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Farron on HIGNFY: Live blog

By | Fri 27th November 2015 - 9:00 pm

Tim Farron on HIGNFY It’s almost 9pm and time for this week’s hotly awaited Have I got News for You. Have you got your popcorn and glass of wine ready? We’re about to be off…

So Tim’s on Paul’s team..

If you are only just seeing this now and haven’t watched the programme, you can do so here on iPlayer.

First question is about the Russian jet shot down by Turkey. Ian’s already had a bit of a go at Tim “It’s ok for you to have an opinion, you’re not going to be PM for a while.” Bit of self-deprecating humour from Tim: “I don’t need to write to my MPs, I can just talk to them.” He was making a little huddle sign with his arms at this point.

  Then the conversation got to the Autumn Statement. Tweets were shown from all parties taking credit for the tax credits u-turn. Tim missed a trick there – he could have slipped in that Labour didn’t vote for our motion to kill tax credits cuts in the Lords but, hell, this is a comedy programme, after all.

Not seeing the resemblance, myself:

Well, there’s a surprise. Jo Brand just did a brilliant impression of Tony Benn singing Alesha Dixon and Tim seemed to recognise it. Not his kind of music, I would have thought. Brilliant tip for women of a certain age from Jo Brand – Solpadeine Plus. One of several such smartass tweets:

First compared to Ian Hislop, then Russell Brand

And it’s all over: Ian and Josh win 6-4. I feel slightly short-changed. There was almost no Tim for the last 10 minutes. Perhaps we’ll see more of him on the extended version, Have I Got More News for You, on Monday night. And some post match analysis:

A rather more circumspect analysis:

The guest publication this week was a magazine about ferrets.

High praise from unexpected quarters:


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