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

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

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Wiccan of Darkness

1,837 posts

82 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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I don't know anyone who works in the city of London, perhaps someone with first hand access could confirm whether city firms are fleeing the UK already as a result of brexit or whether that is more scaremongering?

FWIW the ERASMUS programme in higher education is in tatters right now, and the G aren't doing a damn thing about it. I voted leave, there were going to be repercussions but we do get some good stuff from the EU, like ERASMUS.

Norfolkit

2,394 posts

189 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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WTF is crisis woman on about?

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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glasses on head woman is having a crisis. eek

Norfolkit

2,394 posts

189 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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jsf said:
glasses on head woman is having a crisis. eek
No, her son is having a crisis apparently (but I think lots of other people were also having a crisis, possibly, not sure, someone was definitely having a crisis).






Edited by Norfolkit on Thursday 1st June 23:45

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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Wiccan of Darkness said:
I don't know anyone who works in the city of London, perhaps someone with first hand access could confirm whether city firms are fleeing the UK already as a result of brexit or whether that is more scaremongering?

FWIW the ERASMUS programme in higher education is in tatters right now, and the G aren't doing a damn thing about it. I voted leave, there were going to be repercussions but we do get some good stuff from the EU, like ERASMUS.
Have a look at the world league table of universities, you will be shocked how poorly mainland Europe is doing, especially compared to the UK and USA.


anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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Norfolkit said:
jsf said:
glasses on head woman is having a crisis. eek
No, her son is having a crisis apparently.
I have seen that face before, its the woman in the Crisis, her son is probably getting pissed and chilling out right now.

Wiccan of Darkness

1,837 posts

82 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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As usual the lefties have no concept of corporation tax. Or the world of business. Or work of any nature, for that matter.

whoami

13,151 posts

239 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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Clegg is such a bullstting hypocrite.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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That went very well for the conservatives and disastrously for Labour.

Wiccan of Darkness

1,837 posts

82 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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jsf said:
Have a look at the world league table of universities, you will be shocked how poorly mainland Europe is doing, especially compared to the UK and USA.
Oh they're shocking, apart from a few gems. However pan-european academic ventures have benefited the UK immensely. As has immigration. The problem is, "immigration" is lumped together as a single issue. My GP is an immigrant, he's from South Africa. I work with immigrants too, from Germany, Canada, NZ and Japan. It seems they've all been lumped into the same catagory as all immigrants, including the pox-ridden hordes from sub saharan africa that arrive on banana boats, to get free HIV treatment and send benefits back home.

///ajd

8,964 posts

205 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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Wiccan of Darkness said:
I don't know anyone who works in the city of London, perhaps someone with first hand access could confirm whether city firms are fleeing the UK already as a result of brexit or whether that is more scaremongering?

FWIW the ERASMUS programme in higher education is in tatters right now, and the G aren't doing a damn thing about it. I voted leave, there were going to be repercussions but we do get some good stuff from the EU, like ERASMUS.
In what way is erasmus in tatters now? I thought it was still up for negotiation?

I noticed that Davis almost admitted no deal would be totally naff when he started to criticise Barry for quoting WTO tariffs as "aiming for failure". He wasn't aiming for it, but pointing out "no deal is better than a poor deal" would still be - in Davis own words - failure. Davis effectively said failure is better than a poor deal. Great.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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It was a pretty good QT, no one really cocked up, most of them, save for Clegg were reasonable. DD takes it a bit for me, with Barry second, as I thought it would go. UKiPs woman was third, then scotty dog and the lemon.

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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Wiccan of Darkness said:
Oh they're shocking, apart from a few gems. However pan-european academic ventures have benefited the UK immensely. As has immigration. The problem is, "immigration" is lumped together as a single issue. My GP is an immigrant, he's from South Africa. I work with immigrants too, from Germany, Canada, NZ and Japan. It seems they've all been lumped into the same catagory as all immigrants, including the pox-ridden hordes from sub saharan africa that arrive on banana boats, to get free HIV treatment and send benefits back home.
random chap, very random. laugh

Wiccan of Darkness

1,837 posts

82 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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jsf said:
That went very well for the conservatives and disastrously for Labour.
Makes a change.

FWIW I've been in a QT audience, they ask you for political leanings in the application form, and also ask you to submit a question. They claim it's to get a reasonable balance in the audience, but they know if each audience member is left or right leaning.

Entirely possible to have an entire audience of a single political orientation, which frequently they do.

dazwalsh

6,095 posts

140 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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One of the better QT's of recent time, a good brexit analysis and not much shouting over each other.

Gardiner did my tits in however, taking twice as long to get his points out, and detracting from the questions to attack the tories.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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I think the quality of the panel, was on the up!

essayer

9,008 posts

193 months

Thursday 1st June 2017
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I had written off Davis as a buffoon but actually he came over quite well and I'm a bit more confident in his ability.
Related, I am slightly hopeful that the DExEU has actually prepared for the negotiations at hand and is just keeping very silent on the matter, rather than laying out all their cards on the table in advance.

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 2nd June 2017
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I've mostly always thought DD was a well balanced thinker and speaker, not as frothy as some the Torys, probably because of his roots

Halb

53,012 posts

182 months

Friday 2nd June 2017
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I've mostly always thought DD was a well balanced thinker and speaker, not as frothy as some the Torys, probably because of his roots

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 2nd June 2017
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DD has managed this whole process well, mostly unseen whilst the work is done and knows his subject well now.
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