Monday 11 March 2019

DEWBERRY VS MASON

Following on from last week's bruising encounter between Corbynista author Will Self and Tory MP Mark Francois, Politics Live put on another ding dong battle today.  Pitting entrepreneur Michelle Dewberry against the far left Labour activist and journalist Paul Mason this was even more epic in scale.

Michelle stood as an independent in her hometown of Hull back in 2017 and invoked the wrath of Momentum trolls in doing so.  Rather than condemn their actions and move on, Mason takes on a typically hard left defensive posture and demands 'evidence'.  The ensuing battle lasted the remainder of the programme and led to an off-air exchange between the pair that Michelle was very unhappy about...


Michelle has since tweeted to further expand on the off-air exchange...