Pm's Question Time.

[anotheoldgit]

During PM's Question Time, North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds urged Mr Cameron to condemn the Opposition leader who has appointed a shadow chancellor who believes terrorists should be honoured for their bravery.

Nigel Dodds said:

"Will you join with all of us on all sides of this House in denouncing that sentiment and standing with us on behalf of the innocent victims and for the bravery of our Armed Forces who stood against the terrorists"

For some strange reason, it was at this point that the BBC chose not to give us the benefit of the answer that Mr Cameron gave.

But this was the reply,

/// Mr Cameron replied: 'You have spoken for many, many in this House and I would say many, many, the overwhelming majority of people, the vast majority of people in our country. ///

But not the BBC it seems.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3236982/Labour-s-IRA-sympathiser-shadow-chancellor-John-McDonnell-ashamed-blasts-David-Cameron.html

[anotheoldgit]

New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn chose to ask questions not of his own but from thousands of Emails he had sent out to the ordinary man and woman in the street.

Nothing wrong with that, one would say, makes a change for the ordinary person to have a say.

But wasn't it strange that there was not one question about the present migration problem?

One would think that would be up most on the agenda.

[Svejk]

Careful what you wish for, aog. He might read a slew of letters next week from mohammad and, er, mohammad, demanding sharia law and free flights to mecca.

[Gromit]

// For some strange reason, it was at this point that the BBC chose not to give us the benefit of the answer that Mr Cameron gave. //

It is there in the PMQs programme on iPlayer, perhaps you were not were watching on the BBC Parliament Channel? The Parliament Channel gives live and unedited broadcasts all day. If ypu were watching PMQs on another BBC Channel, on a news or politics programme, then that is liable for interuption for discussion or commentary.

[sandyRoe]

During the troubles the people of N Ireland found themselves caught up in the maelstrom of history. It carried many people who would otherwise have led unremarkable lives to strange actions and hard times.
People like Bobby Sands were brave. Though I doubt few in parliament, or here in AB, would agree.

[Gromit]

//
many,
many,
the overwhelming majority of people,
the vast majority of people in our country.
//

Does the PM mean 'most'?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

It was on the BBC's 6 o'clock news, if they could show the request, why didn't they also show Cameron's reply?

There was not any interuption for discussion or commentary.

[Hypognosis]

Further to Gromit's earlier reply, I have found that the regular rolling news channel likes to to certain things on the stroke of the hour or half hour but PMQ's sometimes starts a little late due to continuation of the debate in the previous half hour. It can also last over 30 minutes in its own right. The timing of the cutoff point was intriguingly awkward but, at the same time, predictable if they wanted to run the weather segment or the headlines.

This is a stupid amount of words to describe something so simple but I think accusing the Beeb of pulling the plug to save face for a leftie front bencher is just plain reaching.

[jim360]

The question pretty much contains the answer anyway. All Cameron's response does is confirm how dubious (understatement) McDonnell's position on the IRA is.

[Hypognosis]

@aog

Your post wasn't there while I was drafting that reply.

Surely, since the question was from a Tory minister and was poking a Labour shadow cabinet minister just showing that was enough? The PM was, as per usual being 'fed' a question to which his answer could be guessed by most of the viewers.

I missed the six o'clock news and don't plan to d/l it just for the sake of this thread. I will take your word for it that the edit is as it was.

[Gromit]

AOG

PMQs lasts over 30 minutes and the 6 o'clock news is 30 minutes in total. So they cannot show the whole session. And there may be other things happening in the world as well as PMQs.
It seems odd to include the question, but not the answer, but as the answer wasn't very interesting, it is more likely to be poor editing than a conspiracy.

[jim360]

Nigel Dodds is a member of the DUP and not a Tory minister, to be fair. It does look a bit like a planted question, but I'm sure many people will have been thinking the same about McDonnell's views anyway.

[mushroom25]

//People like Bobby Sands were brave. //

Sandy, if you were positioned to bestow honours, would you honour bobby sands for his bravery? would you bestow honours equally for acts of bravery occasioned by both protestant and catholic? what form would your honours take?

[Gromit]

Just looked on iPlayer, and it was not a bad edit, it was scripted.

Commentator: For today David Cameron played along with the new, less combatice PMQs, but the spikiest comment was not for David Cameron, but for Jeremy Corbyn, from Unionist MP Nigel Dodds...

Then they showed clip of the Unionist MP asking his question.

[anotheoldgit]

Hypognosis

/// Surely, since the question was from a Tory minister and was poking a Labour shadow cabinet minister just showing that was enough? ///

Nigel Dodds is not a Tory Minister, he is Deputy Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, and he sits on the opposition benches.

[SirOracle]

He may sit on the opposition benches AOG,but who he votes for is the important fact,and we all know it is with the right.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Whether the answer was interesting or not, we did not know at the time, but I am sure I was not alone in wanting to hear the response from a deliberate request for a response from the opposition benches.

If they did not want to give the viewers the benefit of hearing the response, why bother picking that particular request for a response in the first place?

[youngmafbog]

And you would expect less from the BBC?

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// but the spikiest comment was not for David Cameron, but for Jeremy Corbyn, from Unionist MP Nigel Dodds... ///

/// Then they showed clip of the Unionist MP asking his question. ///

Exactly, and most like me would have at that stage been rising in anticipation from our armchairs to see what the answer or response would be, but the BBC in their wisdom chose to leave it hanging in the air.