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Question Time tonight

Right...that's been turned off. The usual garbage of politicians shouting. I had a faint hope early on when it sounded like someone was shooting a gun.
 
Fair point; though from the same profession.

Louise Bours; sure does.

You could actually go clean off your rocker if you were locked in a room with her and she just ranted like she normally does.

This probably means she'll be Prime Minister after Nigel suffers a stroke.
 
You could actually go clean off your rocker if you were locked in a room with her and she just ranted like she normally does.

This probably means she'll be Prime Minister after Nigel suffers a stroke.
She'd still be reading from her ukip script
 
All of them go on and on about NHS Managers and true a few are paid too much, but I'd imagine the NHS takes a fuck of a lot of managing, the buildings, the IT, the vehicles etc. Perhaps all these moaners think these things should be managed by surgeons or podiatrists in their lunch hours.
 
What are the opportunities for decent debate and discussion, as QT is so anemic?

Whet can I find good radio, TV (even), or podcasts/online media to download.

my radio is tuned to bbc and its so depressing. For some reason I listen to a bit of either radio4 or, god forgive me, radio Bristol, which is just dire.

I crave an alternative. There's just nothing I'm aware of.
 
Has TTIP ever been mentioned, let alone discussed, on QT?

Expanding on this, has Ukip ever been pressed on its policy correlation with Washington? The US has a much smaller population than continental Europe, but, on foreign policy especially, Downing Street always seems to go with the White House's decisions.
 
UKIP still has no manifesto, afaict. They promised it would be ready by their conference.

Or was the Bigots Calypso the manifesto put to music?
 
UKIP still has no manifesto, afaict.

Hence McCluskey's jibe to Bours.

Ukip spin doctors have a variation on the Tories' and Lib Dems' standard "Well inherited this awful economic mess from the previous administration" spiel when they don't know the answer to a question. They simply quote some stats on immigrants of dubious relevance/accuracy.
 
UKIP still has no manifesto, afaict. They promised it would be ready by their conference.

Or was the Bigots Calypso the manifesto put to music?

It's a lot easier to appeal to floating voters if you avoid taking a clear stand on anything. Whatever they do come up with will most likely alienate the kind of people they want to attract come the next election by being too mental, either that or it will alienate their long term supporters by not being mental enough.

Farage has been given a very easy ride about the fact his party has no policies. People attack him on immigration and the EU which is exactly what he wants because that's his bailiwick. He knows he can spout his dubious statistics and spurious arguments over and over again when he's talking about immigration, safe in the knowledge that the people he wants to appeal to aren't going to look into the facts because it's not facts they're after but rather a set of excuses for prejudices they already have.
 
I am terrified by how powerful UKIP will have to become before people actually realise what they are. I am worried that by then they will have too much momentum. In fact, that's probably a reasonable interpretation of the Nazi's rise to power and that didn't exactly have a jolly ending.
 
It's a lot easier to appeal to floating voters if you avoid taking a clear stand on anything. Whatever they do come up with will most likely alienate the kind of people they want to attract come the next election by being too mental, either that or it will alienate their long term supporters by not being mental enough.

Farage has been given a very easy ride about the fact his party has no policies. People attack him on immigration and the EU which is exactly what he wants because that's his bailiwick. He knows he can spout his dubious statistics and spurious arguments over and over again when he's talking about immigration, safe in the knowledge that the people he wants to appeal to aren't going to look into the facts because it's not facts they're after but rather a set of excuses for prejudices they already have.
I rang their head office (not sure about the cost of calls to Transylvania these days) to ask about their policies regarding climate and benefits. They just gave me Roger Helmer's email address. They didn't know who would deal with benefit policy so I left it at that. Helmer, massage loving homophobe and enemdy of science, is their environment person. The mind weeps.
 
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