On the first coalition Tory-free panel (no, Theresa May technically did count as one) we have Chris Huhne, Peter Hain, Jeffrey Donaldson, “Baroness” Helena Kennedy and Amanda Platell.
For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, we’ll be playing the Lord Servile Rules which means players may bring a sub-machine gun along but have to deny it afterwards. Nail-bombs will be confiscated at the door. Bonus points will be awarded for combinations of Palin and Thatcher on the same card, BP and Obama, Ed Balls and Loser, and also for any reference to Belgium.
As usual the LiveBlog will also cover the entertainingly awful This Week, presented by Brillo in cahoots with his “resident helper” Michael Portillo. No sign as yet if it’ll be Flinty there for “balance”.
David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be engaged in legitimate crowd control here from 10:30pm.
With a stellar panel like that, and I can only imagine the audience composition, I think I’d rather saw off my own penis than watch tonight’s QT. It’s bad enough at the best of times.
Tory-free zone again. QT is a joke. I shall not be watching but draw the line at sawing off my penis, wherever it is !
Have the conservatives boycotted the BBC? The party which recieved the largest number of votes in a general election is not invited onto a political panel show. Do the BBC really think the Lib Dems won the election? I know one did, the gormless Beeboid on Radio 5 lite, she talked of the “Lib Dem coalition” this morning.
Platell is on the right, and Huhne is supposed to represent the Government. No Tories required, especially in the PM’s home turf. That’s the BBC’s attitude, anyway. Donaldson is, or was, a Unionist, so that puts him on the wrong (right) side of that issue, I’m sure.
A perfectly balanced panel, if one comes from a perspective to the Left of Gramsci and Gerry Adams. Hell, the producers probably think they’ve weighted it horribly against the Left tonight.
Even the culture sec wont do anything about the biased BBC and the overspending.email him every week to tell him how you feel about the beeb.Might do something but i’m holding my breath…..
No doubt Hain is on to laud ANC and the mirage ‘rainbow nation’, under the guise of talking about the World Cup; this is BBC’s daily political wont in its ‘football’ coverage, with Linekar propagandising too.
Got to love Hain when he talks about the economy – almost decends to Prescottian levels of platitude, bluster, and mock-horror masquerading as reasoned and knowledgeable argument.
It was entertaining to hear Huhne rip him a new one on said subject.
Given Huhne’s background in the City he could actually make a sensible contribution to ConDem (how we laugh at that one) policy here. But no, he seems to be happier as the Cabinet’s AGW-Fantasist-in-Chief.