Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2

[Hainey]

whoami said:

Hainey said:

Self needs a slap. A really, really good slap and sent back to the academic rarified air he likes so much.

Let us in the real world get on with the job.

His problem is that he's not an academic either.

Isn't he a professor or some such? Or am I mistaken. Which is possible!

[MrNoisy]

OMFG, this is groundbreaking stuff,

Tax the rich more and spend it on the NHS, who'd have thunk it right???

Cutting edge political discourse

[Jockman]

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

[TerryThomas]

Looked like Self was giving Dimbleby the finger then, while he scratched his eye!

[whoami]

Hainey said:

whoami said:

Hainey said:

Self needs a slap. A really, really good slap and sent back to the academic rarified air he likes so much.

Let us in the real world get on with the job.

His problem is that he's not an academic either.

Isn't he a professor or some such? Or am I mistaken. Which is possible!

No, you are correct in that he was given a professorship in "Contemporary Thought" at Brunel a few year ago.

I think that says it all.

[Hainey]

Jockman said:

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

She is spot on. She is saying a version of something I was flamed for in the Finance section, namely that politicians will always find a way to spend your tax money and then ask for more.

We need to look at reducing tax burdens and not increase them.

[Laurel Green]

Pantomime season has started I see.

[whoami]

Jockman said:

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

I think you need a night out Jockers.

[soxboy]

Laurel Green said:

Pantomime season has started I see.

Oh no it hasn't

[alfie2244]

Laurel Green said:

Pantomime season has started I see.

Oh no it hasn't.

[Hainey]

whoami said:

Hainey said:

whoami said:

Hainey said:

Self needs a slap. A really, really good slap and sent back to the academic rarified air he likes so much.

Let us in the real world get on with the job.

His problem is that he's not an academic either.

Isn't he a professor or some such? Or am I mistaken. Which is possible!

No, you are correct in that he was given a professorship in "Contemporary Thought" at Brunel a few year ago.

I think that says it all.

Ah I consider myself educated, thank you. As you say..says it all.

[Jockman]

whoami said:

Jockman said:

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

I think you need a night out Jockers.

You could be right matey.

[castex]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

castex said:

I like Self. A step above everyone else there intellectually, he cuts through the bullst - every time.

Delusional mouthpiece.

The Irony that Alanis Morrisette herself would throw up over - Self lambasts that Trump promises one thing means another, yet Self actively gloats in the idealism that spouts butis undeliverable.

I'm not clear what you mean by "butis undeliverable". Reading between the lines I would venture that we're heading for a reckoning, and what Self is suggesting is the better way to work through it.

[alfie2244]

soxboy said:

Laurel Green said:

Pantomime season has started I see.

Oh no it hasn't

oh yes it has.

[Hainey]

Is there a figure for the cost of treating health tourists in the NHS?

[johnfm]

Jockman said:

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

At Mensch??

Jeez, you need to lift your standards. She's neither particularly attractive nor particularly bright. A good 7/10 on both counts.

[TerryThomas]

Self reminds me of Rigsby in Rising Damp.

[johnfm]

Is Self high?

[whoami]

Jockman said:

whoami said:

Jockman said:

don'tbesilly said:

Louise Mensch talks sense, arguably the only one doing so

I hadn't noticed her speaking. Too busy looking.

I think you need a night out Jockers.

You could be right matey.

Surely your Christmas Party (free bar?) will alleviate any stray feelings of longing??

[Jockman]

Hainey said:

Is there a figure for the cost of treating health tourists in the NHS?

There was a discussion on R4. The official line was circa £250m. Another view was up to £2bn.