Because "should we free paedophiles?" is so much easier to answer when the actual question is "should we allow people to ask to be taken off a list?", stooopid members of our deliciously brain dead public (and media) simply say green is red and blindly ignore the reality.

Doh!

David Mitchell made this same point more wittily on Ten O'Clock Live.

I fear that will always be the way. There is still hope. As one poster put here we need huge and vast improvements in education. We do I feel need to follow the Japanese way. Education should be part standard, and the other part life and economic study. We've a long way to go, and it wont happen in your lifetime JK, not mine, nor bairns. 200 years from now we may have got it right.

I thought the same. Watching stuff like that robs me of the will to live.

is that they said ?

I wish they would ask one question and get the answer...

"how does having a person sign some book once a year and knowing where they live-have them tell you if they are travelling abroad stop them committing a crime if they are disposed to do so" ?

The real scandal is the typre of polticians we get these days..career plonkers who would join any party depending on how their chances of success will be.

There are no more dedicated Labour or Conservative politicians who wish to advance their ideals (well not many).

The ignorance is astounding..like the fuckwit here who wanted crinminals 'chipped' like cats and dogs. He really thought the RSPCA sat there tracking missing fidos on a machine.

It's really scary when you consider that the typical Question Time audience probably has a significantly above average IQ to the general population. Imagine if they picked an audience composed entirely of Sun readers.

I don't really hold out much hope anymore for the human race. I don't think humans can be rescued from their stupidity via education until scientists develop ways of actually raising intelligence (and encouragingly, this is likely to happen within a couple of decades).

That thought still doesn't give me a great deal of hope. If humans became more intelligent it will probably only make them even more cunning and wicked and self-decietful. Apparently dolphins (because of their high iqs) are one of the few species other than humans who seem to take sadistic delight in causing other beings pain as an end in itself.

Probably also only the rich will be able to afford the new smart drugs and cognitive enhancements, so the gap in intelligence between the top and bottom layers of society will only increase, something which is arguably the root of the whole problem in the UK today.