Well, Austin Mitchell and wife seem to want to become the next Neil/Christine Hamilton by mugging profusely...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 09:54 (fourteen years ago) link
.. nobody saw this?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw IDS saying "I LIVE...UNDER...BIG BEN....IT BIG CLOCK...YOU UNDERSTAND?" and the other guy getting cussed out by surly kids in Lozells and then went to shower
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Mark Oaten lying face down on some grass in a tracksuit because some working class people laughed at his coprophile rent boy scandal was pretty interesting TV
― MPx4A, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 10:42 (fourteen years ago) link
I saw this. Woman who is hosting Mark Oaten is fanastic. Austin Mitchell's wife is a plonker.
― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 10:45 (fourteen years ago) link
why did no one tell me this was going to be on
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
god your country is so hilarious
― max, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:06 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a series, I believe.
Ian Duncan Smith had to drop out as his wife got ill and he had to return home.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:09 (fourteen years ago) link
...which was kind of a shame because he seemed surprisingly relatable and interested in his hosts.
― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:12 (fourteen years ago) link
What is the name of this programme?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Celebrity Hoodie Swap Booze Factor iirc
― with a bad girl's enlightenment and a Buddha's passion (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
oaten is doing reality tv?
this country just gets better and better.
― the highest per-vote vag so far (history mayne), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'd say you have some 4OD business to attend to.
― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 11:57 (fourteen years ago) link
There was a bit at the end of this when Mark Oaten encountered a BNP voter who claimed he wasn't a racist, and then Oaten said something like, "I guess what I need to figure out now is whether or not the BNP have got racist views..." really?
Austin Mitchell and Wifey ended up offering the most cringe-inducing moments for me once Ian Duncan Smith left. They're just not really trying, are they?
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Tuesday, 2 February 2010 12:46 (fourteen years ago) link
So, this week Torylady is "well, Council tower blocks are much nicer than I remember them, and all this on benefits?"
although the preview for next week has her saying "um, I may be doing more harm than good here"
It's interesting that for all that this sort of thing has been done before, the tenants are much more "you expenses claiming LEECh that you are!" and that's when they were being NICE! (i.e. to Mark Oaten)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 9 February 2010 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
"Life in a council estate is markedly better today than it was when I was growing up. There are laptops and mobile phones and beautiful furnishings and all this is done on benefits!"
I guess Torylady was allocated a better place than the others. It looked way more spacious, modern, and well-furnished. I didn't really understand the situation of that host though, I thought she'd been evicted from her council flat? So is her current place a council unit or is she renting privately somewhere? Anyway I was pretty surprised that Torylady said what she did. And Austin Mitchell's misogyny/assholery is REALLY aggravating.
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
She was evicted from her council house, she was in a flat that was so not-nice, she was staying with her friend (I think that was the situation)..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh right, yeah, so the place shown in the ep was the quieter sister's place then (I think it said they were sisters). The mouthy one is the one living in temporary accomodation but that wasn't shown at all, though it would've been interesting to see (seems unfair that Torylady had a bit of an easier time than the other MPs, aside from being grilled on expenses and claims and hiding money in her tits).
― salsa sharkshavin (salsa shark), Wednesday, 10 February 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, I suppose somebody had to have the easier one.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
hiding money in her titsOh god 'torylady' is Nadine Dorries? I wouldn't what she was blathering about on the radio the other day.
"um, I may be doing more harm than good here"
This would be her saying there should be less government intervention though, right? So pretty much the Party line?
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I wouldn't what = I wondered what...
WHAT IS THIS PROGRAMME CALLED DUDES?
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Srsly IDS + Mark Oaten + Nadine Dorries is like some kind of Pokemon shit for joke politicians. All they need is Lembit Opik and Gordon Brown and they've got the set.
― Space Battle Rothko (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:35 (fourteen years ago) link
It is called Tower Block of Commons, and can be watched here:
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=PR1ZNDYZpfo&feature=fvsp
― ailsa, Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:38 (fourteen years ago) link
"Tower Block of Commons"
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Review: Tower Block of Commons29 Jan 2010 ... Although Loughton and Dorries argue that their time in the tower block strengthened their belief in Broken Britain, all are optimistic about ...www.totalpolitics.com/blogs/.../review-tower-block-of-commons - Cached -
Hohum, and in the end....
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 February 2010 10:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Austin Mitchell says reality TV show was 'big mistake'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8518748.stm
Mr Mitchell said 'smarter Labour MPs' turned down the programme
Labour MP Austin Mitchell has said he regrets taking part in a TV show which he claimed set out to "humiliate MPs".
He said he appeared in Tower Block of Commons, in which four MPs live on some of Britain's most deprived estates, "to put the case for council housing".
But Mr Mitchell said he was portrayed as "greedy and out of touch", adding: "I should never have fallen for it."
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 February 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
So, series ends.
Labour MP gets a process going
LibDem MP gets a residents action group started
Cons MP gets a lad to meet the nice David Cameron...
― Mark G, Thursday, 25 February 2010 09:56 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/cameron203.jpg
... second only to Bullingdon Club photo in the Any Excuse stakes
― Tom D (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 February 2010 10:20 (fourteen years ago) link