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Peter Oborne tries for applause by praising Thatcher (in Liverpool)

10:22am Fri September 30th

Having this week prompted an EU Commission spokesman to storm of Newsnight by repeatedly calling him an “idiot in Brussels”, charming Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne has once more covered himself in glory by attempting to convince an audience of Scousers that Margaret Thatcher showed “compassion” as Prime Minister:

“I think she was a great woman but whatever she was doing it was compassion itself, Christian compassion.”

This was met with exactly the response one would expect. Fortunately for Oborne, however, Tim Farron was on hand to assist. The Liberal Democrat MP for rural Westmorland and Lonsdale moved the discussion on by citing the European Union’s valuable contributions to sheep tagging.

At least, we think it was “sheep tagging”.

Watch Boris Johnson’s false smears of UK Uncut in full

12:47pm Wed May 25th

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It’s over eleven months until he faces voters in London but Boris Johnson and his campaign team have already smeared several individuals and organisations who oppose his Conservative agenda. His remarks about UK Uncut, ranging from hyperbole to outright lies, came to the fore yesterday after he struggled to justify them in a City Hall written answer.

Scrapbook has been back through the archives to compile this video:

You dirty little liar, Boris.

The TV battle of the decade!

4:50pm Thu December 2nd

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UPDATE: Or perhaps not! Sadly, our source in the audience reports our pair “did not come to blows”. Dorries lives to lie another day.

UPDATE II: The programme did provide entertainment in the rodent-shaped form of Danny Alexander. Check out the video!

The Scrapbook team are banking on Ken Livingstone administering a richly-deserved televisual trouncing to compulsive liar Nadine Dorries on Question Time this evening.

With a field which also includes Danny Alexander, Sir Christopher Meyer and John Sergeant, Auntie is surely relying on the “Marmite politicians” to provide the fireworks.

With any luck we’ll have a “YouTube moment” to bring you in the morning.

Carol Vorderman metamorphosises into Sarah Palin on BBC Question Time

11:51pm Thu March 4th

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Numerous tweeters had noted the similarity between the shrill, shallow, populist Carol Vorderman and the shrill, shallow, populist Sarah Palin before a member of the audience did so with some style, adding that that Boris Johnson wasn’t the only Tory on the panel.

Dimbleby had it about right:

“This programme is an hour … it felt like more to me”.

UPDATE 5 MARCH Guido has pitched in with this:

For someone who has been on television for donkey’s years, her performance last night was less than exemplary. Reading constantly from CCHQ briefing notes she gave a blizzard of Tory lines. As head of the Conservative “Maths Task Force” Vorderman seems to be edging towards a peerage, though this idea took a hit last night.

UPDATE 8 MARCH The internet, it seems, has an insatiable desire for all things Carol. Scrapbook is getting so many hits that it’s worthwhile posting some “highlights” (if you can call them that).

As thick as thieves

11:34pm Thu January 21st

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Sarah Teather seems to be compensating for her persistent and all-too-convenient absence from Parliament this year with an appearance on tonight’s Question Time. Given this week’s revelations on her office expenses, one assumes her exhortations that “thieves should not be attacked” bear an element of self-interest!

From the look of Tory Bear’s teaser post, tomorrow’s Guy News looks like a total hoot. In other news, Scrapbook and friends have been trawling expenses receipts.

Better get the cheque book out, Sarah.

Mark Thompson: BNP on Question Time could be annual fixture

10:35pm Wed October 28th

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Full story over at, well, where else?

Nick Griffin stutters, shakes and laughs awkwardly as he attempts to defend himself and his party

1:03am Fri October 23rd

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Scrapbook would have blogged this earlier had the whole site not gone down for 90 minutes along with the 397 others hosted on the same server. Anyway, Nick Griffin stuttered, shook and laughed awkwardly as he tried to defend himself and his party. More than a handful of YouTube-able moments and well worth a look on iPlayer:

Nick Griffin booed by Question Time audience as his past "comes back to haunt him"

8:07pm Thu October 22nd

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The Daily Mirror’s James Lyons (@MirrorJames) tweets live from Question Time – which is currently being recorded for transmission later – that “Griffin’s past [is] coming back to haunt him”. Similar from The Sun’s David Wooding (@DavidWooding):

This may be a total car crash for Nasty Nick.

Fingers crossed, eh?

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