Sunny on Question Time Extra


by Jennie Rigg    
November 27, 2008 at 11:52 pm

I take it we’re all watching? Well, I’m flicking between it and This Week… My main reactions are very superficial:

1, Sunny has a voice for blogging.
2, He also has a dent in the back of his head, which the lights in that studio are enhancing enormously.

He’s quite good at thinking on his feet, though, isn’t he? Certainly better than Maria the Tory lady…

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at 11:55 pm on November 27, 2008
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1.  comment by
     Sunder Katwala

I thought Sunny’s arguments on the economy debate had got better and sharper since his post yesterday.

at 11:59 pm on November 27, 2008
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2.  comment by
     Cath Elliott

I think he did a great job. Nice one :)

at 12:03 am on November 28, 2008
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3.  comment by
     Jennie Rigg

Sunder, forged in the heat of LC comments, perhaps? ;)

at 1:07 am on November 28, 2008
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4.  comment by
     Sunny Hundal

Erm, thanks guys?

lol @ voice for blogging. love it!

PS, my voice does become slightly higher-pitched on TV because I’m so nervous :(

at 1:48 am on November 28, 2008
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5.  comment by
     Jennie Rigg

You want to not shave your head quite that close, mate, honestly. The dent in your head is very distracting ;)

at 7:40 am on November 28, 2008
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6.  comment by
     douglas clark

Jennie,

At least Sunny said sensible things. Having watched the vacuous loud mouths that make up what passes for commentary on US cable over the last wee while, a “terrorist fist bump” indeed, I’ll take a voice made for blogging any time.

at 8:06 am on November 28, 2008
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7.  comment by
     Sunder Katwala

i thought you did well Sunny

at 8:13 am on November 28, 2008
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8.  comment by
     Tom

For those of us who missed it, what are the details of any catchup/iPlayer reruns of it? I’d like to watch this.

at 8:30 am on November 28, 2008
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9.  comment by
     Rayyan

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fw75s/Question_Time_Extra_27_11_2008/

Well done for demolishing the Tories’ spurious economic ‘policies’, Sunny! Progressive unity FTW

at 9:35 am on November 28, 2008
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10.  comment by
     Aaron Heath

Just watched the video linked above, thanks Rayyan. :o)

PS, my voice does become slightly higher-pitched on TV because I’m so nervous :( ~ Sunny

I thought you looked much more assured than when I saw you do a paper review a couple of months ago (I put that one down to a very pally relationship between the presenter and the other reviewer, you never really found your groove that time).

You did good. Really good.

BTW. Wasn’t the Tory woman taking the most outrageously populist positions? Her response on Woolies shocked me. Credit to Sunny for calling her on it.

at 10:10 am on November 28, 2008
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11.  comment by
     Leon

Sunny pwned! That Tory was a joke! Well done mate!

at 10:29 am on November 28, 2008
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12.  comment by
     douglas clark

I thought Sunny was really good, But I think he ought to be a lot better. And I say this as his number one fan. Sunny really, really needs to go to speech classes. If you put me on the telly, I’d make a complete and utter idiot of myself. Sunny is half way there however. He is getting better, but he needs to be a lot more assertive. I recall a case where he lost the rag with an idiot, on radio IIRC, and that was Sunnys’ finest moment on broadcasting.

I am shite at communicating. Sunny, however, does a great job in advocating what we all believe in.

at 12:17 pm on November 28, 2008
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13.  comment by
     thomas

Fascinating conversation!

I thought you did really well Sunny - successfully broadening the context in relation to the Mubai question and you also turned the tory round on the the subject of intervention.

Their tax bomshell criticism added to their line on support for businesses really shows them up as inconsistent without getting them to expand on the conditions for a successful intervention.

I thought you almost started pushing too hard on a partisan line, but got saved by the presenter on two occasions, so you were even a bit lucky too!

at 1:56 pm on November 28, 2008
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14.  comment by
     Robert

We all appreciated the tie, right?

Next time Sunny, I think you should name-check the site a bit more, e.g. “As Unity argued on Liberal Conspiracy this morning” or “As Laurie, one of our contributors, always says”.

at 2:46 pm on November 28, 2008
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15.  comment by
     Sunny Hundal

Thanks everyone. To be honest I was so nervous I’m surprised that I even sounded coherent. Robert - heh, will try it.

at 3:08 pm on November 28, 2008
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16.  comment by
     BenSix

The Indian intelligence services arrest people who turn out to be innocent? Thank Christ that doesn’t happen over here…

;o)

Good job. The wide-eyed Tory appeared to be making a bold attempt to hypnotise you.

Ben

at 3:12 pm on November 29, 2008
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17.  comment by
     leon

If I was to image critique; I’d say lose the tie, and probably the glasses, a couple of people told me it makes you look like a professor not a politico…oh yeah and the smirking didn’t go down too well either.

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