Sky has the cojones!

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Three cheers for Sky TV! At last – a broadcaster has the cojones to try and force a leadership debate. The nation demands. Sky will deliver.

Nick Clegg and David Cameron have accepted the gauntlet laid down by Sky – but guess who’s late to the party?

Now he’s damned if he does – but probably more damned if he doesn’t. Gordon’s nightmare just got worse – and no – he can’t send Mandy in his place.

I remember threatening, when I was Chair of Transport at the London Assembly and South West Trains would not turn up to an emergency meeting to try and avert a strike, to place a ‘tub of lard’ in their empty seat. This wasn’t an original idea – alas – but stemmed from Roy Hattersley’s famous failure to appear on Have I Got New for You as Paul Merton’s team mate.

Could the famous tub of lard be resurrected and placed on the threatened empty chair promised by Sky if Gordon flunks it.

I digress.

The question Gordon really has to answer is which is worse? Going on the show and making a complete stuff up? Not going on the show? A nasty choice. Of course – there is a third way – he could prep for it and answer honestly. That’s his only and best bet.

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  1. “Three cheers for Sky TV”???
    You must be joking.
    “The Nation Demands”????
    You mean YOU, along with some of your party plus the Conservative Party, demand. I don’t ‘demand’ it and I am part of the nation.
    “Sky will deliver“???
    The only thing that falls out of Sky is biased crap, Thanks to Mr Murdoch and his media empire.
    Oh dear god, I hope you are not starting to cosy up to the Murdochs now that we are less than a year from a General Election. Or perhaps you are hoping for a job with them should you fail to retain your Parliamentary seat next year?
    Quite frankly Lynne I am appalled by your blatant support for Sky TV……………..oh but I forget…………..haven’t you appeared on Sky TV quite a few times????? Mmmmmmmm makes one think. Doesn’t it!

  2. Quite frankly Dave – I am appalled by your blatantly blinkered and suspicious view of the world. YOu are a very narrow focus. None of our broadcasters are pure – so the best you can hope for is that their agenda occasionally coincides with your own. And I’ve appeared on most stations a few times. If the Beeb had done this I would have praised them – but they clearly don’t have the cojones!

  3. If dear Gordon does not turn up, I hope in all sincerity that a tub of lard will take his place.