Jon Gaunt on This Week...

[osprey]

On Talk Sport this morning, several people commended Jon Gaunt on his debate with Michael Portillo on This Week yesterday on BBC. Does anyone know what the debate was about and what channel This Week was on as I can't find it in my Radio Times - I live in Wales so it might not have been shown there, but we usually get some programmes at different times anyway.

[Octavius]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/this_wee k/default.stm

[kempie]

This Week is a programme about politics hosted by Andrew Neil and regularly shown on BBC1 on Thursday nights following .Question Time. For most regions this would be at 11:35pm but it is shown on BBC Wales half an hour later at 12:05am.

John Gaunt was arguing for the Trident nuclear deterrent (this being a complete about-face to his political stance of 20 years ago when he actively campaigned against Cruise missiles being housed at Greenham Common).

[osprey]

Thanks to you both.

[sunnyday2d]

Hi Osprey,
i have heard John Gaunt on the odd occasion,
he is very predictable, deliberately contrevercial, all he is interested in is ratings, a tipical member of the hang em &
flog em parade.

[luckyboy]

Don't knock it, theres a lot of money to be made by ditching your principles and turning into a right wing populist employed by press barons, .churning out easy solutions to complex political and socioeconomic problems.
for gaunt see littlejohn, melanie phillips and paul johnson amongst others.
Sadly all this predictable garbage is lapped up by millions.

[anotheoldgit]

Just goes to show how popular it is, and this is the voice of the majority, in a world when we are for the most only allowed to hear the bleatings of the liberal left.