Robert Peston Q In Today's Briefing

[tiggerblue10]

Today's briefing must've been the shortest question and answer from Robert Peston I've ever seen.

He asked about Matt Hancock's childcare arrangements compared with DCs and MH came back with a swift "We had childcare readily available at home and Mr Cummings didn't." That was it - The End. Without a chance of a come back he cut RP off.

I'm certainly not complaining and I did find it quite amusing.....sorry.

[retrocop]

//Mr Peston does not have a 'lazy bored drawl' - what he does have is a stammer, and his speech patterns reflect his way of coping with it.//

And his speech patterns sound like a lazy bored drawl imo. OK? Shall we leave it there?

[naomi24]

Tigger, //I had problems leaving him with people he knew for a couple of hours let alone overnight. //

I've been trying to get across the impossibility of leaving an autistic child in a situation he's not comfortable with - and I've been consistently lambasted for it. Such is the mist of righteous indignation my efforts have fallen on blind eyes.

Thank you for posting that.

[retrocop]

I always thought Nigel Slater,the celebrity TV cook, was a dead ringer for Robert Peston or Vice Versa. I just happened to browse the food programme before settling down to the 10p.m. news on ITV and I didn't realise I was actually watching Nigel Slater's cooking programme. He was totally unrecognisable visually and I only realised who he was by the way he delivered his running commentary on the cooking instructions.

[Peter Pedant]

// I'm not not certain but I think DCs 4yo is on the spectrum//

Put the 4 y o in charge of the govt? - best suggestion I have read all day. he can do no worse than the clowns there now

[retrocop]

Tigger,
Your subject appears to be much disliked by most of his colleagues he works with with an over inflated ego and elevated above his pay grade not because, as he believes he is, the one to find the breaking stories but because he was the son of a Labour peer Lord Preston.

Long character assassination but worth reading. Some interesting rifts are revealed of which there appears to be many.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2063409/He-sound-like-Dalek-doing-bad-impression-Kenneth-Williams-DO-BBC-stars-want-exterminate-Pesto.html

[brainiac]

He may well be a brilliant journalist, but his tortured delivery should have precluded him from being a prominent TV figure - he should have stuck to print journalism.

Still better than the toe-curlin' Beth Rigby, though.

[gness]

Naomi. You constantly make it sound as if you are the only person who knows how difficult making arrangements for the care of a child who struggles with change is. You're not.

Any right thinking person will have carefully orchestrated plans to deal with emergencies in place well before any situation arises. To leave it until potentially dangerous actions are required is showing lack of care and thought for a child with special needs.

[naomi24]

Right .......

[andy-hughes]

Retrocop, Mr Peston must irk you well beyond the realms of simple annoyance to prompt you to track down a 'character assassination', and reproduce it here for people who probably aren't bothered.

[Ken4155]

If the author of the piece in your link had posted that on here, retro, he would have immediately been asked for a link as to his claim - in para 3 - that "his verbose and irritatingly sing-song delivery leads to tv viewers and radio listeners in their thousands reaching for the off switch." :-/

[dannyk13]

Contrary to many views expressed here I have always found Robert Peston a fair minded reporter.As to his speech delivery, he speaks as he does to combat a stammer.

[retrocop]

//Retrocop, Mr Peston must irk you well beyond the realms of simple annoyance to prompt you to track down a 'character assassination', and reproduce it here for people who probably aren't bothered.//

Not at all. Mr Preston has an annoying presentation of the news which many find annoying.
As you have piled into my previous musings and opinion with some additional information I decided to check the veracity of what you wrote. After all it's not the first time you have jumped into a thread dispensing misinformation in order to put down another ABers opinion in order to make your self look smart. Why use 100 words when you can use 10.? It's called waffle and I recall a few years back you attempted to misinform a question posed here and emphatically and categorically stated that the highest purchase and ownership of cell phones in the world belonged to the UK. A simple google proved that this was total nonsense and you made it up to make yourself look smart. You failed. Since then I have learnt to take all you say with a pinch of salt and double check your statements as I would not believe it if you told me there was a Y in Wednesday. As you did not supply a link to back up your statement I decided to check up on a few sites to verify . I found quite a few paragraphs with regard to his speech anomalies but no definitive proof he suffered from a stammer. More likely an affected intonation. The BBC attempted to send him to a speech therapist, as they had with other broadcasters, to 'polish up' his speech delivery. He declined their offer.
As a niece of mine is a qualified speech therapist about to take up a post at the London Hospital Whitechapel she has to do a little more than 'polish up' some unfortunate with a pronounced stammer.
It has been claimed that Mr Peston suffers nerves on screen and would be better employed as a press journalist.
So in conclusion. Mr Peston does not irk or irritate me to that extent and if you hadn't jumped in with your usual school masterly attempt to censure my opinion I wouldn't have bothered to find evidence that what you ,again ,opined was misleading information.
I hope that has fully explained the reasons for my research ,which you chose to comment on ,and as I suggested earlier, I think we can leave it there if you could manage that . A link ,provided by you, of course, would have been helpful.

[douglas9401]

I might stand on my doorstep and clap for Retrocop at 8 tonight. :-)

[retrocop]

Lol @ douglas.

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - //
//Retrocop, Mr Peston must irk you well beyond the realms of simple annoyance to prompt you to track down a 'character assassination', and reproduce it here for people who probably aren't bothered.//

Not at all. Mr Preston has an annoying presentation of the news which many find annoying.
As you have piled into my previous musings and opinion with some additional information I decided to check the veracity of what you wrote. After all it's not the first time you have jumped into a thread dispensing misinformation in order to put down another ABers opinion in order to make your self look smart. Why use 100 words when you can use 10.? It's called waffle and I recall a few years back you attempted to misinform a question posed here and emphatically and categorically stated that the highest purchase and ownership of cell phones in the world belonged to the UK. A simple google proved that this was total nonsense and you made it up to make yourself look smart. You failed. Since then I have learnt to take all you say with a pinch of salt and double check your statements as I would not believe it if you told me there was a Y in Wednesday. As you did not supply a link to back up your statement I decided to check up on a few sites to verify . I found quite a few paragraphs with regard to his speech anomalies but no definitive proof he suffered from a stammer. More likely an affected intonation. The BBC attempted to send him to a speech therapist, as they had with other broadcasters, to 'polish up' his speech delivery. He declined their offer.
As a niece of mine is a qualified speech therapist about to take up a post at the London Hospital Whitechapel she has to do a little more than 'polish up' some unfortunate with a pronounced stammer.
It has been claimed that Mr Peston suffers nerves on screen and would be better employed as a press journalist.
So in conclusion. Mr Peston does not irk or irritate me to that extent and if you hadn't jumped in with your usual school masterly attempt to censure my opinion I wouldn't have bothered to find evidence that what you ,again ,opined was misleading information.
I hope that has fully explained the reasons for my research ,which you chose to comment on ,and as I suggested earlier, I think we can leave it there if you could manage that . A link ,provided by you, of course, would have been helpful. //

Goodness, do you feel better now?

I was merely making an observation, there's really no need to go to Defcon 3 over it!

Have a lie down and a rest, you must need it after all that pointless diatribe!!!

[andy-hughes]

retrocop - // Why use 100 words when you can use 10.? It's called waffle … //

Clearly you at least as well versed in the art of waffle as anyone else on here!!