On Apr 30, 4:39*pm, Chris Tolley (ukonline
really) wrote:

Recliner wrote:

"Paul Corfield" wrote in message
[snip]
It is worrying when that happens isn't it? * It's like finding you
agree with the leader of UKIP or with Bob Crow.

Actually, it's a pity that Lord Pearson of Rannoch hasn't featured more
in this election campaign. He's almost as funny as yesterday's extended
edition of The Thick of It, guest starring the PM.

Lord Pearson was on R4 PM the other day. The BBC's Eddie Mair left him
sounding lost and confused by the deeply unfair and completely
unpredictable ploy of asking him about his party's policies. Pearson
explained that he wasn't very good with such details, not being a
professional politician. Mair replied with another unfair and completely
unexpected quip about Pearson having been in the Lords for 14 years.

Yes, I heard that - he was shambolic, Eddie Mair didn't probe him very
hard because he didn't need to, Lord Pearson's condemned himself with
his witless babbling!


It was no surprise to see Farage speaking on the BBC news after the PM
debate last night. He, at least, was coherent, even if continuing to be
deeply unconvincing, and he managed to avoid any comments about people
looking like bank clerks.

Farage is at least quite entertaining - though my take on him from now
on will be coloured by his rather pathetic attempt to 'do a Dan
Hannan' w.r.t. his rather pathetic attack on Rompuy - the nasty side
of his character that seemed to reveal wasn't very appealing, even if
it was perhaps rather forced on his behalf, and he rather did himself
a disservice.

This Deborah Ross interview with Farage in the Independent from 2004
is a good laugh:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/553972.html

And no, I don't support them!