Question Time

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The girl from the taxpayers alliance really should have known her figures there. Alan Duncan shot her down very easily.

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The girl from the taxpayers alliance really should have known her figures there. Alan Duncan shot her down very easily.

What was TPA saying? They're generally a bunch of right wing cranks.

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What was TPA saying? They're generally a bunch of right wing cranks.

Bascially nothing. Sound bites with no basis to them at all. Her biggest cheer of the night was when she said something along the lines of "well if we're annoying them (them being Alan Duncan) then we're obviously doing our job".

I posted last night after she was having a go about the increase in the amount of foreign aid the UK would be paying out this year. Alan Duncan asked her if she actually knew what the increase was because she was talking crap (he's better with words than me) and she flapped. She had no idea at all.

Whether or not the aid budget should be increased, she should have had facts and figures ready to argue her point. It was an opportunity for the TPA to make a point and they didn't. She was useless all night actually.

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Bascially nothing. Sound bites with no basis to them at all. Her biggest cheer of the night was when she said something along the lines of "well if we're annoying them (them being Alan Duncan) then we're obviously doing our job".

I posted last night after she was having a go about the increase in the amount of foreign aid the UK would be paying out this year. Alan Duncan asked her if she actually knew what the increase was because she was talking crap (he's better with words than me) and she flapped. She had no idea at all.

Whether or not the aid budget should be increased, she should have had facts and figures ready to argue her point. It was an opportunity for the TPA to make a point and they didn't. She was useless all night actually.

She came across very poorly. :agree:

To be fair, the best points on the International Development question were made by audience members. I was surprised Alan Duncan didn't make the point (later made by an audience member) that India's space program is an investment, not a luxury.

It was the first time I've seen or heard Digby Jones and I was really disappointed. I thought he came across as largely hypocritical, with an edge of self-satisfied smugness.