Mick Lynch

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  1. Skryptic

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    He's going to be on Question Time tomorrow, should be fun.
     
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    Over 3m people watched the coverage in 2019. Its not as though there’s 0 interest. Given viewing figures these days you could say that about any programming they put out
     
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    Probably because the media has become so cosy with the political classes that they don't understand how to deal with somebody who doesn't play the game!

    One of my favourite moments in the Thick of It was Malcolm Tucker going on about his MPs 'knowing their lines'. Now when you listen to the likes of the Today programme, not only do they 'know their lines' but they don't really know how to do anything else. And the presenters have fallen in with it, because what else do you do? Having somebody come in and just flat out say that it's pointless to pretend to debate with a backbencher reading off a script (my favourite Lynch moment) throws the whole system out of kilter.

    I'm enjoying it while it lasts - there'll be a big old hit piece being cooked up about him as we speak.
     
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    I’m hoping the opposite is true and this is an awakening of the public to demand more.
    Maybe if Starmer backs out on a technicality Labour will realise that those ‘working people’ they’re supposed to be attracting might just actually need people to stand up and say they need a decent income, and that Yes it is unfair that whatever happens to the economy they should get a fair share of the fruits of their labour.
     
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    Behind the scenes, they’ll be working flat out to try to make him the villain. Over the past few weeks Fiona Bruce has admitted that the studio audience has largely been made up of Tory voters. The Tories know that if he comes from this show with any credit, it makes their task even harder. Hope he gives as good account of himself as he has done so far with all the nonsense that’s been thrown at him
     
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    He reminds me of a young Bow Crow. Maybe just the accent
     
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    He's just playing up to both his viewers...
     
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    Cannot stand Kay Burley, she is intolerable. I love how he dealt with her stupid questions in the clip posted by Shenk.
     
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    I want to see them lined up. To attack him. Just to see him smash them out the park like baseballs, one by one.
     
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    The best description of her is from the Thick of It book:

    "Being interviewed by Kay is, as we all know, like being interviewed by a backward child. That's obviously great most of the time. But occasionally she will throw you a curveball like a child might: 'Why is there war?' 'What is Europe?' – and if you can't answer it's you who ends up looking like the thick-as-pigshit chancer."
     
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    Should be good, there's Tory safeguarding minister MacClean ("the poor should work more hours" / doesn't know how long a Section 60 order lasts), a banker and some ex-Brexit Party nut job lined up along with Eva Braun, sorry Fiona B herself, to come at him from the right-wing.
     
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    Another heavily weighted Tory audience as acknowledged by Fiona Bruce. The show was much ‘ tamer’ than I expected but Mick Lynch more than held his own I thought
     
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    Loved the bit when Rachel Maclean gleefully produced a letter she claimed proved there would be no compulsory redundancies for railway staff, only to read it out and find it didn't.
     
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    My summary:

    Mick Lynch: "Our employees are human and they need to be treated as such"

    Fiona Bruce: "Well that sounds very unreasonable, let's cut to the elderly Tory gentleman in the Tory jacket"

    Tory Man: "Strikes are bad"

    Fiona Bruce: "See, the public are against you. So Mr Lynch, what did you do wrong to cause these strikes?"

    Mick Lynch: "I had a shít government that doesn't care about the working class"

    Fiona Bruce: "That wasn't the question"

    Tory Minister: "When Labour were in power 12 years ago they did some bad shít"

    Hand-picked Tory audience: "clap clap clap"
     
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    Stratford though. A bit weird down there.

    Although having said that, I enjoyed the applause after the exchange that @old faithful pointed out. Shame that none of them clapping got to do a question...
     
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    Kay Burley is an embarrassment to journalism.

    And Madeley is the inspiration behind Alan Partridge.
     
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    I'm amazed that no one can see he's trying to be another Arthur Scargill.
     
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    Sorry that’s utter rubbish. He’s not trying to be anything other than what he is. The similarities are that both were fighting for, and mandated to fight for their members jobs. Remember Scargill being called a liar and scaremonger when he warned about the Tory pit closure programme. Whatever anyone may think of him, he was absolutely correct
     
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    Did anyone else think she was in cahoots with the government? She asked a obscure question about boundaries and working practices for engineering work. Which he answered honestly and explained how they came about because of rail franchising. She interrupted him (again),didn't acknowledge the fact or thank him but instead went to a self-employed business man in the audience. I had to leave it at this point as my blood pressure was rising. It's not good TV,it's propaganda, the audience was hardly a cross section of society and was tiny compared to ehat they used to be. Fiona Bruce has become very wealthy from tax payers money, it's time her and the other people were taken off. In fact the programme should be gone along Soap operas and cooking programmes. They're an anathema in the modern world.
     
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    I stopped watching BBCQT for good after she took over, before that it was at best a bit of a pointless sound-bite point scoring exercise where very little actual light was shed on any issues and when it did it tended to come from the non-aligned guests. Now, its just an absolute Tory-fest, the audience don't represent a cross-section of opinion its ALWAYS heavily scewed to Tory voters, and as for Bruce, well I heard she actually answered a question on behalf of the Tory MP last night - astonishing but not surprising, she is absolutely a Tory plant, worse even then Kunesberg, if that's even possible. My advice is boycott it.
     

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