James O Brien interviewed him & was terrible. Resorted to impersonating his voice & repeatedly making one point about Patrick Minford. Pathetic effort. It’s one thing bullying callers of whatever stripe but another trying to do it to someone like Mogg.
Didn’t see that. What a shame, I thought he had better debating skills than that.
It’s on Youtube & probably on LBC’s own site.
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Hope you didn’t stay up Paul, was all a bit of an anti climax, ITV just can’t do this stuff properly, as soon as the host starts to ramp it up, the adverts arrive. Really frustrating.
What where the panel even there for? Hardly any input at all, and when Heidi Allen was finally given a head of steam… “Sorry, it’s time to go…” FFS.
I’m still watching it, just.
JRM, whatever you think of him, sailed through it.
He’s still a cunt, but a very *intelligent one.
*compared to the interviewers
You’re right, he was hardly challenged at all, he never is.
Imho he’s more outstandingly controlled than outstandingly intelligent (although I reluctantly concede that he is actually quite intelligent). His self control must be an Opus Dei thing. His body must be a fucking mess from the self flagellation.
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Night, night 
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Sweet dreams, sleep tight. 
Saying “No” is easy. Standing on the sidelines and pointing at all the problems is easy. When push comes to shove, offloading your decision onto someone else (I’ll eat the jizz covered biscuit if the DUP will) is easy. Presenting something unacceptable as the solution and simply asserting that everyone who disagrees with you is wrong is easy. It’s finding a majority-supported solution that requires intelligence and creativity and the preparedness to compromise. And he’s shit at that.
VB
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…is about the only way to get through this mess
Thanks. That’ll be £60 please.
I think that what is interesting about the coverage is that it’s really the Conservatives that are voting no, but nobody is saying that.
If you look at the coloured bars, there are several that almost all of Labour voted for, but the largest block of blue that votes yes to anything is under 160, for no deal. I know that there are a lot of missing blue votes because the cabinet abstained, but still it’s clear to me that the Tories are far more split and unable to make up their minds than Labour.
But I haven’t seen that reported at all.
Faisal has been banging on about it this morning, TBH - great thread here (he has another going, I haven’t go a bit of bloody work done yet)
Meanwhile, some of the replies to this are wonderful
Got into explainer mode over brekkie with colleagues and ran aground: why did the 8 questions include 5 which were solely focussed upon the Political Declaration / future-relationship-waffle ? The PD’s non binding, and all 5 options are entirely possible post WA
The only “relevant” questions were:
- Withdrawal Agreement contigent upon Ref2
- Revoke article 50
- No deal
Right? Or what? What am I missing ?
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That the HoC is profoundly pissed off with having been sidelined and ignored by the executive.
So they’re making a show of starting from square one - where they could have been in December - or two years earlier.
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Interesting that the TIGs didn’t vote for any of the CU type plans. Not really surprised that the SNP didn’t.
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I can’t work it out, I guess it was all strategic somehow. Saying what you might actually find acceptable is basically showing someone your cards.
The TIGs are all about a 2nd Ref (or Revoke) but realistically it’ll need to be attached to something.
Annoying that the likes of John Mann, Hoey, Skinner etc chose to not support a 2nd Ref as an option. It didn’t need many more.
Normally I think Sturgeon is a bit of a gobshite, but I like this.
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She is a gobshite.
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