Question Time tonight

[DexterTCN]

So many Stirling voices...it's wonderful.

 

[brogdale]

Bryant really is fucking hopeless; he hasn't got a coherent position on anything.

 

[DexterTCN]

I cancelled my tv licence last week

 

[extra dry]

I know the one of the film crew, operating the boom. Question time was always a favourite just see politicians squirm.

 

[danny la rouge]

Don't ask me, I don't care where they studied

Why not?

 

[weltweit]

Why not?

I am interested in what they have to say for themselves rather than which Uni they went to.

 

[danny la rouge]

I am interested in what they have to say for themselves rather than which Uni they went to.

This is why you're a liberal.

The overrepresention of Oxbridge and Ivy League alumni on the panels (over time as well as in this instance) is a structural issue worthy of note.

 

[butchersapron]

I am interested in what they have to say for themselves rather than which Uni they went to.

You don't think there may be some connection between the two?

 

[weltweit]

I don't think it surprising that two top UK universities, which specialise in producing politicians, should end up providing a lot of UK politicians, no.

 

[butchersapron]

I don't think it surprising that two top UK universities, which specialise in producing politicians, should end up providing a lot of UK politicians, no.

I asked about a link between what they say and where they studied.

 

[butchersapron]

Providing - eugh

 

[redsquirrel]

Providing - eugh

What would we do without them

 

[stavros]

I was quite pleased that Chris Bryant got applause for suggesting the House of Lords might not be the epitome of democracy and it might be an idea to reconsider the way the upper chamber works. Fuck all will happen, other than whoever's PM cramming it still fuller quicker than they die, but still.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oxbridge - Proud Service Providers to the Political Industry since 1096

 

[stavros]

I hadn't realised Radovan Karadžić was in the SNP.

 

[weltweit]

David Dimbleby presents topical debate from London.

On the panel:
Conservative chief secretary to the Treasury David Gauke
Labour's shadow home secretary Diane Abbott
leader of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron
businessman and chief executive of the Timpson chain of shoe repair shops John Timpson
and professor of economics at the University of Sussex Mariana Mazzucato

 

[redsquirrel]

Tenner on the priest telling us that her God is a jealous God

 

[weltweit]

I don't see Diane Abbott.

 

[Ax^]

looks up Chris Leslie

he is quite unremarkable

 

[stavros]

Dimbleby said at the beginning that Abbott was meant to be John McDonnell, but he was ill.

 

[hash tag]

I like John Timpson and reckon all said and done he is quite a good bloke, but on QT he didn't come across very well and appeared out of his depth as he appeared to miss
the bigger issues on brexit. Liked Mariana Mazzucato and couldn't help what may have happened had she spearheaded the remain campaign or at least had some input into it.
Also amused by her embarrasment over the 4 children in 5 years "crazily reproductive I guess"

 

[weltweit]

Timpson's business isn't involved in export and probably not much in import either so brexit isn't going to affect him very much. I think he talked about his own business rather too much because it isn't a role model for everyone else, however well it might be doing.

Mazzucato made a lot of good points in fact I think she was the star performer this week although I bailed about 3/4 of the way through. She alluded to the fact that directors of British PLCs have only to think about shareholder return not other stakeholders like employees, hence poor productivity and investment levels which I thought was an important point.

 

[SpookyFrank]

looks up Chris Leslie

he is quite unremarkable

My local MP, briefly shadow chancellor before Corbyn was elected. A complete nonentity. A vaccuum that lost weight.

 

[stavros]

Liked Mariana Mazzucato and couldn't help what may have happened had she spearheaded the remain campaign or at least had some input into it.

I quite liked her too, although she would have been derided as "an expert" and within the supposed bubble of academia. I agree though that it was nice to hear an economist talk about the social implications of capitalism.

 

[hash tag]

Why haven't we seen Mariana Mazzucato before? In just a couple of minutes she gave two or three unequivocal reasons to stay in Europe. The remainers really messed up there.

 

[NoXion]

Why haven't we seen Mariana Mazzucato before? In just a couple of minutes she gave two or three unequivocal reasons to stay in Europe. The remainers really messed up there.

Haven't seen it, what are those reasons?

 

[Sasaferrato]

I like John Timpson and reckon all said and done he is quite a good bloke, but on QT he didn't come across very well and appeared out of his depth as he appeared to miss
the bigger issues on brexit. Liked Mariana Mazzucato and couldn't help what may have happened had she spearheaded the remain campaign or at least had some input into it.
Also amused by her embarrasment over the 4 children in 5 years "crazily reproductive I guess"

He's a cunt. Timpson's charged Mrs Sas £15.00 to change a watch battery. The batteries are pennies... lots of lovely profit in that transaction.

(I couldn't get the back off it, or I would have done it myself.)

 

[not a trot]

He's a cunt. Timpson's charged Mrs Sas £15.00 to change a watch battery. The batteries are pennies... lots of lovely profit in that transaction.

(I couldn't get the back off it, or I would have done it myself.)

Throw it on the floor, always works.

 

[stavros]

My watch - the cheapest Casio you can get - costs less than £15 new. I think I found someone at an indoor market who changed the strap for a fiver or so last time it broke.

 

[hash tag]

You obviously do not know of JT who sounds like he is a very good employer and is also very philanthropic. There are many many worse employers and many many less likeable people.