Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not!

[Chimune]

Bollix.
I agree with Farage on coalitions working fine in plenty of other successful countries.

[hornetrider]

I only tuned in for the last five minutes but it was long enough to find out that Brian May is a . I am disappoint.

In other news, Piers should be entertaining on this week now.

[Halb]

Farage getting applauded on the sensible stuff...and May agreeing with Farage an awful lot...

May savaging the Tory dimble when he was himself savaging Farage...brilliant.

[mrpurple]

I must take off these tinted glasses..... thought NF came out very well tonight - even got a fair bit of applause a few times

[hornetrider]

What an opening! Brilliant!

[Foppo]

Of course Farage is P/off.About 4 million people voted for his party and one M.P to represent them.

P.R. Was rejected by the British people and now we have a strong government.>

[Halb]

Foppo said:

P.R. Was rejected by the British people and now we have a strong government.>

PR was rejected?

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Foppo said:

P.R. Was rejected by the British people and now we have a strong government.>

No it bloody wasn't.

We were offered 'AV' which is about as far from PR as FPTP.

We were never offered PR.

[Foppo]

Proportional representation.

[Foppo]

Why filling in the form if you think it was something different?

People where conned by the politicians yes?

[Halb]

Pierce Morgan on This Week!

Foppo said:

Proportional representation.

Which was offered when...?

Also the current government isn't 'strong', it has a slim majority. The majorities that Labour achieved in '97, '01 and '05 were strong.

[eharding]

Halb said:

Which was offered when...?

Also the current government isn't 'strong', it has a slim majority. The majorities that Labour achieved in '97, '01 and '05 were strong.

..and the majority that Labour achieved in 2005 was with a lower proportion of the popular vote than the Conservatives achieved last week. Boundary rationalisation will sort that out.

[Halb]

eharding said:

..and the majority that Labour achieved in 2005 was with a lower proportion of the popular vote than the Conservatives achieved last week. Boundary rationalisation will sort that out.

Indeed. I'm looking through the wiki pages now.
Labour had 9.5 back then and 8.6 in 2010 to grow to 9.3 in 2015. The LDs large percentage probably distorted things back then, but Labour increased her share of the vote and yet still lost seats in 2015. Shows how fked FPTP is.

[Art0ir]

I think Farage managed to just about pull back from the brink with that. Sighs of relief all around UKIP HQ I imagine.

[Mermaid]

Art0ir said:

I think Farage managed to just about pull back from the brink with that. Sighs of relief all around UKIP HQ I imagine.

[Northern Munkee]

I think that was one of the better QTs I've seen in a long time. Sensible audience, balanced panel and a lot less partisan than for a long time.

[fido]

Quite impressed with Farage - sure he came over a little bit arrogant as usual but he answered most of the Questions.
Tristram, on the other hand, shows why Labour will not be re-elected. Brian May would make a good speaker (of the House) - no pun intended.

[carinaman]

Foppo said:

Proportional representation.

https://www.change.org/p/david-cameron-reform-our-...

[Art0ir]

fido said:

Quite impressed with Farage - sure he came over a little bit arrogant as usual but he answered most of the Questions.
Tristram, on the other hand, shows why Labour will not be re-elected. Brian May would make a good speaker (of the House) - no pun intended.

The amount of agreement between Farage and May was surprising. I think the audience started to follow suit after that.

[PRTVR]

mrpurple said:

I must take off these tinted glasses..... thought NF came out very well tonight - even got a fair bit of applause a few times

Yes, but now when the election is over, the BBC trying to show balance?