to find Ian Hislop's snotty comments on HIGNFY about mumsnet being 'a website for young mums' who wasted the PM's time asking about biscuits, rather patronising.

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whilst i quite agree that it was pretty silly for whoever asked the PM about his favourite biscuits when he came on for the webchat the other day, it still annoyed me that ian hislop (who has clearly never visited mumsnet) focussed only on that one silly question, and made a great point about what a ridiculous waste of the PM's time coming onto a 'young mums' lightweight website was.

I'm not saying the PM's chat was much good - it wasn't - he just trottted out stock soundbites, BUT it is irritating to have a huge community of mostly intelligent debating women written off by smug mr Hislop as a pointless waste of time, purely because one idiot asked the PM about his favourite biscuits.

shame because i usually like Ian and Have I Got News for You.

stigaloid and junkcollector nail it, I think. I'm not sure you can say mumsnet is inconsequential. MN is just a collection of views of voters who happen to be mostly mothers.

PMSL at the idea of Ian H coming on for a chat - it would take how many seconds, roughly, before someone asked him the biscuit question ?

I had to try and avoid snurking too much during that bit on HIGNFY as DH is unaware of quite how much time I waste spend on MN