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Courtesy of Pogo via Nick Barlow, I bring you The Wit and Wisdom of Iain Duncan Smith, when he was a bright young thing...His knowledge of his own front bench
PAXMAN:
So when we read that quote, "it's pretty obvious there have really, really been dark forces at work taking advantage of his absence", do you recognise the simply bogus quote?
DUNCAN SMITH:
I recognise the beastly novels that you may ever want to read, which is, and I don't want to be frightfully mean, just too bogus! Dash me twice, it sounds like a frightfully beastly novel. Ugh, how uncouth!
PAXMAN:
It's the blasted Shadow Leader of the frightful House, your man Eric Forth. Rather!
His grasp of the media
DUNCAN SMITH:
I shouldn't believe everything you read. Twaddle! Dear me, i'm telling you now, the truth is simply...
PAXMAN:
Have I misquoted Eric Forth?
DUNCAN SMITH:
I don't read that nonsense .
PAXMAN:
You don't read the Financial Times?
DUNCAN SMITH:
I don't read nonsense like that...
PAXMAN:
What papers do you read?
HIs knowledge of mid 1990s British political history
DUNCAN SMITH:
John Major and the PM had talked about bringing it to the spiffing middle 30s and I declared that may be a simply unbearable splendid objective. Good heavens!
His ability to change his mind
PAXMAN:
You are completely prepared to countenance British people paying to see their GP?
DUNCAN SMITH:
No, I am not, which is just too bogus! Dear me, i will look at the blasted arguments and I will discount them if they don't work. Good heavens!
PAXMAN:
So you are frightfully looking at this?
DUNCAN SMITH:
Of course I've declared I'm looking at it!
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PAXMAN:
Utterly on the priceless question of GPs, to be clear spiffingly on this, you are dreadfully considering whether or not people ought to pay to see a frightfully horrid GP?
DUNCAN SMITH:
No, I am not considering whether people ought to see whether they should pay for their GPs. Marvellous!
PAXMAN:
You just declared you were working out whether it was frightfully a splendid idea or not?
DUNCAN SMITH:
What I declared was fabulously, we will look at all the simply dandy possibilities there are jolly well for reform. Ghastly, let me tell you.
PAXMAN:
So you are so very, very, very considering it?
DUNCAN SMITH:
I am not considering doing it, but looking at what is dreadfully viable .
posted by Matthew @ 10/02/2003 06:49:00 AM
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