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

[sparkythecat]

Have Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham ever been seen in the same Room?

[dazwalsh]

Christ its difficult listening to that gobby shyte Rayner, what an utter moron, very close second to Abbot the abacus

[Patrick Bateman]

Lord Portillo is always on the money.

[Mojooo]

Difference between here and twitter is amusing - whilst you are all bashing Labour - the Tory youngster is really getting it in the neck.

[FN2TypeR]

Paddy_N_Murphy said:

Tim Farron in Edinburgh for a Q&A?

Will they know who he is ?
Tough audience I suspect.

"Who are you?" is question one!

[Dr Jekyll]

According to Twitter the Greenie said something about 'we shouldn't spend 40% of our money on ourselves'. I missed this, can anyone confirm it and give the context?

[MarshPhantom]

HRL said:

Guess you can say what you like when you already know you'll never be in power.

That's never been an issue for The Tories.

[sidicks]

MarshPhantom said:

That's never been an issue for The Tories.

Remind me what the election odds are for next month...

[Gargamel]

Dr Jekyll said:

According to Twitter the Greenie said something about 'we shouldn't spend 40% of our money on ourselves'. I missed this, can anyone confirm it and give the context?

They were discussing the 0.7% Foriegn Aid Budget

The Co Leader of Green Party (with only one MP) Felt quite OUTRAGED and DISGUSTED that we keep so much money to ourselves when eleventy billion around the world are starving - and we are the fifth biggest economy and yada yada yada - you get the picture.

If our politicians have put the country £1.5 trillion into debt I think it is reasonable that we should at least not need to borrow more to fund these donations.

[Cobnapint]

Hainey said:

Where did they get this audience, Witherspoons?!

[Europa1]

techiedave said:

In reality QT has become a joke over the last 10 years. Staged audiences refusal to answer questions
For every Mr Starkey and Mr Rees Hogg there are dozens of soundbite chaps and lassies. Throw in the overly important "celebrity" whose views are no more important than Mabels at no 95 and it's a recipe for a farce

You omitted Dimbleby's utterly inadequate performances as chairman.

[Biker 1]

Europa1 said:

techiedave said:

In reality QT has become a joke over the last 10 years. Staged audiences refusal to answer questions
For every Mr Starkey and Mr Rees Hogg there are dozens of soundbite chaps and lassies. Throw in the overly important "celebrity" whose views are no more important than Mabels at no 95 and it's a recipe for a farce

You omitted Dimbleby's utterly inadequate performances as chairman.

I gave up on QT many years ago. From reading many of the posts here, it appears it was a good decision & that not much has changed. If anything, it seems things have actually got worse.....
I suppose the main question is why anybody in their right mind would want to watch political bickering at this time of night? Surely there are better/more exciting things to do? Sleep????

[fido]

Biker 1 said:

I suppose the main question is why anybody in their right mind would want to watch political bickering at this time of night? Surely there are better/more exciting things to do? Sleep????

It's warm up material before This Week is on! Also the occasional eye candy - usually a journalist.

[Halb]

Cable with more sense at the end, he won it for me, with two large slices of common sense, though he did annoy me mid-point.

[dcb]

Biker 1 said:

If anything, it seems things have actually got worse.....

Certainly Angela Rayner was a dreadful panellist. I hope it is a long time before
she appears again.

She shouted over other panellists too much. I think she does not know the rules of debate
and her points were of a value that made even well known lightweights like
Dianne Abbott and Owen Jones look clever.

Dimbleby should have done his job properly and reigned her in much sooner.

Old Tory bloke and Vince Cable were much better behaved, said far less but were much
more insightful in their analysis.

Mind you, no SNP or Welsh on this week's QT. Halleluyah !

[The Don of Croy]

Biker 1 said:

Europa1 said:

techiedave said:

In reality QT has become a joke over the last 10 years. Staged audiences refusal to answer questions
For every Mr Starkey and Mr Rees Hogg there are dozens of soundbite chaps and lassies. Throw in the overly important "celebrity" whose views are no more important than Mabels at no 95 and it's a recipe for a farce

You omitted Dimbleby's utterly inadequate performances as chairman.

I gave up on QT many years ago. From reading many of the posts here, it appears it was a good decision & that not much has changed. If anything, it seems things have actually got worse.....
I suppose the main question is why anybody in their right mind would want to watch political bickering at this time of night? Surely there are better/more exciting things to do? Sleep????

I think it's an entertainment - no more than that. There's little to no chance of engaging in debate, getting answers to sensible questions...it's about drama and vitriol. Much like Jeremy Vine on R2 - just wind people up and let them entertain you.

[Biker 1]

dcb said:

lightweights like Dianne Abbott

I take it you are not referring to BMI?

[Meridius]

Mojooo said:

Difference between here and twitter is amusing - whilst you are all bashing Labour - the Tory youngster is really getting it in the neck.

Its almost as if N,P&E is a Conservative echo chamber

[Stickyfinger]

Biker 1 said:

dcb said:

lightweights like Dianne Abbott

I take it you are not referring to BMI?

BMI ??....Blathering Mental Imbecile ?

[davey68]

Thought last weeks jeering audience was bad and a one off. Sadly this weeks was pretty awful too. Rayner really annoys me and I was amazed at Cables honesty on tuition fees, that silenced a few students in the audience. Does seem to be heavily pro labour audiences in the run up to the election. I like Dimbelby but he needs to chair the debate and stop it when panel shout over each other or the audience screams so loudly you can't hear the bloody panel.