Friday, March 27, 2009

You probably missed this one

One of the (many) problems with only watching news broadcasts by the like of the BBC, Channel 4, Sky and the like is that sometimes they miss things.

One thing they've missed is this speech - it's an attack on Gorden Brown by a Member of the European Parliament. And it's great.

There's a lot you can't do in the Commons. It's ruled by convention - you can't attack someone directly - you have to go through the Speaker. You can't just attack the prime minister at Prime Minister's Questions - you have to phrase it around a question. A short-ish one at that.

And in the Commons the victim of your attack gets to reply - well, pretend to reply. As is far to often the case it is a "duck and weave", anything but answer the question actually asked and admit you might have got something wrong.

I'd respect Gorden Brown a little if he actually answered. Well, a little.

But it's rare - so very rare - that someone stands up to say exactly what they want - representing the views of their constituents - and sits back down again.

So sit back and enjoy this one....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The full text can be found in today's Daily Telegraph....

Born Today said...

I don't know what's worse - it's taken this long for the Telegraph to notice...

...or that you haven't given us a link!