Question Time & This Week

I'm just amazed Alastair Campbell has apparently managed to go an entire evening without masturbating while looking into a mirror.

Or maybe he's insisted one is put under his part of the set.
 
All I can think of when I watch Question Time is how sweet it'll be when I one day buy my own house in some remote area away from everyone else.
 
Only because Labour are being ripped to shreds on national TV :lol:
Yeah! Campbell rightly shredding Tories over Brexit too tbf.
All I can think of when I watch Question Time is how sweet it'll be when I one day buy my own house in some remote area away from everyone else.
Dimbleby wants to nail that 16 year old.
 
Only because Labour are being ripped to shreds on national TV :lol:
The question is, what Labour?

Yeah! Campbell rightly shredding Tories over Brexit too tbf.
As much as I'd prefer it to have taken place at the Hague, Campbell's first attempt at stand-up comedy was a raging success. I say comedy as the alternative is that it's one of the most hypocritical things ever uttered in the history of broadcasting. Scaremongering on steroids to secure a vote for something that doesn't even have a plan drawn up on the back of a fag packet. Now where have I heard that before...
 
John McDonnell is an absolute fecking joke.
 
John McDonnell is an absolute fecking joke.

Yeah he kinda is. I sympathise with Corbyn to an extent but when your main man is paying an annual subscription to the IRA (probably) it's kinda difficult to keep that sympathy going.
 
The question is, what Labour?


As much as I'd prefer it to have taken place at the Hague, Campbell's first attempt at stand-up comedy was a raging success. I say comedy as the alternative is that it's one of the most hypocritical things ever uttered in the history of broadcasting. Scaremongering on steroids to secure a vote for something that doesn't even have a plan drawn up on the back of a fag packet. Now where have I heard that before...
WE WON THREE GENERAL ELECTIONS! He was personal with John not Corbyn though.
Your name is Dimbleby?
She looked older than her years and was a Brexiteer.
 
WE WON THREE GENERAL ELECTIONS! He was personal with John not Corbyn though.
I wonder if part of the unity campaign may involve a new shadow chancellor. If the rebel MPs -- or 80% of the PLP, making the pro-Corbyn MPs the rebels -- back Corbyn, it'll have to come at a price.
 
Would Corbyn ever ditch John?
Probably not, which is half the reason the party is fecked. There needs to be a compromise. Even a reshuffle post leadership election that promotes Hillary Benn (or someone of that ilk) and moves McDonnell to Shadow Foreign Sec or something.
 
WE WON THREE GENERAL ELECTIONS! He was personal with John not Corbyn though
Always been a fan of the three elections line. If I thought I could cope with seeing his face for the next 5 years, I'd love New New Labour to have Blair come out publically in support of their leadership candidate and the candidate fully embrace it. Not in the wishy washy anti-Corbyn way of the current challenge, let the PLP put the man's legacy to the test.

Probably not, which is half the reason the party is fecked. There needs to be a compromise. Even a reshuffle post leadership election that promotes Hillary Benn (or someone of that ilk) and moves McDonnell to Shadow Foreign Sec or something.
Hillary Benn is only a compromise if the alternative is Skeletor.
 
Hillary Benn is only a compromise if the alternative is Skeletor.
I'm not a fan either, but the PLP will have to back Corbyn and I can't see it happening without some kind of significant compromise. One of the rebel MPs' poster boys will have to take up a prominent position of some sort. The alternative is a split -- which might not be the worst case scenario.

Not the best of nights for McDonnell, though, being branded a Marxist (by himself).
 
Probably not, which is half the reason the party is fecked. There needs to be a compromise. Even a reshuffle post leadership election that promotes Hillary Benn (or someone of that ilk) and moves McDonnell to Shadow Foreign Sec or something.
Always been a fan of the three elections line. If I thought I could cope with seeing his face for the next 5 years, I'd love New New Labour to have Blair come out publically in support of their leadership candidate and the candidate fully embrace it. Not in the wishy washy anti-Corbyn way of the current challenge, let the PLP put the man's legacy to the test.


Hillary Benn is only a compromise if the alternative is Skeletor.

:lol:Skeletor would get the protest vote from people of a certain age.
Sad thing is, the Tories are that divided they can't capitalise and annihilate Labour.
 
I would imagine that there is too much animosity between Corbyn and Benn for him to be promoted to Shadow Chancellor.

What could be of interest, is whether Umunna or Jarvis for example, decide that their leadership prospects will benefit from a stint in the shadow cabinet. Nothing too senior as they'd want some scope for deniability, but a national profile nonetheless.
 
Nothing to do with north sea oil tax revenues tanking

It's a mite inconvenient for her, this long term shift in the oil price. And were they to leave the UK in favour of the EU, i doubt Brussels would be open to them keeping Sterling.

Yet being a happy Brexiteer, i am not about to tell a Scot that they are wrong for wondering if independence is the way for them. Only that the SNP be more honest about the possible side effects.
 
Nah that Question Time went well from McDonnell's point of view, got some fan-pleasing attacks in on Campbell, got to pretend he was outraged at Soubry, reminded people that he was a Marxist, got to say that Jeremy was honest several times without anyone bringing up trains, got to repeatedly lie that Labour were ahead in the polls before the rebellion without much blowback. He doesn't care how it comes across to most of the electorate, the only one that matters is the Labour membership. Corbyn's not getting rid of him, least of all for a moderate. And more to the point, none of them are going to want to be associated with him.
 
I'm not a fan either, but the PLP will have to back Corbyn and I can't see it happening without some kind of significant compromise. One of the rebel MPs' poster boys will have to take up a prominent position of some sort. The alternative is a split -- which might not be the worst case scenario.
I don't think either of those are likely, for starters the PLP struggle to back the PLP nevermind anyone else. Bar sending Hillary Benn to run a new Labour branch in Baghdad, none of them jump out as candidates for a job that may require principles capable of surviving ******* Harman wanting them to do the opposite.
 
Crap episode, after the grammar school debate ended. QT pisses me off sometimes, they seem content to let bickering go on to get media coverage at the expensive of getting anything of any value out of it. Dimblebee could chair a lot better, stop people talking over each other etc and have a more watchable programme as a result.
 
Incredible no one took issue with the Corbyn is honest crap. From John McDonnell no less.

Their relationship is basically equivalent to Cersei and Tommen in GoT.
 
Incredible no one took issue with the Corbyn is honest crap. From John McDonnell no less.

Their relationship is basically equivalent to Cersei and Tommen in GoT.

"You want the moderate Labour, but you need the bad socialist."
 
What could be of interest, is whether Umunna or Jarvis for example, decide that their leadership prospects will benefit from a stint in the shadow cabinet. Nothing too senior as they'd want some scope for deniability, but a national profile nonetheless.

I can't see that happening... chukka is too embedded in progress etc and momentum just wouldn't stand for it
As for jarvis it does not matter what brief you give him but sometime between now and the end of the year you have him speaking in the commons in the trident debate... and then it's Benn all over again
 
Mason is a moron having a mid-life crisis.