Question Time tonight

[butchersapron]

Were there any bristolians in the audience though?

 

[stavros]

It looks like a veritable cunt-off this evening, with both Michael Gove and Peter Hitchens on the panel. A one bullet dilemma if ever I saw one.

I thought Hitchens actually managed to out-cunt Gove, although the latter was possibly on election-related sedatives. To say that first-past-the-post is the best electoral system means he is obviously not of this world.

 

[Pickman's model]

I thought Hitchens actually managed to out-cunt Gove, although the latter was possibly on election-related sedatives. To say that first-past-the-post is the best electoral system means he is obviously not of this world.

it depends if you're on the winning team or not. if you are then of course fptp is the best system in the world.

 

[stavros]

True, but his team haven't properly won with this system since 1992.

 

[killer b]

are the tories 'his team'? I read an article by him the other week where he claimed not to have voted for some time...

 

[stavros]

According to Wikipedia, most of his writing has been for the Mail, the Express and the Spectator, suggesting guilt by association. It does say he's also occasionally written for the Graun and the New Statesman too. A lot of the traditionally Tory press are sabre-rattling for Ukip at the moment anyway, and I know Dirty Des and I think the Barclays have donated to them.

 

[stavros]

My word, Tim Stanley is an annoying little fucktoid, isn't he?

 

[weltweit]

I see Piers Morgan is on tonight! And Grant Schapps .. what kind of a party makes someone like Schapps their party chairman?

 

[brogdale]

I see Piers Morgan is on tonight! And Grant Schapps .. what kind of a party makes someone like Schapps their party chairman?

One that randomly adds the letter c to member's names?

 

[weltweit]

One that randomly adds the letter c to member's names?

It is an improvement!!

 

[brogdale]

It is an improvement!!

The real answer is, of course, a party of utter cunts who recognised real talent.

 

[weltweit]

The real answer is, of course, a party of utter cunts who recognised real talent.

I think they did better with Sayeeda Warsi.
Shapps is slime in human form.

 

[chilango]

Lib Dems being savaged, which is amusing.

 

[brogdale]

Guy in audience just appeared to refer to Shapps as Michael.

 

[maomao]

I think they did better with Sayeeda Warsi.
Shapps is slime in human form.

Warsi was slime in human form. The slime that constitutes Shaps has yet to convincingly master hunan form.

 

[gabi]

Piers Morgan is actually quite cool. I love his twitter and he's now snuck into the Mail writing stories which must have their readership choking on their cereal. A very smart guy.

 

[weltweit]

Just decided to follow Morgan, don't know much about him though.

I found Question Time a little irritating tonight, stinking poo if I am honest.
This Week might be more illuminating.

 

[gabi]

Jeremy Clarkson broke his nose, that alone marks him out as a decent sort. Egotistical as fuck but highly amusing.

 

[Dogsauce]

And Grant Schapps .. what kind of a party makes someone like Schapps their party chairman?

One that was so defeated in the late 90s that it lost a lot of the local councillors that are the embryonic stage of MPs, and one so lost to the young that they could only ever recruit the most maladjusted chinless toff school pricks. Hence the likes of Shapps, Gove, Warsi, IDS etc are the diamonds in this swamp.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

I see Piers Morgan is on tonight! And Grant Schapps .. what kind of a party makes someone like Schapps their party chairman?

I found Morgan's behaviour, his constant grand-standing (he seemed to think he was at a Britains Got Talent taping), appalling. He did nothing but resort to low-brow populism insulting the intelligence of people watching who might like to have heard Yvette given the proper chance to answer the question put to her about the 30bn austerity vote. She was right, they didn't vote for 30bn worth of cuts. But instead Morgan just, again, played to the crowd. If he doesn't know what the parties and candidates stand for then he's the fool, noone else. I also couldn't give a shit about his brother being in the army as it has no bearing on the efficacy of the policy of a nuclear deterrent, nor the wisdom of committing 100bn quid during a time of rampant poverty.

In conclusion: Fuck Piers Morgan.

Hello.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

One that was so defeated in the late 90s that it lost a lot of the local councillors that are the embryonic stage of MPs, and one so lost to the young that they could only ever recruit the most maladjusted chinless toff school pricks. Hence the likes of Shapps, Gove, Warsi, IDS etc are the diamonds in this swamp.

That goes some way to explaining the likes of Anna Soubry who seems to think yelling out 'cunt' in parliament is acceptable, or Priti Patel (it really is) whose responses to Eddie Mair on PM a few days ago was as bad as the Paxman-Chloe Smith debacle from way back when.

 

[butchersapron]

It is acceptable. Just not by members.

 

[gabi]

Fair enough. I think he's the epitome of an acquired taste. He fucked off the right wingers in the U.S. So much they sacked him and he seems to rub a lot of people up the wrong way but I think generally he's alright. Would certainly be a good laugh to have a drink with. I don't think even he can categorize his political views but then I'm a bit like that so maybe that's why I've got a bit of time for him.

Of course it's all very well to have anti Tory views while sitting in a huge house in Beverly Hills, just ask Russell Brand.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Piers Morgan is actually quite cool. I love his twitter and he's now snuck into the Mail writing stories which must have their readership choking on their cereal. A very smart guy.

Having an "oppositionist" opinion columnist is an old tactic of the Mail, and one that other papers took to copying. Burchill was another Mail scribe that while the commentariat thought that the readership would choke, the readership actually took to.

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

Of course it's all very well to have anti Tory views while sitting in a huge house in Beverly Hills, just ask Russell Brand.

I wouldn't have heard about the sweets way situation had our not been for Russell Brand

 

[DotCommunist]

piers morgan is a smug areshole

 

[ViolentPanda]

It is acceptable. Just not by members.

The concept of "unparliamentary language" has provided me with much amusement, over the years.

 

[treelover]

That goes some way to explaining the likes of Anna Soubry who seems to think yelling out 'cunt' in parliament is acceptable, or Priti Patel (it really is) whose responses to Eddie Mair on PM a few days ago was as bad as the Paxman-Chloe Smith debacle from way back when.

in an article in the I today, Soubry discussed how when she said how signing on can be an "awful and shaming experience", the Labour Challenger, Nick Palmer,
criticised her for her comments, she is not a Tory robot.

 

[treelover]

Fair enough. I think he's the epitome of an acquired taste. He fucked off the right wingers in the U.S. So much they sacked him and he seems to rub a lot of people up the wrong way but I think generally he's alright. Would certainly be a good laugh to have a drink with. I don't think even he can categorize his political views but then I'm a bit like that so maybe that's why I've got a bit of time for him.

Of course it's all very well to have anti Tory views while sitting in a huge house in Beverly Hills, just ask Russell Brand.

he went out with Marina Hyde for a time, not sure what she saw in him

 

[treelover]

Why was Ape banned? some interesting comments on here?