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

[simoid]

Tbh around 8/10 if I hear an inner or outer speak it makes me disagree with them.

[XCP]

Best QT I've seen for ages. Genuinely funny and entertaining at times rather than the usual boring soundbites.

[Sam All]

don4l said:

steveT350C said:

Peter North on Izzard and more besides...

http://peterjnorth.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/izzard-f...

Very good.

I especially enjoyed this bit:-

PeterJNorth said:

Ultimately, the remain campaign is an exercise in ignorance, vanity, sanctimony, dishonesty and condescension. Fitting that it should have Izzard as a spokesman. It's why the political ground will sour and remain toxic for as long as we are in the EU. For as long as the hypocrites and mendacious charlatans unjustifiably occupy the moral high ground, the divisions will always be bitter.

& this:

. "If you think the cost of Brexit is too high now, wait til you see the price tag attached to that other way. You won't like it"

[Cobnapint]

gifdy said:

I used to like Eddie Izzard. A 3 year old could have argued more coherently....and with far more grace.

+1

He was OK when he first appeared many years ago.

Now he's like a gobby kid in a playground, not funny at all, and desperately needs to get over himself.

[Northbloke]

Why are Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Vivienne Westwood, Emma Thompson and their ilk given so much airtime when they have very little but bluster and confusion to add to any topic?

Being "famous" should not give you some special dispensation to try and influence political debate surely.

[Zod]

QT last night was utterly awful. Eddie Izzard was unspeakably bad. Allison Pearson, whom I used to like as a columnist, now comes across as a bitter old bag.Hillary Benn was sensible and reasonable (for a Labourite). Farage was Farage. Chris Grayling came across as he always does - a bit thick.

[Zod]

Norfolkit said:

digimeistter said:

Liz Kendall looks eminently shaggable until she speaks - such a let down

I have to agree, she talks bks but I could live with that.

Are standards that low?

[Mothersruin]

Northbloke said:

Why are Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Vivienne Westwood, Emma Thompson and their ilk given so much airtime when they have very little but bluster and confusion to add to any topic?

Being "famous" should not give you some special dispensation to try and influence political debate surely.

Woah there - I LOVE these people.

It means I don't have to put any thought in which way to act or vote. If they think it's a terrible idea, I instantly know it's a brilliant idea.

I just sit in the pub until one or more of them says something then I know what to do, after ordering a few more beers...

It's lazy, but it's accurate.

[Northbloke]

Mothersruin said:

It means I don't have to put any thought in which way to act or vote. If they think it's a terrible idea, I instantly know it's a brilliant idea.

Fair point, well made.

Also made in this excellent rant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjYLWadz5Yc

[Halb]

XCP said:

Best QT I've seen for ages. Genuinely funny and entertaining at times rather than the usual boring soundbites.

We are all Brussels!

[anonymous-user]

Halb said:

We are all Brussels!

That went down like a st sandwich didn't it?
She was getting some sympathy then about three quarters of the audience couldn't help but think 'fk right off!!'

I enjoyed it last night, but it was a shambles

Izzard was poor and Farage's passport trick is beyond lame.

[Esseesse]

desolate said:

Halb said:

We are all Brussels!

That went down like a st sandwich didn't it?
She was getting some sympathy then about three quarters of the audience couldn't help but think 'fk right off!!'

I enjoyed it last night, but it was a shambles

Izzard was poor and Farage's passport trick is beyond lame.

Yes. Amusing that you refer to it as a trick. Easy to imagine Farage pulling a British European Union passport out of a hat.

[Cobnapint]

Northbloke said:

Why are Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Vivienne Westwood, Emma Thompson and their ilk given so much airtime when they have very little but bluster and confusion to add to any topic?

Being "famous" should not give you some special dispensation to try and influence political debate surely.

We should all just say a few words, thank the Lord, and rejoice in the fact - that Charlotte Church and Brian May weren't there.

[Northern Munkee]

Cobnapint said:

Northbloke said:

Why are Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Vivienne Westwood, Emma Thompson and their ilk given so much airtime when they have very little but bluster and confusion to add to any topic?

Being "famous" should not give you some special dispensation to try and influence political debate surely.

We should all just say a few words, thank the Lord, and rejoice in the fact - that Charlotte Church and Brian May weren't there.

Yet.

[Mr_B]

What's Izzard's point he didn't let up on all night, that if you have immigration ancestry in the family you can't vote for a controlled immigration system ? Remain folk must be wishing he would go do some more running.

[VolvoT5]

Just watching it back now... Izzard... what a fking moron just parroting out the same old point over and over.

[fido]

Cobnapint said:

Brian May

I thought he was incredibly fair the last time he was on QT. Might not agree with all his views but seems to be a 'thinking' type - harsh to compare him with Chavvy Church.

[Northern Munkee]

The more he did it, more I thought he might be ill.

In the head.

[Scotty2]

It could have been Captain Sensible from the Damned in disguise... Oh wait...

[motco]

Northern Munkee said:

The more he did it, more I thought he might be ill.

In the head.

If it looks like a prat, sounds like a prat, and talks of prattish things, it's a PRAT!