Question Time - Hugh Grant - MP's Were Terrified of News International [07.07.2011]

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  • Опубликовано: 8 июл 2011
  • Question Time, the BBC's premier political debate programme came from Basingstoke on Thursday 7 July.
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    David Dimbleby was joined by:
    • Employment Minister - Chris Grayling
    • Shadow foreign secretary - Douglas Alexander
    • Liberal Democrat peer Baroness - Shirley Williams.
    • Actor - Hugh Grant
    • Broadcaster and columnist - Jon Gaunt.
    In this video, Hugh Grant talks about although the Labour Party had fourteen years to do something about the Murdoch problem, he understands why they didn't.
    Grant says: "You were frightened of falling out with Murdoch because at that time you still probably thought he could get you elected, but more importantly, this is the sinister business, there's an individual threat going on. MP's were terrified individually of taking on any of the tabloids, but especially anything from News International."
    Thanks to the BBC.
    Saturday 9th July 2011

Комментарии • 85

  • @livl5168
    @livl5168 3 года назад +57

    I love Hugh grant and all of his films but after discovering his involvement in politics and looking into it, he really is very intelligent and big ups to him for fighting the big guys.

    • @darwincity
      @darwincity 2 года назад +1

      Oddly enough, I hated him as an actor and as a person when I was younger (mostly due to the cockiness), but his firm actions and advocacy against phone hacking and the actions of News International have made me reevaluate the man.

    • @tommckellen342
      @tommckellen342 Год назад

      Rupert Murdoch and his sons are also major pedophiles.

  • @roloug95
    @roloug95 6 лет назад +127

    Extremely rare case of an actor actually knowing what he's talking about when it comes to politics.

    • @quiktime
      @quiktime 3 года назад +1

      @Socrates @

    • @vonteflon
      @vonteflon 3 года назад

      @Aldiss Derleth In many cases because they’re corrupt and arrogant. The corruption means there’s dirt for the tabloids to use and ruin their reputations, and they’ve been too arrogant to cover their tracks.
      I love in hope that eventually a big enough group of MPs grow backbones and decide to collectively take in the UK’s rotten, corrupt media, and that includes everything from the Murdoch & Rothermere gutter press to the BBC, which now offers nothing but client journalism and government propaganda. The MPs currently in power of course have no inclination to address this stinking issue, because without them they wouldn’t be in power.

    • @jooger69
      @jooger69 3 года назад

      @Aldiss Derleth Even if you are a saint the press can still misrepresent facts and ruin peoples reputation and lives.

    • @booth2710
      @booth2710 3 года назад

      yes and this wasn't it

    • @apjpisared
      @apjpisared 3 года назад

      ​@@jooger69 Two words; Jeremy Corbyn. Somehow simultaeneously a communist spy for Czechoslovakia, a Nazi sympathising Jew hater, a misogynist, a national security threat, a Russian sleeper agent, an IRA asset, a Hezbollah consort and ashamed to sing the national anthem. Most English people and Brits to this day still defend the monstrous lies told about that man, all because they could not defeat him in an honest political debate until the public bought Johnson's Brexit deal lies. Only in Britain and America do such smear campaigns brainwash so many people. In a parallel universe he won or lost that election based on his ideological and political merits, not based on irrational fear and hatred. Any intelligent person would say Corbyn cannot be every single thing the 'press' has ever called him..

  • @BossySwan
    @BossySwan 13 лет назад +46

    Grant was magnificent on Question Time.

  • @creolelady182
    @creolelady182 13 лет назад +57

    Grant has got a lot of guts to take on pit viper tabloids. The masses have to wake up and not be influenced or intimidated by so called negative information that IS USED TO DESTROY A PUBLIC PERSONS LIFE.

  • @killbotone6210
    @killbotone6210 Год назад +2

    I'm innocent.....in this one 😂😂😂
    Hats off to Hugh Grant.

  • @Malusdarkblade
    @Malusdarkblade 12 лет назад +49

    I am not a fan of his films, but Huge has all of a sudden warmed to me greatly. He should do more politics often, he is good with words.

    • @NOONE-cd4gu
      @NOONE-cd4gu 4 года назад

      Its Hugh 😂😂not Huge 😂😂

    • @maireadkearney7657
      @maireadkearney7657 3 года назад +2

      He graduated from Oxford university with a first in English ! :)

    • @XPRT10R
      @XPRT10R 3 года назад

      Also, what you meant to say was that YOU warmed to HIM, not the other way round.

    • @thegoodsgone1965
      @thegoodsgone1965 3 года назад +2

      I'm a fan of his films and his words.

    • @vc5183
      @vc5183 3 года назад

      He’ll be devastated to hear you’re not a fan of his films.

  • @liamgriffiths9760
    @liamgriffiths9760 3 года назад +38

    Love Actually was right. Hugh Grant for PM

  • @russelltyler9363
    @russelltyler9363 4 года назад +14

    Proof of just how charismatic Hugh Grant is.

  • @bommmmmmmm
    @bommmmmmmm 12 лет назад +14

    I never rated him much as an actor, but my respect has gone up for him 10 fold after watching him on QT

  • @mikeyk212
    @mikeyk212 3 года назад +8

    Grant puts politicians to shame

  • @katehobbs2008
    @katehobbs2008 3 года назад +5

    Intelligent and courageous

  • @livl5168
    @livl5168 3 года назад +11

    4:01 dont u dare try to hurry Hugh grant up.

  • @livl5168
    @livl5168 3 года назад +5

    I don’t understand how u can not like him??

    • @timsplanet2
      @timsplanet2 3 года назад

      You also don’t understand punctuation.

  • @51gan788
    @51gan788 4 года назад +16

    Nothing much has changed, given that Boris Johnson was just elected by the media

  • @lizclegg7556
    @lizclegg7556 10 лет назад +3

    Is this full episode of Question Time anywhere on RUclips?

  • @letmeouttamycage
    @letmeouttamycage 9 лет назад +39

    Was Hugh grant in character here or are all his roles just based on how he is IRL?

    • @maireadkearney7657
      @maireadkearney7657 3 года назад

      He is Daniel Cleaver, I’m convinced .

    • @vonteflon
      @vonteflon 3 года назад +5

      Used to think that myself, but his effort in The Gentlemen, (and less so Paddington 2!), have convinced me he can be versatile. He generally chooses not to be, because he doesn’t need to!

    • @robertmcelwaine7024
      @robertmcelwaine7024 3 года назад +2

      @@vonteflon His performance in The Gentleman was revelatory.

    • @rumblefish9
      @rumblefish9 3 года назад +1

      @@vonteflon The Undoing too. Anyone who saw Maurice and Remains of the Day already know he had it in him as a versatile actor all along.

    • @rumblefish9
      @rumblefish9 2 года назад

      @@seandomhnallosullivan2544 why would he be a secret tory when he's their biggest critic. I mean his Twitter is solely dedicated to mocking boris and the rest of them.

  • @seasongchronicle7760
    @seasongchronicle7760 3 года назад +4

    This should have more hits. I'm sharing the shit out of it. Brilliant. Murdoch Propaganda has no business in Media.

  • @vapeymcvape5000
    @vapeymcvape5000 3 года назад +3

    Well, I'm impressed.

  • @pps900
    @pps900 3 года назад +1

    I left the UK 15yrs ago. You dont realise what the British tabloids are like until you are away from them for a while

  • @bradlopez5154
    @bradlopez5154 3 года назад +2

    Time passed and we are basically back to normal with the tabloid press.

  • @samlatifi3254
    @samlatifi3254 5 лет назад +6

    The Fountainhead in real life. Everyone is terrified of this media moghul.

  • @rjohnners
    @rjohnners 12 лет назад +21

    I always thought grant was always up his own arse! Definitely a new found respect for him!

    • @livl5168
      @livl5168 3 года назад +2

      He’s a very sarcastic person he’s not actually up his own arse

    • @suzannerossiter1682
      @suzannerossiter1682 3 года назад +1

      rjohnners he's also very witty with a dry sense of humour. He's very good on Top Gear.

  • @samlatifi3254
    @samlatifi3254 5 лет назад +11

    Hugh Grant = Hero

  • @VinnyCS256
    @VinnyCS256 Год назад

    Hugh Grant Is The King Of Movies

  • @nickm8874
    @nickm8874 2 года назад

    That high level arrests and soon, didn’t age well did it 😔

  • @Martin_Whiteside
    @Martin_Whiteside 3 года назад

    Why the possessive apostrophe in MPs ? This is the nominative case, not the possessive. This is an absolutely disgraceful solecism.

  • @diagreen
    @diagreen 13 лет назад

    @dwyercatherine I WISH the media would not let his death fall under the radar.suspicious to say the least.

  • @midianholic
    @midianholic 13 лет назад +3

    Grant pwned Douglas Alexander.

  • @obaidCarkey
    @obaidCarkey 13 лет назад

    @dwyercatherine
    what about robert maxwell and the mirror?
    dead maxwell was on the payroll of mossad without being paid. he ratted mordeachai vanunu out to mossad who arrested him.

  • @anarchosolar
    @anarchosolar 12 лет назад

    VODAFONE was always allowed NOT to pay billions in taxes !!

  • @killbotone6210
    @killbotone6210 Год назад

    Crikey....gosh.

  • @kirstinetermansen2213
    @kirstinetermansen2213 2 года назад

    You been driving in to media. ' clowns agresivitet'

  • @diagreen
    @diagreen 13 лет назад +3

    HE DID IT.AN ACTOR BRINGING DOWN AN EVIL EMPIRE.HES THE CURE FOR THE DISEASE

  • @ImranAhmed-bm1os
    @ImranAhmed-bm1os Год назад

    I love hugh grant

  • @agatagarcia8065
    @agatagarcia8065 3 года назад +1

    Ya no lleváis mascarilla, menos mal!!!! De ésto no hace 9 años. Os están engañando!!!! Es ahora!!! NUNCA HA HABIDO NADA!!!!

  • @kirstinetermansen2213
    @kirstinetermansen2213 2 года назад

    They killed. A Queen. God

  • @U2QuoZepplin
    @U2QuoZepplin 4 года назад +1

    Unfortunately I think Hugh Grant gets associated with his foppish stammering persona in “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” by a lot of people and he’s actually a much better actor than that. There was a period problem in the 1990’s where that was the only character he seemed to play in movies. Now we don’t see so much of him in movies and cinema I hope he’s doing proper acting or directing or writing in proper theatre . I think he’s a lot more talented than people give him credit for.

    • @livl5168
      @livl5168 3 года назад

      I’m glad that recently he’s been doing less romcom type roles and he seems to be really enjoying his political job which is great

    • @00pugsly48
      @00pugsly48 3 года назад +1

      Check out the gentlemen if you haven’t seen it. He’s good in that and completely different.

    • @rumblefish9
      @rumblefish9 2 года назад +2

      The Gentlemen, A Very English Scandal and The Undoing.

  • @Philippositivtea
    @Philippositivtea 6 лет назад +1

    Rotherham happened. Telford,.....,......,... oh everywhere, well Hugh what are you saying to that? Andrew Norfolk is a hero you’re not.