How Can Boris Complain?

[diddlydo]

Boris was invited by Channel 4 but declined. Two questions - why did he decline and do we want a PM who hides from public scrutiny?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50596192

[emmie]

you or Gulliver have asked this question already i believe.
Is Boris ducking out of interviews, don't think so
he is likely to go on one or more of them before long, particularly on Andrew Neil interviews.

[davebro]

It was a cheap stunt & shame on the ones who did take part for being involved in it.

[emmie]

it was i agree a cheap stunt and one they shouldn't have done.

[naomi24]

Boris had a previous engagement. He was in Cornwall. Channel 4 should have allowed Michael Gove to speak. Their behaviour deserves to be investigated.

[diddlydo]

It's the behaviour of Boris that needs to be investigated.

[emmie]

it does..
Michael Gove would have been a decent replacement for the PM

[naomi24]

You're doing your bit, diddly - not very successfully granted, but you try.

[dannyk13]

Diddly // a PM who hides from public scrutiny?//
He was interviewed on ITV last night.Stop spreading false news.

[emmie]

was he, i didn't see that i confess.

[diddlydo]

Refusing to appear in a televised debate on the massively important question of climate change is hiding from public scrutiny. On the question of Channel 4 not allowing Gove to take his place - do you invite someone to a party who can't/won't make it and allow them to substitute any old stand-in? I think not.

[emmie]

Michael Gove is a fairly astute and capable politician, not some dumb ass from nowhere

[naomi24]

An extremely wonky analogy, diddlydo. It makes no sense at all. I shouldn't vote for him if I were you. I doubt he'll miss you.

[Deskdiary]

Climate change (or whatever it's called this week) should not be a party political issue, so I think it was right of him not to attend.

It was a debate over a single issue with a load of also-rans, plus Corbyn who I hope ends up being an also-ran - so it was entirely pointless.

Climate change is well down on my list of importance as far as this election is concerned. This is the most important election I can remember as it is an opportunity to ensure Corbyn and his 70s Marxist brand of politics is consigned to history where it belongs, a healthy majority for the Tories is returned, and Labour can rebuild itself into a credible more centrist opposition that traditional Labour voters can be proud of. The alternative makes my blood run cold with fear for me and my family, and for the country as a whole.

This morning Johnson is on the Nick Ferrari show, and he NEVER gives politicians an easy ride, and the PM is taking unknown beforehand questions from the public, which is a potential banana skin. On Sunday he is on Marr's show.

There is no way this can be described as hiding from 'public scrutiny'.

[Bazile]

@0748
None of those can match up to the mauling that Neil dishes out though

I'm not surprised he gave Neil a wide berth

[dannyk13]

emmie, it was part of News At Ten.

[emmie]

ok danny

[ToraToraTora]

The whole USism TV debate thing is bl3edin ridiculous and to have one on a niche subject 2 weeks from a general election is doubly silly. The PM is correct to no show up.

[youngmafbog]

Boris was right not to go on anything with that shower.

The only TV debates really worth hearing ar Corbyn and Johnson. All others are really an irrelevancy and as for a debate on climate change, really? On this election?

COB should take a leave out of BoJo's book and skip these stitch-ups. I suspect he will going forward.

[diddlydo]

TTT - have you been drinking? Since when has climate change been "a niche subject"?
Emmie - Gove - "astute"???? He was a complete nightmare when he was Minister of Education and loathed in school staff rooms where he was referred to as "The G-word". A collective cheer went up when he went, similar to the cheer that went up the day Thatcher resigned.

[youngmafbog]

Oh dear ^^^^

Well one thing my dear late father always said to me: "Never argue with a fool".

It is sound advice I will now take.