Monday, May 19, 2008
Young_mark bypasses HPC site
BBC News: PM launching online question time
Gordon Brown is seeking to embrace the digital age by launching an online version of prime minister's questions.
In an introductory video on the Downing Street YouTube site, Mr Brown says the online question and answer sessions will be a "regular event" and offers to answer questions on globalisation, climate change, housing, jobs and public services.
"Politicians get a chance in prime minister's question time and other question times - I think it's time the public had a chance," he says.
Posted by cornishman @ 07:44 AM (704 views) Add Comment
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1. cornishman said...
click here for the youtube site
2. cornishman said...
I think GB might come to regret launching this site. How will he get out of the mess he's creating for himself?
click here for an astute observation. - I wonder what his reply will be
3. titaniccaptain said...
WOW That was just weird.......even for me that was weird.........he looks scary and about as convincing as prince phillip announcing that he is giving up shooting wildlife so he can help more disadvantaged teens in ethnic minorities.
4. jack c said...
I'll be saving my question until Friday (after the Crewe result) - another Labour MP might shortly be answering Q's in the house and on YT.
5. wiltshire said...
What is the point? He's simply going to give the same stock answers ("inflation rates are low", "our economy is best positioned to ride out the storm", "it was the perfect time to sell half our gold") that no-one in this country believes anyway.
6. jack c said...
@5. wiltshire - GB will answer the "top voted" Q's submitted and reply to them (LOL)
7. sold 2 rent 1 said...
cornishman,
Big mistake in the information war.
Like Germany invading Russia and opening up 2 fronts.
If he allowed comments then he would be exposed as David Smith was with his crummy economics blog.
8. george monsoon said...
Come on guys, do you really believe that any question posed on this site will receive the answers you want?
Its a PR stunt to supply the public with stock answers to any question.
ignore it, there is absolutely nothing to be gained by investing your time with this silly venture.
9. lierbag said...
This is Blair/Brown's 'Big Conversation' diversion all over again. When the public turns out en masse, as in its condemnation of the Iraq enterprise, it gets studiously ignored. Whenever the government is in big trouble, it always miraculously 'wants to listen'.
Am I being too cynical? After all, he says he does feel our pain . . .
10. jason said...
What's the point, he will only answer questions he that he wants!
11. drewster said...
This will be carefully managed, just like those phone-in request shows on radio. If a hundred people submit a question each week, Gordon can just choose the easiest question to answer. If there aren't any easy questions, just get a back-bencher's family member to submit one.
12. inbreda said...
"Am I being too cynical? After all, he says he does feel our pain . . ."
I'll happily make the retarded obese scottish numb-nuts feel pain. It is just so painfully obvious that once again they are trying any ploy to get better poll results without actually doing any practical work. I get so frustrated with these dumb-ass politicians I want to scream!
13. Sneaker said...
When the PM says "I feel the people's pain", isn't that a bit strange, since he was in a position to see it and respond to it before anyone else did? In the same way that large companies see more of the economy than small ones, the government sees more of the economy (via tax incomes) before the rest of us.
What makes me so irate is that Brown and Darling are blaming all of this on the "US subprime problem", and yet Brown has a PhD in history. I do not, and presumably many commentators here and on countless other websites and newsletters do not, but we have been talking about credit cycles for a long time, based on the history of credit cycles all the way back to Babylonian times. It is a historical fact that no credit-fuelled boom in history has failed to end in bust. The only thing that varies is the extent and duration of the cycle and to deny the cycle is an exercise in Canutism.
Whilst many commentators have been wrong on timing, the substance of the view was not wrong: a wild orgiastic credit boom that fuelled house prices as lending standards got lower and lower until finally the bubble popped.
Why did WE know this, when those in charge of our finances DIDN'T? Why is the internet and Wikipedia full of all the facts and evidence, when the public debate is not? Why were the people right, and those charged with governing us wrong?
Sounds like an ideal opening angle of inquisition.