'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
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'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
Is this the face of the current UK government? Promoted beyond ability? I almost felt sorry for her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiFr0uppVk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqiFr0uppVk
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
Maybe he was a bit of a bully but why did the government send a child to do a grownups job ?
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Yes, that's my point. They know what Paxman is like. Also she did not seem to be on top of her brief and for a government minister in such an important ministry that is unforgivable in these serious times.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
You only need to see how she got the job. Cameron thought she was a high powered accountant when she was not. Osborne always disappears when there's trouble.
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I just viewed Chloe Smith being interviewed earlier that evening on Channel 4. She was just as unconvincing was asked almost exactly the same questions on CH4 News and fluffed in exactly the same way. She had some hours after that to prepare to meet Paxman and do better but obviously did nothing. Definitely incompetent and should never have been let out on her own.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
but she looks nice, has good connections, a little bit of breeding, passed the Women Only tests
reminds me of some of the eejuts that Blair around him - the so called Blairs Babes - after his election.
none of them really came up to muster, most flopped inside a couple of years never to be heard of again.
my local Blairs Babe was visited several times by police for drunk and disorderly, on one occaision naked on the balcony of her flat throwing glasses at her boyfriend. Met her in a local pub and she was smashed before 8pm - must have been a hard day.
never wonder what happened to her.
reminds me of some of the eejuts that Blair around him - the so called Blairs Babes - after his election.
none of them really came up to muster, most flopped inside a couple of years never to be heard of again.
my local Blairs Babe was visited several times by police for drunk and disorderly, on one occaision naked on the balcony of her flat throwing glasses at her boyfriend. Met her in a local pub and she was smashed before 8pm - must have been a hard day.
never wonder what happened to her.
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Osborne didn't want or couldn't be bothered to explain his sudden change of heart. Shows how inept they are if true how she came by her cabinet position. Cameron is doing it again with will there wont there be a referendum on EU. They must get a grip as they are looking silly and playing into the hands of Milliband and his lot.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
I watched it, yep cringeworthy but what I do find funny is that if that was in "real" life and a guy was sat in a bar treating a woman like that he would be absolutely slammed for speaking to a woman in a disrespectful manner. No doubt that he bullied her but then no doubt that she was a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter. Is Osborne an incompetent knob? Yeah probably but do I care? Nope.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
Has someone taken over your ID...I keep agreeing with you
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I watched it, yep cringeworthy but what I do find funny is that if that was in "real" life and a guy was sat in a bar treating a woman like that he would be absolutely slammed for speaking to a woman in a disrespectful manner. No doubt that he bullied her but then no doubt that she was a sacrificial lamb to the slaughter. Is Osborne an incompetent knob? Yeah probably but do I care? Nope.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
I wasn't commenting on her performance I was talking about the way Paxman, no stranger to bully tactics, spoke to her and treated her. If you saw that in a bar would you be happy? I wouldn't. Like I said though, lamb to the slaughter.
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Re: 'Do you think you're incompetent'? Paxman asks treasury minister.
On the subject of Paxman I often wonder why he is in the business, he obviously hates it!
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In a bar no but she's a politician doing a job, the hustings can be more direct than even Paxman so she should be inured to that sort of quizzing; after all Paxman's style isn't a secret.