Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not!

[CHIEF]

If you are a left wing, tree swinging, public sector, plant pot diversity officer then you'll definitely get on the audience.

If you lean anyway towards the right or have any sort of common sense and work for a living then the chances are you'd be very lucky to get on the show and then even if you do you'll be barracked by the audience/left wing panel.

[Magog]

CHIEF said:

If you are a left wing, tree swinging, public sector, plant pot diversity officer then you'll definitely get on the audience.

If you lean anyway towards the right or have any sort of common sense and work for a living then the chances are you'd be very lucky to get on the show and then even if you do you'll be barracked by the audience/left wing panel.

You would have thought that at least some of the 'Blue Rinse' brigade would've turned out in Bexhill.

[Marty Funkhouser]

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

[TheD]

Marty Funkhouser said:

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

He really did show up that senate committee for what they are/were

[MX7]

Marty Funkhouser said:

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

[Marty Funkhouser]

MX7 said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

Up until that I'd always wondered what getting a can of whup-ass poured all over someone looked like.

[MX7]

Marty Funkhouser said:

MX7 said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

Up until that I'd always wondered what getting a can of whup-ass poured all over someone looked like.

[Lost soul]

sa_20v said:

and an audience who applaud anything left wing, irregardless of what sense it makes.

I guess that the people who have no life other than being a Lefty are more inclined to go to these things , all the right thinking people are too busy with life or work

[Lost soul]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

MX7 said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

MX7 said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

Got to rate Galloway - hasnt put a foot wrong.

I've rated him since this

Up until that I'd always wondered what getting a can of whup-ass poured all over someone looked like.

Mind you Kelvin Mackenzie (tt extraordinare) clearly dislikes him the way he was spouting about him last night on "This Week"

Dislike is not a strong enough emotion , he had real hatred in his voice when he talked about GG

[Andy Zarse]

Lost soul said:

sa_20v said:

and an audience who applaud anything left wing, irregardless of what sense it makes.

I guess that the people who have no life other than being a Lefty are more inclined to go to these things , all the right thinking people are too busy with life or work

If that audience was broadly reflective of the population of Bexhill then I will eat my trilby.

[TuxRacer]

chris watton said:

Sally Bercow! Why? What has she done, apart from being the wife of a universally hated Speaker! Isn't this a bit like asking Wayne Rooney's wife to be on a football panel, to argue the intricacies of football?

Not quite, you couldn't just walk off the street and have a decent go at top level football.

[Ed Fender]

TuxRacer said:

chris watton said:

Sally Bercow! Why? What has she done, apart from being the wife of a universally hated Speaker! Isn't this a bit like asking Wayne Rooney's wife to be on a football panel, to argue the intricacies of football?

Not quite, you couldn't just walk off the street and have a decent go at top level football.

Without wishing to strangle the analogy to death, Sally Bercow had a trial for Stevenage Borough's reserves and was rejected. On the strength of this she gets a pundit's slot on MOTD. Or something.

[Lost soul]

Andy Zarse said:

Lost soul said:

sa_20v said:

and an audience who applaud anything left wing, irregardless of what sense it makes.

I guess that the people who have no life other than being a Lefty are more inclined to go to these things , all the right thinking people are too busy with life or work

If that audience was broadly reflective of the population of Bexhill then I will eat my trilby.

As i said its always the lefties who will take part in this sort of thing

[Sticks.]

Andy Zarse said:

Lost soul said:

sa_20v said:

and an audience who applaud anything left wing, irregardless of what sense it makes.

I guess that the people who have no life other than being a Lefty are more inclined to go to these things , all the right thinking people are too busy with life or work

If that audience was broadly reflective of the population of Bexhill then I will eat my trilby.

It seems just over 50% of those who voted in Bexhill voted Cons http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/constituency/70... Would it be fair to assume that a higher proportion of those would be the older section and, perhaps, less likely to want to air their views on TV? Which might contribute to the make up of the audience?

[Andy Zarse]

Sticks. said:

Andy Zarse said:

Lost soul said:

sa_20v said:

and an audience who applaud anything left wing, irregardless of what sense it makes.

I guess that the people who have no life other than being a Lefty are more inclined to go to these things , all the right thinking people are too busy with life or work

If that audience was broadly reflective of the population of Bexhill then I will eat my trilby.

It seems just over 50% of those who voted in Bexhill voted Cons http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/constituency/70... Would it be fair to assume that a higher proportion of those would be the older section and, perhaps, less likely to want to air their views on TV? Which might contribute to the make up of the audience?

That, and the fact that activists at local political parties go into overdrive when they hear the Beeb's coming to town. Of course, Labour have their union contacts to fall back on and get loads of NHS workers, teachers etc to apply for QT tickets. The Tories speak to Maud and Arthur from the Rotary club...

The Beeb lays down the criteria for the audience profile in age/gender etc but I don't believe they deliberately load it wih lefties; as you say, lefties have nothing better to do...

[ettore]

Esseesse said:

fido said:

At least Nick Ferrari's on it - and Galloway - whilst being leftie has some interesting independent opinions (certainly not a Brown/Balls/Blair fan).

Yes, at least Galloway comes across as sincere.

You what?

[Zod]

ettore said:

Esseesse said:

fido said:

At least Nick Ferrari's on it - and Galloway - whilst being leftie has some interesting independent opinions (certainly not a Brown/Balls/Blair fan).

Yes, at least Galloway comes across as sincere.

You what?

the man is a crook.

[chris watton]

It is a left wing fantasy pantomime, nothing more. Have you ever heard the boos and hisses if any mention, however tenuous, if cuts to the public sector is brought up? If someone mentions Thatcher*, the same applies.
Just watch the programme after QT; lefties are too busy patting themselves on the back for their pantomime performance to watch it.

• This even permeates into ‘normal’ BBC programmes – I happened to watch ‘Electric Dreams’, which is about a family having to live their lives as if they were in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s – and the mother (public sector work, of course..) hissed and called Thatcher, after a news snippet from the 80’s, ‘an evil witch’ – Pure gold for the editors…

Digressing even further, all news channals last night reported that crime had fallen to its lowest level since '97, and they were crediting Labour for it, and added that, thanks to the incomming cuts, they will rise again!

Is it just that I'm getting older and more cynical, or is the media more “propagandarised” than ever?
It’s as if the coalition government doesn’t exist!

Edited by chris watton on Friday 16th July 10:33

[superlightr]

chris watton said:

It is a left wing fantasy pantomime, nothing more. Have you ever heard the boos and hisses if any mention, however tenuous, if cuts to the public sector is brought up? If someone mentions Thatcher*, the same applies.
Just watch the programme after QT; lefties are too busy patting themselves on the back for their pantomime performance to watch it.

• This even permeates into ‘normal’ BBC programmes – I happened to watch ‘Electric Dreams’, which is about a family having to live their lives as if they were in the 70’s 80’s and 90’s – and the mother (public sector work, of course..) hissed and called Thatcher, after a news snippet from the 80’s, ‘an evil witch’ – Pure gold for the editors…

Digressing even further, all news channals last night reported that crime had fallen to its lowest level since '97, and they were crediting Labour for it, and added that, thanks to the incomming cuts, they will rise again!

Is it just that I'm getting older and more cynical, or is the media more “propagandarised” than ever?
It’s as if the coalition government doesn’t exist!

Edited by chris watton on Friday 16th July 10:33

agree

Also the BBC always seem to have the first reply on news items from a Labour front bencher or the shadow whatever, hardly ever from the horses mouth.

[fido]

Zod said:

ettore said:

Esseesse said:

Yes, at least Galloway comes across as sincere.

You what?

the man is a crook.

Just because someone doesn't share the same opinions as you, or has opinions that you find distasteful - this in itself doesn't make them a crook.

Edited by fido on Friday 16th July 13:10