Labour frontbencher apologises for misspeaking in furious Question Time row over NHS claim
Labour rising star Bridget Philipson was stunned on the BBC's Question Time tonight when she had to admit to "misspeaking" on the NHS during the show.
The shadow education minister was made to look foolish by Tory veterans minister Johnny Mercer as the show broadcast from Fleetwood in Lancashire.
A professional politician with no useful outside experience but a "rising star" of the major political party which once had Jeremy Corbyn as leader.
It's a clown show - but it isn't funny.
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Who needs useful experience when you're a woman with a Wearside accent and have left-wing parents?
B-b-but, surely even the term "misspeaking" is sexist, misogynist, whatever the "ist" is for indicating spinsterhood.
Ms, M, or Q Philipson should grovel.
As to her surname? How can that be acceptable in the modern woke Laber Party.
And in the current atmosphere of anti celebratory fever even "Party" should be dropped.
"Party? I can assure the Speaker that Laber has not, and never has had any Party. Unlike the scandalous bunch seated opposite."
Off topic: someone in yesterday's Telegraph said (approx) that a neurologist testing you for dementia might ask you to name animals beginning with "p". I came up with ptarmigan, pterodactyl, and pheasant.
If he meant "name" rather literally then there's Pluto in the Disney cartoons, but are pooch and puppy names forbidden? Or pussy names? Or pony or piggy names? It's maybe a trickier question than neurologists imagine.
Sam - and tame voters.
Doonhamer - all good points and she should be horrified that they slipped through the net. Member of Parliament is dodgy too.
dearieme - it certainly is tricky. Python, pied wagtail, Puss in Boots - they haven't thought it through.
"Off topic: someone in yesterday's Telegraph said (approx) that a neurologist testing you for dementia might ask you to name animals beginning with "p". I came up with ptarmigan, pterodactyl, and pheasant."
Its dementia quiz also asked you to name a 'recent news story'. As someone who studiously avoids watching or listening to any MSM news if I can help it, I'd fail that almost every time. What if you mention something the likes of the BBC refuse to cover, like covid vaccine deaths, or cocaine found in the White House? Does that mean you've got dementia?
Similarly the 'what is today's date question' - is it necessary to know the date unless you work in some sort of job where writing down the date is a daily occurrence? When I'm busy on the farm I can go for weeks without even thinking about the calendar - I'm just concentrating on completing the work I need to do, usually before the weather changes.
Sobers - being retired, the school run tends to be our pointer to what day it is because certain days are PE, after school club or whatever. If we aren't doing the school run then we can lose track of the days and the date. As you say, you have to be doing something where it matters. News headlines can be similar, although I tend to scan them for blogging interest.
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