howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i would have thought the percentage was higher among those who do vote david. i bet if we asked our members here if they have changed who they vote for at general elections, the answer would be very few.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I agree Philip, if you closed your eyes for a moment or two , you would be forgiven for thinking it was indeed a Jeremy Kyle episode
For what its worth Boris managed to keep smiling!!!
Wish Andrew Marr was well enough to come back and soon, Get well Andrew
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 18...Agree.....the clips of the Mair interview will be used time and time again at any election time for him.....
Eddie Mair is superb on Radio 4 and even better on TV......bring him back often ....his body language alone
works wonders on all politicians........
Keith Sansum1
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Well its all hotting up
boris
teresa
plus many more
not long before the final push
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i'd never heard of eddie mair before sunday, i will have to stay in more.
Alec Sheldon
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Howard, he sometimes chairs "Any Questions" on the wireless when Jonathan Dimbleby is on leave.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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He certainly in a very nice way cornered Boris, who fell into many of his traps,
The maverick side of Bors showed, which will be part of his downfall
Im sure the mouse will in time use it against him
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Eddie Mair on Boris Johnson interview: a lesson in student journalism
Trainee reporters land interview with BBC man after show revealed the 'less
cuddly' side of London mayor
Link to video: Boris Johnson accused: 'you're a nasty piece of work'
Eddie Mair has told a group of journalism students that he was aiming to focus
on some of the "less cuddly" aspects of Boris Johnson's career in his now
infamous "bicycle crash" interview with mayor of London last weekend.
The presenter of Radio 4's PM, who was standing in on Andrew Marr's programme
while Marr recovers from a stroke, concluded he had succeeded in at least
"unsettling him" - although the verdict in the hours and days later was that his
calm but persistent interview left Johnson reeling and his political prospects dented.
Speaking to a group of media students from Northampton university, Mair said:
"We achieved what we wanted out of it [the interview], which was to look in detail
at some of the stuff that appeared in the documentary that is a less cuddly picture
of Boris than the public know and to get him to talk about that."
Mair was questioning Johnson ahead of last Monday's sympathetic BBC2 documentary
on the Conservative mayor of London by political journalist Michael Cockerell, in
which Johnson admitted he would like to become prime minister should it be the case
"that the ball came loose from the back of a scrum".
However, Mair said that his interview put Johnson in a very different light: "I think
we made him think a little, or at least slightly unsettled him from his usual very
measured and very confident performance ... it was about trying to examine other
aspects of his past and his character."
The BBC declined all requests for interviews with Mair in the wake of the interview,
leaving his on-record conversation with the students as the only interview given
by the broadcaster', who it has been suggested could take on Jeremy Paxman's inquisitorial role.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Its always good to put people under the spotlight, and where as Boris has got off very light
this time he was questioned and looked very uncomfatable throughout
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Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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As comprehensively discussed on the other thread where the statistics appear to show that the approval ratings for Boris have actually gone up since the interview, not down. Suspect this is due to the British people's vaunted sense of fair play. Dredging up minor peccadilloes from the distant past and constructing an entire interview with nothing else is a very cheap shot. Doubt if Eddie Mair will get a second go at an interview with Boris. Boo. Hiss.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Boris didnt go down well if we are honest
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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http://yougov.co.uk/news/2013/03/28/bulletproof-boris/
I've told you lot for ages, careful what you wish for. Despite what you hoped, Boris' ratings went UP after the Marr show
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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It's playing out exactly as I said it would.
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Yes indeed, people saw through the attempt to discredit him (Keith excepted).
Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
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Makes me chuckle, seeing the tribalists line up on each side - if Mother Theresa were to declare a preference, one side or the other would be slating her. The sad thing is that the tribalists are absolutely incapable of forming any coherent thought of their own, other than "bloody Tory/Labour/UKIP/Liberal. No wonder the country is going to hell in a hand cart....
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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Would go along with bloody Tory/Labour/Liberal but fail to see where UKIP comes into it as they are the sole nascent alternative to the current God-awful choices.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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now that you are out of the cupboard ed, what would ukip do to get us out of debt?
Guest 673- Registered: 16 Jun 2008
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No idea, Howard. After their spectacular success at the Eastleigh by-election, believe Nigel Farage said something along the lines of "Blimey, we shall have to work out a few policies" as he was leaving the pub.
Guest 904- Registered: 21 Mar 2013
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Ed Connell wrote:Would go along with bloody Tory/Labour/Liberal but fail to see where UKIP comes into it as they are the sole nascent alternative to the current God-awful choices.
I included UKIP Ed because when the 'tribalists' sense that their particular brand has failed to achieve (a rare event, as being a tribalist means that blinkers are fitted as standard) then they will look to excuse the failings by referring to a 'protest' vote. Once it used to be the Green Party, but they've all disappeared into their barmy eco-wilderness, now it's UKIP's turn.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Well now let me correct again, as posters including Paul I hasn't read my postings,
From the start Iv always said Boris would be a good candidate for leader to go up against ED as Boris is so maverick and what people like, its not convincing everybody like was shown on that show and Boris definatly stumbled which wont help im but he still can recover.
Funny old ED C looking to UKIP to save the world(gawd help us0)
like the leader said coming out of the pub, we may need some policies now, what a way to lead a party not to be taken seriously, but purely as a protest party
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