Emily Thornbury

[GB9]

How not to be interviewed on live TV.

[original PM]

Hardly surprising is it.

The level of incompetence in todays government is too damn high

[SueEllen]

She's a member of the shadow cabinet and a fruit loop.

Well anyone who thinks Corbyn is any good, labour will be become the next government and they haven't gone back to the days of Michael Foot is a fruit loop

[scooterscot]

She's a member of the shadow cabinet and a fruit loop.

Well anyone who thinks Corbyn is any good

Video will not work so can't tell.

Corbyn speaks for the people that elected him, unlike his Tory peers.

[GB9]

Video will not work so can't tell.

Corbyn speaks for the people that elected him, unlike his Tory peers.

She is shadow brexit minister. She is meeting the french foreign minister this week but doesn't know his name. You could excuse that but she digs herself a hole by accusing the interviewer of asking her pub quiz questions. She rounds off the interview by accusing the interviewer of sexism for asking her the names of foreign ministers.

She has been generally criticised for damaging the fight against sexism.

[NotAllThere]

Hardly surprising is it.

The level of incompetence in todays government is too damn high

She's a member of the shadow cabinet and a fruit loop.

Well anyone who thinks Corbyn is any good, labour will be become the next government and they haven't gone back to the days of Michael Foot is a fruit loop

Yep. Corbyn is having to scrape the barrel to have anyone in the Shadow Cabinet, as he's lost the support of the majority of his MPs. Only the fruit-loops are left. I can only assume that the people who continue to support Corbyn are also delusional fruit-loops.

[SueEllen]

Video will not work so can't tell.

Corbyn speaks for the people that elected him, unlike his Tory peers.

Have you spoken to any Tory party members? I have.

They want someone competent leading them who has the support of the party's MPs so they can be in government to change Britain into their vision.

[Waldorf]

I've always found Emily Thornbury to be condescending and rather smug. Glad to see her getting found out.

[scooterscot]

Have you spoken to any Tory party members? I have.

They want someone competent leading them who has the support of the party's MPs so they can be in government to change Britain into their vision.

Worse. I have relations who are fully paid up members. Those make for interesting visits

MPs no longer listen to the people that voted them into power in the first place. Competence, even common sense, is no longer a prerequisite for many. Becoming a MP these days is treated as prize rather than a duty. And that's before we speak about the vested interests.

It seems clear to me what Tory members want they don't get by voting Tory.

[NotAllThere]

...Becoming a MP these days is treated as prize rather than a duty. And that's before we speak about the vested interests...

Absolutely. I just read the Private Eye special report on the revolving door between government and industry.