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Question Time tonight

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.
Yeah, like that 'touch of left' when he point blank refused to acknowledge that Loach was correct in saying Debbie Abrahams had announced that LP policy was to do away with work capability assessments altogether?
Making it up as he went along, Starmer stated that 'some form of assessment' was necessary.
 
It's been a shitshow every week for as long as I can remember.

I was into it about 3 or 4 years ago, watching every week more or less. I think some of the wisecracking on Twitter made it more palatable. The genuinely terrible coalition government was an easy target. It seems less funny now, and Twitter is more flooded with joyless right-wing Guido types than the good old days, more hostility, more wet left off-target whinging. Pretty much no time for either QT or Twitter these days.
 
It's now in the BBC's charter that they have to spend half the programme discussing Brexit without actually saying anything.
Loach was great,particularly the bit where he chided Starmer for not appearing to know what his own party's policy is, advising him that he has good party leaders and suggesting that he listen to them more.Priceless.
 
At least we can be fairly confident that the first question won't be on Brexit this week (at least not directly).
 
No surprises with a republican tonight Jan Halper-Hayes
with Yvette Cooper, Dominac Raab, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Interesting to see how she gets on with JHH) and Professor Sarah Churchwell.
 
Watched a bit tonight, and had a look at the related twitter feed for the first time in forever.

It looks like the endless months of immigration questions ('you can't talk about immigration') and eurobollocks has bored out all the lefties and funny types from the twitter feed and it's now just populated by witless libertarian bellends shrieking about BBC bias and how the panal/audience is some kind of stitch up because nobody had a good word to say about Trump's pussy-grabbing antics.
 
What's the collective noun for reverse ferrets? I ask because Jan Halper-Hayes had changed her tone on Trump a lot from the C4 coverage of the presidential debates.
 
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Stirling.

panellists are:
Conservative MP Kwasi Kwarteng,
Labour's former Europe minister Chris Bryant MP,
the SNP's John Nicolson MP,
the editor of MoneyWeek magazine Merryn Somerset Webb
co-founder of the Radical Independence Campaign Cat Boyd.
 
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