Question Time tonight

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" Farage is like herpes, just when you think he has gone he returns 6 months later, you just cant get rid of him"

 

[spartacus mills]

Next week...nigel farage.

and Louise Bloody Mensch.

 

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Didn't mensch bugger of to the states with her rocking old man. That so, is next week coming from over there, what with nice. Next, Hilary?

 

[Kaka Tim]

Plenty of tories out in the sticks around that way, and like most QT audiences there will be a lot of party faithful bussed in, so don't assume audience is representative - it's only ever representative of the type of person who wants to be in a QT audience.

wakefield and the surrounding area are most definitely NOT tory and/or affluent leafy type rural. A lot of pretty depressed ex-mining communities. Very white working class.

 

[Dogsauce]

wakefield and the surrounding area are most definitely NOT tory and/or affluent leafy type rural. A lot of pretty depressed ex-mining communities. Very white working class.

I'm not talking about leafy suburbs, but country types, what used to be the Volvo and Labrador vote, market town tories. They do exist, more so if you head further east. Add to that lots of well-paid professionals working in Leeds living out in places like Stanley and Denby Dale now, and a growing class of 'business owners'. It's not as solid as it used to be. Look what happened in Ed Balls seat, that was hardly a working class revolt, and that's right on the doorstep of Wakefield.

 

[Kaka Tim]

I'm not talking about leafy suburbs, but country types, what used to be the Volvo and Labrador vote, market town tories. They do exist, more so if you head further east. Add to that lots of well-paid professionals working in Leeds living out in places like Stanley and Denby Dale now, and a growing class of 'business owners'. It's not as solid as it used to be. Look what happened in Ed Balls seat, that was hardly a working class revolt, and that's right on the doorstep of Wakefield.

Denby Dale is quite leafy but there's swathe of bleak shit holes like pontefract, castleford, hemsworth and normanton. The nearest other large towns are barnsley and dewsbury. My point is that this is not typical tory country by any stretch and the most of the nominally "rural" areas are post industrial wastelands.

 

[mikey mikey]

Thanks to Red Arrow for these.

 

[Ax^]

just looked at the FB Page.. would explain the slight skewed audiences as of late

 

[mikey mikey]

From the EDL Boston Demonstration’s Facebook Page. Nobody else. Just them.

 

[rekil]

La Penny in Wakefield. Producers have a sense of humour.

Lemme guess, the only person in the studio to publically declare a nazi to be a hero calling all the dopey normals racist?

 

[stavros]

"Ordinary working people" seem to have replaced "hard-working families" as the cliché of choice, for talking heads and audience members alike.

 

[weltweit]

What about the JAM ...

I thought they were the buzzword de jour?

 

[Duncan2]

What about the JAM ...

I thought they were the buzzword de jour?

May nicked that from The Poor Mouth

 

[CRI]

BBC Question Time Staff Reminded Of Impartiality Rules After Producer’s Britain First Posts Revealed

 

[DotCommunist]

t is understood the producer involved has reassured managers that the posts on their Facebook page were shared unwittingly and that they were unaware of Britain First’s wider context.

this was happening all over the internets/facebook a while back. Some people still not clocked on. They do armed forces stuff, against animal cruelty stuff and general sharebait among their more direct shite.

 

[Dogsauce]

Doesn't really explain going on the Boston EDL page, does it? She can't have been ignorant of what they are about.

 

[DotCommunist]

Doesn't really explain going on the Boston EDL page, does it? She can't have been ignorant of what they are about.

this is true, they aren't exactly subtle. Then the 'unwitting ' excuse doesn't hold up

 

[Dogsauce]

Although the EDL one could have been a case of trying to get a few controversial questions or comments from the audience, to generate ratings. I think they know that their TV audience is mostly politically interested liberals who like nothing better than a good shout at the telly, so they'll keep feeding that outrage so long as the viewing figures support it.

 

[CRI]

The "unwitting" stuff is pure bollox. A producer of a flagship current affairs discussion programme who's either to lazy to find the source of content they post in their name, or too stupid to understand those sources are white supremacist deserves to be sacked for incompetence. Seriously.

Explains why Nigel Farage seems to be the favourite panel member on the show though.

 

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I see Dr Sarah Woolaston is on tonight. I know shes a tory but she is quite outspoken about the NHS which must stick in craw of some of her colleagues.
I am quite surprised that her constituency, Totnes, elected a tory, by a decent margin as it always struck me as being quite a lefty liberal place.

 

[Sprocket.]

I see Dr Sarah Woolaston is on tonight. I know shes a tory but she is quite outspoken about the NHS which must stick in craw of some of her colleagues.
I am quite surprised that her constituency, Totnes, elected a tory, by a decent margin as it always struck me as being quite a lefty liberal place.

She comes over as a committed constituency mp and covers all ground in as far as her constituents concerns.
Supporting gassing badgers yet being a keen cyclist, whilst no doubt wearing the locally preferred conkers on her feet as opposed to the bourgeois Birkenstocks.

 

[not a trot]

She comes over as a committed constituency mp and covers all ground in as far as her constituents concerns.
Supporting gassing badgers yet being a keen cyclist, whilst no doubt wearing the locally preferred conkers on her feet as opposed to the bourgeois Birkenstocks.

I see Dr Sarah Woolaston is on tonight. I know shes a tory but she is quite outspoken about the NHS which must stick in craw of some of her colleagues.
I am quite surprised that her constituency, Totnes, elected a tory, by a decent margin as it always struck me as being quite a lefty liberal place.

She's a Tory and that makes her a shitbag. Hope everyone of the fuckers has a rotten Christmas.

 

[brogdale]

She's a Tory and that makes her a shitbag. Hope everyone of the fuckers has a rotten Christmas.

Yep, deeds, not words....

 

[Zabo]

Should be good tonight. Nihilist Farage, Will Loveself, Louise Dontmenchenme, Sarah Woolyback and a nonentity.

Must get the odds on Brexit getting a little Menchen.

 

[killer b]

Is Richard Burgon a non entity? I thought he was one of the great white hopes of the labour left?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Is Richard Burgon a non entity? I thought he was one of the great white hopes of the labour left?

Who?

 

[killer b]

open goal there i suppose.

 

[oryx]

Is Richard Burgon a non entity? I thought he was one of the great white hopes of the labour left?

I first 'noticed' Burgon when he won his seat at the 2015 election with a good speech including openly declaring himself a socialist, which is a breath of fresh air in the Labour Party. I've looked at some of his tweets etc. and have been impressed by him (left of the party & a rousing speaker) - hope he goes far.

He's Shadow Justice Secretary.

Just realised I have quoted the wrong post to reply to.

ETA still CBA to watch Question Time.

 

[Ax^]

just keep him away from economics

 

[FridgeMagnet]

As a non-licence-payer I will not be watching it, and will have to rely on reports from others as to how much of an appalling shitshow it was.