| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
Guest
|
 Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 10:47:35 +0000 Post subject: Andrew Marr Show Ken Livingstone Interview |
 |
|
Ken supports ID cards, whilst admitting they won't help in the fight against terrorism they will help in fighting low level crime.
As Labour are continually adding stupid petty laws to the statute book, we're all going to need those ID cards now aren't we after the public are criminalised for some reason or another! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Guy Herbert
Moderator
Joined: 29 Dec 2004
Posts: 2346
Location: London
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:11:06 +0000 Post subject: Re: Andrew Marr Show Ken Livingstone Interview |
|
|
| Anonymous wrote: | | Ken supports ID cards, whilst admitting they won't help in the fight against terrorism they will help in fighting low level crime. |
That's an entirely new one. And utterly barking. Maybe he thinks it will stop young people buying glue and kitchen knives, which are crimes these days. If he means it might stop fights, thefts or vandalism, I'd just love to know how.
_________________
Guy Herbert
General Secretary, NO2ID
general.secretary@no2id.net
(to contact me directly email. Don't use the forum messaging service.) |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Devilled Advocat
E-List
Joined: 17 Aug 2007
Posts: 94
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:53:47 +0000 Post subject: Re: Andrew Marr Show Ken Livingstone Interview |
|
|
| Guy Herbert wrote: | | Anonymous wrote: | | Ken supports ID cards, whilst admitting they won't help in the fight against terrorism they will help in fighting low level crime. |
That's an entirely new one. And utterly barking. Maybe he thinks it will stop young people buying glue and kitchen knives, which are crimes these days. If he means it might stop fights, thefts or vandalism, I'd just love to know how. |
Does anyone else have the suspicion he may mean littering, dog fouling,public drunkeness and other fineable offences?
More work for the private companies enforcing the charges. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Guest
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:37:34 +0000 Post subject: |
|
|
Ken Livingstone is absolute proof that ultimate power can corrupt an individuals original beliefs - he used to be a left winger and a thorn in New Labour's side.
Now it appears he is New Labour's poodle - "woof, woof, that's a good boy Ken". |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Antony
E-List
Joined: 12 Mar 2007
Posts: 111
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 12:45:56 +0000 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | Ken supports ID cards, whilst admitting they won't help in the fight against terrorism they will help in fighting low level crime. |
I didn't get to see the interview, which is just as well as it probably wouldn't have done my blood pressure any good.
Did Andrew Marr do what a good interviewer should do and ask Mr Livingstone for some evidence for his assertion? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bovlomov
D-List
Joined: 16 Sep 2005
Posts: 347
Location: london
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:15:20 +0000 Post subject: |
|
|
| Antony wrote: | | Did Andrew Marr do what a good interviewer should do and ask Mr Livingstone for some evidence for his assertion? |
It is always frustrating seeing Marr interviews. One finds oneself shouting the questions, that he SHOULD be asking, at the television.
No, he never followed up those assertions. And he let Livingstone get away with all that stuff about making London safe, without asking him about how Blair acted after the shooting. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
stu2630
A-List
Joined: 29 May 2005
Posts: 1616
Location: Southern Sweden
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:59:57 +0000 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | It is always frustrating seeing Marr interviews. One finds oneself shouting the questions, that he SHOULD be asking, at the television. |
I don't know what it is about that Sunday morning current affairs slot. They get experienced, tough interviewers like David Frost and Andrew Marr and within a very short time they have been tamed and only manage to feed their interviewees nice, soft questions.
Stu |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Guest
|
| Posted: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:10:22 +0000 Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | | I don't know what it is about that Sunday morning current affairs slot. They get experienced, tough interviewers like David Frost and Andrew Marr and within a very short time they have been tamed and only manage to feed their interviewees nice, soft questions. |
I think this has to do with the perception of this Sunday show as the interviewees turn up as guests in an informal relaxed Sunday feel atmosphere - you know "lets have a look at the papers now" style.
Perhaps the Beeb feel that Sunday viewers don't want aggression on this particular day.
It should be balanced with a more aggressive style programme later on in the day or earlier in the week - but then would our super sensitive politicians turn up?
The other thing is I don't care for Marr as an interviewer as he gets too entangled in his own self proclaimed academic prowess and can confuse everyone watching or listening - the Beeb could do to find some hard hitting interrogators for the sake of our sanity and democracy. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
