Anyone watch the Student Grant produced edition of Question Time tonight? Was it just me or was the ethnicity mix of the audience seriously disproportionate to the UK population? Again. Maybe it was Grange Hill that provided the student numbers? I thought the student on the panel was mostly sensible but the left wing hectoring of the failed “Apprentice” women Saira “Bless Gordon” Khan was dreadful to behold. (Say “Oil” and you get a big cheer) IDS did well, wee Dougie Alexander was abysmal and the Lib-Dem was nice but dim. Wonder what you made of the wild cheers from the audience when it was pointed out how disgraceful it was that black people were seven times more likely to be stopped by the police than white people? I suppose pointing out that knife crime is endemic in certain black areas would be too obvious an answer? The good news is that this weekly horror show is now off our screens to the Autumn! Thank god for summertime!
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After watching that shower of crap i can only assume the future of this country is doomed.
I did like how the crowd roared with approval over Miss Khans recommendation that the other Middle Eastern countries should communicate with Iran rather than Western countries.
Yup only the West can be deemed as imperialistic and thus unable to interact with Iran.
Shame the crowd fell for the bombastic Khan and her half of the story as she left out the very salient fact that Iran is Shia Islamic and the rest Sunni . You will find Oil and water have a better record of mixing than those two branches of the faith. In fact the recent (last 15 year) military spending by Iran has more to do with being top dog in the region. (Which has lead to a small arms race in the region) than combating Israel, America or the EU which the bBC has no problem selling as the truth.
But hey Tehran’s Public image consultants “The bBC’ have no problem allowing a Muslim woman. (Anybody try to tell her she would have no chance on appearing on Iranian TV dressed liked that) push out the fact that Not only is Iran a democratic country, but what right has the west to prevent Iran from gaining nukes, when the west has them. (I wonder where CND stand on this?)
I did like how she claimed that Iran isn’t a rogue nation?
I wonder who the BBC will have on next ;
‘The Cheeky girls or the chuckle brothers?
as allways it was a dire show.
i watch with hope every week to see smart human beings.
perhaps someday i will.
and that knan woman is a tool. you could have removed that thick bitch and replaced her with a tape recorder that played “blood for oil” over and over again and we wouldnt notice the difference.
pounce
the cheeky girls are on this week as we type!!!!
and you thought you were joking!
neil
The whole show was a joke. The BBC is obsessed “wid da youf vote man”.
When those little shits start paying taxes and for a TV licence then let them have a show.
The BBC did this over the Iraq war. Why would I be remotely interested in what the vile offpsring of some council estate chav thinks about Iraq or George Boosh?
I was surprised they didn’t have Tony “I’m barking mad but a war hero” Benn on or George “two cheeks” Galloway.
QT jumped the shark last week with Bo Peep.
Abbots cheeks are bigger than both of them.
The Cheeky girls on This Week. They make Dannii and Kylie Minogue look like rocket scientists.
Not only did QT jump the shark last week. This week has jumped it this week!!!!
If proof were needed that the BBC is run by drug addled losers, this is it.
Young minds are easily moulded.Of course the BBC is keen on youth.get them young and the next bunch of indoctrinated young minds can carry on the good work of the last 50 years.
State education now has a political purpose.It is not education in the old meaning of the word but designed to create a subservient docile underclass;each one in his or her allotted role.We can rely on the BBC to carry out it’s sacred task with enthusiasm.The young are the secret police and thought police of our future.Thank God some have seen through the charade.
Hi dave s,
When did they teach people not to leave a “space” between punctiation marks, such as “dots” and “commas”.
When I went to school, I was told to leave a space after a dot.
This is a serious question. I see writing like yours more often on the interweb these days. Perhaps it is the old generation catching on or the new generation being economical with there use of texting allowance.
Gunnar: What’s that got to do with the topic? I guess you’re a twat after all. Cheers for clearing it up.
P.S.: What’s the interweb?
Rarely does the BBC front a news bulletin with affairs EU. So when, yesterday evening, BBC Radio 4 gave the EU parliament pole position and then went on to do a lengthy feature, one could easily imagine that some major crisis was afoot
http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2008/07/european-interference.html
“Question Time” (and “Any Questions” + “Any Answers”) are boringly predictable programmes. They are products of the strange position of the BBC that politicians have sensible and interesting things to say; a position held contrary to evidence.
“After watching that shower of crap i can only assume the future of this country is doomed.”
Students have always been politically incontinent. Most of them grow out of it when they get proper jobs.
The question time comrades wonder why black people are being stopped more often now in the knife crime crackdown? doesnt this tell you how retarded they are?
Black people are the main victims of stabbings AND they are the perpetrators of stabbings! Esay isnt it? Some clever dicks thought it would be great to import Somalian gangs and Jamaican yardie gangs into England to add some multiculti flavour? Only problem with that bright idea is thet these gansters will stab or shoot you to death just to see the look on your face as you die! So the police have to go and look for where these gangs opperate and try to find the knives, yes? Who would the imbecile leftists have the coppers search, old ladies in the shires? old folks homes? Womens institute meetings? Yeah that will work a treat yeah!
There U go again Gunnar? Are you here to check the spelling etc? Heres a suggestion for you to consider, STICK TO THE THREAD AND COMMENT ON THE SHOW IN QUESTION, YES?
You snipe and waffle about trivial silly things as if you are trying to sabotage the comment thread? Do you realise that taking the piss out of posters for their spelling is one of the reasons Hillhunt got canned?
“I must say I though QT was a bit Balamory[*]!”
Balamory, adj.: used to describe an ethnic composition which is totally unrelated to real life, but which is insisted upon by the multicultifascists. Nany of these multicultifascists work at the BBC. It comes from the BBC children’s television programme.
Cockney: The only ones that grow out of being politically incontinent are the ones that get ‘proper’ jobs i.e. not the public sector, which is just an extension of University for most of them.
Businessman guilty of sex attacks
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7500226.stm
Muslim meader Farooq Hussain faces jail for sex attacks on teen girls
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/2008/07/11/muslim-meader-farooq-hussain-faces-jail-for-sex-attacks-on-teen-girls-86908-20639370/
See Mrs Dale’s Blog for BBC’s biased coverage of David Davis’ Election.
being economical with there use of texting allowance.
gunnar | 11.07.08 – 1:30 am
And, at your school, ‘there’ use of forms of the word ‘there’
being economical with there use of texting allowance.
gunnar | 11.07.08 – 1:30 am
And, at your school, ‘there’ use of forms of the word ‘there’
there there | 11.07.08 – 10:24 am |
Priceless!
Our intellectual mentor, Gunnar, would have failed his 11 plus with that one.
BBC at it again with Davis. Despite polling a perfectly respectable victory, from the BBC analysis you’d be forgiven for thinking he’d lost. Headline says it all: “Did David Davis keep his dignity?”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7501110.stm
Well yes, if you are a normal, rational human being. Evidently not if you are a Beeboid.
Incidently, the whole article reeks of the puerile political “analysis” that passes as standard on the BBC nowadays. I sincerely hope you lot are wrong about the Cheeky girls on QT next week- apart from pillow talk with Lemtwit Optwat, what contribution can they really make to informed political debate?
Audience member: “Miss Irimia, is Lembik a briefs or boxers man? Perhaps as a freedom fighting liberal he’s neither…” Quality political debate from the Beeb, all at your expense.
Cassandra, dg, anonymous, there there, etc.
As I said, this was a serious question. No intend of “taking the piss” whatsoever.
To remain with the topic “Any Answers” welcome.
Many thanks for reminding pointing my own spelling shortcomings out. Much appreciated 🙂
Follow the link to the question time website and read the panel profiles.
One sentence jumped off the page at me in the one for IDS.
“…and has worked closely with Ray Lewis, Boris Johnson’s former deputy mayor for young people, who resigned last week over allegations of misconduct.”
Gunnar
Apart from the fact that I fail to use spaces after a dot I take it you have no reason to disagree with my thoughts.
Thought police and now punctuation police.
Mind out the spelling police don’t get you.
I think you need to get one of those annoying Turing Checker things as Gunnar is either functionally illiterate, or being auto-translated from a Japanese/English phrasebook of the 1930’s. Try re-arranging these words: Bugger Stooge Off You.
pounce:
but what right has the west to prevent Iran from gaining nukes, when the west has them. (I wonder where CND stand on this?)
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The same place they stand for any country that has nukes and is not the US or the UK: with their collective fingers in their ears going “LALALALALA, NOT LISTENING!!”
Gunnar
“Many thanks for reminding pointing my own spelling shortcomings out. Much appreciated ”
Your’re welcome. Now piss off.
When I went to school, I was told to leave a space after a dot.
Huh?
Where was that, The Miss Mannars’ Secretarial School for Young Ladies? Typewriter Course?
When I was at primary school, we learned to write longhand with a pen and paper.
I don’t recall any mention of “spaces” in-between what my teacher called “punctuation.”
The perfect QT panel
Grant Student: 47, studying his eighth Ph.D in Manmade Global Warming at Imperial College, Youth Organizer for the National Union of Students.
Mohammed al-Nutta: 3rd generation Pakistani immigrant. Chairman of the National Muslim Council for the Future British Caliphate.
Tristan Manningham-Shandy: 31, former head of BBC News 24, now running a successful production company with 18 BBC productions in the can.
Billy Prole: 102, respected Stalinist firebrand ex-leader of the UK’s largest union ARSOLE — Association of Researchers, Scientists, Organizers, Librarians, and Executives.
Lez Feminazi: Poet, author and feminist icon. Whitbread Prize winner for her first novel Men are Scum. Faster Faster, Kill Kill. Government advisor on Wimmin’s Studies for the National School’s Curriculum
Hey, people. look on the bright side.
It was after the 2001 post 9/11 edition of “Question Time” (remember it?) that I took a serious look at my politics and decided that things had to change.
Question Time is a wonderful recruiting tool for the right.
gunnar said:
– No intend of “taking the piss” whatsoever.
Gunnar, I think you mean “No intention”.
Instead of criticising other people’s English grammar, I suggest that you try and improve your own.
gunnar: A bit rich of you to ask people to reply to your comments. You continually dodge answering anything yourself.
That was really very good, Mr Bauer.
Any chance of a new general thread please?
Jack Bauer:
The perfect QT panel
Brilliant! That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen for weeks!
Jack Bauer that was fantastic!
I have shared it with the good people at KUMB, I hope you do not mind.
KUMB? I see there’s another Hammer here – welcome!
Thanks guys! Glad you like…
Feel free to cut and paste and pass on
Thank you DG.
I have lurked here for years, saying little, as everybody seems to say it so more intelligently than I.
Cheers, Trifecta. I had the pleasure of spending a day with KUMB’s Graeme H. years ago. After reading about all the recently knife murders in East London I’m slightly wary of the capital these days. You can’t have too many contributors if you want to uncover the immense bias of Al Beeb.
“Cheers, Trifecta. I had the pleasure of spending a day with KUMB’s Graeme H. years ago. ”
You what? Translation, anyone?
We’re OT here so I’m going to keep it short. http://www.kumb.com/ is the most successful private West Ham website.
“Was it just me or was the ethnicity mix of the audience seriously disproportionate to the UK population? Again. Maybe it was Grange Hill that provided the student numbers?” – David Vance
From the horses mouth on page 72 of the BBC’s own report:
Click to access report.pdf
“When the Question Time audience in the ultra-white city of Lincoln was leavened with black and Asian people bussed in from afar, was this a legitimate attempt to skew the audience to fit national proportions – in which case what was the point of going to Lincoln? Or was it an unacknowledged distortion of the true character of Lincoln? Are such decisions made deliberately – or automatically, as part of the BBC’s own progressive culture? “
That report was written a year ago. So nothing has changed since it was written. Just goes to show how the BBC will never change.
I am in a slight state of shock at the composition of tonight’s Any Questions panel, it is not stuffed full of left leaning panellists:
Professor ROBERT WINSTON, Labour peer – Should be interesting on abortion debate
LORD (NORMAN) TEBBIT: Conservative peer – Not exactly a “Cameroonie”; maybe the BBC have invited him on to embarrass David Cameron but I think he should be too astute for that
AMANDA PLATELL: columnist and broadcaster – Her politics are varied, a Labour supporter who became the press secretary for William Hague before writing a less than complimentary election diary.
JOHN HARRIS: Guardian columnist and writer – Also a self-confessed active member of “Compass” since 2005 and in June a believer that Labour culd be saved.
So no Lib Dems on tonight’s panel.
I have no doubts that Amanda Platell’s links with the Conservative party will be mentioned by Jonathan Dimbleby. I am somewhat less certain that he will mention John Harris’s political allegiances, after all aren’t all right thinking journalists Labour supporters?
gunnar | 11.07.08 – 1:30 am | #
tosser
Benny:
“Was it just me or was the ethnicity mix of the audience seriously disproportionate to the UK population? Again. Maybe it was Grange Hill that provided the student numbers?” – David Vance
I suspect that for London the number of ethnic minorities for that age group was about right.
To give a true representation of London’s population they would have needed a number of illegals and a lot of people that spoke no or little English.
Just…………..the BBC will never change.
Benny | 11.07.08 – 4:50 pm | #
Benny that’s exactly why it has to be discontinued.
Any chance of a new Open Thread, please?
Sheesh gunnar,wer’e green,saving the planet by saving pixels.