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Mandy
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Thanks Kate. FYI, I don't see a time counter, but 7hr 40mins would naturally take it to around 10:10pm, i.e. almost at the end. |
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DavidGig
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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How does Parliament work? Do MPs submit drafts of their questions ahead of time to the government, or was Hoon just improvising his response?
Does that fact that Galloway was standing at the end mean that he wanted to say something but was blocked by some procedural requirement?
(Sorry for all the questions.) |
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nekokate
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| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| DavidGig wrote: | | How does Parliament work? Do MPs submit drafts of their questions ahead of time to the government, or was Hoon just improvising his response? |
Hoon wouldn't have the brains to improvise a response. He was reading 5 or 6 sides of A4 paper verbatim, and even stuttering some of it. I can only conclude from that that he knew in advance the gist of what George was going to say, and had one of his more talented monkey-boys drum up a waffle-script for him. |
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popinjay
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:30 am Post subject: |
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| There's no timer on that vid, I can't find George. What happened to Luke's cap? |
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DavidGig
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
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You'll see the timer when you move the position slider.
The Real Deal interview with Imran Khan is up. It puts GG's parliamentary statement into context.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwAnkq-A3Vc
(By the way, I'm as cynical as the next guy but I get the impression that Imran Khan is someone who perhaps really deserves the label "hero." Is his face pretty common on British media?) |
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luke
Joined: 11 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 11:30 am Post subject: |
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heres the talk where galloway got the blair quote from
| Quote: | Press Conference with the Pakistani President
19 November 2006
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Tony Blair: "And I would like to pay tribute to his courage and his leadership in taking Pakistan on this journey of change and modernisation, but also in so doing symbolising I think the future for Moslem countries the world over and the interesting thing is that in this programme of enlightened moderation, over these past few years I think I am right in saying that the actual income per head of the population of Pakistan has around doubled which is a pretty significant achievement and there are many things now happening in health and in education with links with universities."
Read the whole thing at the link, if you can stomach it. And note the contrast with policy toward Iran, which has an elected President, no nuclear weapons and has always opposed the Taliban.
Link: http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page10443.asp |
also the video of the parliament 'debate' is now available at youtube 
part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpVy-HyCAY
part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HJUCspNbMc
part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnPEP0Th06I |
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Mandy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2007 2:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Excellent Luke .. thanks v. v. much. |
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nekokate
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:57 pm Post subject: |
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I'm just watching the lastes Real Deal, and George makes reference to Geoff Hoon's idiotic reply speech, and he said "or Buff Hoon, as I call him..."
Hehehehe!! |
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luke
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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