Serious matters are taking place tonight but we wouldn’t be a blog if we didn’t engage in a bit of mischief.
Earlier this evening, Sky’s Adam Boulton interviewed Alastair Campbell about Gordon Brown’s resignation and – to put it mildly – completely lost it.
Watch it:
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81 Responses to “Adam Boulton loses it”
Paddy
Adam Boulton punched Denis Healey in the face back in 1987 – he’s got history of losing it when he’s not winning an argument. Incredible that he’s having an argument when he’s meant to be presenting a news feature. Shows you why he’s working for Murdoch and not a proper news team.
Graham Johnston
Boulton is so rabidly Tory that half the labour party attended his wedding (including TB) Hilarious that labour supporters are slagging off Murdoch’s machine when they have used it for everything they’re worth over the last 13 years of spin. Labour is a disgrace and has been for a long time – more bloody right wing than the old Tory party used to be.
Labour have been booted out for a very good reason, they have squandered years of unprecedented prosperity with very few improvements managed in key areas such as education, policing, and the NHS. The only reason they’ve not been given an even bigger (and what would have been a well-deserved)kicking at the polls is that the Tory and lib-dem opposition are so woeful.
People are sick of labours beurocracy and target setting culture, where police, teachers and doctors & nurses spend more time filling in paperwork than actually doing their jobs and are consistently undermined.
Who ever is in power needs to rstore confidence our major in our education and justice systems and to a lesser extent our health professionals and make sure that the limited amount of money that is going to be available over the next few years is focused on professionals in the front line delivering essential services
Kathy
I will never watch sky news again. This man boulton is so bias, its so clear he is not for Labur, but even if he is not he should be more professional. What a disgrace!!
James
After watching the debate on youtube, I feel it was rather out of place for Adam Bouldon to point out that Labour hadn’t done so well in the polling. A politician is never going to say that his party has lost as it would make him look like he hasn’t got trust in his party and it would leave a negative impression of his party to whoever watched the clip (Which as you can see by the amount of blogs there are for this small incident is quite alot.) I remember watching one of the televised debates where Nick Clegg asked David Cameron a straight Yes/No question, and David answered it with an essay on a subject completely different. This leads me to the Conclusion that David did not have an answer to the question or his answer would have given a negative output about the Conservatives.
On the other hand, Alistair Campbell did play into Adam Bouldon’s hands, making himself look like the aggressor at times, aswell as publically displaying his frustration about the poor results for Labour during the Election.
What surprised me is that Adam Bouldon and Alistair Campbell seemed completely unaware that a fair majority of the population weren’t even allowed a vote.
Thank God I’m an expat and don’t have to get muddled up with all this Political woh-hah that the british Government has become.
James
apologies for the mispelling of Adam Boulton’s name