This was clipped from Politics Live, yesterday:
https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1671845946592837634?s=20
I am afraid that, as usual, I also forgot to control my body language in reaction to what others were saying. This happened when Tory MP Nick Fletcher was making a comment:
@RichardJMurphy expression as Nick Fletcher speaks
Speaks on behalf of many viewers #PoliticsLive today pic.twitter.com/7I7tKP77vl
— ProudGranny24 (@ProudGranny24) June 22, 2023
I suspect the comment deserved it.
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Brilliant as usual. You are so calm and clear, your case comes across so well.
Thank you
As I mentioned earlier you looked as though you were fuming but it is such a refreshing change seeing that than the bland robotic numpties who keep puking up the ‘official’ pro-capital line.
Well done.
I was livid!
I’m afraid the whole thing summed up in many ways what is wrong with politics and political coverage (especially by the BBC) in this country. I don’t know how you kept your cool. Your well-argued points were swatted away by the politicians as if you were an irritating fly that had sneaked in through an open window and the host didn’t see it as her job to demand that your points were matched in terms of intellectual depth. That would have been “fair and balanced” but, instead, the politicians were allowed to go on parroting their well rehearsed drivel.
Was that a hint of exasperation from the Labour woman when there was mention of the BoE’s non-independence? More than once, to boot. 😉
You did very well, Richard. You succeeded in gerrymandering Jo Coburn which not a lot of people manage to do. I suspect you won’t be asked back.
🙂
In the short section before you were introduced, Richard, Fletcher was wittering on to his Labour counterpart claiming that austerity was necessary due to Labour overspending in the previous parliament! I half-expected you to start your piece by giving him both barrels about this nonsense, but you may not of heard him as you were about to join the show.
Needless to say the Labour MP (I assume she was an MP) didn’t correct him herself. Flipping useless, the lot of them.
That would have distracted me from the question and forced me to mlay on his agenda and I really did not want to do that.
“Is interest rate pain necessary?”
So at least someone in BBC editing room acknowledges that central bank interest rate rises are making people worse off.
Thank you for putting the point across as well as you did.
I must confess to having not heard of you before your PL appearance this week. You evidently made an impression as I sought out your twitter feed. Just spent an enlightening day reading your Money For Nothing, Tweets For Free ebook. I have since passed it on to friends. Hopefully they will read it too.
One mind at a time; you will get through eventually.
Thank you
Appreciated