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On the latest episode of Question Time, I couldn't believe (well, I could) how slippery the Labour MP was (shadow Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson - who has been on Question Time before, they seem to have regulars who appear repeatedly on the programme). She dodged practically every question, though spouted plenty of empty blather spoken very confidently. One of the audience members piped up at the end and said she had avoided answering the questions and would she please do so, since he wanted to vote Labour and find reasons for doing so. By contrast, the Lib Dem MP (Daisy Cooper, deputy leader of Lib Dems) seemed far more direct and specific. Can't understand why the Lib Dems always seem so sensible, yet get hardly any support (currently polling behind Labour, Conservatives and Reform according to BBC).
Someone has been posting the episodes on YouTube, GM, including this funny, which I think still sums it up well!
I can understand why you stopped watching the programme, Wyot. With a lot of the politicians, you get the impression they're media savvy and that's it. Automatons that say nothing of substance.
We really need Johnny Monroe back with his spoof videos to cover the election. He did a brilliant series - posted to YouTube on the victoralucas38 channel, which sadly seems to have disappeared - about Operation Yewtree. Keir Starmer was made out to be a stammering robot, if I remember correcty. Rishi Sunak always seems to have a glassy-eyed unblinking stare too, so he may not be human either.
I think one of the reasons I gave up looking for it and then forget about it. Is that the BBC vet the audience to fit a narrative and an agenda. If an argument is not going the way the presenter talk over, whilst a certain MP is still responding to a question asked. We Got A Problem use to post clips of QT.
Actually the bbc use an independant company to select the audience to be representative across the political spectrum. Wathcing the episode from Aberdeen on 15/05 Alex Sammond was very good, he talked a lot of sense. Stephen Flynn of the SNP was an idiot and seemed to dominate about 70% of the talking, and it was mainly bollox.
Nigel Farage has said he's going to be back on Question Time tomorrow. Below is an open letter by an academic about bias on the programme (and perhaps not the kind of bias critics of the BBC would expect). Nigel Farage is apparently the non-MP panellist who has appeared most often on the programme.
Jo wrote: Nigel Farage has said he's going to be back on Question Time tomorrow. Below is an open letter by an academic about bias on the programme (and perhaps not the kind of bias critics of the BBC would expect). Nigel Farage is apparently the non-MP panellist who has appeared most often on the programme.
He follows the money but it's very odd when stands to become an MP, ballot boxes are either missing, turn up late or voting slips arrive in shopping bags.
Nigel Farage must be losing his touch. Of the panellists on the latest Question Time (Damian Hinds MP (schools minister), Wes Streeting (shadow health secretary), Nigel Farage (Reform UK’s honorary president and founder), Rose Hudson-Wilkin (bishop of Dover), and Piers Morgan www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001zqb1/q...n-time-2024-30052024), he was the only one who didn't get any applause. The panellists who, I think, talked the most sense, were Piers Morgan, the bishop and Wes Streeting, and Piers Morgan and the bishop seemed to get the most applause. This was in Epsom, which Fiona Bruce said has returned a Tory MP to Westminster for many years (though, as always, she said that the audience reflected political views across the country).
Also can't believe that Nigel Farage and Fiona Bruce are the same age: 60. He looks about 70 and she looks about 45!
Farage enjoys the sun, sea, hunting which can make you age. Also he is a drinker and a smoker.
I did see Farage when I worked in London years ago in a pub. He knew how to drink pints of real ale.
Piers, is a closet liberal and have always been. Jesse Ventura wiped the floor with him about CCTV.
The audience look like the usual lefty stereotype.
Wes Streeting seems a coward to me, and another Labour MP with a lisp. People who don't or can't drive have to deal with riff-raff on public transport everyday. I am sure he can afford a bodyguard or 2.
Then again I doubt he lives London anyway, most people don't who live in London. When I went to the O2 for Peter Gabriel gig. I did over hear a person say he has never seen farm yard animals in real life.
Tell me what the points in schools are. Noncing in schools is still happening. The teachers doing it now, just haven't been caught yet.
I hate religion and all religion. France is a safe country it's just the inner cities are a shit holes like the ones the UK and Ireland are.
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