Comments on: Nosemonkey on the telly (again)

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:58:48 +0000

Nosemonkey

In Re: your 9.32pm 7/6.

The criticizms that you regard as justifiable, and other criticizms of this project that are never brought to light , which are basically hidden can be the trade off for the 84% of laws made in Brussels or £40 million per day to the EU.
It`s as annoying as the Glittering Generalities we get from the EUrophiles , right up to the likes of Barrosso.

By: Alan Thomas

Alan Thomas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:21:26 +0000

Alan – Yep, it was good fun. Wish they’d given us more time, though – only managed to scratch the surface.

Absolutely true: frankly I think we should go the whole hog and demand our own show – kinda like a UK Hannity and Colmes (except you’d be less nuts than Hannity and I’d be less wet than Coles). Whaddya say? ;-)

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Liberal Conspiracy » Top Stories & Blog Review - Wednesday 10th June — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:31:02 +0000

[...] Finally… Nosemonkey has been on the telly, talking about the European election results. If you’re getting sick of [...]

By: Nosemonkey

Nosemonkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:32:26 +0000

Largely that they are both intelligent chaps with some good points to make, who represent the views of a part of the electorate – and that even if you disagree with their conclusions about what the cure is for the EU’s various problems, they can be good at identifying where those problems lie.

I personally reckon they’d get more results if they were less confrontational in their approach, but it’s not the method in which the message is delivered, it’s the content of the message that’s important.

(This is why I always get annoyed when anti-EU types keep repeating myths like the “80% of laws” or “£40 million a day” ones. They play well with a cynical electorate that’s already inclined to believe the worst about political institutions, but for other MEPs and Brussels types who know that these claims are not backed up by the facts, they just undermine the credibility of other, far more justifiable eurosceptic arguments – of which there are many. And the EU needs to have its faults pointed out to it – very much so.)

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:57:30 +0000

I`ll have to view it again. What were you going to say about Farage and Hannon ?

By: Nosemonkey

Nosemonkey — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:53:02 +0000

Eh? I went to some lengths to praise Eurosceptics, I thought. I wasn’t given enough time to finish the point, but I was going to go on to say nice things about Farage and Hannan as well, believe it or not.

By: Robin

Robin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:49:06 +0000

Bit of criticism of us EUrosceptics there Nosemonkey. I thought you were going to be reasonable. Why didn`t you just call us “swivel eyed loons `?

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:41:26 +0000

I don’t think you’re being harsh at all Josef – the “what your blogs look like” bit was indeed both lengthy and pointless. Imagine if they introduced newspaper editors with a full minute of the camera panning around the front page of a newspaper!

You did well though.

By: Eurocentric

Eurocentric — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:03:01 +0000

(By that I mean it was very good, but too short – you both got some good points in, but there wasn’t any time to get to more meaty issues).

By: Eurocentric

Eurocentric — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:59:21 +0000

Good video – hopefully some day they’ll have a good debate and the time to stage it properly.