Mar 24 2007
Any Answers? The pro Euro minority reinforce their bad economic advice
I had assumed the massive anti Euro majority would flood the phone lines to Any Questions?
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John Redwood has been the Member of Parliament for Wokingham since 1987. First attending Kent College, Canterbury, he graduated from Magdalen College...
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Suggest to the Euro worshipers that if a currency union with a large block is a good thing of itself, why not union with the pre Gorbachev Rouble block? Many might say, yes, that would have been a good thing, given that many of them are collectivists at heart. Then suggest union with the US$, suddenly you see them coughing and spluttering performing cartwheels trying to explain why a currency union is not such a good idea after all. It can be great sport.
Redwood: “I argued that no business need run currency risk in the modern world.”
Not even the BBC.
“At 31 March 2006 the Group had entered into a net commitment to purchase foreign currencies amounting
to
You correctly protest that “the pro Euro people still concentrate on the relatively trivial issues and ignore the big issues”. This can hardly be surprising, as when asked why Britain should adopt the Euro your fellow panellist, Professor Brigid Laffan: Jean Monnet Professor of European Politics, University College Dublin, could only proffer as a reason that she would then not need to buy sterling when she visited London!
The Any Questions/Answers programmes become increasingly frustrating to listen to, particularly due to the partisan way in which Jonathan Dimbleby so clearly reveals his own opinions during both programmes and often stifles the opinions of those responding in Any Answers.
Brian Tomkinson: “The Any Questions/Answers programmes become increasingly frustrating to listen to, ”
That is a fact. It may go some way to explain why few anti calls came in. I haven’t listened to the BBC Radio 4 nor watched BBC TV Question time for about 18 months.
In fact the last time I sat through a Question time was made memorable by one of the panelists offering as a solution to mobile phone theft, making mobile phones less portable.
They put people like Eddie Izzard on, Eddie Izzard has some merit a comedian, but his solution to world ills, we should all hug each other, is facile in the extreme.
APL You are dead right, the modern media world where many of the panelists make no real effort to address the points raised and simply mouth the pre-prepared soundbite makes the show almost pointless.
I think it was William Hague who said we effectively elect a dictator for five years, and he’s right on the money, so these shows offer little. I think the only people who now watch have pretty much made their minds up politically, and so aren’t really open to argument, and as a means for holding politicians to account, it’s pointless.
Now if the could all be attached to lie detectors…