Thursday, March 23, 2006
All star cast on question time
What an all star cast! Boris Johnson doing his charming messy hair thing, Tony Benn in full flow, complete with "when I met Lloyd George...", and everyone having to admit defeat to the formiddably clever and sensible Shami Chakrabarti.
.. oh and then, Mr Toad from the CBI...
Originally, I thought that the proposal to stop Blair selling peerages by having the state fund political parties was quite sensible. But Shami pointed out that state funding of politics is just plain chilling - our big 3 weren't founded by 'the state', but by ideas. None of the other panelists could do anything but concede and nod and try to somehow make out that that's what they'd meant all along....
I also thought Boris was quite brave to admit he'd made a mistake voting for the war, and David Laws was quite brave to be un-liberal on jilbabs at school.
So, the BBC have finally got around to making the videos available - click on the little video button on the right. They don't seem to have quite got the editing right though - there's about 3 minutes of other stuff before the program.. which just happens to be a Tory party political.. which is probably against the BBC's charter.. but there we go, it's a good start..
.. oh and then, Mr Toad from the CBI...
Originally, I thought that the proposal to stop Blair selling peerages by having the state fund political parties was quite sensible. But Shami pointed out that state funding of politics is just plain chilling - our big 3 weren't founded by 'the state', but by ideas. None of the other panelists could do anything but concede and nod and try to somehow make out that that's what they'd meant all along....
I also thought Boris was quite brave to admit he'd made a mistake voting for the war, and David Laws was quite brave to be un-liberal on jilbabs at school.
So, the BBC have finally got around to making the videos available - click on the little video button on the right. They don't seem to have quite got the editing right though - there's about 3 minutes of other stuff before the program.. which just happens to be a Tory party political.. which is probably against the BBC's charter.. but there we go, it's a good start..
