Your fave Labour MP......

[Smiler.]

....is on R4 tonight, Any Questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t2y8r

BBC said:

....Her left-wing credentials were questioned in 2003 when she was criticised for sending her child to a fee-paying school.......

Oh, c'mon. Give it a rest

You'd think they'd have learnt by now.

[Pesty]

I hope the first question they ask her is " why did you send your child to a fee paying school" the silence will be far better than anything she has to say.

[dougc]

Pesty said:

I hope the first question they ask her is " why did you send your child to a fee paying school" the silence will be far better than anything she has to say.

Already did that on the Today programme earlier in the week. 15 second silence.

[Mermaid]

Don't do as we do, do as we say...

[10 Pence Short]

She certainly gets a lot of air time in here. My favourite Labour MP of current times is a man of, er, vision. David Blunkett, for all his foibles, at least has the balls to say what he sees.

[Pesty]

And shag waht he doesn't, then give use his expenses to pay her train fares etc etc

[MX7]

I wish the BBC would stop screwing up her prospect of becoming leader. I desperately want her to win. It'll be hilarious.

[TimJMS]

Agreed. The Beeb are doing everything in their power to stop her dead. The Andrew Neil administered drubbing was bloody.

[don4l]

TimJMS said:

Agreed. The Beeb are doing everything in their power to stop her dead. The Andrew Neil administered drubbing was bloody hilarious.

EFA

Don
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[M3333]

10 Pence Short said:

She certainly gets a lot of air time in here. My favourite Labour MP of current times is a man of, er, vision. David Blunkett, for all his foibles, at least has the balls to say what he sees.

Ironically

[don4l]

She is doing remarkably well so far.

Jack Straw shouldn't go to the States to testify before a Congressional committee because he is only answerable to the British public! Top marks.

Also, she doesn't understand why Portillo sits so close to her on the sofa, but there must be something that attracts him.

Let's hope that she handles the rest of the questions as well as she has answered the first two questions..


Go, Diane, Go!


Don
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[TimJMS]

don4l said:

...Also, she doesn't understand why Portillo sits so close to her on the sofa, but there must be something that attracts him.


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Well that's a frigging lie right there. Everything about her body language screams : "I fancy the arse off you, Portillo"

[OnTheOverrun]

Tam Dalyell - now there was a proper, working-class man of the people, a true old school socialist through and through who fought his way up through the tenements of Edinburgh to protect the poor down-trodden workers from the evil tory expoiters.

You'd never realise his full name was Sir Thomas Dalyell Loch, 11th baronet of Binns having been born to an aristocratic mother would you?

[don4l]

TimJMS said:

don4l said:

...Also, she doesn't understand why Portillo sits so close to her on the sofa, but there must be something that attracts him.


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Well that's a frigging lie right there. Everything about her body language screams : "I fancy the arse off you, Portillo"

We often see Andrew's eyes bulging during the interviews.

I usually imagine that Diane's hand has wandered a bit high on Portillo's thigh at this point... and that the cameraman has been ordered to stay on Neil's face until she has finished.

Portillo usually looks remarkably relaxed when the camera returns to him.

Don
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[grumbledoak]

don4l said:

Also, she doesn't understand why Portillo sits so close to her on the sofa, but there must be something that attracts him.

Gravity.

[Pesty]

[don4l]

grumbledoak said:

don4l said:

Also, she doesn't understand why Portillo sits so close to her on the sofa, but there must be something that attracts him.

Gravity.

A black hole?

Don
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[elster]

She has obviously had some recent training.

My fave labour MP used to be James Purnell.

My favourite Labour politician has to be Mandy.

[TimJMS]

Austin Mitchell is usually good value, and just about the only leftie I know who has a sense of humour.

[Smiler.]

Well, not much to write home aboot