chloe smith on newsnight last night
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So much respect for keeping his cool. I would have ended the interview long before he did.
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Fantastic 
- I like it when politicians get challenged like this.
- I like it when politicians get challenged like this.The opening five minutes that he wastes asking her over and over again when she was told of the policy u-turn which is totally irelevant to the actual point and misses the real issue of the increased cost of energy and in particular petrol completely.
Paxman is only interested in scoring points in interviews and has no interest in the real debate his approach of repeatedly asking the same question over and over is dull as dishwater she clearly wasn't going to answer it move the debate on to the real situation that effects the voters.
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im not saying i have an answer. its just a famous quote which sums it up. usually the most cut-throat ********* make it to the top. and they arent necessarily the types of person you want in charge.
I remember on QI they said that one of the ancient civilisations did politics like jury duty. If you were called up you had to do one year as a politician. It's actually quite a good system. It prevents career politicians from getting in and hijacking the whole thing.
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Paxman and Snow are the same, both incapable of asking relevant questions and like any politician about scoring useless points on useless questions and have no interest in the subject matter at all.
Our "top" journalists are as toothless as our politicians. Labour simply fight tooth and nail over EVERYTHING for the sake of winning, not fixing the country, not making the country better. They'll kill themselves pointing out rich Tories, taxes and how unfair it is, yet never closed any of the loopholes during the massive amount of time they were in power, never tried to, never complained about it, all while running up a debt we could never pay off.
When they lose power, they devout their lives to making the other guys lose, rather than governing.
What I would give for Tories not in power to focus on governing rather than winning, and Labour when not in power to focus on making the country better, rather than winning. Both parties sicken me, at least the Tories are somewhat doing whats necessary and massively bringing down the ridiculous deficit Labour ran up.
Whoever was in power would have needed to do this, the other side would have railed against the guys in power for actually doing it.
Anyone who takes Paxman seriously needs their head checked and while its unfortunate for the woman in question, Osbourne going on there would have been a massive mistake. Paxman doesn't "lose" interviews, if he doesn't like answers he'll just change them and misinterpret them, what did Osbourne have to gain by going on, nothing.
REspect for keeping his cool, he does this in just about every interview, pretends to be wound up by the other person to look like he's in the right somehow, its all a play, its tv, he hasn't been a serious interviewer/journalist for god knows how long.
Our "top" journalists are as toothless as our politicians. Labour simply fight tooth and nail over EVERYTHING for the sake of winning, not fixing the country, not making the country better. They'll kill themselves pointing out rich Tories, taxes and how unfair it is, yet never closed any of the loopholes during the massive amount of time they were in power, never tried to, never complained about it, all while running up a debt we could never pay off.
When they lose power, they devout their lives to making the other guys lose, rather than governing.
What I would give for Tories not in power to focus on governing rather than winning, and Labour when not in power to focus on making the country better, rather than winning. Both parties sicken me, at least the Tories are somewhat doing whats necessary and massively bringing down the ridiculous deficit Labour ran up.
Whoever was in power would have needed to do this, the other side would have railed against the guys in power for actually doing it.
Anyone who takes Paxman seriously needs their head checked and while its unfortunate for the woman in question, Osbourne going on there would have been a massive mistake. Paxman doesn't "lose" interviews, if he doesn't like answers he'll just change them and misinterpret them, what did Osbourne have to gain by going on, nothing.
REspect for keeping his cool, he does this in just about every interview, pretends to be wound up by the other person to look like he's in the right somehow, its all a play, its tv, he hasn't been a serious interviewer/journalist for god knows how long.
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Not about hijacking it so much as, only doing things if it won't stop you getting re-elected. As said, labour go off on non tax paying Torys constantly, while most of their party avoids tax and most/all their big contributors do the same... they never actually do anything about it.
This is what winds me up the most about the general public. Labour are loud and vocal about Tory's being rich and not "one of us", harp on about taxes, and no one asks why Labour didn't close all the loopholes in their time in charge. It's an automatic "win" for Labour just mentioning it, despite Labour doing it and doing nothing to stop it themselves. Politics is who has the best PR while they manipulate the system for their own gain, and the general public fall for it year after year.
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When they become a MP or a minister, is there a special training course that these jokers go on to learn how to avoid giving a straight answer?
That was sad but hilarious, pretty much straight out of the day today! (can't find the right interview from youtube yet)
Paxman is a good interviewer, his interview highlights the complete lack of thought that goes into this government. If they can't send someone who was a. told about the change in policy or b. could in the slightest understand it, then they clearly have no clue at whats going on and are just picking boxes like a game of deal or no deal
Paxman is a good interviewer, his interview highlights the complete lack of thought that goes into this government. If they can't send someone who was a. told about the change in policy or b. could in the slightest understand it, then they clearly have no clue at whats going on and are just picking boxes like a game of deal or no deal
There are media facing training courses you can go on, footballers and senior managers at companies regularly get sent on them. I reckon most MPs will have been on one too (and claim cost on expenses natch).
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its not just that. its because we really only have 2.5 parties here (liberals only half count
) we see 1 party come in, make a mess of it. then a bit later we eventually get ****ed off and vote in the 2nd party, who also makes a complete mess of it.
we really dont get much choice. its not like choosing a supermarket where we have loads of options.
i agree that politics is just bloody PR though.
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There are muppets on Radio2 now calling Paxman a rude, misogynist who bullied her with his questioning.
... just LOL.
... just LOL.
WHAT THE PAJAMA MAN.
He was rude and he did bully her over pointless questions which were not relevant to the debate, the only thing that differentiates him from the slimy politicians is he has no accountability to the tax payers who pay his wages.
Unless you're a woman, you're **** out of luck.
It would instantly earn them a lot more respect in my eyes.
Unfortunately, as mentioned, they are all more concerned about staying in power than actually serving the best interests of the country.