Question Time tonight

[Wilf]

How is private school supporting private school and oxbridge boy will self centrist?

Hadn't realised he'd sent his kid to private school, so looked it up:
I'm a diehard Leftie but my son is going to private school
In his , ahem, self justification, he manages to tell the world his son couldn't write very well and had been bullied. I'm not suggesting his son should be ashamed of those things, but I wonder whether he was happy about his pater telling the world? Bottom line for me is if you are about to betray your principles, take the hit for it, don't seek to justify it with regard to details of your kid's private life.

 

[krtek a houby]

Hadn't realised he'd sent his kid to private school, so looked it up:
I'm a diehard Leftie but my son is going to private school
In his , ahem, self justification, he manages to tell the world his son couldn't write very well and had been bullied. I'm not suggesting his son should be ashamed of those things, but I wonder whether he was happy about his pater telling the world? Bottom line for me is if you are about to betray your principles, take the hit for it, don't seek to justify it with regard to details of your kid's private life.

Mitigating circumstances? I guess it boils down to which is more important; your political stance or the well being of your children...

 

[Wilf]

Mitigating circumstances? I guess it boils down to which is more important; your political stance or the well being of your children...

Well, I don't know really about his situation or others like Diane Abbott who did the same (even the saintly Joe Strummer). But surely that political position isn't just about schooling per se, it's also about the atmosphere you want your kids to grow up in. For whatever reason, he's chosen the path of privilege.

Edit: but that wasn't really my point, it was that he should probably avoid doing his self justification, with details about his kids problems, in a national newspaper.

 

[hash tag]

Did anyone follow it on Radio 5 after TV prog finished?
There was Sam, who was on twice, saying how much racial abuse there is going on outside London and there was that woman having a go and saying she was white but being racially abused.
Just wondering where people thought she was coming from?

 

[stavros]

Why did no one hold Farage up on his "people voted leave because..." line? This is how unsubstantiated ideas work their way in to common parlance.

Richard Burgon did seem a little bit like Ben Swain on Newsnight.

 

[stavros]

I listened to a bit of QT Extra Time this evening. It's an improvement in as much as you don't get guests parroting the party line. Any Questions? is a better radio version of QT though in my brief exposure to it.

 

[hash tag]

Sasaferrato SpookyFrank stavros
If only to proove that Timpsons are not all that bad! lifetime guarantee? free battery....The key to good customer service? Just do it

 

[brogdale]

Back tonight with St. Paul of Mason vrs Aaron Wanks and Gisela Stuart.

 

[DotCommunist]

mason will be weaing his iron man mecha suit

 

[hash tag]

After the long Christmas break, I wonder how long it will take them to get to brexit or trump?

 

[stavros]

Why did no one point out the fundamental flaw with the first question? That is, the president of the US can't be "leader of the free world" if most of the free world referred to haven't had the chance to vote for them. They may well vie with Putin, Xi and Bergoglio for the most powerful person in the world, but that's irrelevant.

 

[hash tag]

Why did I bother? Right in there first question Trump!
Gisela Stuart re: £250 Million saved by Brexit - we said only £100 would go to NHS (it appears to change every person every time)
Monica Grady - I voted out, I want another referendum because the truth was distorted. Makes me think people should take more notice
of the academics of this world who may be either side of the political divide.

Next week, perhaps the first question should be why do we give Trump so much airtime instead of addressing more important issues closer to home?

 

[hash tag]

WARNING - Piers Morgan is on tonight

 

[stavros]

I was also disappointed last week that when the issue of tax havens was brought up no one asked Aaron Banks for his esteemed experience in the matter.

And please please please everyone stop guessing at the reasons why anyone other than yourself voted one way or the other in the referendum.

 

[Supine]

Feckin QT - a Tory mp, an ex Tory mp and ukip. Good luck to Billy Brag tonight. Why is the BBC so right wing in politics now

 

[Ax^]

tunes in

 

[Supine]

Lib Dems never seen to be on anymore

 

[Ax^]

well sort of a reason maybe time to bring them back in after yesterday

 

[killer b]

Lib Dems never seen to be on anymore

he seems to be present?

Billy Brag

 

[DexterTCN]

Feckin QT - a Tory mp, an ex Tory mp and ukip. Good luck to Billy Brag tonight. Why is the BBC so right wing in politics now

It's an appendage of the government?

 

[Ax^]

anyone have the true number's of total Syrians taken into the united kingdom


its depressing this shit is still big news




"we going to be flood"

no its like when they said the Romanians where going to take over the uk

 

[DexterTCN]

"These babies aren't facing death though....we're a very, very compassionate country."

Why did I bother?

 

[Ax^]

check these babies credentials..

ann was always a cunt

 

[DexterTCN]

"We've got a huge duty to these children....once they come in."

 

[DexterTCN]

"Is it fair to compare brexiteers to jihadis?"

What the actual fuck is going on?

 

[Ax^]

never voted for it

 

[Supine]

he seems to be present?

I meant an mp not the novelty invite (best person on it to be fair)

 

[Supine]

'We're all Brexiteers now'

FUCK OFF

 

[Ax^]

oh is this the guy from ukip

 

[DexterTCN]

"The viciousness of when that Irish guy went passed me in a boat". It gets claps.