I thought it was a very clever move on his part in that the public now get to feel like they matter a bit more and are having their voices heard. It also means that Cameron cant belittle any of his questions by mocking as it will appear he is mocking the individual who posed the question rather than the opposition. Got to be far better than all this "MY constituents" self important bollocks we have been force fed. However, if I'm honest I did get a little flash back to a Not The Nine OClock news Points of View sketch ....................... " A Mr Cook of Stevenage said " I think the BBC is a load of old bollocks.........."" However it soon passed!!
read through the thread. it's just a light hearted, temporary digression. Light hearted, you must know what that means?
Was response to the toilets / George Michael digression.......Hugh Grant attended private school, got arrested with a hooker, Divine Brown, an incident that made her famous with TV appearances to the tune of more than $1 million, which helped turn her life around and she was able to send her own kids to private school.
Gritting my teeth through Question Time, featuring the odious Lynn Truss, some child journalist from the Telegraph, Alex Salmond (will we never be free of him), Sandi Toksvig and John McDonnell. So far McDonnell trouncing them, by the interesting tactic of denying everything generally thought to be true about his position - no tax increases (ok, perhaps a return to the 50p rate) stay in NATO, no reduction in the armed forces. Think he may be opposed to Trident still. Given the opportunity (whole thing feels a bit staged managed) he apologised for the offence given by his 'assassinate Thatcher' "joke" and his 'honour the IRA' statements, but I'm not sure if he retracted the sentiment behind them. I've lost patience with it now, with the impression that everything he and Corbyn have stood for over the last 40 years is negotiable and they are now arch pragmatists rather than conviction politicians. This will help them with the Parliamentary Labour Party but not with the 250,000 who voted for them. Odd.
McDonnell came across as an odious creep imo. Weasal words apologising for the complete ****e he has spouted in the past. However, his lowest point must have been the pathetic explanation about why Corbyn didn't sing the National Anthem. Apparently Corbyn was 'emotional' and thinking about world war 2. No one believed him and it was obviously complete bollocks. Corbyn wasn't there representing himself and showed a complete lack of class and no respect for the fallen.
What McDonnell said about the IRA and the murders it carried out being justifiable, was utterly reprehensible and irresponsible. He should have supported those Irish nationalist politicians that were bringing about needed change by peaceful means. I agree McDonnell is trying to respray himself for political reasons - the phrase "you cannot polish a turd" never applied to anyone so aptly
Hitchens P, being more impressive than I've seen him before, though stunningly pessimistic. Bit long, but worth a look. I think he prefers Corbyn to Cameron.
I find the fact that he was once a non-believer and is now a Christian very strange. How can anyone, given the march of science and our understanding of the universe, have that kind of change of mind? I do, however, quite like him though and he certainly has a sense of this Country's (lost) heritage and traditions.
Both Hitchen brothers were so contrary, I should think they must have competed to become president of the Flat Earth Society, and their arguments in its favour would have been articulate, persuasive and totally daft
There's not much I agree with him about (unlike his brother) but he's an engaging speaker. In one way I can respect someone who is prepared to change his/her mind, but the conversion from Trotskyite atheist to old school High Church Anglican traditional conservative is a little extreme, just a need for an ideology. Bit sad for be longing for something which never return and never really existed in the first place. I suspect Hitchens P always felt overshadowed by his big brother, and who wouldn't. But they both knew how to construct an argument and have a debate, a dying art.
