Stephen Pound & the G Spot

I spent an hour this afternoon chairing a Question Time panel for the British Youth Council conference. Taking part were Stephen Pound, Simon Hughes, Chloe Smith and Green MEP Jean Lambert. About 180 16-18 year olds were attending, and a feisty lot they were too.

Stephen Pound didn't get off to a good start because he was the only panel member to speak against the idea of votes for 16 year olds. But he quickly recovered in his next answer on the cuts and delivered quite the most unashamedly populist bit of rabble rousing I've heard since, well, the last one I did myself. Having almost got a standing ovation and whipped up the audience into a frenzy he was then brought down to earth when I delivered a line which got a bigger laugh than he did (and that's quite difficult to achieve, let me tell you). I looked straight at the audience and said in the most deadpan style I could conjure up...

And that ladies and gentlemen, was Mr Stephen Pound, whose latest book "How
to Whip up An Audience By Finding Its G Spot" is on sale outside....

Judging by the audience reaction there would be quite a few purchasers if Mr P was ever to put pen to paper...

But maybe you had to be there...