Question Time tonight

[chilango]

There should be more heckling and booing of, and less reasoning with, QT panelists and their ilk.

Politics isn't a debate it's a war.

 

[Leftwinger1992]

No.

Who do you normally vote for?

 

[Buckaroo]

Who do you normally vote for?

Now this is Question Time tonight!

 

[Pickman's model]

Who do you normally vote for?

None of them, it only encourages them if you show interest

 

[Leftwinger1992]

None of them, it only encourages them if you show interest

Fair enough.

 

[DotCommunist]

There should be more heckling and booing of, and less reasoning with, QT panelists and their ilk.

Politics isn't a debate it's a war.

audience can be just as bad, quivering with a righteousness of question like this is yalta rather than a handful of crooks and hacks and bollocks. All the questions hit the beats of the journalistic cycle of this month except rarely. Dimbleby acts like he is the grand inquisitor. Load of sideshow bollocks. Blatant plants as well. CBA these days, I mean conrad fucking black? last days of...

 

[brogdale]

There should be more heckling and booing of, and less reasoning with, QT panelists and their ilk.

Politics isn't a debate it's a war.

Come on, it's Friday evening...you can do better than that!

 

[butchersapron]

There should be more heckling and booing of, and less reasoning with, QT panelists and their ilk.

Politics isn't a debate it's a war.

Which is why you shouldn't watch it. Doing so says looks at our lovely politics, amn't we great?

 

[chilango]

Come on, it's Friday evening...you can do better than that!

I'm tired. A boo and a heckle is probably all I can muster right now.

As it happens last nights QT was the first I've seen for years (well, heard, I listened to it on R5) and the heckling was the only bit that didn't anger me.

 

[J Ed]

Cuddly Ken - grand a time. Cuddly NF cuddly Ken.

He's pro-EU so liberals like him, or at least like him more than other Tories.

 

[redsquirrel]

There should be more heckling and booing of, and less reasoning with, QT panelists and their ilk.

Politics isn't a debate it's a war.

Yeah, fuck all this poor MP nonsense. These people are my enemies.

 

[Leftwinger1992]

Here is the line-up for tonight's Question Time. Greg Clark MP (Conservative), Keir Starmer MP (Labour), Sal Brinton (Lib Dems), Ken Loach (film director) and Dia Chakravarty (Taxpayers' Alliance). Should be lively with Ken Loach on it.

 

[butchersapron]

Six people on the show - every single one oxbridge.

 

[stavros]

So allied that the vast majority of taxpayers have nothing to do with them.

 

[Leftwinger1992]

At least three of those are regulars as well, namely Greg Clark, Sal Brinton and Dia Chakravarty. I wish they could find different panellists as it does get repetitive and dull after a while.

 

[weltweit]

Why is QT on so late?

Why couldn't it be on at 9pm for example?

 

[brogdale]

Why is QT on so late?

Why couldn't it be on at 9pm for example?

Has to be after the bullshit-shed.

 

[redsquirrel]

Why is QT on so late?

Why couldn't it be on at 9pm for example?

Because it's tedious rubbish appealing to a minority of people and the BBC doesn't want it clogging up primetime.

 

[Dogsauce]

I'm wondering if it's got significantly worse, or if I've just got more cynical. Seems to be the same fucking topic week after week, same faces, same answers. Goes nowhere.

 

[Leftwinger1992]

Indeed. Favourite topics at the moment are the EU, immigration and the future of the Labour Party. Don't be surprised if all three topics come up again tonight.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I'm wondering if it's got significantly worse, or if I've just got more cynical. Seems to be the same fucking topic week after week, same faces, same answers. Goes nowhere.

It's been a shitshow every week for as long as I can remember.

 

[butchersapron]

It was supposed to be getting the axe in the late 2000s. Nick griffin saved it.

 

[J Ed]

It was supposed to be getting the axe in the late 2000s. Nick griffin saved it.

A real shame

 

[treelover]

Keir Starmer just made the link between the WCA, sanctions and the suicides explicit, though he didn't seem to accept LP policy to abolish the WCA.

 

[Leftwinger1992]

What a breath of fresh air Ken Loach was on Question Time tonight - straight talking, compassionate and a true socialist. Brilliant.

 

[nuffsaid]

IDS was on the Today programme this morning on R4. He was asked to respond to Ken's comments on QT and to the narrative of his film, that's pretty much an indictment of the DWP.

IDS countered saying the film portrays every bad scenario happening all at once to one person, that you don't have to submit only online and he was most upset that Jobcentre workers were poorly portrayed and that the majority want to help people.
But he couldn't get away from the premise that a lot of people live in fear, fear of their benefits being withdrawn.

Wish I'd seen QT but as others said it's on a tad too late for my sleepy eyes.

 

[treelover]

IDS countered saying the film portrays every bad scenario happening all at once to one person, that you don't have to submit only online and he was most upset that Jobcentre workers were poorly portrayed and that the majority want to help people.

That is the strategy Greg Hands used and fwis a lot of the audience agreed with him, Ken could have retaliated by mentioning how DWP staff are also treated badly the Govt and how many have been sacked.

 

[ash]

That is the strategy Greg Hands used and fwis a lot of the audience agreed with him, Ken could have retaliated by mentioning how DWP staff are also treated badly the Govt and how many have been sacked.

Tbf he did say that they worked under a lot of pressure and constraints and had sanction targets to meet.

 

[Pickman's model]

That is the strategy Greg Hands used and fwis a lot of the audience agreed with him, Ken could have retaliated by mentioning how DWP staff are also treated badly the Govt and how many have been sacked.

but what would you have said?

 

[Mr Moose]

Interesting watching Starmer, perhaps the Labour Party's most likely 'unity' successor to Corbo, or up there at least with Sadiq. Touches of left and touches of Blair.