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 [...]
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Watch Boris Johnson’s false smears of UK Uncut in full
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 [...]
The TV battle of the decade!
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 [...]
Carol Vorderman metamorphosises into Sarah Palin on BBC Question Time
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 [...]
As thick as thieves
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 [...]
Mark Thompson: BNP on Question Time could be annual fixture
Full story over at, well, where else?
Nick Griffin stutters, shakes and laughs awkwardly as he attempts to defend himself and his party
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 [...]
Nick Griffin booed by Question Time audience as his past "comes back to haunt him"
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?
