Sunday 16 October 2016

Not sticking with the papers



This morning's Broadcasting House saw Brexit being discussed during the paper review (with a balanced-sounding panel on the subject). 

Paddy always likes to keep things tied to what's in the papers ("Stick to the papers!") but, unusually, broke his own rule today by twice pushing a theme no one else was discussing and which didn't seem to be in any of the papers under discussion: 
Here's a question that I think Radio 4 listeners would like to know, that should be answered by...I don't know if you can answer it...Should our parliament have a vote on the Brexit deal? So, in other words, yes, Brexit does mean Brexit but the shape of the deal - which will have very important things in it - should our parliamentarians have a vote?
His press panel bit on that slightly before getting into a lively debate about fishing quotas and the EU. Paddy, pursuing his original line, responded...and then moved on to a new subject:
And then we come back to the point about when do MPs get to review all this material. Now, Andrew Pierce,...
Now, I'm (perhaps controversially in these parts) quite a Paddy fan but even I could smell something fishy about his random-seeming interventions there. Our Eurovision-obsessed BH presenter sounded as if he was singing from the same Abba sheet music as Mark Mardell today. (The Brexit-voting United Kingdom jury duly awards him nil points).

Interesting LBC's Shelagh Fogarty, in responding to Paddy's first question, said: 
Well, my listeners on LBC, talking about that very question this week...It's amazing how many people who voted Brexit believe that is an attempt just to thwart Brexit and those who voted to Remain say 'Yes, yes, yes, we must have a vote!' 
And Paddy seemed to be questioning, like Mark Mardell, from the standpoint of the latter (losing) side of the argument this morning.

3 comments:

  1. Oh, obtaining a vote in Parliament on Brexit is clearly the BBC's strategy. Then Beeb could deploy all it's Brexit Collection and it's new found enthusiasm for challenging "lies" to ensure MPs are bullied into halting Brexit.

    ReplyDelete
  2. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Your Paddyphilia is indeed controversial - to my ears he has always sounded as biased as the rest of them. :) I guess we all have our weaknesses. For some reason I just can't help liking Melvyn Bragg even though I know he is one of the major propagandists for unthinking leftism in the UK. :) Perhaps you just like Paddy's politness as I like Melvyn's interest in all manner of things.

    ReplyDelete

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.