http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html en-gb 30 Sat 19 Dec 2009 11:30:44 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html?page=16#comment4 THE AGE OF MEME CHOSE (#4)No change there then. Speaker (Batman) Martin declares: answers to questions are not a matter for him. This must mean that 'holding the government to account' in the final analysis, is impossible. (Not unlike sending each elected MP to the 'crease' with a broken bat - what?) No one of sensibility and integrity could possibly put up with the Westminster charade AND SAY NOTHING. Hence MPs of all parties are, manifestly, found wanting or just self-serving. Their code of conduct (qv - do they sign it?) pays lip-service, at best, to the dupes who vote them to Parliament. And there they sit, playing their time-dishonoured games, and making a consummate, expensive mess of just about everything that Westminster touches. Just think how low taxation would be if governance was competent! Mon 20 Oct 2008 23:01:58 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html?page=12#comment3 why are we talking about the US when Brown's reckless rabble have been borrowing more cash since records began in 1946? We have prudence on a spread and no idea where or when the spending and borrowing will come to an end? Labour are so far from their manifesto now on tax and spend it really should be election time so the British people can decide if we want to go down the route of spend until we are owned outright by the Chinese or Arabs or if we want to tighten our belts and tough it out? Brown must go to the nation soon and stop this outragous spending that he knows will carry on well past the next election! Now Newsnight you can return to your promote Obama campaign! Mon 20 Oct 2008 20:33:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html?page=8#comment2 As the top story link (oh, surprise, all about the US election) gives an error, I guess I'll post here instead. Nothing to do with this topic, but as I have resigned myself to nothing about the UK cropping up any time soon I popped across to a blog by one Nick Robinson, and got to this...'...What's more, Gordon Brown, fresh from taking the plaudits for saving the world's financial system, is busy laying a new trap for the Tories. He's pledging to carry on spending and borrowing in the downturn...'Plus a few hundred comments.At which point I wondered if he was actually laying it out, heavy with irony, for the audience as we are all too thick, or whether it really is better to lay traps and stuff for the opposition and get the glee club cheering rather than help the country get back on an even keel.Hard to tell these days. Mon 20 Oct 2008 17:02:17 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html?page=4#comment1 at a guess, just after Truman and before Eisenhower.So, 1952.After, there's VP Nixon vs Kennedy...(LBJ dropped out)...Nixon vs VP Humphrey...VP Ford vs Carter...Reagan vs Carter...VP Bush vs Dukakis/Dole(which was first?)...Clinton vs Bush...VP Gore vs Bush, etc...now Mon 20 Oct 2008 16:53:08 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/michaelcrick/2008/10/question_for_real_anoraks_of_p.html?page=0#comment0 1952 Mon 20 Oct 2008 16:31:08 GMT+1