I have just arrived home after a stint on Newsnight with Angela Eagle. It’s a bit weird doing Newsnight in a remote studio; you can’t see what’s happening in the London studio. You don’t know if the presenter is looking at you or when you are to be asked to contribute. You are completely in the dark.

Angela Eagle had the temerity to complain that the cuts would hit women, children and pensioners the hardest.

The fact is none of us fully know what cuts are going to happen or where. As I pointed out to her, we don’t like the prospect of making cuts. We don’t want to make them, but we have to because her Government left us almost bankrupt. They borrowed money we couldn’t repay and spent vast amounts of money we didn’t have. I said that instead of sitting in a studio complaining, she should be apologising for the cuts we are going to have to make.

She responded to this by saying the problem wasn’t to do with her Government, it was all the fault of the banks.

When I pointed out that her Government had admitted they were going to have to make cuts too, they just didn’t say where, she claimed that they had laid out clearly in March where and what Labour were going to cut.

Well, blow me down, did the whole country blink and miss that then? Because I don’t remember seeing any Labour politician on Newsnight back in March spelling out to us what cuts they were going to make.

But in true Newsnight fashion, Labour got the most time, the biggest shout and of course, Jeremy Paxman knew full well that Labour had never spelt out what they were cutting, or where, that it wasn’t all about the banks and that we don’t know where the knives are going to fall yet - but he just let the nonsense trip from her lips.

I must try that one day. Appear on Newsnight re-write very recent history and see if Paxman will just sit there and let me get away with it.
Heres the link it's 39.30 into the programme. You can see Angela Eagle tell us what she thinks should be done to improve the representation of women in the workplace........but forgot to mention at anytime over the last thirteen years whilst she was in office...

http://tinyurl.com/5fcey6