Osborne last night

A very embarrassing interview with Andrew Neil..total loss of credibility. .. ( I admit he never had any prior to the interview as far as I was concerned ...so my my position was prejudged ) Even so I doubt I've seen a politician so seriously humiliated on live tv before.
Duncan Smith and Farage up soon...interesting to see if they emerge any better than Gideon.

 

Andrew Neil is a fantastic interviewer. I only saw part of the interview last night but you're right that Osborne did not emerge from it well.

 

Agree Andrew Neil is the best interviewer on telly. Osborne looked like a naughty school boy caught telling half -truths. He looked close to tears when Cameron was shown in November 2015 saying we could do ok out of the EU.

 

Osborne is the worst chancellor the country has had for many a year, thats before taking into account his penchant for certain substances.

With so many idiots either side of the "debate" its no wonder people arent able to discuss, analyse and pore over true facts and form substantive opinion.

Cameron, Osborne, Gove, Johnson (B), Patel, Corbyn, Watson, Farage............. thats the most lightweight set of politicians we've had for a long long time.

 

How that man has wheedled his way into power I have no idea (except money and Bullingdon Club contacts obviously) - he isn't very bright, he exudes creepiness, he has no presence or ability to interact with humans and he looks weird.

 

Agree. He had no academic or technical clout in his responses. A lot of politicians in 'important' positions seem to be not the brightest. Was listening to a minister being interviewed a while ago and it was like listening to a student who hadn't revised the subject. He actually said 'well because it is' at one point. Compelling argument...

You & me think differently over the EU, but I genuinely think a large part of why politicians are so pro EU is because if we left then they'd actually be held more accountable rather than blaming the EU for rules & regulations and would have to actually have to do the job they get paid so handsomely for and it would show their lack of ability up.

 

Wish it was all over to get these parasitic politicians off my bleeding screen. No matter what the outcome we will be fuc ked but to what degree of fuc kedness we will have to wait and see.

 

If the objective of the interview is not continually interrupt those been interviewed and consequently failing to allow those been questioned to actually answer the question then he's great. However, if you wish to listen to the answer so that you analysis the information and make an informed decision I'm afraid he's not the man. It's all about Andrew Neil I'm afraid

 

I see it differently, I see people like Farage and Boris etc using the EU as an excuse for all that ails us, I think that they'll be found out massively and the country will pay for their stupidity if we exit.

We do have some terrible politicians and the reasons for this I think are -

Lack of accountability - we have a stupid electoral system that allows someone to get into power for 5 years even if they are useless because they can count on 40% of the vote.

Media - there is no doubt that the UK media can change the way that people vote - we know that Murdoch changed sides when Blair and New Labour got into bed with him.

Politics itself - watching the idiotic way that MP behave in the House of Commons is embarrassing, that is no way to run a country. I'm happy to see Corbyn tryig to change the way that is done, although the media are killing him for being so 'passive'.

Us - we allow this to happen. We had a chance to change to AV a few years ago and voted against. I don't like AV, but I could see it was a step towards PR. When we get a chance to vote loads of people don't bother ("ooh it won't make any difference") and we are just so passive, we'd rather watch Britain's Got ****s than Question Time.

 

The media don't like Corbyn because he won't crawl up their arses. Quite telling that he can't get his message across, and isn't helped by his PLP, mainly Blair-a-likes the lot of em. Listening to Blair and Cameron now - they're of the same mind. Dangerous path we're on at the moment. Lack of democratic process s opening the door to extreme parties.

 

George Bernard Shaw once wrote ;

"He knows nothing; and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career"

Napoleon went one further:

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap"

 

Rubbish!

It was quite the opposite last night. George Osborne was answering a different question (the one he wished he had been answered and not the awkward one put to him) which was the reason Neil interrupted him so many times. neither can you allow politicians like him a soapbox to deliver their pre-prepared rhetoric which he tried to do a number of times.

GO tried (and failed) throughout the interview to interrupt the questioner with his pre-prepared diatriabes (typical politicians tactic) only to be stopped in his tracks by Neil. Count how many times he tried to ignore the actual question put to him. For example when asked how many of the 6000 returned migrants were actual failed jobseekers he kept repeating the same irrelevant answer. Neil challenged him a number of times and then moved on. This allows the audience to draw their own conclusions whilst enabling him to move onto other issues in the limited timeframe and not become 'bogged down'

Osborne and Cameron are blatant liars. It will be interesting to see how the Brexit reps fare in subseqeunt interviews.

 

A well thought out and reasoned post

 

Last night it wasn't...it was about the exposing of a feeble , incompetent ...and if you get it on catchup , you'll probably make an informed decision from Osborne's answers , that he's no more than a deceitful but extremely lightweight politician.
By the time Neil had finished with the Turkish question...I almost felt sorry for him...then I remembered how he's shafted the people.

 

Andrew Neil did what any good journalist should do - pursue a politician to answer a question. Cameron's previous musings on the fate of the UK out of the EU (we'd do fine he explained) and Turkey's potential membership clearly contradicted everything these two have been saying this year. There are still good reasons to vote to stay in, but Osborne was not a good advert for them in this interview.

 

I simply can't watch Neil with his continual interruptions.he needs to recognise he is not the main event. contrast him and Andrew Marr

 

Osborne has been a fraud. He came in to make cut and reduce expenditure and hrs played at it

 

Ask the Council...they would think he's been pretty good at it.

 

Thank you.

 

I didn't see it, so I can't comment on that interview. Don't much care for Osborne and Neil to me he is just an obnoxious egomaniac. The best interviewers for me are the ones that tease out the information and leave you to make up your own mind. Aggressive questioners (Neil) just make me irate.