Sunday, Feb 15, 2009
Another hopeless interview by Andrew Marr
BBC News: Andrew Marr interview with FSA's Jonathan Adair Turner
Marr should have stuck to being a reporter, he just can't cut it an an interviewer. Especially when faced with someone so arrogant as the FSA's Jonathan Adair Turner......I was squirming as I was watching it, especially when Turner said that the FSA knew about the situation at HBOS......and Marr failed to follow up. Andrew Marr = ****ing useless!
Posted by hpwatcher @ 10:03 AM (650 views) Add Comment
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1. paul said...
This is the thing that really gets my goat about the BBC. Whenever they interview public figures who are widely known to have f**ked up, they will ask a difficult question, then when a weak argument comes back, they will just drop the matter.
Its almost as if they want to be able to say that they asked the difficult question even though they never listened to the answer, as if they want to convince the public that the matter has been put to rest. This is how the BBC has been turned into a patsy for the government - the people's rottweiler turned into the government's pet poochie.
2. wally said...
Turner's refusal to say sorry on the basis that he wasn't in charge at the time showed the same detachment from reality as the bankers. Its a worrying situation if people at this level can't take responsibility for the bad things that are happening. Inability to eat a bit of humble pie is the sort of thing that leads to revolution.
3. Storkney said...
Or is it a case of 'let them eat cake...'
What I fail to understand is why there has been no legal action taken or charges pressed (who would press charges - the pension fund managers perhaps - there seems to be prima facie evidence of wrongdoing) and why many of these men have not been struck off as directors and had their titles removed? Lester Piggott lost his for non-payment of tax - some of these individuals have, in their managment role and under their watch, to all intents and purposes mortgaged taxpayers to the hilt for a generation, ripped off shareholders (directly, and through pension funds), etc and all they've said is oops, sorry!, and with Andy Hornby actually having the gall to say that he didn't feel personally culpable!!! Shameless, spineless, and gutless So what do these fat salaries pay them to do? Turn up? Play boys' games? It's beginning to feel like Alice in Wonderland, if only it weren't so criminal. A hoodie from an estate would get banged up for mugging someone for £20 - but this club defends its own to rob everyone of far larger sums.
4. ketha said...
I thought he handled himself pretty well. Do we really think endless 'mea culpas' is going to get to the bottom of this. A) He wasn't in charge B) what he is saying is that everyone in power got it wrong.
5. sosoon said...
Watching the last few seconds that tw@t Marr gave a phow , I’m glad that’s over, I think we’ve pulled it off, public conned again. Disgusting bunch of deceitful B@st@rds
6. hpwatcher said...
I thought he handled himself pretty well. Do we really think endless 'mea culpas' is going to get to the bottom of this. A) He wasn't in charge B) what he is saying is that everyone in power got it wrong.
But he is so arrogant......maybe it's catching from Gordon Brown...another arrogant fool who screwed things up.
7. Letsgetreadytotumble said...
He sounded like another labour politician. Quite obvious to me that he is Brown's puppet, and the FSA was a political / whitewash system to plug the gap between banking and (dodgy) government. He evaded a lot of the issues, but this evasion has a habit of inviting the truth to turn up latter and bite them up the bum.
Vince was a bit too general in his answers as well. If he's going to cut government expenditure, for example, I'd like to hear some details.