Dave on Newsnight
Everyone seems to think Dave did well on Newsnight last night, in the sense that he was calm and didn't get rattled. However, Michael Crick is in all honesty no Paxman, the four presenters combined are actually easier to face than Newsnight's Grande Dame.To be fair Dave faced a slippery nipple obssessed Paxman in 2005. It takes a bit of political courage to face Paxman. When did Gordon ever face Paxman?
84 comments:
He must have faced Paxman at some point during his arduous, testing, challenger-ridden leadership campaign, surely?
I've always thought Paxman was a bit overrated as an interviewer. You won't find out anything interesting by shouting and sneering. That sort of behaviour just makes people clam up. Most of the well-known Paxman moments involve him not getting any answers to his questions. Its like the story of who can make the man take his coat off first, the sun or the wind.
Just dropped in to say sorry for our mans' poor showing on Newsnight,sorry.He came across as a little bit slimy,sorry about that.Viewers will not remember what he said, because most thought it was the return of Blair.We laughed about that in the pub later.Dave is unfortunately a very slimy person, but sincere in a slimy sort of way,don't you think ? He looked very smart we all thought,scrubbed was the impression given. Smidge too much eyeliner though.Still he's all we've got right now.Hair looked good,we all agreed on that,he has good hair.It looked lustrous and thick,and clean,very clean.A scrubbed performance but not memorable,for that we can only say sorry,sorry.
Mike, you're a ranting loon. Don't you think you ought to seek help? For your punctuation if nothing else.
When did Brown ever need to seeing as the BBC and Paxman were her virtual mouthpiece?
Hello Mike said...
Mike, you're a ranting loon. Don't you think you ought to seek help? For your punctuation if nothing else.
I know,but it's too late now.I'm very old you know,and have been poorly of late.
Shotgun said...
When did Brown ever need to seeing as the BBC and Paxman were her virtual mouthpiece?
What ? Hearing the voices again are we ?
Desperate Dan said...
I've always thought Paxman was a bit overrated as an interviewer.
That'll bother him,what a prat calling himself Desperate Dan thinks.
Gordon wouldn't dare face Paxman, he disintegrates into a stuttering tongue-tied wreck at Question Time so can you imagine what Paxo would do to him?
towering pathologies said..he disintegrates into a stuttering tongue-tied wreck at Question Time
That's what you plonkers fail to comprehend.We've had slick,he's gone to write a book.We prefer stuttering but dependable, and that is what we've got.Your man is slick and slimy,we don't want slick and slimy,get the message do you duckie ? God your thick.
Guido says it takes courage to face Paxo. I think he is confusing courage with stupidity and ego. Didn't Guido get a royal stuffing at the hands of the grande dame this year, whilst displaying much courage by standing in the shadows?? Daft prick.
When did Brown ever face a tough question in his leadership coup or since taking the Premiership? The Conservatives should be pressing for Cameron to do more stuff like this, and urging Brown to do the same the public can actually get a chance to see him accountable.
We should start the debate regarding a public series of public election debates now and get Brown on the back foot.
maggie out,maggie out said... "God your thick"
God you're thick!
Gordon doesn't do debate, he issues proclamations from a hidden bunker , let's face it an encounter with Paxman would probably destroy him!
Anonymous said..God "you're" thick!
I'll remember,thanks.
I do believe you are being very unkind to Mr Brown, our Prime Minister, unelected I know but he did have a torrid time threatening all 'colleagues' not to oppose him. That does take it out of you.
As for facing awkward questioning. Never forget that he faces, quite regularly, Fionna Phillips of GMTV. Now that must go down as harder than Paxman and the late Sir Robin together!
So Cameron faced Four experienced journalists. They let him off lightly. They must have joined his party..I mean Why did the woman announce she was a single parent..was she propositioning Cameron? As for Crick, he supports Manchester United. nuff said. Almond and Essler are legends in their own minds.
No Cameron had an easy time and when he can say he has faced Fionna at 7am on the couch, then he can talk. Oh by the way PM Brown is on Richard and Judie shortly. AND he is doing a guest spot on Deal or No Deal.
Kipling said...We should start the debate regarding a public series of public election debates now and get Brown on the back foot.
We,who the hell is this "We" for heavens sake.The voters don't want your lot.We had enough last bloody time.
strapworld said...
I do believe you are being very unkind to Mr Brown,
Too long,too boring.
Gordon Brown the pathetic loser?
Gordon Brown the intelectual midget?
Gordon Brown the common coward?
Gordon Brown the arrogant blame shifter?
Gordon Brown the secret fudge packer?
Gordon Brown the hero of the socialist fuckwits!
I thought Newsnight did fairly well. Although it asked for viewers' questions and ignored practically all of them, it didn't have any squeals of pop music or what's he been smoking graphics, didn't mix up the onscreen titles for once, nor mis-spell them, and it got over its bodged presentation of tomorrow's papers by not presenting them. There was no shot of Kirsty's unkempt hair nor Emily's daft Star Trek costumes. It was quite a serious programme, well done Newsnight!!
bed wetter brown said..
"You're" just being silly.
english democrat said...
Same post day after bleedin' day. For Gods sake shut it,you're doin' me head in.
Anybody with half a brain gave up taking TV, radio and newspapers seriously ages ago.
So those out there that do, or think their sad messages are going to influence me, my sincerest condolences and good luck with the plot.
Dear Comfy Blah Blah Blah,
I am pleased to be of service to your tiny brain!
The truth hurts your stupid little leftist brain?
As we still live in a democracy (gordon Brown still hasnt crushed it yet) I can tell the truth as I see it and IF you dont like it why not get back to your gravytrain nonjob and leave this rightist blog to the rightists?
It's seems the only people commenting today are Noo Labor Astroturfers. Can't you just talk to each other across the office, rather than wasting taxpayers resources on the internet? Oh no, you can't, your dark lord and master would not allow such prudent economy.
Useless c*nts
english democrat said...why not get back to your gravytrain nonjob
I'm an old age pensioner.Bloody typical of the Tory Party, pick on the old and poor.Nasty party,nasty people.Old folk Like Gordon.
So pensioners rule do they?
In Gordon Browns socialist utopia the majority of the elderly live in abject poverty and those that are very unlucky get shoved into the state homes(hovels) which are nothing more than money factories for greedy speculators!
NuLabour has had ten whole years to help pensioners, so how come the majority are worse off, live in constant fear of crime and antisocial behaviour?
The elderly in England are even denied hospital care in a system that they built because the system is full to bursting with immigrants!
Did the pensioners who fought the Nazi scourge in WW2 ever think that their twilight years would be so miserable because of the self serving NuLabour scumbags?
What has God done to be called thick? Did he not get 9 A* GCSEs in Labour's grand qualification give-away competition last Thurs?
Guido 'loves' the eco-types. Perhaps when they next get worked up about Global-Warming he can get them to explain why the planet Mars is a cold-frozen place, whilst the Earth is nice and pleasant?
Oh, the reason for the question - well it is that the Martian atmosphere has 30 (yes 30) times the amount of CO2 in it (as a vertical slice) than the Earth's. So why is the Earth not a freezing place? - it's because the real 'Global Warming' gas is water-vapour. That is, CO2 is a small-bit player in the big scheme of things.
Don't suppose they want to know all this in CCHQ. The logic then is no green taxes on Carbon, but a tax on water perhaps?
You're forgetting that Gordon wrote a book entitled Courage. No laughing please.
Guido, (or anyone) why do you call Paxo 'nipple-obsessed'? You may well be right, but I feel I am missing something here.
I heard Gordo giving a panegyric for Nelson Mandela yesterday and I noticed that even in that context he can't help reeling off LISTS of THINGS. It's what he does in every speech he makes and every parliamentary answer: he reels off LISTS of THINGS.
Do you think it's what his Dad used to do in the pulpit? Do Presbetarians have pulpits? Is Brown a Presbetarian?
So many questions, so few answers.
That would be the 'courage' that avoids Paxman and the voters like the plague? Ironic courage then?
Trumpeter lanfried. He does seem very impressed with lists doesn't he? The more tedious the list, the more passion he declaims it with. Bizarre.
paxo : why are you lying qabout the EU treaty?
Brown : Ill get my coat
Anonymous 11:42
Just a thought. Mars is further away from the Sun than we are. Maybe that's why it's a tad nippy.
The four to one argument is correct.However, Crick on his own would still be interesting viewing.
"Gordon Brown the intelectual midget"
Mmmm... "you're" not exactly a cerebral leviathan yourself are you, english democrat!
5% plus behind and an election round the corner.Of course he changed tack having (hopefully) got the message that large sections of his own Party won't be voting for him.
I don't understand the difference between him encouraging/bribing millions of people to be married, and being unwilling to tell one person (Stephanie Flanders, in this case) that she should get married.
If each of the unmarried parents in Britain walked past him in a long line, would he tell each of them that he didn't want to tell them what to do?
cameron didn't have the courage of his convictions. He should have told Flanders: "Yes, I think that being married is the best state one can be in, certainly if one has children, so you should get married." If his policy has anything behind it at all, this muist be what he thinks. But, predictably, faced down by a confident, intelligent metropolitan woman, he backed down.
He accepts that no-one gets married or stays married for the sake of £20 a week, but says government should send a signal.
Well, how about he pays for his own signals? Why should I, as a single man, subsidise his "signal sending" by not receiving a tax break myself?
I would genuinely like someone to answer this for me.
It doesn't matter what you lot say , Gordon's lack of charm and incompetence are great compared to Tonys, we can make a virtue out of necesity with Gordon. Stupid Tory boys,
Old people like Gordon?
Only if they've got incipient Alzheimer's.
judith said...
Old people like Gordon?
Only if they've got incipient Alzheimer's.
You make a joke out of an illness which effects many old people.You really think that was warranted ? Nasty post, made by an uncaring person.Just to make some pathetic point,you should be ashamed.
I didn't think much of his new message for migrants, designed to appeal to Sun, Mail and Express readers: http://moneymad.org/Cameron_too_many_migrants.jpg
Anonymous said...
"Gordon Brown the intelectual midget"
Mmmm... "you're" not exactly a cerebral leviathan yourself are you, english democrat!
Ouch.Wish it had been my post."You're" a class act pet.
Splashitallover said...
I don't understand the difference
Never mind.
After watching the whole thing I have come to the conclusion that Stephanie Flanders is irrational.
northern numpty said...
That would be the 'courage' that avoids Paxman and the voters like the plague? Ironic courage then?
Your posts are nothing if not impressive.And that post was nothing and not impressive.
"It doesn't matter what you lot say , Gordon's lack of charm and incompetence are great compared to Tonys, we can make a virtue out of necesity with Gordon."
I agree, Maggie Out X2, Gordon Brown lacks charm and is incompetent (the destruction of the Army and our gold reserves, anyone?) but I don't quite see how these are assets.
If you mean "lack of incompetence" then you are guilty of a serious lapse of grammar (it should be just "competence" rather than a double negative) - but as you seem to be a Labour voter, I'll stick with the idea of a lapse of logic.
Getting back to the point, I think the real reason Brown avoids Paxman is that he only talks in dull cliches that would expose his intellectual limitations in about five seconds at the hands of a serious interviewer. Remember his interview with Marr in July? "I urge the public to remain vigilant," was the catchphrase. Does he really think that we walk around with our eyes shut, bumping into things? How did he think the bomb got spotted in the first place? Marr never picked up on it. But if Paxman could humiliate David Irving, he'd make short work of Brown.
gordelia said...
You're forgetting that Gordon wrote a book entitled Courage. No laughing please.
It's been posted before,but then it was relevant.Now it is not, so try again on another blog please.
The Half-Welshman said...
Your a very boring person indeed.
You Torees are pathetik. All youre votes r mine.
It doesn't matter that Gordon is on antidepresants or that he's buggered up the economee , voters are stupid and will vote for him. ha ha!
I agree with Dave about the need to send a signal in support of marriage. I have lost count of the number of times I have watched or read a "news" item featuring a woman with several children who comes up with the phrase " ..as a single mother". This creates an overwhelming impression that it is the social norm to have three kids with no father figure. Lots of single parents end up that way unwillingly but the fact that many of these women are dandling a baby on their knees validates the idea that being a single mother from the outset is a reasonable lifestyle choice.
While I'm having a rant I may as well tell the astroturfing pensioners that my octogenarian mother hates Gordon. She is a scots presbyterian so she understands his type.
maggie out, maggie out said.../sockpuppet said../
If you're going to make fun of me, I am going to leave.
Cassandra said...
While I'm having a rant I may as well tell the astroturfing pensioners that my octogenarian mother hates Gordon.
We don't do Scotland anymore.More than enough labour voters over here, to win the day.
Jesu Christ what a lot of nu-lab cunts we have posting here today. If you are being paid try at least to make up some sort of coherent argument, or are you ALL beards and fag-hags like your wonder-bummer in chief Gay Gordon?
Nice work english democrat!
Gordon will never allow himself to face a tough questioner, because his whole career is built on a lie, and we all know it, the fact that he is such a pathetic performer compared to his late unlamented asshole buddy Blair matters not in the least. "We will give the British people the final say over any EU constitution". No, I never said that, out of context, I never had anything to do with Tone's government, I wasn't even there, Tony who?
Give us a break you trolls, some of us weren't born yesterday, and that cunt of a "pensioner" I'll bet has done nothing for his country except collect benefits.
Guido why not tot up all the page hits from the NuLab troll morons and tell them how much cash they thay have contributed to your sky rocket?
Guido is gay.
Guido is bent.
Guido's arse is up for rent.
Guido is a cunt.
Guido packs fudge.
Guido likes animal porn.
Guido eats shit.
Guido talks shit.
Guido is a shit.
Guido's midget cock is covered in shit from the packing of shit in the arses of other shit eaters.
Guido likes to suck on hairy balls.
Guido loves it when the pubes get stuck in his teeth.
Guido likes it when men wank off in his ugly mug.
Guido loves to chug sperm by the gallon.
Guido smells of piss because he wears pissed stained rags.
Guido doesn't like Labour and we don't like him.
Guido's nasty party will lose the next GE.
We will win and laugh at the sorry cunt face that is Guido.
Do thin skinned nu lab employees spend all day obsessing about Guido? Judging by the trolling here...
Wow Guido, sounds like you hit a nerve. Directing people's attention to Gordon's cowardice has really upset them!
Well, well, the BBC Noosetight Programme sent Flanders, Crick, and those other two to the slaughter. In retaliation, the media harp on about immigration even thought it was about 10 seconds of the interview. David Cameron is on top form and the Beeb just don't like it :-)
cassandra
i'm not necessarily disagreeing with you. what i dont liike is a "signal". if he really believes it, he should put his policy (and our taxpayers money) where his mouth is - why not £100 a week for married couples? or a penalty for thos who have kids outside wedlock (or who fail to get married by the child's 1st birthday).
I'm not saying they're good ideas, but what i'd like to see is some genuine policy, not signals. who cares about a signal? it's post-modern centrist bollocks.
as for you mike, whoever you are, you can bronze my cleats.
How on earth did Gordum 'yellow streak of cowardice' Bruun find the time to 'write' his book on 'Courage'?
I always though he was too busy running the economy? Maybe Prudence tookover while he was banging away at Konrad, oops, I meant his typewriter.
Did he do the interview in silhouette?
bed wetter brown 10:34am
Gordon doesn't do debate, he issues proclamations from a hidden bunker , let's face it an encounter with Paxman would probably destroy him!
Not only would he have to be prised out of his bunker, he would also need to be issued with a specially re-inforced teflon nappy.
strapworld 10:39am
Yes, I'm really warming to your line of thought, dearie...
...how about Brown doing PMQ's with Richard and Judy.
Perhaps Richard and Judy might ask McStalin Broon why none of his heros in Portraits of Courage are anti-communists?
sturgess 1:34pm
And I quote...
"You make a joke out of an illness which effects many old people.You really think that was warranted ? Nasty post, made by an uncaring person.Just to make some pathetic point,you should be ashamed."
Ha! You got told didn't you, darling!
cassandra 2:18pm
Don't worry dear, I know a very nice young man I can fix you up with.
gordon b 2:37pm
Did you make all of that up by yourself Gordon?
Did anyone notice the lighting that was used by the BBC. If you wanted to make Cameron look dodgy you couldn't have done a better job.
Either half his face was in shadows or it looked as if he had a Hitler moustache.
splashitallover 3:33pm said...
...or a penalty for thos who have kids outside wedlock (or who fail to get married by the child's 1st birthday)...
a high velocity round right between the eyes should do the trick
4:57 PM
diddums
NO NO NO NO NO..
As i watched last night, i realised what David Cameron is..he's a nice bloke,yes..he's a "do gooder"..along with Haig, Letwin,and the rest of the part-time,extremely wealthy, shadow cabinet ..he/they are very rich people, who think they know best,and completely unrepresentative of everyone i know ,for a start...
And that INCLUDES Tory supporting friends...and for all his denials, i suspect that ,like the last American election SCAREMONGERING is going to form a big part of our next one..from ALL sides ...
Chris Morrell
I note that the New Labour non-job gravy train trolls haven't posted since about half past three. Probably all went home at about that time, satisfied with a good day's work posting comments on blogs at taxpayers' expense.
Never mind, they'll be back in at 1030 sharp tomorrow morning.
Chris Morrell - you are an illiterate goon. Go away and learn about spelling and punctuation.
I assume from your job title that you are one of the idiot passengers on the NuLabor gravy train.
You goggle eyed monkey.
We don't need immigration restricted, we need it ended and reversed. But Cameron's not sincere about restricting it in any case, slimy Bliarite as he is. His focus groups have given him something to pretend to be concerned about.
Dear Chris Morell,
Jesus Christ, but you are one ugly motherfucker arnt you?
You want to talk about rich commisars? How about fatty prescott? Or how about the Bliars? They have more money than than they could spend in a lifetime! AND its all robbed and stolen from the taxpayer! Most of the NuLabour MP's will walk away millionares after years with their greasy fat fingers in the public till! So before you accuse others of being rich or going to a public school (Tony Bliar) look to your own disgusting criminal and self serving MP's first Eh?.
PS thats what I hate most about the socialist bastards, they are so two faced!
The return of Bullingdon Dave?
Better to two-faced than a cunt faced Tory. Fucking evil cunts.
Chris Morrell said:
"..along with Haig, Letwin,and the rest..."
Um, what, like, Field Marshall Haig?
Chris Morrell 5:58pm
As opposed to what? The omniscience and martyrdom of the NuLab and Lib Dem elite? I think it's a fair point you make about politicians in general being incurious fuckwits, but don't just limit this to the tories (slime sucking cunts that they are).
And talking about fuckwits: english democrat (7:37)
I've seen immigrant farmhands with a better grasp of the English language than you. Get back to school.
Rickytshirt said... @12:10 PM, 30/8/07
Yep, Mars is a little further away from the Sun than the Earth, however that factor does not account for the temperature differences. CO2 is not all its cracked up to be - look to the water in our atmosphere for the bulk of the insulating properties.
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