I suspect the connection just fucked up, as they're prone to do.
Does anyone have an idea why QT Extra Time isn't available on the radio iplayer this week? It normally is.
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I suspect the connection just fucked up, as they're prone to do.
Does anyone have an idea why QT Extra Time isn't available on the radio iplayer this week? It normally is.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Compassion?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Rachel Clarke, a Doctor (and Labour Party member according to Tory goons twitter) has destroyed Robert Buckland tonight. A measured, forensic report by her on the criminal negligence of the government in respect of social care.
A lack of PPE, the impossibility of social distancing, vulnerable people dying alone, exhausted, terrified and overwhelmed staff on minimum wage, chronic underfunding and a sector now collapsing.
Harrowing, emotional and makes you feel like committing serious violence against the bastard political class who’ve created this social care crisis and avoidable deaths of the elderly and disabled.
Have to say Nandy has scored some direct hits too, especially on why the poorest are being forced to work and what measures are being taken to protect them.
A lack of PPE, the impossibility of social distancing, vulnerable people dying alone, exhausted, terrified and overwhelmed staff on minimum wage, chronic underfunding and a sector now collapsing.
Harrowing, emotional and makes you feel like committing serious violence against the bastard political class who’ve created this social care crisis and avoidable deaths of the elderly and disabled.
Have to say Nandy has scored some direct hits too, especially on why the poorest are being forced to work and what measures are being taken to protect them.
Shechemite
Be the sun and all will see you
Might watch this. Will be on iPlayer I’m guessing
I shit you not: not only is Grant Shapps/Michael Green/Sebastian Fox (delete as applicable) on tonight, they've also gone and booked Gideon too.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Well I'm not sure exactly what Osbourne said but unemployment (officially) is was low by 2016, and during the coalition years reached a height of 8.3% (compare that that other counties during the GFC)
Well I'm not sure exactly what Osbourne said but unemployment (officially) is was low by 2016, and during the coalition years reached a height of 8.3% (compare that that other counties during the GFC)
I took it as him citing the number of jobs, without going into the nature of those jobs.
I wasn't comfortable with having two Tory politicians on the panel, no matter that Osborne might protest that he's now a journalist (as well as about five other jobs I believe). He and Shapps were in the cabinet together less than five years ago.
Would there be any value with displaying the original question onscreen for the duration of the panel's responses? Lesson 1.01 in the how to be an MP is the various methods of obfuscation, and cabinets past and present have been experts. It could be seen as patronising to the viewers.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Well I'm not sure exactly what Osbourne said but unemployment (officially) is was low by 2016, and during the coalition years reached a height of 8.3% (compare that that other counties during the GFC)
Probably doesn't affect what you said but that graph is inaccurate from the 1970s onwards, and greatly underestimates the number of people unemployed.
After '71 governments reduced the unemployment figures by progressively transferring people to sickness/invalidity benefit. I redrew this a few years ago from figures I got from a research organization. Typically enough I can't find the original research but the same thing seems to be covered here. Even so, my graph underestimates the figures by not showing people on training schemes and those who have dropped out of the benefits system altogether. As I recall (and it was a few years ago as I said) the original researchers said the figures have been changed so often since as to make comparisons meaningless.
Calamity1971
If Mr Peanut says It's okay, then it is.
Never heard of this Tory twat . Did someone brief him and say, ' don't look at your panel members, stare straight at the camera, look confident as if you believe what shite your spewing'.
He's weirding me out .
He's weirding me out .
That was noticeably weird, I agree. I suppose we should be grateful that he didn't do any Johnson-esque arm thrusts.
The questions seem to have got very long, and full of personal opinion, since they got rid of the audience.
hash tag
Books, not bombs
I feel tonight is the night we should swamp QT with a variety of questions about Johnson and Cummings..nearly a million on this single petition cannot be wrong Sign the Petition
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Ridiculously inaccurate...in 2016 you were counted as employed if you were on a zero-hour contract or working one hour every two weeks. And the figures don't include all the sanctioned people or those denied benefits either which has been massive for the last decade under the regime since cameron and austerity.
two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Yes totally. That's why the researchers said you couldn't trust the figures any more. They changed the way they were counted so often that you can't make draw any conclusions from the statistics. Also not to mention that they are totally different jobs - like you say zero hours contracts, also short-term contracts and agency contracts rather than the jobs with pensions up to the 80s.
Nadhim Zahawi for the Tories and David Lammy for Labour tonight, repeating last week's Any Questions. I suspect we might get a second subject this evening, and I'm sure I've heard Lammy be quite articulate on socio-racial issues in the past.
Hopefully there's also time to keep Cummings-gate going.
Hopefully there's also time to keep Cummings-gate going.
ska invita
back on the other side
The future.............
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
At least three of them will have been strung up as enemies of the class before they could get to that ageThe future.............
I'd heard of Rocco Forte before, but hadn't experienced his rampant Tory-ism. Further research revealed he's a major donor to them, something the BBC should've mentioned in his intro.
Grant Shapps on Any Questions last week used the "Some of my best friends..." defence, citing Patel, Sunak and Sharma being in the cabinet as evidence of the Tories being progressive.
Grant Shapps on Any Questions last week used the "Some of my best friends..." defence, citing Patel, Sunak and Sharma being in the cabinet as evidence of the Tories being progressive.
not a trot
Well-Known Member
Fortes father was a Tory loving cunt as well.
New series last night, so why not please the new DG by having two Tories on?
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Fuck Question Time, frankly. Not current affairs journalism, just grandstanding bullshit that fits into political agendas, with audience stooges to boot. I used to watch it, get animated, but what really is the point?
not a trot
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Portillos jacket gave me a headache.
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