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Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Jesus.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
A people round here want them to run the country.
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Car crash tv!
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
That's just terrible. He was completely useless. I'm amazed he was willing to be interviewed, he must have known he was totally unprepared for any questions. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Edited by el stovey on Thursday 15th October 22:54
hornetrider said:
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Car crash tv!
Just googled him. He went to fing cambs. I give up. How? Just how?
Edited by mikees on Thursday 15th October 22:57
Johnnytheboy said:
Axionknight said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Breadvan72 said:
FPWM.
I cannot even recall the name of the new Lib Dem guy. Does he have one?
If you can't, it should take you long to figure it out, by a simple process of elimination. I cannot even recall the name of the new Lib Dem guy. Does he have one?
It's less than nine I assume.
I never heard a peep about their...... leadership contents
el stovey said:
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
That's just terrible. He was completely useless. I'm amazed he was willing to be interviewed, he must have known he was totally unprepared for any questions. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Edited by el stovey on Thursday 15th October 22:54
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
eharding said:
I was expecting his waltzing eyebrows to finally leap straight up his forehead, disappear over the top of his scalp, down his back, and then swiftly scuffle out of the studio, aghast at the shame of being associated with such a colossal arse-biscuit.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
That made me chuckle! Eluquently put sir!As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
Welshbeef said:
Didn't some streets in Newcastly a decade ago sell each house for £0.50. Total dump BUT if you buy the entire area demolish the lot build one big pad and huge grounds with nothing round you it's tempting.
Middlesbrough I believe, £1 a house. Soon after my divorce I saw an article about it and was surprised as that was the street my ex-wife moved to, and she got enough money from the divorce to do a hell of a lot better so I assumed she'd blown the lot. I almost felt sorry for her. Almost. eharding said:
I was expecting his waltzing eyebrows to finally leap straight up his forehead, disappear over the top of his scalp, down his back, and then swiftly scuffle out of the studio, aghast at the shame of being associated with such a colossal arse-biscuit.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
Great value for anyone's £3.
turbobloke said:
eharding said:
I was expecting his waltzing eyebrows to finally leap straight up his forehead, disappear over the top of his scalp, down his back, and then swiftly scuffle out of the studio, aghast at the shame of being associated with such a colossal arse-biscuit.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, the £3 I spent voting for Corbyn is absolutely the best value-for-money entertainment expenditure I have ever, or will ever, make.
Never in my wildest dreams did I expect he'd assemble quite such a chaotic shower of crap as this chimp's tea party of a Shadow Cabinet.
Great value for anyone's £3.
Tom Watson was the bottom of my deputy list too
Cathy Newman speaks re: that awesome interview.
Why I went full throttle in my own car-crash interview
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11934397/...
Some people think I should have held back in my interview with Labour's shadow City minister, Richard Burgon. Here's why I didn't.
It was, as Jeremy Paxman noted during his spoof interview with The Thick of It “junior immigration minister Ben Swain”, the kind of question which “invited a numerical answer”. But when, on Wednesday evening’s Channel 4 news, I asked Richard Burgon what the UK deficit was set to be this year, the real shadow economic secretary to the Treasury found that the numbers eluded him. “Well…” he began.
His mouth started to move but no words emerged. “I’m not an economic… erm…,” he finally ventured, before remembering his full title . As he paused, I could sense the cogs turning furiously before he settled on: “I’m not somebody that’s going to put a figure in a crystal ball of what exactly the deficit is going to be at the end of the year.” No crystal ball was required, of course. The figures are in the official Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts – something perhaps he might have been expected to read up on since being appointed last month.
“Car crash” political interviews can make for compelling viewing. Voters have long wearied of soundbites, so anything that forces an MP off the script is always going to be more interesting. So it was with Jeremy Paxman’s humiliating encounter with Chloe Smith, the junior Treasury minister who found herself unable to answer simple questions about her boss’s deferral of the fuel duty rise. There was a certain amount of sympathy for Ms Smith, with one Conservative MP reflecting that it was like sending a lamb to the slaughter.
Paxo admitted afterwards that he’d wrecked her ministerial career. Should he have held back? Believe me, it’s not always easy judging the tone right on the other side of a car-crash interview. But it is a dereliction of duty to go easy on a Minister of the Crown.
You certainly can’t blame Nick Ferrari for quietly tormenting the Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, whose “brain fade” interview on LBC Radio earlier this year degenerated into coughs and splutters when she hadn’t the first idea how to cost her party’s housing policy. Mr Ferrari was persistent but always courteous – devastatingly so. An iron fist in a velvet glove allowed him to press the point, without losing the sympathy of his listeners.
That was the same technique used by Eddie Mair when he accused Boris Johnson, ever so politely, of being “a nasty piece of work”. The London mayor doesn’t use a car if he can help it, so let’s call it a bicycle-crash interview. Either way it was impossible not to watch, even if you ended up squirming in embarrassment.
I knew Mr Burgon was starting to struggle when I noticed him at one point apparently wiping something out of his eye. It’s what a poker player might call a “tell”. The fictitious Ben Swain on The Thick of It betrayed his own discomfort when he started puffing and blinking furiously during his own innumerate answers.
That’s when your natural empathy for an interviewee – a reluctance to feed a clearly floundering fellow human being into the mincer – collides with a professional duty to slice through the pre-spun answers to the unvarnished truth.
So I pressed on.
I look forward to inviting Mr Burgon back into the Channel 4 News studio. Next time, no doubt, he’ll be able to give me deficit statistics – to the last decimal place.
Why I went full throttle in my own car-crash interview
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/11934397/...
Some people think I should have held back in my interview with Labour's shadow City minister, Richard Burgon. Here's why I didn't.
It was, as Jeremy Paxman noted during his spoof interview with The Thick of It “junior immigration minister Ben Swain”, the kind of question which “invited a numerical answer”. But when, on Wednesday evening’s Channel 4 news, I asked Richard Burgon what the UK deficit was set to be this year, the real shadow economic secretary to the Treasury found that the numbers eluded him. “Well…” he began.
His mouth started to move but no words emerged. “I’m not an economic… erm…,” he finally ventured, before remembering his full title . As he paused, I could sense the cogs turning furiously before he settled on: “I’m not somebody that’s going to put a figure in a crystal ball of what exactly the deficit is going to be at the end of the year.” No crystal ball was required, of course. The figures are in the official Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts – something perhaps he might have been expected to read up on since being appointed last month.
“Car crash” political interviews can make for compelling viewing. Voters have long wearied of soundbites, so anything that forces an MP off the script is always going to be more interesting. So it was with Jeremy Paxman’s humiliating encounter with Chloe Smith, the junior Treasury minister who found herself unable to answer simple questions about her boss’s deferral of the fuel duty rise. There was a certain amount of sympathy for Ms Smith, with one Conservative MP reflecting that it was like sending a lamb to the slaughter.
Paxo admitted afterwards that he’d wrecked her ministerial career. Should he have held back? Believe me, it’s not always easy judging the tone right on the other side of a car-crash interview. But it is a dereliction of duty to go easy on a Minister of the Crown.
You certainly can’t blame Nick Ferrari for quietly tormenting the Green Party leader, Natalie Bennett, whose “brain fade” interview on LBC Radio earlier this year degenerated into coughs and splutters when she hadn’t the first idea how to cost her party’s housing policy. Mr Ferrari was persistent but always courteous – devastatingly so. An iron fist in a velvet glove allowed him to press the point, without losing the sympathy of his listeners.
That was the same technique used by Eddie Mair when he accused Boris Johnson, ever so politely, of being “a nasty piece of work”. The London mayor doesn’t use a car if he can help it, so let’s call it a bicycle-crash interview. Either way it was impossible not to watch, even if you ended up squirming in embarrassment.
I knew Mr Burgon was starting to struggle when I noticed him at one point apparently wiping something out of his eye. It’s what a poker player might call a “tell”. The fictitious Ben Swain on The Thick of It betrayed his own discomfort when he started puffing and blinking furiously during his own innumerate answers.
That’s when your natural empathy for an interviewee – a reluctance to feed a clearly floundering fellow human being into the mincer – collides with a professional duty to slice through the pre-spun answers to the unvarnished truth.
So I pressed on.
I look forward to inviting Mr Burgon back into the Channel 4 News studio. Next time, no doubt, he’ll be able to give me deficit statistics – to the last decimal place.
mikees said:
hornetrider said:
ukwill said:
Not sure if this got posted, but did anyone see the Shadow City Minister's interview on C4 yesterday?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnU-u89kBVw
Just to confirm, that's the Shadow City Minister.
I'm just trying to envisage his Bloomberg speech...
Car crash tv!
Just googled him. He went to fing cambs. I give up. How? Just how?
Edited by mikees on Thursday 15th October 22:57
I want to marry Cathy Newman even more than usual, and usual is a lot. She rocks in every way (shame about the silly stuff about the Mosques earlier this year, but we all screw up every now and then).
If Burgon is a Tab, maybe he read Land Economy. Cambridge is refreshingly honest in offering a degree course that everyone knows is for thickoes and sporties. Rather dim rugby playing or rowing type? Want to go to Cambridge? Apply to Girton and do Land Economy! Oxford is more dishonest (it is the main politicians' university, after all), and claims that its degree for thickoes, PPE, is a real degree. It has some joke colleges, but none that are such a joke as Girton, which isn't even near Cambridge, let alone in it. Cameron got a First in PPE (Brasenose - posh college, not as posh as Christ Church or Magdalen, not a joke college), and that sounds cool, but not when you know that getting a first in PPE is like getting an A Level in Travel Agent Management, only easier. Those who want to study economics and politics for real go to the LSE. Cathy Newman is a New College (clever college, medium posh) modern languages person, IIRC.
If Burgon is a Tab, maybe he read Land Economy. Cambridge is refreshingly honest in offering a degree course that everyone knows is for thickoes and sporties. Rather dim rugby playing or rowing type? Want to go to Cambridge? Apply to Girton and do Land Economy! Oxford is more dishonest (it is the main politicians' university, after all), and claims that its degree for thickoes, PPE, is a real degree. It has some joke colleges, but none that are such a joke as Girton, which isn't even near Cambridge, let alone in it. Cameron got a First in PPE (Brasenose - posh college, not as posh as Christ Church or Magdalen, not a joke college), and that sounds cool, but not when you know that getting a first in PPE is like getting an A Level in Travel Agent Management, only easier. Those who want to study economics and politics for real go to the LSE. Cathy Newman is a New College (clever college, medium posh) modern languages person, IIRC.
Breadvan72 said:
I want to marry Cathy Newman even more than usual, and usual is a lot. She rocks in every way (shame about the silly stuff about the Mosques earlier this year, but we all screw up every now and then).
If Burgon is a Tab, maybe he read Land Economy. Cambridge is refreshingly honest in offering a degree course that everyone knows is for thickoes and sporties. Rather dim rugby playing or rowing type? Want to go to Cambridge? Apply to Girton and do Land Economy! Oxford is more dishonest (it is the main politicians' university, after all), and claims that its degree for thickoes, PPE, is a real degree. It has some joke colleges, but none that are such a joke as Girton, which isn't even near Cambridge, let alone in it. Cameron got a First in PPE (Brasenose - posh college, not as posh as Christ Church or Magdalen, not a joke college), and that sounds cool, but not when you know that getting a first in PPE is like getting an A Level in Travel Agent Management, only easier. Those who want to study economics and politics for real go to the LSE. Cathy Newman is a New College (clever college, medium posh) modern languages person, IIRC.
The Land Economy at Hughes Hall or Girton route sadly doesn't work for CUBC any more. A proper academic course is required. As a result, Cambridge is losing Boat Race after Boat Race. If Burgon is a Tab, maybe he read Land Economy. Cambridge is refreshingly honest in offering a degree course that everyone knows is for thickoes and sporties. Rather dim rugby playing or rowing type? Want to go to Cambridge? Apply to Girton and do Land Economy! Oxford is more dishonest (it is the main politicians' university, after all), and claims that its degree for thickoes, PPE, is a real degree. It has some joke colleges, but none that are such a joke as Girton, which isn't even near Cambridge, let alone in it. Cameron got a First in PPE (Brasenose - posh college, not as posh as Christ Church or Magdalen, not a joke college), and that sounds cool, but not when you know that getting a first in PPE is like getting an A Level in Travel Agent Management, only easier. Those who want to study economics and politics for real go to the LSE. Cathy Newman is a New College (clever college, medium posh) modern languages person, IIRC.
Tragic! Oxford still cheats by bringing in hulking American postgrads, who sign up for bogus M Phils in colouring in.
At the last Varsity Match that I went to (a while ago now), I could tell that Cambridge were going to the dogs because their Number 8 was wearing gold boots. They still beat my lot, mind.
At the last Varsity Match that I went to (a while ago now), I could tell that Cambridge were going to the dogs because their Number 8 was wearing gold boots. They still beat my lot, mind.
NRS said:
crankedup said:
Tell that to those who cannot afford to buy over-priced houses, or pay extortionate rents, and unable to access Social housing owing to shortages. Plenty of young professionals are in this boat and live with Mum and Dad, average age is still rising regards this group of 'stay at homes' its now 35 years.
The general overall picture of housing in the U.K. is a complete disaster.
What's your solution for it then?The general overall picture of housing in the U.K. is a complete disaster.
1. Release land currently owned by the M.O.D. for use to build Social housing.
2. Continue to refurbish ex M.O.D. housing for private and Social housing.
3. Re-introduce housing grants for refurbishment of run down stock. Grant to be repaid if house sold within specified time limit.
4. Introduce a static interest rate for housing loans with a tax relief attached for interest paid.
5. Introduce directly employed 'Council' builders paid from rental incomes.
6. Ease planning regulations. (in motion)
8. Further increases of taxation involving unoccupied housing stock.
50/50% part ownerships for first time buyers continue.
Gifting cash tax free within families to be increased that assist with house deposits.
Just a few comments some of which may assist younger people acquire a home.
RichB said:
crankedup said:
Tell that to those who cannot afford to buy over-priced houses...
When you say overpriced define what you mean. To me something is worth what someone will pay for it. I'm guessing you mean they are overpriced because some people cannot afford them but I'll let you answer that. What's the solution, perhaps you would have the government make a sizeable contribution to the sale price because if I can get someone to pay me over 3/4 million for my property why should I sell it for less? I'd be happy to sell at £500k with £250k govt. top-up though. Thoughts? I agree that current home owners should not be obligated to sell their home or any other asset for less than market value. I have offered a few comments (above)that may serve as an introduction to ease the current situation of affordability and housing stock. If nothing else they will serve as a discussion starter point perhaps.
Edited by crankedup on Friday 16th October 11:42
Sway said:
crankedup said:
Tell that to those who cannot afford to buy over-priced houses, or pay extortionate rents, and unable to access Social housing owing to shortages. Plenty of young professionals are in this boat and live with Mum and Dad, average age is still rising regards this group of 'stay at homes' its now 35 years.
The general overall picture of housing in the U.K. is a complete disaster.
Name a top five Worldwide city (as London is) that has a better percentage of 'affordable' houses within similar travel times to the centre?The general overall picture of housing in the U.K. is a complete disaster.
It's mental, yes. Whether New York, Singapore, Tokyo or London if a significant proportion of the World would like to live there, costs are always going to be very high.
The problem I mention is National, especially in the South of England.
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