Wooooh! Go Justine!

[SpeedyGonzalez]

Currently listening to Any Questions on R4...she got rapturous applause from the audience.

You do us proud, girl, you do us proud.

[SpeedyGonzalez]

Am I the only one listening? J's doing a marvellous job. Got the audience eating out of her hand...

[onebatmother]

NO You're not the only one - doing us proud indeed. When's the next general election after this, I wonder?

What does that infuriating Tory mean by 'only one who's had time to watch South Park'. Silly woman.

[onebatmother]

I did agree with Menzies on the religious provocation thingie though.

[hannahsaunt]

Me too ; thought she did really well.

[fotheringhay]

Tremendous! She's my new hero.

[onebatmother]

Lots of clapping and cheering for Our Juzza!

[WebDude]

A link for anyone who missed the programme

[FromGirders]

Yes, she's done a great job of representing mums.

[monkeysavingexpertdotcom]

Also thought Justine was good. Am I right in thinking the stats about the percentages of immigrants cf non-immigrants who stay in education up to 18 went a bit wrong?
I think Caroline Spelman had a couple of digs at Justine actually, but I may have been wrong - the South Park one, and one about sports commentating - thought she didn't do that any more?

[WebDude]

daft mention of sports commentating somewhere after 20m into programme... I guess CS didn't listen carefully enough to JD's introduction.

[policywonk]

I listened last night Loved the answers on PR and on immigration/St George's Day. Fantastic stuff.

[edam]

Justine did us proud. Agree Spelman seemed rattled with those little digs.

[WebDude]

Interesting to hear J properly credited as co-founder (unlike the TV show the other day, which said founder, though I agree there can be lots of 'founders' the name makes it sound like a solo act!)

[EggyAllenPoe]

i am very at justine for going on this, as has been a long standing ambition of mine (do i aim too low?)

missed it as my kids were having one of Those Mornings. more highlights please ladies?

[Pennies]

I caught this too. Agree that Spelman was a bit snide.

[Pennies]

Forgot to ask - Justine - go on spill the beans - who got lagered in the pub beforehand, then...?

[EggyAllenPoe]

ooh..listening on listen again.

good answer on St Georges Day J! exactly what i think it is about. and beer. and sitting in the garden with the DCs....

[EggyAllenPoe]

hypocritical from Jack Straw... does anyone else remember when that Afghani plane with 24 women aboard set down in the UK, he immediately said they'd all be sent home (which is a direct ignoring of whatever rights they could claim as potential asylum sekers) - tolerance indeed..

[animula]

You were great, Justine.

[edam]

Eggy, was that the plane that had been hijacked? If it is that one, I think Jack Straw was being perfectly reasonable - you can't encourage hijackers, for heaven's sake.

[fizzledrizzle]

you mean this?

[EggyAllenPoe]

it was pre-emptory of the procedure - those women had the right to asylum (anyone who knows anything about the lives of women under the Taliban would agree)

evidently he didn't know, or care...

[edam]

According to that story, the only case to succeed was that of a man. It's not about saving women from the Taliban.

[policywonk]

Labour have behaved appallingly towards asylum seekers, though. Especially the detention issue. It's one area where I feel they've really let themselves down.

[policywonk]

... and the LibDem policy of letting asylum seekers work (and amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country) is one of the big things in their favour from my POV.