Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
And tonight the weasel Norman Baker is on..................
Also Nigel Farage who usually has plenty to say.
Also Nigel Farage who usually has plenty to say.
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Mr Everyone
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Norman Baker, the ugly side of thd Lib Dems.
Alan Johnson on the other hand appears to be an alright chap.
Alan Johnson on the other hand appears to be an alright chap.
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
Should be interesting next week when the BNP are on. No doubt some of NSC's finest will be watching Question Time for the first time ever!
Blackadder
Brighton Bhuna Boy
I concur with Simster. Apart from his anti-Falmer stance Baker does make sense. As does Vince Cable, and no, I'm not a Lib Dem!
coventrygull
the right one
Too bloody right. Its going to be like a cup final up here. The beers will be out. It will be interesting how many viewers it will get. Even the lefties won't be able to resist tuning in to have a wank
mona
The Glory Game
Bollox. His Falmer stance was symptomatic of his need to, on the one hand, play radical and state that he's a republican and, on the other, appeal to the wealthy middle Englanders who dominate Sussex by standing up to the football oiks. Like many politicos, he is a phoney and an opportunist.
Alternatively, maybe he just didn't agree with you?
ROSM
Well-known member
The issue with Norman Baker is that he has made a career of being a bell weather. That is to say he sees where the wind is blowing and then positions himself downwind by enough of a distance to be seen as radical but not enough to be extreme.
His view on falmer is symptomatic on this in as much as he saw that defending the views of a proportion of his constituents was an extreme position against the popular opinion and he could gain sympathy, respect and kudos from doing so.
take his view on BBC expenses - he saw that the public opinion is against expenses and the bbc. he was offered travel to and from the bbc (at queens road brighton) for an interview and that they would pay UP TO the use of a car if that was the most convenient. He then took the train and claimed for it from the BBC but published that he could have taken a car.
Of course why he didn't
a) not claim at all as I have done on many occasions or
b) claim the train through the MP expenses as he was on official political business as an MP
seemed to have been missed in the resultant furore.
So, if you like what he says you need to understand whether you like the position he's adopted rather than what he truly believes
His view on falmer is symptomatic on this in as much as he saw that defending the views of a proportion of his constituents was an extreme position against the popular opinion and he could gain sympathy, respect and kudos from doing so.
take his view on BBC expenses - he saw that the public opinion is against expenses and the bbc. he was offered travel to and from the bbc (at queens road brighton) for an interview and that they would pay UP TO the use of a car if that was the most convenient. He then took the train and claimed for it from the BBC but published that he could have taken a car.
Of course why he didn't
a) not claim at all as I have done on many occasions or
b) claim the train through the MP expenses as he was on official political business as an MP
seemed to have been missed in the resultant furore.
So, if you like what he says you need to understand whether you like the position he's adopted rather than what he truly believes
Horsham Gull
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What a C unit
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very good assessment.