Chloe Smith new economics secretary
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Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
She couldn't do banter, couldn't deflect - proved herself to be a shite politician. However her biggest failing was her preference for putting up with these humiliations in favour of her career (which to be honest after that perfomance is going nowhere fast). It was though still lazy Paxmanism. Rather than 'when were you told, isn't it a shambles' a more grown up line would have been why throw money at this group whilst smashing the disabled (+ Dave's plans for HB etc). Whilst Paxman is a good predator, he is - as she said! - stuck in the Westminster village.
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
She did exactly the same thing with Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Channel 4 News a few hours earlier. You'd have thought that they'd have briefed her better after it happened the first time. Disaster zone.
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/260612/clipid/260612_4ON_chloe_26
http://www.channel4.com/news/catch-up/display/playlistref/260612/clipid/260612_4ON_chloe_26
Christ. This idiot must've been watching a totally different interview to the one I was.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/jun/27/chloe-smith-difficult-deployment
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2012/jun/27/chloe-smith-difficult-deployment
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
That's "Sir" Michael White, though. That kind of crap is to be expected.
nino_savatte
No pasaran!
Ah, the very much-institutionalised Michael White... he once tweeted something about "taxpayers and commuters". When I pointed out that commuters were taxpayers, I got no reply.
Paxman is such a lazy interviewer. Never appears to do any background research. Decides before an interview what narrow "soundbite" outcome he's seeking to get in the next day's papers, with no intention to respond to any new info he might get from the interviewee. A chance to expose the incompetence and gimicry of the Lib/Con Coalition as it staggers from U turn to U turn - all given up to bully an incompetent , nervous, Tory Sloan. Too many people will have simply felt sympathy for the young woman and wished she's poured her glass of water over his head !
Newsnight was always crap, but I've noticed that since the Tory/Libs got in its gone seriously further to the Right in all its story angles and particularly its interviewees. It's seldom any interviewee is other than an investment banker/hedge fund bigwig or Right wing journalist, or right of centre domestic or foreign politician. Paul Mason looks increasingly unhappy (not that he was ever cheery) at having to toe the Right of centre "party line" the programme always pursues. Awful programme.
Newsnight was always crap, but I've noticed that since the Tory/Libs got in its gone seriously further to the Right in all its story angles and particularly its interviewees. It's seldom any interviewee is other than an investment banker/hedge fund bigwig or Right wing journalist, or right of centre domestic or foreign politician. Paul Mason looks increasingly unhappy (not that he was ever cheery) at having to toe the Right of centre "party line" the programme always pursues. Awful programme.
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
The circumstances being that she had nothing whatsoever to back her argument up.
It's like saying that a man who lies in a bloody mess at the bottom of a canyon did pretty well at flying off the edge of a cliff considering the circumstances.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
he follows there right of centre line? Really? i think you need to check your glasses/ears
Zabo
Well-Known Member
"On the Somonte farm, out of the blue, the occupiers are buzzed by men flying powered microlites. It's fun at first, until they spot that two of the flyers are displaying Francoist flags and realise its an airborne counter-protest.
Lola points to an old man shuffling quietly at the edge of the group of farm workers. "That's my father", she says: In the civil war the local landowners, Francoists, made him drink olive oil and eat grasshoppers to force him to vomit up the "red" that was inside him.
She draws two lines down her cheeks with stiff fingers: "He cannot tell the story without crying".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18341631
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
temper_tantrum
The beauty of the ride
The Stoner isn't without his blindspots, mind:
Yeah, I know
Way to break my heart, Paul Compare Mason's non Newsnight lectures and articles (there's one on here somewhere , Global Crisis thread ? to the RSA) and I maintain that he is constantly having to bite his tongue and rein in what he wants to say on the Global crisis, the bankers, Greece etc. I've never heard Mason on Newsnight suggest that socialisation of the banking system is a viable alternative to the crisis, or that what Europe needs is a general INCREASE in wages to defeat recession... which is what he says in the RSA speach . But Mason's occasional refreshing bits, if rather constrained in what he feels able to say, (in my opinion) are always completely drowned in a sea of right wing interviewees and pundits.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
The fact that he isn't explicitly revolutionary socialist is hardly surprising for anyone who works within the constraints of the BBC. It isn't evidence of his kowtowing to the particular right-wingness of Newsnight. He generally has the interesting interviewee's, who are ordinary bods.
And, actually, the Ireland stuff on last night was very good too, interviews with working class people, still fuck god bless/fuck the queen 35 years on from her last visit.
And, actually, the Ireland stuff on last night was very good too, interviews with working class people, still fuck god bless/fuck the queen 35 years on from her last visit.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
apoplexy?The Stoner isn't without his blindspots, mind:
old men in cardigans?
he's been reading urban hasn't he?
Belboid, if you can watch a typical week's Newsnight without foaming at the mouth at their general resolutely Right of Centre approach, good luck to you. I didn't see the Ireland item last night, but I maintain that the perspective, spin, angle, and invited guests/pundits on Newsnight is resolutely Right of Centre 95% of the time, and has got further Right of Centre since the Tory/Libs got elected, and Paul Mason's contributions are so constrained by the surrounding ideological "take" that his usually interesting contributions do little to tone down its increasingly right wing bias. And no I don't seriously expect Paul Mason to take a Socialist position on Newsnight.. he works for the mouthpiece of the state. As for that Emily Maitland... the world's most unbriefed, useless Yuppie interviewer....... get me my tablets nurse....!
Is that a dig at VP?
Sas, more likely.
Newsnight was always crap,
No it wasn't, the way they followed people on the Langley estate in Salford over the years without patronising them and without hyperbole was very good television indeed, even now some packages are excellent, but yes, the tone has changed, especially on welfare/benefits...
No it wasn't, the way they followed people on the Langley estate in Salford over the years without patronising them and without hyperbole was very good television indeed, even now some packages are excellent, but yes, the tone has changed, especially on welfare/benefits...
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
It's massively inaccurate if it is, as my blood-pressure is moderate, and I'm allergic to cardigans.
Balbi
Hey, Dean Yager!
It's massively inaccurate if it is, as my blood-pressure is moderate, and I'm allergic to cardigans.
I own a cardigan - but I'm not old by Smith, Jones or Penny's standard.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Even if she goes on to be a four term Conservative PM they'll still wheel the Paxo clip out at every available opportunity so she's fucked herself permanently.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
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