But were they TOLD they had to dress that way? Many blokes on tv do not wear ties anymore, and some dress in women even when appearing on the political stage - Eddy Izzard, for example?

If you read the post I was replying to you'd see that the point of me posting that was to agree with the post and provide some stats to make the point that people didn't vote en masse in a certain way just because of their skin colour.

There's an expectation in the (average/typical) workplace that men will wear a suit and tie. In this instance Neil wears a tie when he fronts The Daily Politics and Sunday Politics but not when he does This Week on Thursday night. I daresay if he wanted to go tieless on TDP/SP then the producer would step in and tell him it wasn't appropriate as clearly, he doesn't do it.

Grayson Perry and Eddie Izzard don't equate to a broader sense of men cross-dressing in the workplace.

Skiving Wrighty.

Is Madeley persona non grata now?

At least it's not Hardup.

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Smutty blow-job pun from Storm. Like it.

Why do we have to have wittering Penny Smith presenting ? she's awful.
Where's Richard ? or even Ann Diamond.
Hope she's not on next week.

Her chat with Matlock was excrutiating. Wrighty has his faults but he knows his music and that badly needed his input.

Smith not even giving us the courtesy of an excuse for The Sick Man of Europe's absence. Rude if you ask me.

I thought wrighty mentioned it yesterday that he was going on holiday but so quickly you'd miss it if you were not paying attention.

Smith is wittering and interrupting away.

I would prefer some dick please

Janet Ellis really gets on my nerves.



And her daughter (has she mentioned her yet?) can't sing.

He did? Another holiday??!?!

You'd think a talk-show host would be keen to stick around in these turbulent times. Lots to discuss.

She hasn't made a wholly decent album yet. I should know - I've bought all but one of them!

A mess of a programme today, it's all a shambles, wish Penny would just shut up

She still looks like shes being chewing wasps all week with that constant sneer on her face.

'where is the Guardian' says Glen. Around at Mumsnets house for latte

Such a slow start from Pen today I accidentally/ providentially went onto the 5 + 24 channel and I'm now watching the king of daytime Mattie. Much better show even if I did catch some of it yesterday. Hmmm the thought of Storms legs on later

Nadine Dorries has her knockers but I'm sure she can handle them.

'anarchy in the uk' more like shambles in the uk

'i wasn't born yesterday luv' glenn getting a bit tetchy with penny

They must be near the same age.

Louis f**king spence tomorrow. Dear god no and smith back again. Vodka time. Kev will save us, hopefully.

No Richard thank goodness.

I thought that as well she seemed worse than Matthew in the fact of talking all over everyone!..... I couldn't take it anymore I had to turn over............ WHERE IS RICHARD?, GET BACK HERE QUICK..........



He is on Loose women today!...... He's made a programme being a taxi driver!....... Can you imagine being driven by him?, good god... agony or what?, that's another programme I have had to turn over from!, the screeching and loud canned laughter is agony!.........

I shall just watch the end for Kev tomorrow, can't put up with Spence and the witterer on the same show.

I hope this is not Matthew's 'gone fishing fortnight' unless it's Richard next week of course.

I read a case of a woman taking an employer to a tribunal after that happened, and she won, so you could remind them of that.

will be cutting my toenails tomorrow night louis, a lot more interesting Vodka is taking a beating.

I'm really not keen on Penny Smith.
She is clearly a woman of some intelligence, but always chooses to act thick.
She was an utter embarassment on Pointless Celebrities, I recall.

Does she think acting silly and giggly is endearing?

Plugging a C5 show. Now his appearance makes spence! (see what I did there??? )

I think we are beyond scraping the barrel now. Spence is all me, me, me, me wheres my mirror

Kev is like a ray of light.