Question Time tonight comes from Glasgow, where in 2006 the Centre for Social Justice reported that 29.4% of the city’s working-age residents were “economically inactive” and where the city council has been controlled by Labour for over 30 years. Coincidence?
Update: Yes, apologies, it was in Canary Wharf. Was reading the wrong list.
On the panel we have the halo-tarnished Business Secretary St Vince of Cable (let’s see if the BBC love him these days) the shadow education secretary Ed “Blinky” Balls, the leader of the Green Party Caroline Lucas MP, Mail on Sunday columnist Peter Hitchens, and the founder of lastminute.com Brent Hoberman.
For those playing the Buzzword Bingo, we will be using the Coalition Bashing (Budget) Rules (2010 Volume3) which means that ‘Bank Levy’, ‘VAT’ and ‘hit the poor’ will only score if played with your Evil Tories joker. ‘Capital Gains Tax’ is wild and references to ‘Thatcher’ are worth triple points if in the same sentence as ‘cuts’. Getting ‘Dead Rotting In The Streets’ on your card is an instant win.
As usual the LiveBlog will also cover the entertainingly awful This Week, which sees the deadly duo of Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott reunited in glorious widescreen.
TheEye and David Mosque will be standing on the shoulders of giants here from 10:30pm.
What great timing. The nasty Tories are forcing elderly Glaswegians to work beyond their physical capacity, while the rich people in the South swan off to their early retirement and gilt private pensions.
Can I pay extra for a second bingo card loaded with class war buzz words?
Re-Run of 30th Apr with Blinky and St Vince
No Tories again – are they boycotting this biased diatribe.
Methinks Beeboids getting worried about cuts and Torygraph now giving them gip regularly.
First Class to Glasgow all round.
Think I’ll wait for it to appear on BBC iPlayer so I can find the Peter Hitchens bits. The politicians are simply too infuriating to even look at.
Buzzword bingo – ‘the most vulnerable’ is on all my buzzword bingo cards with joker played.
Does anyone have a record of the number of times Caroline Lucas has been invited to appear on one or other of the BBC’s prime political debating programs?
Caroline Lucas has appeared 9 times between 2001-2010. More apperences than Enoch Powell (8). Not sure how up to date it is.
Interesting stats here (maybe Craig will be interested).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0267212/fullcredits#cast
Correct me if I am wrong, but I can’t see Jeremy Hardy on this list.
The BBC must have forgotten about the little runt.
Caroline Lucas on Question Time or Any Questions 6 times in the past 15 months:
QT 25 June 10
Any Questions 14 May 10
QT 18 Mar 10
QT 28 May 09
Any Questions 22 May 09
QT 26 March 2009
The BBC just love their ecofascists, in the fantasy world of the BBC the watermellon party are wildy popular and ready for government.
As CK writes “the BBC just love their ecofascists”. It loves any other kind of fascist too as long as they spout lefty BBC-approved fascism. For instance, how many times has Salma Yaqoob been on QT or AQ? Nick Griffin – whose only “right-wing” policy is on immigration – has only been on once and was crucified by the rest of the panel and the audience. Pity Nick wasn’t allowed (or, more likely was not capable) of expounding his economic policies which bear an eerie similarity to those espoused by the party of the former prime minister and, in different circumstances, are just lapped up by the BBC’s economic correspondents.