Balanced Question Time panel tonight - of course not! Vol 3

[Red 4]

OpulentBob said:

Red 4, people have hinted and asked politely. So now, just fk off will you?

Brilliant. You enter a thread after it had been quiet for a day tell someone to fk off but have nothing more to add.

Did it give you a thrill Mr Internet Hard man ? Don't have the balls to speak to someone like that face to face but you're keen to prove your manliness on the web ? Were you touching yourself as you typed ? Impressive. Not.

[anonymous-user]

markyb_lcy said:

DD was a huge loss for the programme. I agree FB is absolutely terrible. AN would be imo a little too biased, or rather would be seen as too biased.

I think Emily Maitliss would be a good shout. Wasn’t she on the shortlist?

Or the guy from Hardtalk, I forget his name.

I agree Maitliss and the bloke from hard talk would both be good I’d like AN too.

What about having a guest host each week ‘like have I got news for you’ did when Angus Deayton got sacked.

Interesting how it all turned out looking back at this old who’s the new host article from years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/...

[markyb_lcy]

El stovey said:

markyb_lcy said:

DD was a huge loss for the programme. I agree FB is absolutely terrible. AN would be imo a little too biased, or rather would be seen as too biased.

I think Emily Maitliss would be a good shout. Wasn’t she on the shortlist?

Or the guy from Hardtalk, I forget his name.

I agree Maitliss and the bloke from hard talk would both be good I’d like AN too.

What about having a guest host each week ‘like have I got news for you’ did when Angus Deayton got sacked.

Interesting how it all turned out looking back at this old who’s the new host article from years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/...

It’s a shame we didn’t get to see those pilots!

Can imagine Kirsty Walk would have made a good host too. She’s very professional and tactful and she does her homework.

Would love to see a rotating host, that would make it interesting again imo.

[B'stard Child]

Tresco said:

What's happened to this thread?

I miss the days of Techiedave, or whatever his name was, bemoaning his unrequited love for Diane Abbott and what he'd like to do to pretty much every other female on the panel..

I think they should get a room

[Tuna]

B'stard Child said:

I think they should get a room

Hey, I'm being good here!

[mybrainhurts]

markyb_lcy said:

El stovey said:

markyb_lcy said:

DD was a huge loss for the programme. I agree FB is absolutely terrible. AN would be imo a little too biased, or rather would be seen as too biased.

I think Emily Maitliss would be a good shout. Wasn’t she on the shortlist?

Or the guy from Hardtalk, I forget his name.

I agree Maitliss and the bloke from hard talk would both be good I’d like AN too.

What about having a guest host each week ‘like have I got news for you’ did when Angus Deayton got sacked.

Interesting how it all turned out looking back at this old who’s the new host article from years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/sep/...

It’s a shame we didn’t get to see those pilots!

Can imagine Kirsty Walk would have made a good host too. She’s very professional and tactful and she does her homework.

Would love to see a rotating host, that would make it interesting again imo.

Wouldn't he get dizzy?

[B'stard Child]

Tuna said:

B'stard Child said:

I think they should get a room

Hey, I'm being good here!

Not you Techie Dave and his passion

[Tuna]

B'stard Child said:

Not you Techie Dave and his passion

There's no amount of mind bleach that will make that go away - he'll be forever in my head.

[tobinen]

Tonight's show:

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel:

Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party,
Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister,
Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP
Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist;
Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP;
Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, SAGE.

[2gins]

Walport was on newsnight a couple of days ago debating with Heneghan. Might give it a whirl

[markyb_lcy]

tobinen said:

Tonight's show:

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel:

Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party,
Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister,
Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP
Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist;
Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP;
Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, SAGE.

Who’s the anti-lockdowner in that lineup?

[anonymoususer]

tobinen said:

Tonight's show:

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel:

Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party,
Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister,
Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP
Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist;
Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP;
Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, SAGE.

This is indicitive of the threads demise
You used to get pictures of the participants and witty comments Sometimes there were special pics too
And people got along disagreed but were respectful of each other

[anonymous-user]

anonymoususer said:

tobinen said:

Tonight's show:

Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate with an audience from Edinburgh. On the panel:

Douglas Ross MP, leader of the Scottish Conservative Party,
Seema Malhotra MP, shadow employment minister,
Kate Forbes MSP, finance secretary for the Scottish Government, SNP
Sir Ian Wood, businessman and philanthropist;
Miriam Brett, economic advisor and commentator and former advisor to the SNP;
Sir Mark Walport, immunologist, former chief scientific advisor and a member of the government's scientific advisory body, SAGE.

This is indicitive of the threads demise
You used to get pictures of the participants and witty comments Sometimes there were special pics too
And people got along disagreed but were respectful of each other

Indicative of QT's demise also since Ms interruptus took over....although DD was dead in the water for some time before he packed it in.

[Ridgemont]

Giving it a go for the first time in months.

Interested how the newbie Tory does.

[Ridgemont]

Tho if this turns into a game of U.K. Covid top trumps this could get tedious fast.

[markyb_lcy]

I’ve got a suspension brace covered in por15 drying propped up in front of my TV.

QT fail

I would say I’ll watch it on catchup but whenever I say that, I never do.

I’m disappointed in myself.

[Ridgemont]

markyb_lcy said:

I’ve got a suspension brace covered in por15 drying propped up in front of my TV.

QT fail

I would say I’ll watch it on catchup but whenever I say that, I never do.

I’m disappointed in myself.

The brace might be more interesting.
Though it’s interesting thus far: watching with a full audience usually a Scottish edition is pretty hard going with a vocal SNP segment of the audience.
With the zoom version it’s a bit more ... considered. Or dull. YMMV.

[Carl_Manchester]

Here is the panel.

[Ridgemont]

Carl_Manchester said:

Here is the panel.

That ‘economic advisor’ is an ex economic advisor to the SNP.

Meh.

[markyb_lcy]

Ridgemont said:

markyb_lcy said:

I’ve got a suspension brace covered in por15 drying propped up in front of my TV.

QT fail

I would say I’ll watch it on catchup but whenever I say that, I never do.

I’m disappointed in myself.

The brace might be more interesting.
Though it’s interesting thus far: watching with a full audience usually a Scottish edition is pretty hard going with a vocal SNP segment of the audience.
With the zoom version it’s a bit more ... considered. Or dull. YMMV.

Thanks for the part-review!

I think I’m enjoying the fumes coming off this stuff. Or could it be the whisky.

The panel doesn’t look particularly interesting to me. The scientist was on newsnight the other night. Nothing more than a government parrot. Couldn’t answer straight questions and reached for the likes of “long covid” to justify strict lockdown measures.

The economic advisor and businessperson would be of most interest to me.