HW: OFF - Mike Holmes on TV

[Iain Ferguson]

Mike,

Deep Sympathies for the terrible misquoting..

Tell who's is the dream , is it Kevin McClouds or George Fergusons, I'd
love to hear it being george.... Ohhh yes..

hey and does george wear his red trousers , he always seems to while he
walks round bristol , buying property and making fricking eyesores....


iain ferguson

M Holmes wrote on 19/12/2005, 14:27:

 > Alan Taylor writes:
 >
 > > Anyone just see Mike on Channel 4's Demolition program, talking about
 > > the Scottish Parliament building?
 >
 > Bastards. I made it very clear that I was against the building because of
 > the cost overrun (435 million instead of the quoted 39 million) and
 > all the lying about it by the politicians and their evil minions, rather
 > than anything particularly about the architecture. I asked that if the
 > used anything, to quote me as saying "Knock it down and give them a
 > cowshed and deckchairs: the more comfortable they are, the more often
 > they'll meet, and the worse off we'll all become."
 >
 > Instead they quote an offhand line about how it looks like a Hall of
 > Residence. To cap it all they have some wanker saying how democracy is
 > all very well, but if the voters get it wrong, the results are best left
 > to "experts". So basically the whole program is about one guy's wank
 > fantasy about knocking down buildings he doesn't like, and to cover this
 > up they have a sham vote to pretend that the public will get a say.
 >
 > For this I've used up another two an a half seconds of my fifteen
 > minutes.
 >
 > Media folks: Pah. They're as bad as politicians. I should have known
 > better than to get involved with 'em.
 >
 > FoFP
 >