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Last night's question time..Baroness Warsi.

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MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 10:29

Did anyone else think that she constantly interrupted,and had the most awful condescending sneer when anyone dared to dissagree.

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Pollyanna · 08/10/2010 10:31

she was a dreadful woman. who didn't manage one coherent, persuasive argument imo.

With a stupid helmet hairdo too.

smallwhitecat · 08/10/2010 10:36

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MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 10:42

Finger pointing and condescending ...'Let me tell you..' attitude,in fact i think she actually used that phrase....and her arguement that Andy Coulson should not resign was empty and weak.

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jonicomelately · 08/10/2010 10:45

Hasn't she tried to be elected as an MP on several occasions and having failed, been enobled (sp?) so she can be in the Cabinet?

Litchick · 08/10/2010 10:55

I think the top brass in the party think she gives them street cred given she is the polar opposite of their white upper class public school boy dynamic...

Maybe she does appeal to the working class/lower middle class tory voter, wiht her noo nonesense approach.
I cvan imagine a woman dragging her arse out to a factory for the night shift to earn minimum wage feeling fairly aggrieved at those getting more from benefits.
Varsi appeals to that mentality.

smallwhitecat · 08/10/2010 10:57

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MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 11:04

Totally with that SWC...i did 5 nights a week(nursing) for bloody years when my DCs were little and DP worked full time,got home in the morning and took them to school then went home to bed etc etc etc....loads of people do this to make ends meet......i would hate Baroness Warsi to even hope she represented my concerns....what mentality does a typical night shift working woman have?Confused

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Litchick · 08/10/2010 11:05

I agree that they have a genuine grievance...but I don't see Cameron, Osbourne or Clegg tapping in to that dynamic.
Too posh. Too rich. Too other.

Litchick · 08/10/2010 11:08

Moraldefect - she would have a bloody hard working mentality.
She wouldn't do her job because it was stimulating or rewarding, or any woolly liberal concept -she would do it for the love of her family.

And I imagine it would stick in her craw if her neighbour sat onhis arse all day and got the same money.

complimentary · 08/10/2010 11:25

I also noticed her sneering, looks like you would not cross her.

pinkteddy · 08/10/2010 18:00

She makes me cringe. Charles Kennedy said on 'This week' last night that he couldn't see her still being in post after the local elections in May next year so we'll see!

OhYouBadBadKitten · 08/10/2010 18:47

I had to turn off QT last night as her condescending sneering attitude had me shouting rude things at the telly. Not conducive to a good nights sleep.

SauvignonBlanche · 08/10/2010 18:55

She was awful, I had to turn it off.

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MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 19:08

Just got back here...i would have turned off also but DP was watching aswell,i googled her today as i didn't know alot about her....how does someone get to be a Baroness when they have never even been an MP....she is a solicitor...but lots of people are solicitorsConfused...There are other interesting 'You tubes' with her but i don't know how to link things [durr]....A life peerage for doing what exactly????

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claig · 08/10/2010 19:09

glad you started the thread OP, she was dreadful, "listen to me", "let me tell you". I'm a Tory voter, but she was a complete disaster, guaranteed to turn people off the coalition. Isn't she Chairman of the Party? What a disaster.

claig · 08/10/2010 19:12

to link you just copy the address of the youtube link and place it on here in between the [ character twice at the beginning and the ] character twice at the end

Unprune · 08/10/2010 19:14

She's said outright that the Tories lost 3 seats because Asian labour supporters committed election fraud.

I kind of feel that if the Tories had lost any seats because of any election fraud, we'd have heard about little else.

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MoralDefective · 08/10/2010 19:16

Thankyou...i will try that...i'm not too brilliant at computer stuff though....getting a bit old for it!!!

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claig · 08/10/2010 19:18

remember the judge saying that Labour's postal vote system was reminiscent of a 'banana republic' and that there was voting fraud

www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2005/apr/05/politics.localgovernment

Unprune · 08/10/2010 19:35

Reading that, you suspect there was a lot more going on behind the scenes in some way!
I wonder what the real story is.

claig · 08/10/2010 19:37

I certainly don't discount it. This is politics and all sorts of dirty tricks are involved. Right Honourable are none of them.

Unprune · 08/10/2010 19:38

V true.
We'll see, eh?

LadyBlaBlah · 11/10/2010 10:40

She is the Tory version of Hazel Blears

Cretin indeed, swc

Beaaware · 11/10/2010 13:23

claig, you are taking a risk quoting from the guardian, I get shot on here for doing just that, in fact any newspaper for that matter.

Unprune · 11/10/2010 13:28

I went back to see if it was council seats she was talking about - she definitely says (in the NS) that there was election fraud causing the tories to lose 3 seats at the General Election. I just find it slightly boggling that the Tories wouldn't have mentioned it, given their desperate need for extra seats.