Question Time tonight
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
It was good though.
Brings the divide back to the front if the debate.
As does the crap on Politics Live today where they thought they were trying to catch Labour out.
"Do you believe that someone earning £80k is rich? "Do you people who send their children to private schools are rich?" etc.
Maybe the bubble thinks that's a tricky question.
Brings the divide back to the front if the debate.
As does the crap on Politics Live today where they thought they were trying to catch Labour out.
"Do you believe that someone earning £80k is rich? "Do you people who send their children to private schools are rich?" etc.
Maybe the bubble thinks that's a tricky question.
Firstly, it should've been stated that the Telegraph hack was a former colleague of Johnson, in order to contextualise her comments.
Secondly, one questions her thinking when she utters the following: "We need the monarchy to be a national symbol of all that's great about Britain."
Secondly, one questions her thinking when she utters the following: "We need the monarchy to be a national symbol of all that's great about Britain."
Unlike killer b i have zero sympathy with the 80k it consultant-hoist with his own petard on national TV.Having said that it came as a surprise to me that those earning over 80k p.a are actually as small a segment of the UK population as five per cent.If the pay-structure of all large companies had to be made public on an annual basis it seems to me that this in itself would represent a radical step forward in tackling inequality and the divisions in our society.When no-one knows what the next guy or gal is earning it is,surely,an unhealthy situation.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
I was a bit surprised. I mean it's a right wage and people on 80k shouldn't be moaning but the 5% surprised me. Although if you look at the HMRC stats behind it, it does relate to income tax only, so excludes those who pay themselves a lower income and take dividend - which is how a high proportion of big earners will operate
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I don't think a lot of people on around that salary do much in the way of tax avoidance which would take them out of the figures, at least not IME - it just isn't a very large sector of the population. It's a very mouthy one though, with a lot of connection to journalists, and they don't recognise that they are unusual because that's the world they live in.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
I don't really mean active tax avoidance, just that a lot of big earners aren't employees. No company director is going to pay everything as income. But yeah I don't think it will throw the figures out massively
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Finally got around to watching the QT special yesterday. It wasn't worth it. My advice to those wondering whether to catch up is don't bother. Swinson came off by far the worst, but there wasn't one spectacular car crash moment, it was more of a slow burn of disaster over 30 minutes. Johnson was Johnson. If you aren't taken in by him, you'll have seen what you normally see. I have no idea what it is that people who like him are seeing, but no doubt whatever it is was there as usual. Corbyn was similarly himself. Slightly muted, unpolished, and occasionally tetchy, though he seemed to notice and reigned those moments in, successfully making a joke out of the most noticeable one of those. He warmed up as time went on, but never really shone. His summing up minute was awkward and untelegenic. Sturgeon came off best, but also had less hostility from the audience. It was nevertheless an assured performance, polished but without smarm.
However, I learned nothing. It was the most I'd ever seen of Swinson, and that's certainly not something I hope ever to repeat.
However, I learned nothing. It was the most I'd ever seen of Swinson, and that's certainly not something I hope ever to repeat.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Christ all fucking mighty, Lionel Shriver is a special kind of twat. 
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Agree, though his intervention did seem designed to get over one fact above all others to the world which was I earn 80k.
Christ all fucking mighty, Lionel Shriver is a special kind of twat.
She didn't come across wonderfully, did she? I don't know her history, so does she have form in this area?
I thought McDonald did alright, and it was fun seeing Lewis laughed at for his mathematical skills.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Don't really know anything about her tbh. But she was a disgrace last night.
Yeh, that guy grilling Lewis was brilliant.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
She was on once a couple of years ago (at least). The only thing I can remember her saying was that everyone should be like Ireland with ultra low corporation taxes.
Thick as two planks.
philosophical
Well-Known Member
It mystifies me what differentiates some panellists from audience members. At least Owen Jones has a working life of some kind, but that Kate Andrews from 'The Institute of Economic Affairs' is an invention, a con that she should be so elevated.
I am founder of 'The Lewisham Forum of World Development' and have loads of opinions but never get invited on to Question Time, yet some of those vacuums are on endlessly.
People can get political punditry gigs simply for being opinionated without ever having actually done anything.
I am founder of 'The Lewisham Forum of World Development' and have loads of opinions but never get invited on to Question Time, yet some of those vacuums are on endlessly.
People can get political punditry gigs simply for being opinionated without ever having actually done anything.
Think Tank wonks shouldn't be invited on any broadcast media discussion unless their organisation reveals the sources of their funding.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You forgot the nano-thermite.
Doctor Carrot
Marxist Henchman
Bruce really is fucking awful 'ill just add in, not taking a view on it but Priti Patel says it's not racist' well fuck! That's me convinced.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
Twitter seems to be full of people calling him a bellend this morning. I had to look him up but it doesn't seem out of character.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Part of the Fox clan of actors. Apart from the racism thing, he must be quoted in the air travel thread 
"He replied: “Yes, my carbon foot print is huge.
“But obviously we make up for it by preaching to everyone else how they should change their lifestyles."
"He replied: “Yes, my carbon foot print is huge.
“But obviously we make up for it by preaching to everyone else how they should change their lifestyles."
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Didn't know who he was and didn't watch question time because why would you so I wikipediad him, interesting 
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