Bob Piper has been a Labour Councillor for the Abbey
Ward in Sandwell, West Midlands, for 10 years. He is a lifelong supporter of Aston Villa Football Club and a follower of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
The views expressed here are mine in a personal capacity, not those of the Labour Party, Sandwell MBC, Aston Villa or Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Get it! Mine... just mine!
Hat tip to Chris Paul for this... and you can read what Chris has got to say about this psycho-babbler on his site, and Unity adds some more here... Analyse This
My point is more about The Daily Politics and the Beebs other political programme fronted by Andrew Neil, This Week. One of them is shown very late on Thursday nights, about the time you usually get a horror movie on, and the other is shown when Watch with Mother used to be on when I was a kid. Well This Week is a horror programme, real car crash television, with morons who Neil has met at his society parties dragged in to earn a few bob bantering with the regular guests, the comedy duo Abbot and Portillo. But The Daily Politics wouldn't even stir the interest of kids.
Somebody at the BBC needs to get a bloody grip. Andrew Neil is a clever bloke, and a good journalist, but he has a face made for radio and is jokes are as funny as watching heart surgery. The other journalists and lobby fodder he drags in to make fools of themselves must surely have the brains to realise this, but at least they're getting paid for it... and finally, there's us.
Fortunately I rarely get the chance to watch the lunchtime show. However, I usually watch This Week. Thursday nights are Jazz Club nights for me, so it is a few pints and roll up the hill about half eleven... just in time to slump in front of the telly... a captive audience, that's me. I know, I know, I could watch the Shopping Channel, or Discoverey, or old Fools and Horses episodes... but instead I end up watching the crap on This Week instead.
Dirty Euro said:
October 11, 2008 9:42 AM | permalink
This is unacceptable from the BBC. So much for tory drivel about bias.
This is just using pyschology to insult people, which is not right. I do not care if the PM has an inferiority complex, or mild aspergers syndrome, or all this BS.
I read dissabilities or racism or sexism can cause people to have an inferiority complex. He did lose an eye, so maybe it is normal he would have an inferiorty complex when having a dissability.
Atleast he is not megalamaniac like Hitler.
Just watched it on another site (Guido. Yes, I know, I deserve a kicking)
Pop eyed, hair flicking, psycho babbler, nervously rigid in armchair pontificating about GB? I can make judgements too.
Spending other people's money - his job?
Hand gestures? - same as Blair and (much coveted and overdone by) Cameron.
Smiling ? - wow.
Selfharm? - show us blood and bruises.
Mandelson? - we know he's shrewd and useful to us..
Only the truly daft take notice of this stuff, and it deserves as much credence as the two women stallholders and a couple of fish porters whose opinion was so valued, as allegedly, the state of the country was typified by the likes of them.
It's another DP silly stunt, and as risible as the inevitable quiz.
It's cheap telly for desperate sit at home Tories who relish this sort of clap trap, forgetting that Derek Draper 'works' in the same field, and would they give him an ounce of credibility - of course not, are you mad?
Just watched it, on reading what you'd posted I had already decided that they were an untrustworthy crowd who I was going to dislike intensely. Preparing to write to my MP, and complain to the BBC in the strongest possible terms. But come on gang, they were praising Gordon, all agreed he was now more confident, and enjoying the challenges that would have sunk less able folk, like Ossy Osborne. So they think Gordon has a few foibles, I have foibles , you have foibles, we all have foibles. The thing is he is at last being appreciated by voters as someone they can believe in. I say lets forgive the daft lass for talking bollocks, and accept that she had a few nervous mannerisms of her own to worry about.
The Daily Mail did exactly the same thing to Ken Livingstone in the GLC days. They assembled a panel of psychologists to analyse what his love of newts said about his freudian desires for revolutionary power. I think most people recognise it for what it is - bunk.
Bob Piper said:
October 11, 2008 11:57 AM | permalink
Chaz, I just went to look at Guido's reference to it. the staggering thing is he described this woman as 'a mental health professional'. He must have the tag off and be back on the bottle.
He's never been off the bottle. He recognised that he might have a problem to the judge as I recall. But would not seek help.
Derek Draper incidentally has a degree in Clinical Psychology and is often allowed on the box. But everyone knows where he's coming from, that he's tribal Labour ... many many pundits with strong leanings just don't get outed as such.
Apart from the bunny boiler the other three in the conversation were positive about the current recovery of the Brown Position.
Ashley of course being a flip flopper on that one.
Paul Sandars said:
October 11, 2008 11:38 PM | permalink
The woman looks the most barking mad out of any of them in the discussion...what the hell is she on?
October 11, 2008 9:42 AM | permalink
This is unacceptable from the BBC. So much for tory drivel about bias.
This is just using pyschology to insult people, which is not right. I do not care if the PM has an inferiority complex, or mild aspergers syndrome, or all this BS.
I read dissabilities or racism or sexism can cause people to have an inferiority complex. He did lose an eye, so maybe it is normal he would have an inferiorty complex when having a dissability.
Atleast he is not megalamaniac like Hitler.