Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not!

[carinaman]

Ayahuasca said:

Reason to stay in the EU?

Cheaper roaming charges, and, er and, er, er....

Peace in Europe too.

I guess the former Yugoslavia where there was a bit of genocide in the mid 90s isn't in Europe.

[Ayahuasca]

carinaman said:

Ayahuasca said:

Reason to stay in the EU?

Cheaper roaming charges, and, er and, er, er....

Peace in Europe too.

I guess the former Yugoslavia where there was a bit of genocide in the mid 90s isn't in Europe.

Yes, I forgot that leaving the EU will immediately make us start bombing them.

[whoami]

Ayahuasca said:

Reason to stay in the EU?

Cheaper roaming charges, and, er and, er, er....

I laughed at that too.

It's a favourite of Nick Clegg as well.

[BlackLabel]

Tonight it's....."Conservative Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock MP, Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant MP, SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, UKIP MP Douglas Carswell and Daily Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone".

[johnxjsc1985]

BlackLabel said:

Tonight it's....."Conservative Cabinet Office Minister Matthew Hancock MP, Labour's Shadow Culture Secretary Chris Bryant MP, SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, UKIP MP Douglas Carswell and Daily Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone".

I would rather stick pins in my privates.

[Laurel Green]

"There hasn't been a new bank for a hundred years" what about the Bank of Dave then?

[TheD]

The Tasmina woman tried her hand with Labour, Tories and Lib Dem before she finally got a job with SNP. Not that is a someone looking for a career in politics.

[carinaman]

TheD said:

The Tasmina woman tried her hand with Labour, Tories and Lib Dem before she finally got a job with SNP. Not that is a someone looking for a career in politics.

Perhaps that's what they mean by a 'conviction politician'?

[Laurel Green]

For a moment I thought we were going to get an answer from a politician.

[Halb]

Carswell is good. He smacked that Tory pleb.

[///ajd]

SNP = London horrible

SNP = HS2 must start in Scotland.

Blah blah, bloody blah.

Bile on bile. What can stop this vile cult?

Perhaps FFA will be their Barbarossa.

[TheD]

I usually stick with it but lately I've been turning it off until This Week. Pish poor

[MGJohn]

carinaman said:

TheD said:

The Tasmina woman tried her hand with Labour, Tories and Lib Dem before she finally got a job with SNP. Not that is a someone looking for a career in politics.

Perhaps that's what they mean by a 'conviction politician'?

The media, particularly the BBC, love her though. She's often used on other debate programmes such as the BBC's The Big Questions. I cannot stand her strident high pitched, incessant, non-stop porridge crunching bunny... it's an assault on my earholes nearly as bad as Nicola Sturgeon. Correction she's worse than Sturgeon.

Nothing against Scot ladies accents' when their voice is as nice and easy on the ears as say BBC's F1 presenter Lee McKenzie.

I cannae stand the Tasmina lassie ~ nay two ways aboot ut.

[iphonedyou]

MGJohn said:

The media, particularly the BBC, love her though. She's often used on other debate programmes such as the BBC's The Big Questions. I cannot stand her strident high pitched, incessant, non-stop porridge crunching bunny... it's an assault on my earholes nearly as bad as Nicola Sturgeon. Correction she's worse than Sturgeon.

Nothing against Scot ladies accents' when their voice is as nice and easy on the ears as say BBC's F1 presenter Lee McKenzie.

I cannae stand the Tasmina lassie ~ nay two ways aboot ut.

She's a sound bite politician; she speaks like the election is still underway.

[The Don of Croy]

I caught barely five minutes' worth - Carswell bringing up 'fractional reserve banking' and Dimblebore effecting ignorance. But then again perhaps the audience isn't ready to discuss these topics - keep it on slogans and vacuous rhetorical statements then.

So what is the point of the programme?

[XM5ER]

The Don of Croy said:

I caught barely five minutes' worth - Carswell bringing up 'fractional reserve banking' and Dimblebore effecting ignorance. But then again perhaps the audience isn't ready to discuss these topics - keep it on slogans and vacuous rhetorical statements then.

So what is the point of the programme?

I noticed that, Carswell tried to bring it up again but was roundly ignored. If you think about it, that is the first time I think I have ever seen the subject brought up on TV or the MSM in general, I think the reaction to it was very interesting.

[Chimune]

The Sage was looking pretty good though. Fab place.

[mikal83]

Give 16 and 17 year olds the vote....I wouldn't trust one to make a sandwich with a recipe.

[rovermorris999]

mikal83 said:

Give 16 and 17 year olds the vote....I wouldn't trust one to make a sandwich with a recipe.

Thinking back to my youthful days I think the voting age should be raised to 21, no make that 30

[PRTVR]

mikal83 said:

Give 16 and 17 year olds the vote....I wouldn't trust one to make a sandwich with a recipe.

But is that not the point, you can tell them anything and they will take it in, so whoever has the biggest budget for propaganda will win the lions share of the vote, full marks to the young girl who said she was going to vote out also the young man who said he and his friends knew nothing about politics.