Andrew Davis V. Nicholas Farage. Last Night, Bbc1

[Khandro]

Was it an interview or a prosecution?
Davis had a large wodge of notes compiled by his team, abstracting items from 100s of other interviews, comments and tweets made by Farage or other UKIP members with which he tried to lambast and interrupt or talk over him. Whenever Farage began to give a good response, which he frequently did, Evans quickly change the subject and made more unsuccessful attempts to lure him into his pre-arranged traps.

[Peter Pedant]

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You mean Evans was well prepared ?

My own particular grouse is pretty well made up treehuggers from the Beeb who have read Media studies or French lit at uni, interviewing a candidate on economic policy, when it is obvious she cant add, whether or not the candidate can....

( and has no idea what a tax base is, or what a marginal rate of tax means )

[douglas9401]

Evan Davis and Nigel Farage?

[Khandro]

Sorry,yes, 'Evan'.

[jim360]

I suppose it's not easy to remember Norman Farage's first name. People always forget that it's actually Neil. Still, I think Neville's used to it by now.

[retrocop]

Shall we start again. :-)

[Ellipsis]

#1 !!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=Andrew+Davis+Nicholas+Farage

[ichkeria]

It seemed perfectly fair to me.
Farage has a litany of highly dubious quotes to his name and it seemed only fair that he should be grilled on them.
And Davis successfully nailed his distortion about crime figures and Romanians: he had no answer to that.

[saintpeter48]

Khandro; I thought the same as you, Davis was nit picking quotes from years ago trying to trap Farage and when he tried to answer he was cut short or had another 'quote' thrown at him!! Farage's answer about all of the jailed and corrupt Tories, Labour and Lib DEms politicians was great, Davis didn't know where to go from there!!

[Svejk]

What a creature that Davis is. A disgusting little (man?)
Hilarious that he kept questioning the existence of a 'bien pensant' metropolitan elite. The term could have been coined for him.

[Old_Geezer]

I tend not to watch these things, partly because they are all much of a muchness and I've heard it all before, partly because I no longer feel any major party truly reflects what I want such that I should give them my support, and that they are a bore anyway. But last night I had a call telling me Nigel was going to be on, and I felt I ought to watch (I might be tested afterwards :-) ).

I tried to be interested but it was a chore; but one thing did occur to me. If this representative of present day political interviews then it isn't achieving what the public should be getting from it.

We should never go back to the days of deferential forelock tugging respect for politicians simply because they are politicians. In the days when this was so a government representative could simply pull the wool over everyone's eyes without being queried on it.

But on the other hand it seems to have shot past the optimum discussion with the two talking over each other and trying to score points for their own sake. How does that help the public to understand what the interviewed politician stands for and how they would achieve their aim should they ever have the chance to try ? The point/benefit has been lost in the confrontation and it's more like a game show than a clarification for the viewer: more like something Jerry Springer might produce.

I'm glad I don't normally tune in to watch this sort of programme.

[Svejk]

If you want to see some forelock tugging, OG, tune in when he 'chats' to a ED.

[Khandro]

I though Nicholas did very well and came out on top of that odious creep, Andrew. He will most certainly get my vote!