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Originally Posted by Bilbo1967
I think you have a stronger stomach than me - I just can't bring myself to watch it.
I tend to agree with LazyScot and (the mis-attributed) Voltaire, but that doesn't mean I have to watch it. I think that he's probably too clever to make his real feelings clear on national TV (and when I say 'clever', I mean it in the same way that a rat can be clever when cornered).
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After watching that (and I made it all the way through without once hitting anything - well, apart from the send and refresh button on twitter - I was being sad and tweeting about and following some of the twitter commentary as well as watching it), I'd say you can safely watch it on iPlayer (UK only - I can provide a link if anyone wants to see what the Beeb are calling extended highlights). I thought (OK - I was scared stiff) he was going to put a PR spin on everything that passed his lips. In the end, he didn't. It helped a lot that one of the guests was playwright Bonnie Greer who was running circles around him. There were a couple of moments where he did do a bit of spin, but they came out very wooden compared to the rest of it.
The only vaguely clever thing he tried to do was refusing to be drawn on exactly what he meant by indigenous Britons, but he mostly managed to make himself look a bit of a fool in doing so.
He did also say that he was no longer a holocaust denier, but again did so in such a way that it rang more than a little false, and sounded like a prepared statement.
The main possible problem is that the rest of the panel were against him, so it might have looked like he was being ganged up on and bullied. Fortunately he never played up to that, and also fortunately the lib-lab-con lot were also happily attacking each other, too, which diffused it a little.
And after all that, I have a recipe to post
