Monday 25 May 2009

Politics Show on Sunday Debate; Nirv Deja and Farrage Loose It


There was a debate on the SE section of the Politics Show on Sunday, appropriaately in Legoland. Present were Peter Skinner (Lab), Sharon Bowles (LD) and Keith Taylor(Green). You can watch Nirj Deva(Con) and Nigel Farage(UKip) shouting and loosing all credibility.
(it starts about 40 minutes in).
Politics Show

Here are some highlights:
Skinner 40mins; a protest vote won't last for 5 years
Nirj 41mins; what's best for our country is to have a General Election
Farage 41m; disenchant with the major parties
Nirj 42; LETS HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION NOW (shouting)
Farage; lets debate on Europe,
Nirj 43; LETS HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION NOW
Farage; recall bad MPs
Nirj 43; LETS HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION NOW
Sharon; minor parties don't have expenses on their websites
Keith Taylor(the only non MEP), people in the streets are angry, we need to restore the trust that the major parties have lost, we have a positive vision (and expenses on our website)
Presenter Peter Henley (ignoring every other party policies) Why do the Greens want to spend £25 billion?
Keith; The Green New Deal will create a million jobs in the first year and reduce emissions
Skinner; Labour have invested in renewables far more than any other party
Keith; Is that before or after the wind turbine factory closed down
Nirj 46m; We're the greenest party, I'm walking around with a tree symbol
Sharon; We deal with cross border crime
Farage 49 ; BE HONEST, YOU ALL VOTED FOR OPEN BORDERS
Nirj; NO, WE HAVE OUR OWN IMMIGRATION POLICY
Farage 50m; STOP LYING
Skinner; DO NOTHING PARTY
Nirj; NO (UKIP) YOU DID NOTHING
Farage 50m; STOP LYING
Keith; UKIP is a wated vote, like a Dr treating the wrong illness, these parties are not doing enough for climate change
Sharon; We pushed through the climate change package that the green voted against, though I accept that they thought it didn't go far enough
Nirj; 52 DONT WATE YOUR VOTE....
Nirj; 53 'LETS HAVE A GENERAL ELECTION NOW'

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As a matter of interest, here are the other parties record on climate change:
Labour,
LD,
UKIP,
Conservatives

3 comments:

GreenCurmudgeon said...

Yikes, it's a wonder that Keith got a word in edgewise. Ever feel like you're a member of the Sensible Party in the Monty Python sketch, and everyone else belongs to the "Slightly Silly", "Silly", and "Very Silly" Parties? Note: the Sensible Party had green rosettes.

Red Green Nick said...

Tarquin Fin- tim- lim- bim- whin- bim- lim- bus- stop- F'tang- F'tang- Olè- Biscuitbarrel, now that's a name for a politician!

Adrian Windisch said...

Great comments, cheers people.