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Originally Posted by Kizzy
Of course he's read it... you'd have to be a fool to believe he hadn't.
That's not to say he should freely comment on it when questioned in such a flippant manner, important issues require serious discussion, that's what politicians do.
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I agree, as I said earlier too, I am sick of journalists and interviewers asking MPs the same questions and often outside their brief too.
If an MP doesn't want to,as Chukka didn't on that letter then why waste time going on about it,rather than asking him something related to business matters that likely the public would be more interested in.
I agree with kirklancaster too as PMQs,it was always rather tedious but under David Cameron it is just a total farce, a massive blight on politics rather than a recommendation for politics.
It is PMQs. which means the PM answers questions,he doesn't ask them,I have yet to hear David Cameron ever answer a question directly.
Awful,I get embarrassed watching it now.
Sadly, we also now have a 5 month election campaign,so interviewers and journalists will be asking even more stupid questions of MPs rather than on the issues the public really want to hear about.
MPs of all parties are going to need to be on their guard even more when being interviewed such as in this one.
For me Dermot should have left it and not pressed the issue, If he had been interviewing me,I wouldn't have walked off like Chukka did, I would have sat arms folded and said, 'I was prepared to discuss any matter as to policies but if he continued on that line as to the letter, then no interview was going to take place'.
Leaving it to Demot to end the interview or ask relevant questions.
I as a viewer and voter am really fed up with the 'personal' agendas flowing from journalists and interviewers as to MPs of all parties and in the end it means the public and voters learn very little and in this case nothing at all, due to this interviewers line of 'fixed' questioning.