Andrew Neil’s interview with Johnson

Andrew Neil has gone from zero to hero in the space of a short thread!

Well BJ knows the questions now! The Tories have backed a loser. They wanted a showman, a bit of character who would enchant the electorate, but they elected a Jack-the-Lad, who's an abject failure as per Andrew Neil's closing statement this evening.

The Tory faithful have been had. He's a bluffer. Where's the sharp intellect he was purported to have? Minders know he's outwitted and he's being kept under wraps. We await his response. He could always send Stanley as in 'another fine mess'.

Well done the other leaders who simply got on with it.

Sorry, should say any favours

Oh dear, Andrew Neil certainly didn't do Boris and favours with his closing statement tonight did he? How embarassing for the Tories. You really couldn't make it up, could you!

Now Boris Johnson won't even give an interview with Julie Etchingham!

www.facebook.com/BBCPolitics/videos/550563492176134/

Absolutely damning statement tonight by Andrew Neil- re being the first ever Leader of a Party refusing to be interviewed by him. Good for him- and really needs to empty chair him before the week-end if he continues to refuse. Mind you, Neil has stated the questions he wanted to ask- so Johnson would have a huge advantage compared to the other Leaders, who could only guess. But even then.

I agree, GG.

I am not convinced that Boris will stay in power for long, though, even if he gets a majority.
My feeling is that if and when he gets Brexit 'done', his own party will be pretty quick to ditch him, and when, as is almost certain, the economic impact of Brexit starts to affect ordinary people, that majority be gone like a puff of smoke.

Unfortunately, the damage will have been done, and goodness knows where things will go from there! I foresee a great deal of unrest.

It's a clever idea though. I have a feeling if the Bafoon gets in it's our lives that will be deflating though.

now now MamaCaz ;) ahahahahaha

(YES)

Rather than empty-chairing Boris, I would like them to put a life-size Boris balloon in the chair, one designed to slowly deflate during the interview

Bungling Boris is just a Bafoon.

One party leader who was not afraid of Andrew Neil and gave brilliant performance was Jo Swinson. ( but don't expect a fair rsvue in the Mail, Express, Sun or Toelegraph).

Just watch and judge for yourself.

youtu.be/G-lGVWsQr4s

that is putting it VERY mildly- I'd say he knows he has no answers and is just incapable.

Empty chair him, before the end of the week.

In other words he is a coward

I reckon ha is trying to keep a low profile so he can’t put his foot in it again!

How Andrew Neil’s interviews became more important than the TV Debates

www.newstatesman.com/politics/elections/2019/12/how-andrew-neil-s-interviews-became-more-important-tv-debates

Tonight we can see lifelong extreme Tory commentator Andrew Neil interrogate Jo Swinson.

Good for Jo to have the balls to do it.

I expect he will give her a hard time. She knows that, yet she still has the courage of her convictions to defend her party's policies strongly.

When will Andrew Neil be allowed to subject his fellow Tory Boris Johnson to any kind of questioning????

Enough- as he continues to agree to a date and time- and he was given the choice of anytime, any day, anywhere - it is paramount that Andrew Neil sets the time and date himself- and empty chair him if he does not turn up. Appalling and disgusting, and so unfair on other candidates ...

Of course, we all know why. Andrew Neil is a Tory through and through- and no fool - and he would destroy Johnson.

Just as he did a few months ago but 1000x more so:

www.facebook.com/votelovenothate/videos/2167998880162296/

"I will be perfectly happy to be interviewed by anyone called Andrew on the BBC"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-50620692/election-2019-boris-johnson-pressed-over-andrew-neil-interview?intlink_from_url=&link_location=live-reporting-map

Please sign the petition going round, asking for the Neil show to go ahead with cardboard effigy of Johnson.

As this thread seems to have been dominated by stories about NHS privatisation and the 2012 Health & Social Care Act.
I thought this made an interesting read yesterday - www.theguardian.com/society/2019/nov/29/revealed-nhs-plans-to-ration-34-unnecessary-tests-and-treatments?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other&fbclid=IwAR2zPZAubm5V0uAJ2SDV17tl7UIhQuFaHwfSIHcc6SGvb-tdwTyMmRSUuVA

Of course the fragmentation of the local NHS services - replacing PCTs with CCGs (although they have the same staff in many cases), seems to be following the pattern of rail privatisation.

Look how good that has been.

Mainly selling insurance to young healthy people who don't need medical care overall.

Jura2
What are the huge profit making parts?

The US does not want the expensive and costly 'bad' parts of the NHS - for sure. They are only interested in the huge profit making parts - same as in Private health currently in the UK.

GracesGranMk3
You are being taken in by the scaremongering re the NHS.
Though NHS services have been privatised already, this as a result of the enactment of the 2012 Health and Social care act. This act was passed through by all political persuasions in parliament and has resulted in the situation we now have. Although it is mentioned in the LP manifesto there is no real commitment to repeal it.
Matt Hancock has made a pledge to roll back the outsourcing of patient care and some procurement policies, but again no commitment to repeal this act.
The US do not want the NHS, they have not bought into the patient services outsourcing in a big way (not like Virgin care) and are selling Pharma to NHS at lower prices than in US. So rather than worry about US, we should all be lobbying for a firm commitment from all party's to revoke this act. Because without this repeal the door is still open, not necessarily to the US, but to any other ‘for profit’ service provider.