Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! VOL 2

[jmorgan]

limpsfield said:

I think you have misread the above. I too have noticed that the audiences seem to have more leavers. I think that was also the case for QT prior to June 23.

I enjoyed last night's. I have never had a high opinion of Varoufakis but thought he really shone. Best programme for a while.

Curse of the i device and stuff. However I think it it still the domain of the shoutier lot. Maybe the remain are meh?

[irocfan]

PurpleTurtle said:

I laughed at that Rayner idiot on C4 News the other week, put up as the Labour stooge against a Tory to discuss Grammar schools, she said, I quote, "Who are you to decide which children are more cleverer than others?"

Shadow Minister for Education. FFS.

please, please, PLEASE tell me you are mickey-taking on that quote There is no excuse, IMO that is actually worserererer than mixing up their/there/they're - and that trollop is (potentially) in a position of authority? Words fail me

[Murph7355]

irocfan said:

please, please, PLEASE tell me you are mickey-taking on that quote There is no excuse, IMO that is actually worserererer than mixing up their/there/they're - and that trollop is (potentially) in a position of authority? Words fail me

If only they did her...completely.

[PurpleTurtle]

irocfan said:

PurpleTurtle said:

I laughed at that Rayner idiot on C4 News the other week, put up as the Labour stooge against a Tory to discuss Grammar schools, she said, I quote, "Who are you to decide which children are more cleverer than others?"

Shadow Minister for Education. FFS.

please, please, PLEASE tell me you are mickey-taking on that quote There is no excuse, IMO that is actually worserererer than mixing up their/there/they're - and that trollop is (potentially) in a position of authority? Words fail me

Nope, straight up, it was when Grammars were in the news about a month ago. I had no idea who she was at the time.

[TerryThomas]

MiniMan64 said:

I haven't watche QT in a while but have done the last 2 weeks only to witness how truly out of touch politicans (of both colours) are with the views of the British public

I've never watched it before, but I've watched the last two episodes after seeing this thread. The two women representing Labour in the last fortnight have been an omnishambles. Awful people, awfully out of their depth.

[don4l]

Jockman said:

don4l said:

I'm wondering why the BBC are struggling to find a balanced audience recently. When Brexit is discussed, at least two thirds of the audience are firm Leavers.


When the referendum was held, I had a feeling that lots of fake votes were cast for the Remain side, however they underestimated the size of the Leave vote.

Have they had one in Scotland, NI or London recently?

I genuinely don't know.

They had one in Scotland a few weeks ago. However, that was before I noticed the Leave bias in the audience.

The BBC admit that they screen the audience to ensure that they are representative of the general public. If the QT audience is "representative" then 75% of the public voted Leave.

[Thorodin]

That might just be that the politically arrogant self-satisfied part of the local population consider it beneath them to rub shoulders with the only group that could or would challenge them on relatively equal terms. Without the back-up of a readily available in-house political machine to fend off justified criticisms, the infamous moaning Jeremiahs and generally gobby menopausal self appointed dinosaurs would sink without trace. The parlous state of the opposition should give the PM the confidence to call a snap election and see them all of in one fell swoop. 18 points ahead? Double it.

[Halb]

don4l said:

They had one in Scotland a few weeks ago. However, that was before I noticed the Leave bias in the audience.

The BBC admit that they screen the audience to ensure that they are representative of the general public. If the QT audience is "representative" then 75% of the public voted Leave.

46 million votes leave?

[sparkythecat]

don4l said:

They had one in Scotland a few weeks ago. However, that was before I noticed the Leave bias in the audience.

The BBC admit that they screen the audience to ensure that they are representative of the general public. If the QT audience is "representative" then 75% of the public voted Leave.

Thursdays edition of Question Time was from Hartlepool, where 69.5% voted Leave

[BrassMan]

Seven years ago yesterday. Time flies, doesn't it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_Time_Britis...

[Smollet]

Halb said:

don4l said:

They had one in Scotland a few weeks ago. However, that was before I noticed the Leave bias in the audience.

The BBC admit that they screen the audience to ensure that they are representative of the general public. If the QT audience is "representative" then 75% of the public voted Leave.

46 million votes leave?

Not everyone can vote

[Halb]

Smollet said:

Halb said:

don4l said:

They had one in Scotland a few weeks ago. However, that was before I noticed the Leave bias in the audience.

The BBC admit that they screen the audience to ensure that they are representative of the general public. If the QT audience is "representative" then 75% of the public voted Leave.

46 million votes leave?

Not everyone can vote

Not all the electorate did vote.
75% of the public is 46 million.

But I see now that I misread what DOn wrote I think. That if the audience is representative, then we should have seen 75% of the vote to go leave, instead of 51.

[don4l]

Halb said:

Not all the electorate did vote.
75% of the public is 46 million.

But I see now that I misread what DOn wrote I think. That if the audience is representative, then we should have seen 75% of the vote to go leave, instead of 51.

That is exactly what I am wondering about.

There could, of course, be an entirely innocent explanation.

I'm not leaping up and down screaming for an investigation. I am just a bit suspicious.

[sparkythecat]

don4l said:

Halb said:

Not all the electorate did vote.
75% of the public is 46 million.

But I see now that I misread what DOn wrote I think. That if the audience is representative, then we should have seen 75% of the vote to go leave, instead of 51.

That is exactly what I am wondering about.

There could, of course, be an entirely innocent explanation.

I'm not leaping up and down screaming for an investigation. I am just a bit suspicious.

But last weeks audience was representative of the electorate of Hartlepool, where they voted more than 2 to 1 in favour of Leave.

Let's see if the audience demograph changes when they move the show to a venue which voted overwhelmingly Remain.
If they didn't want the audience to reflect the view of the local area, and instead reflect the National outlook, there would be little point in moving the venue around the country.

[DrDeAtH]

Tonight's bunch, for your viewing annoyance...

[anonymous-user]

Jesus. There's nobody on that panel I can even have a boredom wk over.

[Halb]

DrDeAtH said:

Tonight's bunch, for your viewing annoyance...

Ken will be interesting.

ANd the Taxpayer's alliance sometimes have good stuff, we shall see.

[Cobnapint]

Greg Clarke can weasel word all day and night.

Keir Starmer thinks he's gods gift to politics.

And Dia Chackravarty usually speaks alot if sense, as well as being gorgeous.

[whoami]

Cobnapint said:

Greg Clarke can weasel word all day and night.

Keir Starmer thinks he's gods gift to politics.

And Dia Chackravarty usually speaks alot if sense, as well as being gorgeous.

Delivered, however, as if she is on speed.

[mikal83]

Watched Clarke on yesterdays politics. I thought Neil was going to hit him and Kuenssberg just laughed at him. Mans a humungous knob.