[Politics] Andrew Neil Carves up Boris - a preview

[Easy 10]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...ervative-leadership-jeremy-hunt-boris-johnson

I watched this interview earlier on BBC iPlayer which went out during the Johnson/Hunt leadership campaign, so this would've been some time in July.

Johnson is on from about 31m, and naturally, Neil utterly shreds him from start to finish. Its interesting to hear Johnson all but rule out and dismiss the chance of him proroguing Parliament just a few short months before it had to be ruled by the Supreme Court to stop him doing exactly that. There is a particularly enjoyable exchange at 51m though.

AN: “you talk about article 5B…”
JB: “Paragraph 5B, article 24, get the detail right. Get the DETAIL right, Andrew. Article 24 PARAGRAPH 5B”
AN: “How would you handle paragraph 5C ?”
JB: “I would res...I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B, because that is…”
AN: “But how would you go round whats in 5C ?”
JB: “I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B, which is enough for our purposes.”
AN: “Do you know whats in 5C ?”
JB: *points decisively at Neil* “......No.”
AN: *subtle pause* “But I thought you were a man of detail ?”
BJ: *stuttering* “Well, well...y....you didn’t even know if it was an article or a paragraph”

Marvellous

Love the little traps Andrew Neil sets for his victims. Can't wait for the next instalment.

 

[The Oldman]

To be fair, Neil has carved up Sturgeon and Corbyn this week too.

 

[Postman Pat]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episo...ervative-leadership-jeremy-hunt-boris-johnson

I watched this interview earlier on BBC iPlayer which went out during the Johnson/Hunt leadership campaign, so this would've been some time in July.

Johnson is on from about 31m, and naturally, Neil utterly shreds him from start to finish. Its interesting to hear Johnson all but rule out and dismiss the chance of him proroguing Parliament just a few short months before it had to be ruled by the Supreme Court to stop him doing exactly that. There is a particularly enjoyable exchange at 51m though.

AN: “you talk about article 5B…”
JB: “Paragraph 5B, article 24, get the detail right. Get the DETAIL right, Andrew. Article 24 PARAGRAPH 5B”
AN: “How would you handle paragraph 5C ?”
JB: “I would res...I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B, because that is…”
AN: “But how would you go round whats in 5C ?”
JB: “I would confide entirely in paragraph 5B, which is enough for our purposes.”
AN: “Do you know whats in 5C ?”
JB: *points decisively at Neil* “......No.”
AN: *subtle pause* “But I thought you were a man of detail ?”
BJ: *stuttering* “Well, well...y....you didn’t even know if it was an article or a paragraph”

Marvellous

Love the little traps Andrew Neil sets for his victims. Can't wait for the next instalment.

If you are on twitter at all, Michael Spicer is brilliant at ripping these sort of exchanges to pieces.

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[Greg Bobkin]

To be fair, Neil has carved up Sturgeon and Corbyn this week too.

This.

I reckon the only person coming out of any these interviews well will be Neil himself...

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

To be fair, Neil has carved up Sturgeon and Corbyn this week too.

Absolutely destroyed Sturgeon......
She nearly lost it......


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[The Clamp]

If you are on twitter at all, Michael Spicer is brilliant at ripping these sort of exchanges to pieces.

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He’s really unfunny.

 

[A1X]

Brave Sir Boris ran away!

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[studio150]

Surprised the Boris Broadcasting Company haven't made Neil unavailable and agreed to show a special version of the Boris Facebook Q&As, as that avoids any challenge to the liars answers

 

[Postman Pat]

He’s really unfunny.

Ah well, each to their own, I like him.

 

[Hugo Rune]

Brave Sir Boris ran away!

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It’s not going to happen.

Avoiding Neil is much better PR wise than being ripped to shreds by him. Corbyn should never have agreed to step into the Lion’s den without being 100% sure that Bojo would do it to. Amateur.

 

[Easy 10]

No surprise whatsoever that Johnson is bottling it. He found out the hard way that Neil simply will not accommodate unsubstantiated waffle, bluster and bullshit, which is all his entire campaign, in fact his entire LIFE, has ever been based on.

He could be floored by the simplest of questions, and he knows it. Starting with: "So, Boris - how many children DO you have ?"

 

[Marshy]

Hate them all. Having to vote for any of them makes my stomach turn.

 

[Official Old Man]

If you are on twitter at all, Michael Spicer is brilliant at ripping these sort of exchanges to pieces.

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I've just watched these. Must be my sense of humour because I've fallen off my chair laughing.

 

[London Irish]

Say what you like about Corbyn, but at least he had the confidence to submit himself to Andrew Neil's hairdryer bellowing.

The world's biggest coward Boris Johnson has bottled it

 

[Lower West Stander]

Surely he HAS to go on after the others have all agreed otherwise he is making the BBC partisan which is not allowed. He has to go on.

You would've thought so....

Although after Brillo skewered Sturgeon and Corbyn, he's probably using it to buy some time.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Surely he HAS to go on after the others have all agreed otherwise he is making the BBC partisan which is not allowed. He has to go on.

I bet he doesn't and he then accuses the BBC of bias because of it. That's exactly how he operates.

I do wonder how many children he has, though.

 

[Easy 10]

I bet he doesn't and he then accuses the BBC of bias because of it. That's exactly how he operates.

I do wonder how many children he has, though.

So does he I expect. From time to time.

 

[swindonseagull]

Absolutely destroyed Sturgeon......
She nearly lost it......


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Looked like she was going to cry when he was probing her about the NHS

 

[Eeyore]

I'm less concerned about confused paragraphs and more worried about Johnson telling fibs about the border checks for Northern Ireland after BREXIT. Or him simply not knowing.

 

[Lincoln Imp]

It’s not going to happen.

Avoiding Neil is much better PR wise than being ripped to shreds by him. Corbyn should never have agreed to step into the Lion’s den without being 100% sure that Bojo would do it to. Amateur.

Yes, it was a bit amateur. But I'd rather have amateur behaviour on the PR front than that of the self-entitled little shit who has just pulled a flanker on him.