawn by the Daily Telegraph between Ms Smith's performance and that of a character from political satire The Thick Of It [4]
She is best known for her appearance on Newsnight, broadcast on 26th June 2012, in which she struggled to deal with questioning from Jeremy Paxman (his questions to her included "Is this some sort of joke?" and "Do you ever think you're incompetent?"). Parallels were drawn by the Daily Telegraph between Ms Smith's performance and that of a character from political satire The Thick Of It [4]
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
oh come on, she was utterly awful. She failed miserably to rebuff the question or to move it onto an even slightly different topic. She could easily just have said 'I was told today, as was appropriate.' She couldnt explain how it was being paid for, or how the figures had been arrived at, or why it was a good thing (having said it wasn't a good thing only 32 days ago). She was diabolically awful. And the fact that she was just a chocolate shield for Osborne shouldn't let her off the hook for being shite
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
She did as good a job as anyone else could have under the circumstances, apart from maybe someone like Ken Clarke who is a master of the game IMO. Paxo asked her a question he (and we) knew she wouldn't be able to answer honestly without dropping Osborne in the shit, which she was clearly under orders not to do, so she sat there and stonewalled as best she could.
I felt for her tbh, but then I'm soft where women are concerned especially halfway pretty ones..
@belboid; if she said she was only told today, the obvious question would have been "why?", and that would have made life very awkward for Osborne.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Or, go on air an expose the sheer naked emptiness of those tactics whilst making yourself look unprepared, incoherent and ruin your career in the process - yeah couldn't expect anything else really.
Paxman looked and sounded like a sneery creep who thinks he's got some easy prey.
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
She's a new minister who (it seems to me) was asked to stand in at short notice. She didn't give anything away that would embarrass the government.
That's not bad IMO.
She will learn and get better. And I bet you nobody will remember this interview in a few months time.
I thought he'd taken his custom elsewhere, complaining that M&S undercrackers don't provide enough support for his elephantine tackle?!
I've not seen the interview yet - not sure I can bear to watch it tbh, my cringe threshold being quite low. It does sound as if John Prescott was right when he called Osborne a coward for sending her into bat for him. not that that should come as much of a surprise.
The Octagon
Stop...Hammertime
She's a Tory so fuck her, but I'm glad the shit seems to be mainly aimed at Osbourne for bottling it, nice to see the media go for the right throat occasionally.
She also got pwned by cuddly krisnan on channel 4 earlier in the evening.. ive never seen krisnan manage to score points in any interview... presumably paxman watched that and just asked the same questions, albeit in a far more aggressive and cunty manner...
simple question tho. surely she was briefed on it. 'wheres the money coming from'
simple question tho. surely she was briefed on it. 'wheres the money coming from'
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
'because that's when final decisoins are made, in the light of the most up to date facts such as the report i mentioned earlier'
She's meant to be one of the sharpest brains in the country (arfarf) - hence her prestigious position at the most prestigious accounting firm, and her election and her appointment to the cabinet, all before the age of 30. She should be able to avoid questions she doesnt like
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Not short notice, and did embarass the government.
danny la rouge
I have a cheese grater in the dishwasher.
What a bravura performance! It's at 6.30
He got an answer to his question "when were you told?" right at the end, but failed to follow it up. She said she woke up in the morning and knew.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
They dont know yet! (probably the olympic underspend, but they cant say that till after the olympics. Unless they already have other plans for it)
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Another U-turn is embarrassing. Osborne sending a junior minister in to bat and being called on it - also embarrassing.
This very vague and non-committal explanation... can't see it myself.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Sounds like she had a revelation from G*d or one of his fairy helpers.
Fair enough, I just think that for a junior minister thrown in as a human shield, high expectations aren't the order of the day...
Wolveryeti
Detty Pig
Paid hacks who spaffed their pants over an easy storyline.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I'm not sure but I think the not-at-all fucking hilarious affair was resolved by an M&S bod avowing to make better pants, so Paxmans wrath subsided- which was a good thing as the Georges of Asda Y's could not easily contain such an engorged wrath.
Its clear where the money will come from, the generally consequence free welfare budget which will continue to be raided time after time now, to me that is the real story here...
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