UK cabinet minister sees the real reaction to Hutton

[muriel_volestrangler]

'Question Time', the BBC's main political panel show, was on last night. On the question of Iraq, Peter Hain, the Leader of the House of Commons, was comprehensively booed, jeered, and laughed at, while all points against the government were applauded loudly. The audience for this programme is always said to be chosen to be politically balanced; I don't think I've ever seen one of the main parties so unpopular.

Clip here ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsa/n5ctrl/progs/question_time/latest.ram ): the fun starts about 11:50 into it (first 4 minutes after that give you the general idea, but the whole debate goes on for 20 minutes).

The man sitting on the far right on the panel, as we look at it, is Rod Liddle, who was the man who hired Andrew Gilligan for the BBC. It's not hard to see who the audience prefer. His comment at the end, after sitting through increasingly desperate lies and inventions from Hain: "It's like sitting next to Lewis Carroll!"

Biggest applause for:
"The truth is, and it's unparliamentary language I suppose, but effectively, they lied, and they lied, and they lied ..."

[Spentastic]

1. Darn I missed it

I normally catch this after playing footy. I imagine it was quite amusing.

The latest defence is " a vocal minority".

Unfortunately this voacl minority seems to be all over the place.

[T_i_B]

2. The defence I hear

Is the blame the media argument, which is always used by war supporters and which tends to completly ignore the numerous arguments about Hutton being a whitewash.

Plus the well yes we the WMD argument is a fraud but it was right to remove Saddam anyway so there argument which again simply does not cut it.

That said, I still hear loads of grumbling about whitewash, and rightly so too.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. Just how funny was that!

Hislop last week & Rod Liddle this have been fantastic.

I particularly loved it when they were talking about Blunkett's new far-right panderings & Liddle answered with something like: "I'm with Peter Hain in completely opposing this."

Also good to see the audience not accepting the Tories pathetic opportunism in suddenly getting passionate about Iraq's WMDs.