Question Time and This Week

The QT programme was strangely nerveracking viewing, for all its moments were highly charged.

The good thing about the QT special was the constant hope that the dialogue would break down completely, and one of the panellists would call the other a f*cking c*nt or something.

It's the end of the fackin' world. Kill that cunt, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!

what do people think of Sean O'Callaghan?

I forgot to watch QT and just switched on when someone was talking about immigration. He had been here since he was 11 or something, was that him?

Bizarrely, I also forgot to watch TW and just switched on to see some Irish fella talking about terrorism, I think. Who was he?

Both programmes are excellent, I think. I must remember to watch them.

I'm guessing this is Sean O'Callaghan .... call it a wild stab in the dark

Dreyfuss was frankly poor. He borrowed authority from his weathered stardom, but his actual remarks did not get anyone very far.

Jesus, what a pompous ass he was, enough to actually be a Tory... oh hold on

http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2010/11_november/05/industrial_action.shtml

no career suicide libdem this week?

I assume Conservative Central Office will move heaven and earth to make sure Nadine Dorres is never allowed back on this. Also LOL @ Danny Alexander trying to explain the Lib Dem's position on the tuition fee vote and Livingstone's defence of Gordon Brown and the last Labour government ("... well, yeah, apart from that... and that... and that bit obviously."

it's political correctness gone mad

this is gonna be painful

Can't go Jane Moore. Or Billy Bragg. Watching QT only annoys me these days :(

mark littlewood is a haemorrhoid that's gone solo

it's almost as though being an ugly person on the inside makes one an ugly person on the outside but maybe it's actually the other way round ??

wtf is a 'jacob rees-mogg'?

an anagram of crabs jog me ego

i fell asleep

"But what if he's innocent? What about if the poor boy's innocent? There are lots of innocent people in jail! Didn't you see Coronation Street?"

Charlie Kennedy pissed as a fart on QT tonight.

Said the same thing here!

(I am still amazed there wasn't more apoplexy about the comment I related up 2 posts.

Not sure why Charlie Kennedy was allowed on television last night or who to blame, the BBC or the Lib Dems. Have the Lib Dems given up on the election or merely given up on Question Time?

Yes, heard a bit of QT on the radio last night (its now broadcast simultaneously on Radio 5) and Kennedy's slurred speech leapt out. Wondered if he had possibly suffered a stroke or similar - he seems to have been away from our screen for a while - but intoxication prob the more likely explanation.

I caught about 15 mins of this, there did seem to be something wrong with him...on whether there would be a coalition between SNP-Labour he:

1) called out everyone was talking a lot of claptrap for the last five mins on the question
2) asked Dimbleby to repeat the question
3) was adamant there would be no coalition - which was actually agreeing with the Labour answer
4) did not give much of a reason why he was so sure - amazing that some form of coalition is the likely outcome, given the polls and that we have just endured one for the last five years.

Have the Lib Dems given up on the election or merely given up on Question Time?

The forecast is that they'll get about 20 seats?! A Labour - SNP - Libdem coalition could be an outcome?

everyone was talking a lot of claptrap for the last five mins on the question

Which puzzled me, because for that previous five mins maybe more, nobody had managed to say anything grand that got the audience to burst into applause at all.

First up on this week's Question Time in Birmingham is 'Spoons founder Tim Martin. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/MDprie9A1c

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) June 20, 2018

Tim ’Wetherspoons’ Martin and yet another member of the Spiked extended universe on the show this week.

Beatrix Von Storch of AFD on Newsnight yesterday. It’s a shame Tommy Robinson is otherwise occupied as he’d have his own mid-morning show at this rate.

T Robinson/creatures from Right Wing think-tanks like Kate Andrews/Spiked arseholes for some "balance" is pretty much the future (and mostly the present tbh) for BBC current affairs shows.

It's called populism because it's popular, sez BBC.

His face looks too small for his head.

Didn't the host say he was leaving recently? Will that change anything?

I don't even think such a total wanker an august old fellow as Dimbleby has much of a say on the guests/editorial direction, but I might be wrong.

Still lmao at the thought of Wetherspoons champagne sales figures.

So Ella Whelan casting doubt on the authenticity of some of the photographs of children in detention centres in the US - you would have thought Living Marxism types would know better than to speculate on photographs of people behind fences.

lol

They really are scum.

Has the BBC ever given any kind of reason for having a tiny, hard-right corporate front outfit with a smaller readership than Model Aircraft Today on speed dial?

They're all middle class right wing cunts?

It's good television, innit.

As it seems aside from the BBC and Talk Radio producers that have them on speed dial, no-one much else cares about them, who funds these wasters? There seems to be more transparency at the Taxpayers Alliance ffs!

I wonder what proportion is that and what proportion is Good Liberals imagining the public is vastly more right wing than them and giving the audience what they think they want.

Even so, when you have actual Tory politicians and Brexit campaigners on the show, idk what the imagined audience for contrarian fash/ libertarians would be.

(xp) You're wrong there, they're on Sky all the time too, Brendan O'Neill virtually lives at Sky News studios.

I never watch it tbh, thank fuck!

(xxp) Pretty sure all they're interested in is entertainment.

Newsnight continuing to do the noble and important work of sorting out the good Free Tommy people from the bad elements:

"This isn't us, this isn't the Free Tommy movement... I'd say this is far-right" - this woman explains that the majority of Tommy Robinson supporters were protesting peacefully #newsnight pic.twitter.com/SnLwgIJb4v

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) July 18, 2018

Also good to give Gerald Batten plenty of time to explain why Robinson isn’t similar to Nelson Mandela, he is actually better, under robust questioning like ‘haven’t you misjudged this?’.

the BBC want socialism for their corporation, neo-fascism for their license payers. At least they are consistent on this line!

Our fourth and final audience question is about the Labour party. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/WDe4PsieG6

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Our third audience question is about a future withdrawal agreement. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/iFBxqKawUl

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Here's our second question from the audience tonight. #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/kUucyT8vxX

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) September 26, 2019

Seem like good questions imo.

'we all break laws on a day to day basis'

send the rozzers round to this audience member's house asap

The guy who asked the question was a policeman!

... so, yes, a reactionary right wing twat, PC Gammon in fact.

PC Bacon

PC Gonemad

wtf

I didn't see the show last night, but surely the format means these questions get comprehensively twatted by most of the panel?

Damn I should start watching Question Time again pic.twitter.com/R58KJAKJ2J

— Clee (@jmsclee) September 27, 2019

"It was a one-off"

This is genuinely the most revolting thing I’ve seen on the bbc for a while. Alibhai Brown raises Stanley Johnson assaulting his wife (he broke her nose) & Fiona Bruce cites his friends saying it was a ‘one off’.

A feudal media elite in a modern country. pic.twitter.com/AROO9eGrB1

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) March 10, 2023