I was sorry to hear of Andrew Marr’s stroke and wish him a full and speedy recovery. I may not agree with his politics but I hope he gets well soon. However I did tune in to his programme this morning to watch James Landale interviewing Labour leader Ed Miliband and what a difference it made! I felt Landale was to the point, dogged and took no nonsense. Miliband look rattled to me and this is how all politicians should be treated and it was SUCH a refreshing contrast to Marr’s pally-wally act with the likes of Miliband. Thoughts?
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‘Thoughts?’
Didn’t watch, but as a review seems most generous.
I simply wonder in what ways your most certainly not stalking (c) stalkers might find to chip in on this one without self-immolating from the friction of being obliged to do so but not having any grounds.
Yes, agreed with you David, and although James didn’t quite get to the style of paxo V Howard and the 19 repeated Q’s, it made a refreshing change!
Paxman admitted he asked the same question 19 times in his Howard interview because he did have any other questions to ask. Paxo is no hero.
Louis, I really didn’t suggest he IS a hero. It was a reference to the style. Readers here may remember paxo’s absence from the newsnight studios post ITV’s revealing documentary and my subsequent questions about whether he was still hiding under his rock.
Milliband was made to look like a bumbling complete amateur… he was making it up as he went along… basically fibbing his way through the interview. But DV, did you catch the feminist claptrap from the two woman guests at the start of the program, Ester Ranson being particularly silly and irritating? ANd even worse was the anti-Christian agenda on the ‘Big’ Questions following… beyond belief pro-Muslim groveling.
“I’m giving you a very clear view, James” were Milibands’s last words on that news-clip, following a minute of obfuscation and failure to give a clear view about a simple point: will Labour include a referendum in their next election manifesto, or not.
‘Thith ith the country whith I with to build’
The hubris of the boy.
idiot
Way to go. Attacking a politician for having a lisp.
And 29 ‘likes’. Seems more and more BNP types are coming to this site with each day that passes.
Fuck off Hippiepooter!
oh! and have a nice day!
The ongoing projection from the responsibility of the individual to collective versions appears to be being ploughed still. Adding unknown associations to suit personal prejudices is perhaps erring on the ironic.
As to mocking leaders seeking to lead further if not perhaps best equipped with the full deck of leadership qualities, there’s a fair history to overcome there, from when Brian lived to taking a critical look at more recent weeks (satire originated quite a bit, if not uniquely at one media monopoly by staff).
Mocking becomes attacking, and another where some can and others mustn’t.
Happens more and more.
But good luck with that.
And how would you describe your own ” type” Hippie? Can you place yourself into some collective group also?
Please enlighten us Hippiepooter. What exactly is the BNP policy on people with lisps?
That’s not the most intelligent of questions, is it?
Boorish, unpleasant individuals, the type of which play the man instead of the ball if they dont like his politics, do tend to found either on the BBC Gramscian Left or the BNP.
This site appears to me to attract a huge amount of the latter and seriously undermines its credibility.
‘This site appears to me to attract a huge amount of the latter..”
That’s what (and not an appears in sight) got the Newsnight team in a spot of bother when what they thought got turned into what they wanted and they decided to run with it without actually having any back up.
Which, given the result, didn’t seem too smart either.
The greatest unintended comedy was the way Millipede seemed not to have realised that his usual patsie was going to be absent.
He approached the interview confident in the certainty that Marr would have swallowed and reinforced every word he uttered.
It was desperately unfair of the BBC to field a replacement who hadn’t been properly trained!
On a more serious note, Millipede’s inability to cope with genuine debate was humiliating. Real car-crash TV.
Landale seems less pro-Labour Party than Marr, so probably won’t last long.
As for Miliband, this still seems apt (1 min video clip):-
“I believe in fairness.
And that’s about it really.”
LOL
Hope the Tories get this and repeat it.
Like a fawn in the headlights, just spouting incoherence.
He says that Labour has learned-and even said what it got wrong- from its catastrophic thirteen years.
Immigration?…Banking shambles?…anybody here get wind of these “mea culpas”.
Not one of those useless gobshits of New/Old/One Nayshun Labour should be let out of Washington Tyne and Wear until they`ve found that tax disc they lost, with the nations names on it…and until they find it, say sorry and personally eat it…they can f*** off!
How refreshing! Some persistent challenging questioning of Labour politician on the BBC. I haven’t seen such a thing for a long time.
I have believed for ages that Marr had the Labour guests round for supper the night before the programme and basically they agreed the Q&A beforehand. You only had to observe the knowing nod as each question was posed in order and the agreed answer duly parroted out on air.
Cozy? Not half. Well done James Landale for breaking the mould. Miliband wriggled like the worm he is.
From what I recall the Labour love affair with Europe blossomed in the 1980s, for little other reason than they had locked themselves out of power at Westminster but found socialist soulmates on the continent. The EU has since done nothing for the British working class. In fact our membership is one of the factors that has all but eliminated that class. For EU read bourgeois anti-British.
Labour united in favour of the EU to exploit tensions in the Conservatives so that Labour could get into power.
That’s an opinion I’ve seen and it seems about right to me.
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