Question Time and This Week

Not because the chairmen of said societies wanted comps for his club?

i think the only reason they got Stringfellow on was to do his HILARIOUS "all this talk about the Tories being up or down in the polls...my girls are up and down poles all the time anyway" intro

fair dos Genie but they didn't do a celebrity plug for Brown or Ming or anyone else on the same show so fuck you BBC

The real shock last night was hearing Kirsty Wark on Newsnight using the phrase "big up" not once but twice in links.

Did Osborne ever go back and answer that black guy's question about what the Tory party stood for, as promised?

The real shock last night was hearing Kirsty Wark on Newsnight using the phrase "big up" not once but twice in links.

-- blueski, Friday, October 5, 2007 2:42 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

oh shit i heard this phrase used on the lunchtime news the other day. "today is big up david cameron day at the tory party conference" or something.

Kirsty Wark on Newsnight using the phrase "big up"

I look forward to her saying "pwned".

YR POLICIES

let me question them

i think the only reason they got Stringfellow on was to do his HILARIOUS "all this talk about the Tories being up or down in the polls...my girls are up and down poles all the time anyway" intro

-- blueski, Friday, 5 October 2007 13:38

that caused a mega-groan, then a lol for the groan.

you all watched question time.

Paxman would never say 'big up'.

This wanker from the Sun. People are cheering him. Fucking hell.

Yes, what a cunt. But it was in the heart the "Middle England" - The Home of Cunts, so what do you expect? Harriet Harman is rubbish.

I wish Andrew Neil would just go away so I never have to look at him again. After a couple of weeks as strawberry blonde, he was brunette this week. I must give Portillo his due, for sticking up for Inheritance Tax as a good, progressive tax. Most sense I've heard anyone talk on this subject for weeks.

Hoon really lost it last night - same old 'yes i am in favour of eroding our civil liberties if it means we can stop being killed by terrorists' rubbish.

For a Chief Whip he is being far too visible.

Yes, that was another one for the IT'S OVER category surely.

I know that the good burghers of Stoke have other things to think about, but was a bit disappointed that no-one took Hoon on over the Stansted decision - his first major decision in his new post. Also, that guy is orange.

Are you sure it wasn't Dale Winton?

"Standted Airport: It was a bit strange, but we all loved it..."

October 1981 on Sunday: will he play "O Superman"?

Nah, Luton Airport (x-post)

"It was Cats UK's only hit...now there's a surprise!"

Dimbleby's tie!

Alex Salmond again very impressive and Hattersley was good too. Baroness Barmy did the Tories no favours at all if we're talking hysterical grandstanding.

Alex Salmond does a very good after dinner speech.

He'd be better value than Kenneth Clarke or Tom O'Connor, that's for sure.

Can I just say to Marcello that Neuk means Fuck in Dutch.

Thank you.

I couldn't possibly comment ;-)

Hehe. Yeah yeah yeah. I bet you can't. :-)

US election edition from DC now!

Not as good as four years when Michael Moore's contributions were thrilling.

No, they bloody weren't. I remember him saying something like, "When it comes to gay marriage, well we find you republicans pretty deviant, but when john kerry wins, he's still gonna let ya marry!" Gahhhhhhh!!!!

Last nights show was astonishing. Can't remember a show like it, not even the 9/11 edition or ones during the build up to the gulf war. If anyone had any doubt about the feelings in the country they'll be certain now.

I thought the audience came over as a bunch of twats, personally. Tories let off the hook, as usual.

If anyone had any doubt about the feelings in the country they'll be certain now.

I think you want CiF.

It was HYS made flesh

but everyone is saying the same thing...

That's what they said about Nazi Germany

what, "If I'd invaded Poland, I'd be in jail by now!"

Ha ha, like people who fiddle expenses, which happens everywhere and all the time, usually end up in jail

LOL DAILY MAIL

(the jail reference has been more in reply to the mortgage overclaimance)

Lynch mobs aren't usually too hot on legal niceties

Could be mistaken, but the anger and disgust goes beyond the usual HYS/Daily Mail crowd, e,g Mark Thomas planning to take Speaker Martin to court for a judicial review.

Quite simply, none of us one of us could get away it. When benefit cheats get caught working and signing on, they get punished. They don't form a committee made up of other benefit claimants to debate how they might make new rules to prevent themselves from doing it again. They certainly don't appear on BBC News barking that "they work extremely hard and made a simple mistake."

Nor can an exposed tax dodger offer to pay back money because they are "concerned about how it looks to the outside world", and then walk away with no repercussion.

It is unfair, unjust and profoundly undemocratic. Which is why lawyers acting on my behalf have served legal papers on Speaker Martin this morning. As the chair for the House of Commons Commission, he should take urgent steps to commence a review of the department's actions in dealing with MPs' applications for expenses. These should include an independent audit of expenses and the forced repayment of wrongly claimed expenses; and in cases of fraudulent claims, the police should be called in. Speaker Martin has 14 days to respond. If he does not, I will instigate a judicial review of Speaker Martin's decision, on the legal grounds that public law should be consistent. MPs should not be allowed to be above the law and what is good enough for us is good enough for them.

I'll keep you posted on how I get on.

Update (Thurs 17:20): Thanks ever so much for offers of support - at the moment I've made decision I should pay for legal costs incurred so far. But if we end up taking Speaker Martin to court for a judicial review then we will launch a campaign fund. I am in the process of setting up a not-for-profit company specifically to collect funds for this one issue: it will be administered independently from me - i will have no contact or involvement with any of the money. Thanks again for offers of help. If it gets to court you can be sure I'll be coming back to you. (P.S. The commission have confirmed they have received our legal papers.)

Could be mistaken, but the anger and disgust goes beyond the usual HYS/Daily Mail crowd

Well obviously, all I'm saying is there was whiff of the lynch mob about the Question Time audience and they're appeared rather a lot of mouthy twats in there too

Tell some people often enough that they ought to be outraged and they get all outraged. It's like a public Racist Bottle Opener thread where everybody gets to pile on.

(That said, all MPs are bent, venal scum, obv.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8321157.stm

these fuckin' hippies better not ruin Question Time. I'm really lookin' forward to it.