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

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

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PushedDover

5,667 posts

54 months

Thursday 22nd September 2022
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PH-er on now being funny with his ‘unreliables’ quip

PurpleTurtle

7,034 posts

145 months

Thursday 22nd September 2022
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oddman said:
Brendan Clarke-Smith MP for Bassetlaw - will probably be tested over fracking
He’s currently giving a good example of the expression ‘you can tell when he’s lying, his lips are moving’.

PushedDover

5,667 posts

54 months

Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Non-politicians making more sense than politicians shocker

Not watched QT for a long time, but the politicians point scoring and grand standing is piss poor.

Scrimpton

12,394 posts

238 months

Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Net zero was a democratic choice because it was in all 3 party's manifestos... So I couldn't help but vote for it then.

hidetheelephants

24,597 posts

194 months

Thursday 22nd September 2022
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Dr Jekyll said:
hidetheelephants said:
Fox is a wackadoodle ex-communist; expect batsttery from her, probably wrapped in superficially innocuous platitudes.
One of the vaguely libertarian ex marxists though. It won't all be platitudes.
Against expectations she made sense about energy Was it Wes mithering on about CCS? Someone anyway; CCS is like fusion, always X years away from fruition.

stevensdrs

3,213 posts

201 months

Friday 23rd September 2022
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The show was so riveting that I fell asleep on the first question and can't remember a thing about it. I feel that was probably a good thing and won't bother with catchup.

anonymoususer

5,879 posts

49 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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Question Time
BBC1 10.40pm Thursday 29th September
Fiona’s panel includes:

Paul Scully Conservative MP and minister for local government
Bridget Phillipson Labour MP and shadow education secretary
As there is an acute shortage of Lib Dem MP’s and people are generally fed up of hearing independaaaaaance no SNP MP’s will be present. Similarly no Plaid Cymru members will be there.
Anne McElvoy is executive editor of The Economist
Lord Karan Bilimoria io Vice President of the CBI
And finally Richard Bacon the presenter and producer



Questions could include:
Why are the Tories having a conference when things are going to crap
I think the Tories should have a conference as they can show how upset they are with that chancellor and Liz Truss
All Tory budgets are attacks on the poor and disabled and basically carp but is this one the worst budget ever?
Why isn’t Andy Burnham here he has saved Manchester and he can save the whole of the UK too
Why didn’t Keir Starmer take faster action against that woman who said the chancellor wasn’t black really, It took him an hour and that’s not fast enough.
Now that Labour are 17 percent better than the Torys why cant we just have an election now then Labour can fix things rather than in a year
Why do you keep getting business people on here why cant you have some Insta and Tic Tok stars on that can make our day






abzmike

8,450 posts

107 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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Does Mr Scully quite appreciate the hurricane of
piss (ref M Tucker) he’s going to be subjected to? Poor sacrificial bugger.

cuprabob

14,718 posts

215 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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abzmike said:
Does Mr Scully quite appreciate the hurricane of
piss (ref M Tucker) he’s going to be subjected to? Poor sacrificial bugger.
He'll certainly take a pounding smile

uk66fastback

16,586 posts

272 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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Richard fking Bacon, leftie arse … he’s such a sanctimonious nob.

Smiler.

11,752 posts

231 months

Wednesday 28th September 2022
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uk66fastback said:
Richard fking Bacon, leftie arse … he’s such a sanctimonious nob.
Snort

JagLover

42,500 posts

236 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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abzmike said:
Does Mr Scully quite appreciate the hurricane of
piss (ref M Tucker) he’s going to be subjected to? Poor sacrificial bugger.
I picture the end of Blackadder goes forth as he leaves Conservative HQ to go to the studio.

JagLover

42,500 posts

236 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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abzmike said:
Does Mr Scully quite appreciate the hurricane of
piss (ref M Tucker) he’s going to be subjected to? Poor sacrificial bugger.
I picture the end of Blackadder goes forth as he leaves Conservative HQ to go to the studio.

okgo

38,174 posts

199 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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Richard Bacon looks to be wearing a solid gold Rolex Day-Date rofl - horrible optics.

tamore

7,023 posts

285 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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mr cobra bursting lots of bubbles. bacon adding furiously until he realised he was almost backing friday's measures up.

Wiccan of Darkness

1,847 posts

84 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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After a bonkers week I was secretly hoping to actually be a little more informed about wtf was going on.

In reality I was expecting nothing but petty squabbles, and I'm still left disappointed. Every time tory bloke tried to speak, he was interrupted. What I want to know though is when business bloke talked about the small nuclear reactors built by rolls royce, why the hell are we not exporting these things around the world?

From what I understand, a very weak pound makes these things a hell of a lot cheaper for foreign buyers. As for that budget, all I know is the petty tinkering of the last 12 years hasn't worked, this is a complete change of direction. I just don't get why a change of direction away from what clearly wasn't working is such a bad thing?

skwdenyer

16,594 posts

241 months

Thursday 29th September 2022
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Wiccan of Darkness said:
As for that budget, all I know is the petty tinkering of the last 12 years hasn't worked, this is a complete change of direction. I just don't get why a change of direction away from what clearly wasn't working is such a bad thing?
I think it was Willie Whitelaw who said in about 1981 “before the last election, this country was on the edge of a precipice; since then, we’ve taken a great step forward…”

okgo

38,174 posts

199 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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It’s a st program.

Half the audience questions were just plain wrong. The other half of the time you get an entertainer chiming in. It’s a pantomime.

MC Bodge

21,718 posts

176 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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Wiccan of Darkness said:
What I want to know though is when business bloke talked about the small nuclear reactors built by rolls royce, why the hell are we not exporting these things around the world?
They are not anywhere near ready yet

There wasn't much squabbling at all.

Paul Scully did a good job in difficult circumstances, but I doubt that it did anything for public confidence.

hidetheelephants

24,597 posts

194 months

Friday 30th September 2022
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MC Bodge said:
Wiccan of Darkness said:
What I want to know though is when business bloke talked about the small nuclear reactors built by rolls royce, why the hell are we not exporting these things around the world?
They are not anywhere near ready yet

There wasn't much squabbling at all.

Paul Scully did a good job in difficult circumstances, but I doubt that it did anything for public confidence.
Not quite; ONR approval is due in 2024, but there are things govt could do to speed things up, pick the site for the first one, get the likely planning inquiry lined up, etc.