Question Time LiveBlog 11th August 2011


Question Time is currently on its summer break, and is scheduled to return on 8th September.

But! In terrific news for Bias-Watchers everywhere – there will be a special edition broadcast live this Thursday specifically to discuss the riots. It’s going to be terrible and you know it.

Join us here for the usual Live-Chat at 10:30pm on Thursday….and bring alcohol. You will need it.

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88 Responses to Question Time LiveBlog 11th August 2011

  1. Martin says:

    Can I guess the line up?

    Universal Chami
    Ken Livingturd
    Mad Hattie
    Darcus Howe or some other loony leftist ‘efnik’ (like that fat bird who dresses up in African dress and puts a towel on her head)
    Fatty Abbott

    Oh and a wet Tory probably Jeremy Cun..I mean Hunt

    Certainly not Michael Gove after tonight, the BBC won’t want him.

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    • Alfie Pacino says:

      Darcus Howe for certain, Polly Toynbee perhaps, and you’re right about Michael Gove – he destroyed Harriet Harperson tonight, so no QT for him.
      I’m looking forward to it… Have been missing the QT chest pains

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      • cjhartnett says:

        Quite right Alfred!
        Yet the dopey niece of Lord Longford was completely unaware of how stupid she was…such is the insouciance that comes with St Pauls Schoiol for Gels educational experiences.
        Think Gavin shared a comforting panini with her when the “wrap” was done…no douby Reveal hung around to keep them real…nah wha`m sayin` bruv?
        Whats it all about?…

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  2. Buggy says:

    Please let it come from Tottenham. That should thin out the Beeboids and their sympathisers nicely.

    Shall we have a sweepstake on panellists ?

    I’ll choose Jody McIntyre (and fully expect to be victorious).

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    • cjhartnett says:

      What about his health and safety though…and are there enough poor people or trashed security blinds available to furnish a ramp?
      What are Blue Peter doing tonight?…blast!…putting wheels back on a BBC OB van instead of the bricks it now appears to be on…ah bless `em!

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  3. ian says:

    All Seeing Eye suggests that we bring alcohol for this blame-whitey special. Good idea. And to stop it spilling out of the bottle, why not stuff a lighted rag in it. 

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  4. John Horne Tooke says:

    Just a month earlier than another one of their “specials” 10 years ago. I can guess the content so I will leave it at that, my blood pressure would not take it.

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  5. pounce_uk says:

    Gee I wonder if the bBC will fill the audience with hoddie wearing black youths. I mean they did likewise after 9/11 and 7/7 why shouldn’t they do so now.

     

    In other news here’s a very disturbing thought.

    The vast majority (and I don’t do Political Correctness) of rioters are black. In fact the vast majority of areas where the riots have kicked off are..black. However the vast majority of victims have been white. (Have a look at the pictures of what colour nearly all the people cleaning up london are)

    Today those people vented their frustration out on the people in power for allowing them to be robbed blind.  But here’s the catch which way will thye vote next election, will we see people voting for the party which says it will bring back hanging and such (BNP/Independence party etc,..) 

    The irony here is while the left and the bBC champion those rioting blacks as victims, in 4 years time we may have a party which will shut down the bBC deport all immigrants and hang criminals all because the lefts social engineering experiment has failed, and lets be honest after this anybody who plays the racist card isn’t going to get much support from the British public, Ok they will at the bBC. 

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:

      Good post Pounce, oh, ROBERT BROWN HERE; For the benefit of P……well you know by now, i would dearly love to think that this is the death knell of the Left, but i fear they are well entrenched in the Civil Service, Law, Police even and certainly local government that they will be difficult to eradicate. They are like a virulent cancer that pops up somewhere else when destroyed in place. It will take a long haul to change the mindset of people to reject the Left’s dogma, which, i admit, sounds leftist itself.

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:

      the vast majority of victims have been white. (Have a look at the pictures of what colour nearly all the people cleaning up london are)  Today those people vented their frustration’

      I tried for a while, but my ‘protest’ against dire media rather foundered on the ‘hitting ’em where it hurts’ count.

      BBC news is a no-go area, but they get paid no matter what. I like my Arrested Development and Tales of the Gun too much, so SKY gets its sub too. And I am a news addict, so the PC default from downstairs is from them.

      I am unsure what impact it has (suspect none), but it just went off again today, and will remain so, removing a set of eyeballs from the ads they depend on.

      No sooner had the irish LCD and peroxide sink read out ‘your views’ and discovered that ‘of most interest’ was vigilantism, than we cut to… well, it wasn’t white folk tidying up.

      It was a total set up with some thug striding to camera to gob off a spittle-flecked ‘if you’re ‘ard enough challenge’ to the ethinic opposition. 

      The media is complicit in inflaming this; pure and simple.

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  6. john says:

    All Seeing Eye
    I would be grateful if you could tell me of any good shops my friends and I could loot on the way to the studio.
    Obviously some booze first, but a change of footware wouldn’t go amiss and an eighth Plasma screen would definitely make a night of it.

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    • cjhartnett says:

      I`ve been asked this quite a lot John, so thanks for raising the issue!
      We at “Looters are Us” have been providing looter-led solutions now to the rioting community for over ten minutes now, and will happily fence to order and provide individualised and tailored  responses to your needs…which is more than can be said for the rather useless Fat Plods on point duty!
      If you live within the usual ASBOzone/Alcopop Awareness Zone or whatever your Police Service has deemed to be too scary for the Transgendered Blunkett Bobbies to enter-you need only text in your order to us here.
      Allow fourteen days for the smell of the petrol to fade!
      Thank for for callin` mi bredren!

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  7. David Mosque says:

    Surely on this occasion they will go for a mix of three lefty mentalists diametrically opposed to some plain talking common sense from the likes of Kelvin and/or Littlejohn. If the get the mix right (wrong) they will have social worker types who will defend/excuse da yoof rather than mealy mouthed oxygen thieves from the Labour front bench. 

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    • Alfie Pacino says:

      Quite disgracefully, Kelvin wasn’t given a word edgeways tonight on Newsnight – but rather space was given over to a rapper and a failed student – strewth! Gavin Esler was looking to understand why and realky pushing for that cuts equals riots argument.
      I was brought up in a damp two up two down terrace and never thought thieving was a career choice…
      There’s a back lash coming that I don’t think we’re prepared for… such a shame

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  8. tinks says:

    Let the hand ringing begin.

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    • cjhartnett says:

      Actually it`s hand rubbing at the Beeb…they look rather similar but one suits their agenda, gets them rolling rubbish 24/7 and hopefully somewhere out of London to take the usual pics.
      Ones they might have took in the sixties had they been around them…unfortunately now they can`t even DRAW them let alone take them!
      Mutual upskirters of the privileged…why else do you think Batmanghedghli wears such capacious caftans?…only Prescott needs one as big as that!

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  9. splodger says:

    Will be here on Thursday, and yes, you just <i>know</i> it’s going to be a bad ‘un.

    And you’ll love this:

    “Young Voters’ Question Time will be presented by Richard Bacon on BBC Three at 20:30 BST on Friday 12 August, the day after Parliament is recalled and Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to MPs.”

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  10. Louis Robinson says:

    A special edition of Question Time. I hate to say I told you so – but I told you so. 

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  11. wild says:

    The French Leftist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon famously asserted (needless to add he stole it) that all property is theft.  
     
    In accordance with the rule of thumb that the exact opposite of what Leftists say points you in the direction of the truth, this can be revised into the conclusion, all Socialism is theft.  
       
    Sticking with philosophy theme, it is sometimes (falsely) said that Medieval Scholastics used to sit around debating how many angels could sit on the head of a pin.
     
     
    The modern version of this is how many many professional advocates of thievery (redistributing wealth generated by others is “social justice” don’t you know) is it possible for the BBC to cram into a Question Time panel?  

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    • cjhartnett says:

      The answer my friend is blowing in the wind…well actually the blowback of the blowhards that permeates the Guardian/BBC lift shafts.
      Warm,fetid, flatulent and  clouds heavy laden with tears of care and compassion soon about to rain down on us all…with a rainbow flag to follow, so we know that Lennons dream lives on
      “Imagine no possessions”…those looted burnt out shopkeepers and mugging victims have cause to thank our burdened empowered community for the liberations!

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  12. My Site (click to edit) says:

    ROBERT BROWN SAYS; for the benefit of Preiser, Milicent Tant and Craig etc…. My thinking is that Toynbee, YABrown, and Harman could be a good choice for the BBC, and suitably neutered tories will preside, with the usual partial audience. Have you seen the website regarding application to attend a QT live? Asks your opinion on the Palestinian problem as one! You couldn’t make it up! I shall watch on the I-Player of course, i DON’T subscribe unlike some of the twits on this site, more fool them. Keep your money in your pocket and then open your mouth here. 

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      I was thinking Toynbee would be on the panel as well, champion of the underprivileged youth that she is.

      Robert, you ought to be apologizing to the original My Site (C2E) for continuing to use a duplicate moniker and causing the confusion rather than continuing to take sarcastic swipes at us.  Please consider fixing your moniker to end the confusion.

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      • My Site (click to edit) says:

        David, i would love to change my moniker but have come up against a brick wall so far, but i will persevere. In the meantime, i will preface my comments with my name, not afraid to, and as for sarcasm, well justified if i feel that people tag me as some kind of troll or beast, my comments are pertinent, as are yours, just accept them, shrug if you must, and move on. Hope you watch QT, i will on the I-Player [no tv license] so you will see it before me probably! Think the traffic on here could be heavy. Best regards.

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  13. David Preiser (USA) says:

    Teresa May for the useless Right spot?

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  14. JohnW says:

    Meanwhile, over in Philadelphia, they have similar rioting. The difference is that they also have a black Mayor unafraid to deliver the necessary message to the black rioters:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/8/mayor-talks-tough-to-black-teens-after-flash-mobs/

    Something you will never see reported in the BBC.

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  15. 1327 says:

    My money is on famed attention seeker Camilla Batmanghelidjh putting in an appearance. She has already had an article in the Indy and has been all over the Beeb in the last few days. No doubt she will remind us that these aren’t rioters but little kiddie winkles in need of love and bedtime stories.

    Meanwhile I will be wondering why she (Batmanghelidjh) and many of these rioters are in MY country.

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    • cjhartnett says:

      Daughter of Iranian Nabob?..check?
      Boarder at Sherborne School for Gels?…check
      Effnik, ludicrous and exotic at all times?…desirable…check?
      Above all-NO KIDS whatsoever of her own…and a nice flat in the Barbican?…essential..check?
      THEREFORE-EXACTLY the weirda (weirdo:fem) that the media and the rulite elite think has a contribution to make in the bringing up of kids under a railway arch.
      Think Barnardo-without the gonads, the faith, the medical training…replace with a turban on an obese frame, a scanted candle and some shit about neurochemical impurities and thermostats that fail when the moon is new maybe?…and that`s our litmus paper (or is that dipstick?) for how low we`ve sunk in all senses!
      At least Harman has kids…Kinnock and Prescott too-cos they`re all working for the BBC or quangos that like to chat to the BBC for/against planning permits as necessary!

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  16. Daniel Clucas says:

    Laurie Penny for one of the leftist loons, Melanie Phillips for the lone voice of common sense.

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:

      ROBERT BROWN; Yes, i would hope Melanie could attend, she is so good at getting to the crux of a subject and turning the Left on it’s head.

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  17. Llew says:

    Ha ha h typical BBC in love with Labour…. on their Breakfast programme, while playing a video report of some of the violence there was a technical problem resulting in a black screen. After a few seconds a still of the Breakfast logo appeared, followed by a freeze frame still of Ed Millibandwaggon, then the picture went back to the presenters. The BBC are so in love with Labour they keep a picture of him on hand to use if there is a problem! I bet every beeboid is required in their contract of employment to keep a photo of the Labour leader pinned to the wall or ceiling of their bedroom.

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    • My Site (click to edit) says:

      a freeze frame still of Ed Millibandwaggon’

      Is there a reason that he is ‘back’, and pontificating, but not gracing our screens in person?

      I keep hearing folk referring to what he has said, but after months of up front and nasal, it’s like he’s in Gaddafi’s bunker.

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      • ltwf1964 says:

        i keep a photo of milliband on top of the fireplace

        keeps small children away from the fire

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  18. JIM SMITH says:

    Well off topic…. how ironic this BBC radio car was torched in the ever charming SALFORD…

    [IMG]http://i55.tinypic.com/281g5df.jpg[/IMG]

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    • cjhartnett says:

      Thanks for this Jim!
      As Tommy Steele sang-what a picture!
      Yes-think that all those vulnerable youngsters of the rioting community did indeed want to be “part of it”!
      “When a picture paints a thousand words”…so saith St Television of Savalas as I recall!
      Welcome to Salford Quentin Linen…no dyslexic Lenins here bruv!

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    • cjhartnett says:

      How many minutes silence are we down south expected to hold for the van…and all that licence detector gear that no doubt fell in the cause of making us all “digital worthy?”?
      I am going just of the two if that`s OK…but will run round my computer for the next Comic Relief Cheridee Appeal>
      Wristband code Pink(pink is for sad, you see!) today!
      Stand down mi souljas!

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    • David Preiser (USA) says:

      I think we need to understand the root cause for such an attack on the BBC.  😉

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  19. cjhartnett says:

    Oh I love this!
    That the BBC seems to think that they TOO are being recalled-or feel led to be so-on a patriotic parallel governing class parody of Parliaments gabfest lined up for tomorrow!
    I would check their air ticket stubs before they go on-and ensure not ONE of them gets expenses…they CHOSE to amand their Tuscan/Maldives/Cape Cod beanos…so if the BBC give them a penny…let alone a Euro and a rickshaw through the fireworks-then I want a class action taken against the whole damn lot of them involved in this worthless charade of “democratic news output”
    I want Dimbles OFF the screen-not recalled as if he or his worthless windsock of a show has ANYTHING to say about the riots.
    Now if we could use our Blackeberries-if we had them-I`d be happy to tell mi crew dahn Aktun way to pay mi bredren a visit…nah wha`m saying blud?…no, neither do I!
    Therefore a BBC job is waiting for me then…give me a beat, Reveal!

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  20. Betty Swollocks says:

    If Ken Livingscum is not on QT I will be gobsmacked, I think Shammy Chakribbatti will appear I hope Gove is on, maybe they might wheel out that cretin Billy Bragg and of course Pointless Toynbeeeee.

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    • cjhartnett says:

      Lord William Bragg of Burton Bradstock (doncha know!) is unfortunately unavailable to take up ones kind invitation to blow hard on tonights soiree on account of his liaising the campfire singsong for Messrs Crow, Simpson, Kinnock and Benn for next Years Tolpuddle Jamboree.
      One dare not leave Umbria at such a portentous moment besides…yet Polly and I will phone in our “Power to the People” duet should the fee provide yet another guitar for a coming crim into Pentonville….as if…haha!

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    • ltwf1964 says:

      don’t think Chakrafarti will be on

      she’ll be monitoring the police in their control room just incase the rioters yoomin rites are abused

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  21. cjhartnett says:

    Surely those Wansworth jail lanyards ans security clearances would still be valid!
    Why not hold it from there,now that loads of the scum have been skimmed off decent society and are now packing the cells of Wansworth on remand etc!
    Surely this is what has happened isn`t it…weren`t there loads of them in Highbury Green yesterday…and weren`t the BBC handing in all their tapes to the magistrates to clear the sputum into chokey?
    Tell me that`s it`s so Mark!

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  22. My Site (click to edit) says:

    By what logic is it thought that a QT ‘special’ will contribute anything to the situation save a bunch of heat over light ratings?

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  23. My Site (click to edit) says:

    If we have to endure this farce, please let the bubble stay so isolated in their mutual support that they do only hit speed dial to the top 5 on the producer iPhone, and we indeed get treated to Ken, Laurie & Ms. Harperson, etc

    Save the boys in da ‘hood who one suspects will be otherwise engaged other than political debate at this time, even the meanest intelligence has grasped that la Hattie was a) in the cabinet when all this was created over a decade, b) chipped in on much of the stuff that made it truly dire c) has no leg to stand on with her perversely chosen cuts excuses and d) is a blithering idiot.

    The only downside is that the current crop of numpties come out looking better than they deserve, if only in comparison.

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  24. Gerald says:

    If Polly isn’t off on holiday in some deprived seaside resort in the U.K. (there’s lots of them could do with well to do visitors like Polly and Hatty) her appearance would of course count double representing both The Guardian and official BBC line in one making room for an MEP from one of our smaller parties?

    I bet it will not be an “outside broadcast”. Some of those misunderstood yoof innit might think it a larf to “interfere” with the kit.

    Apparently rather a good opinion on it all by Max Hastings on about page 11 of the Daily Mail. Can anyone provide a link?

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  25. Maturecheese says:

    Definately going to need copious amounts of rage numbing alcohol to watch QT.  Judging by the drivel I have heard so far on the radio, it’s going to be horrendous.

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  26. stephenthackeray1978 says:

    I’d agree with everyone that The BBC are really going to go for it with this edition, I’d say its definately going to up there with the notorious Britain Hates America 9/11 & Britain Hates The BNP / Nick Griffin episodes.
    Now for my prediction for the panel; They will have ALL 3 absolutely Loonie Leftie “Its Whiteys Fault & It always is / has been….. Shami cant be bothered to find out the correct spelling of her surname, Camilla Kids charity cant be bothered to find out the correct spelling of her surname AND Darcus Howe.
    How depressingly predictable, The BBC will protect the Cultural Marxist assault on our senses & those more vulnerable than us at any cost.
    The BBC will be / is in full attack mode. 

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    • Reed says:

      That 9-11 episode. I’d forgotten that one. It was shockingly unrepresentative of public feeling at the time, panel and audience. A template for future editions then.

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      • My Site (click to edit) says:

        ROBERT BROWN; I actually missed that 9-11 edition, but i understand the hate filled YABrown was on? Probably spouting racist claptrap and saying the US had it coming no doubt, did she? Can i see the edition anywhere, tried various places but drew a blank.

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  27. stephenthackeray1978 says:

    BBC’s favourite pathetic, weak, mollycoddled Tory is Phillip Hammond.
    He’s No. 1 name on their “weak Tory voice” speed dial.

    I bet they’ll turn to him for the “Right Wing” point of view, they always do. 

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  28. David Preiser (USA) says:

    You guys are going to love this:

    Riots – Young Voters’ Question Time

    UK Riots – Young Voters’ Question Time will be presented by Richard Bacon on BBC Three at 20:30 BST on Friday 12 August, the day after Parliament is recalled and Prime Minister David Cameron makes a statement to MPs.

    A studio audience will put questions to the panel about the widespread looting, the role of the police and whether the underlying causes are simple criminality or widening social gaps.

    Perfect.

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    • Demon1001 says:

      I hope there will be parents of Downs Syndrome children in the audience.

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      • ltwf1964 says:

        I would have too much repsect for downs kids to expose them to a lowlife sewer rat scumbag like Bacon

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  29. Reed says:

    For the Conservative side, someone sensible, measured and who knows how to navigate the issue without falling into the obvious pitfalls would be the right choice. I’d put forward Shaun Bailey, as the leftists will find it difficult to hint at a racist ‘subtext’ to his comments. This is unlikely to happen though. On occasions like this, QT tends to choose a Tory who is easy to boo and hiss like a pantomime villain.

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  30. cjhartnett says:

    Maybe-hear me out on this one you guys-just MAYBE…all our vulnerable and troubled yoof neede to blag all those plasma TVs just so they could watch tomorrows QT and therefore live out the Bair dream of being…just for one…”included” in the National conversation!
    Either that-or be able to get a HD screen of Ed Balls Popeyes that does the great man justice in close up!

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  31. cjhartnett says:

    Reminds me of the balloon game!
    If you had Darcus, Camila, Shami, Cheri, Harriet,Ken or any more of this lot in your balloon-how would you shoot the thing down, given that you only had a Stinger missile launcher and the best eye googles ever made?
    Think that`s it!

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  32. Reed says:

    Suggestions for the panel on the BBC QT web-page :
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/9394558.stm

    and yes – Camila Batmanghelidjh & Shami Chakrabarti are present.

    Someone suggests Darcus Howe, Billy Bragg, Benjamin Zephaniah, David Mitchell, Alexi Sayle. Really balanced panel there.

    and finally…one comedy f*ckwit put forward Johann Hari…for being an excellent journalist. I don’t think they’re being ironic either. Words fail me.

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  33. As I See It says:

    My sweep stake entry:
    Ken Livingstone is a shoe-in – the BBC are running him as their London mayoral candidate.
    Some blast from the past random BBC fav Labourite – I’ll plump for either Blunket or Jack Straw.
    On message black Milibandite – Chuka Umunna (Bet he won’t be in Tuscany topping up the tan).
    One token Castrato CINO. (Who cares which?).
    A tabloid pantomine villan such as Nick Ferrari to rile the social worker…..’I know these kids….I work with these kids’…crowd.

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  34. splodger says:

    I predict David Lammy and Kens Clarke and Livingstone. There will be a barely comprehensible “community leader”, and possibly a musician (preferably “street” or “rap”). There will be at least one panellist wearing a ludicrous piece of headgear.

    The debate will mostly feature impoverishment, cuts, lack of yoot activities and of course it will all be the fault of the (evil) Tory-led government.

    And Thatcher, of course. Nearly forgot.

    It will under no circumstances be the fault of the arrogant lawless criminals stealing what they can mob-handed.

    There will be calls for more money, understanding, money, hugs, an end to the evil non-existant cuts, more tolerance, equality, and, er, money (yours).

    It will be ball-achingly right-on, and do nothing for my blood pressure.

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    • splodger says:

      Actually, scratch that, I’ve just seen a twitter post from QT:

      “Panel for tomorrow: @johnprescott, @brianpaddick, @JohnSentamu, Camila Batmanghelidjh of @KidsCo_Tweets, @frasernels and one more TBC #bbcqt”

      I may need a new telly after watching Prescott for any length of time.

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      • Reed says:

        Brian Paddick : Loathesome, PC twit. The man has always fancied himself as a ‘community outreach officer’ rather than a police officer. He represents everything that’s wrong with modern police leadership – more interested in PR and turning the police into a caring-sharing branch of the social services than giving criminals a tough time.

        I’ll be waiting to groan when he parrots the inevitable phrase – ‘We should celebrate our diversity’. He will, just you wait. He did when taking part in the debates for the London Mayor election. I hate that phrase. Really, really hate it.

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        • ltwf1964 says:

          from the a-z guide to the pc madness blighting modern Britain

          J IS JENKINS, WOY Fat, Europhile snob with fake posh accent and affected claret habit now being roasted on a spit in the hottest part of hell for having invented the phrase: ‘Cewebwate diversity.’

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          • cjhartnett says:

            I second this Itw1964!
            In the rogues gallery Woy is one of the gweatest blights that ever set foot on the soil of this land!
            Few others have led us all over the abyss and escaped the consequences-fat,smug complacent, Eurobore, winebibber and all round greaser…or is that Cwiss Patten?
            Anyway-luckily the old marinaded carcass of that tub of guts is stewing in the juices of his own smug self-satisfaction…plenty of fat to baste that high on the hog Welsh Spitroast!
            Pwesscott next perhaps…if we put  a pic of Tracey Temple on the end of his nose!

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      • ltwf1964 says:

        sorry

        i’m on blood pressure meds as it is

        that’s enough to illicit a stroke in totally healthy people

        that walking rug and curtains does my head in just for a kick off

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        • Reed says:

          walking rug and curtains’ is good, but she always makes me think of Dom Deluise in drag in Haunted Honeymoon.

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      • Martin says:

        Yep they’ve got that fat bird on.

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      • Reed says:

        Splodger – I may need a new telly after watching Prescott for any length of time.

        Don’t worry – plenty about to come up on Ebay – so I hear

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  35. Bof says:

    I suspect the tone of the programme has been pre-ordained.
    The subliminal message from the picture header of QT site is of the awful police marching towards you, rather than the untermenschen actually responsible for the chaos

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/question_time/default.stm

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    • splodger says:

      Guaranteed to have the narrative pre-defined. That pic speaks volumes concerning the beeb mindset.

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      • Reed says:

        Much like the old Eastenders portrayal of the police. Thatcher’s jackboot Nazis kicking in the doors of the poor working class folk.

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  36. ltwf1964 says:

    there is absolutely no doubt about that

    Question Time is a model for all that stinks atthe beeb

    and by the way

    welcome aboard all the new faces!

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    • Reed says:

      Thanks. Glad to have found this site. Thought my small circle of people were lone voices in the wilderness.

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  37. splodger says:

    For those of a robust disposition: here’s Camila Batshitbonkers being interviewed by everybody’s favourite Richard Bacon.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jpw1j

    “She calls on society to understand why inner-city teenagers riot.”
    “These kids have got no hope. They’ve got nothing to lose”.

    It must be remembered that although she runs a yoof “charity”, she in no way has a vested interest in portraying all the violent, thieving low lifes as deprived and living on urine-soaked mattresses.

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  38. stephenthackeray1978 says:

    I’d like to echo the previous poster & fellow BBC hater; there will definately be someone wearing a ridiculous piece of “ethnic” style headwear to trumpet their “vibrancy” & “diversity” not to mention their Solidarity with “The Community” & much loved “Community Elder” & BBC Martyr Mark Duggan.
    Also a musician / rapper no doubt with a ridiculous name is a good shout, I’m going for “Spoony” from BBC Radio 5 Live

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  39. George R says:

    How many of  BBC-NUJ picked panel are not politically correct/multiculturalists?

    In terms of ethnicity, the panel is 60% ‘white British’, which is more than for London in 2011 – which is about 55% ‘white British’, and declining every year, as London is soon to become minority ‘white British’, in large part due to open-door ‘policy’ of mass immigration, with the results we now see.

    “Ethnic groups in London”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_London

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  40. cjhartnett says:

    Lord this is some shallow pool of all the talents the BBC can still call on to talk tripe!
    When the names are as few, familiar and flaccid as the ones we name above-don`t the BBC see just how reduced, incestuous, small and predictable in all they say and do these days.
    Let Catman Belly take the whole shebang out under her ludicrous rug n curtains ensemble once she`s ate all the falafels and hummus…oh those poor Palestinian…

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  41. stephenthackeray1978 says:

    HaHa @ Catman Belly

    There is no way any of us is going to get through tomorrow night without copious amounts of alcohol even then I fear my 50 inch Plasma might end up getting a bottle put through it.
    Its a shame I’m not a member of “The Community” then the council / government would have got me another one.

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  42. cjhartnett says:

    The Big Day then boys and girls!
    The Nation called…the People bellowed…and the Dog Whistle of destiny called-maybe?-BOTH the Dimbleby lads back from Tuscany!
    Doing up each others cummerbunds…taking turns plumping up daddys cushion specially brought from Richmond- gargling the best Perrier `til the sun goes over the yardarm sometime soon-and doing trills and scales before Bercow finds his elevator shoes have been unseasonably well polished!
    Don`t know about you-but if a Dimbleby has not pronounced on the unpleasantness-and delivered a verdict via pursed lips, bad body language and eggy stares-I simply “haven`t got a clue WHAT to do”…as the wonderful St Steve of Priest so prophetically gave us in thae urban hymn of the day…Blockbuster-more than just a video chain I`m thinking!
    Can you hire a double sedan chair-and will anyone dare to take these bulky boys uptown through the vineyards and willing cap doffing cleanup chappies and not the wasteland that the rest of us have to live in?
    A Nation draws its breath…

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  43. splodger says:

    Apparently the final panellist is going to be David Davis as government representative. (According to the great sage of our time Lord Prescott of Pies).

    Not the Welsh one, this one:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_%28English_politician%29

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  44. Billy-no-mates says:

    Earlier this week I heard on the News Tonight (R4) a riveting analysis of the riots by Bonnie Greer and er… a drama therapist. I was drifting off but seemed to think the drama therapist was a bit more hawkish on the matter. Needless to say the use of ammunition rounds on rioters was not really explored which was a shame. Bonnie recalled how living in the South Side of Chicago how she knew the feeling of passing shops wanting the dress in the window and knowing she could not afford it. It made her feel bitter. Although she didn’t loot, the experience helped her understand the desire of the looters (sorry protesters).I don’t know if I can watch tonight more of this crap is not good for my blood pressure

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  45. cjhartnett says:

    Thanks for staying on at the scene of the crime Billy!
    Blue tape up…desolation…nothing more to see here citizens and let`s get back to our lives!
    Yet here I am-surveying the scene of the riots as the Beeb remember there`s Osbornes Plan B/ Murdoch and…of course global warming… so the circus has left town!
    Yet as they leave-you`ve pointed out poor Bonnie and her therapist…oh the poor lamb…I`m feeling her pain!
    When I was a kid I too wanted to be an art critic with a free pass to whiteys cabin… to write garbage and get an opera company to sing it back to us all…I wanted to get out of a country that only thought me a pretentious untalented token of a fake…not the petunia in the melon patch of life!
    Sometimes dreams just can come true…

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