Yes it’s that time again, the horror is back on our screens.
David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Wembley, with are Conservative environment secretary Elizabeth Truss MP, Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell MP, irrelevant clown Alex Salmond MP, alleged comedian / presenter Sandi Toksvig and journalist / Cameronian stooge Tim Stanley.
Kick off Thursday at 22.35
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I’m laying the odds here for Sandi Tosswitch and what she considers are her witticisms .
Every one has to finish with her saying ‘erm’ and riding the applause .
None at all 100 / 1
One = 8/1
Two= 6\1
Three = 4/1
I’m afraid you only get odds on for Alex Salmond to say that the Prime Minister has put the UK in a bad light and Scotland wants to take swarms of migrants. But there is a bonus prize if someone takes the SNP up on its offer and says that all migrants can go to Scotland and live at its own expense .
Further odds are
The SWP audience represents the average Joe in the street 100/1
No mention is made of
Germany leading the way and we should follow suit 50/1
What about the children 25/1
Hungary , fences , trains , shades of Auschwitz 10/1
Shame , ashamed 100/1 .
References to any previous waves of migration , refugees and asylum seekers in a totally irrelevant way except to the person uttering it 200/1 .
Fun bets are
People who don’t wear a tie outnumber those who do 10/1
Elizabeth Truss scribbling frantically when it’s not her turn 2/1
An audience member saying I Would Just Like To Ask evens
Please can bets be through the BBBC website , all bets void if show is cancelled , your house is on the line if you don’t keep up payments compare the Meerkats woof woof
What are the odds on someone mentioning food banks? It’s the Question Time equivalent of “Oh, my God! You killed Kenny! You bastard!”
“Irrelevant clown” is about right !
How about Roy Chubby Brown, Jim Davison, the late Clarissa Dickson-Wright, Katie Hopkins & me . And why not ? I have just had to pay my bbc poll tax, and that is the one f’n bill in the whole year I despise paying.
Or how about Jared Taylor, Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders, Lawrence Auster and a token Liberal anyone in the Cuckservative party.
I wonder if any readers know the origin of the term ‘claptrap’? Apparently it derives from the eighteenth century theatre, where it was the custom to applaud not just at the end of a play, but during any particularly well acted soliloquy.
Some actors and writers therefore began to produce ‘claptrap’, ie, a trap for claps – over emotional, bombastic speeches designed mainly to elicit applause.
For some reason, I always think of this when I listen to Question Time…
Really like Nibor’s betting concept but think the odds are way off mark.
The chance of mass applause for open-door refugee advocacy will be odds on, as will ‘nasty Tories’ allusion, as will the usual casually racist SNP ‘the English are the cause of all Scottish problems’ type comments. And who is Elizabeth Truss? Typical BBC bias of booking a lightweight Tory against a battalion of lefties both on the panel and in the audience.
Think QVC might be preferable.
Just think, if you had Elizabeth Truss, Yvette Cooper and Ed Balls on the panel you would have a Truss supporting a pair of Balls.
I’ll get me coat …….
Liz Truss was originally in the SDP while Tim Stanley was originally the labour party.
Lobster, I was just going to make that joke and you beat me to it !. Get your coat !
Surely there will also have to be a question about the apotheosis of our only mediator and advocate, even JC (Jeremy Corbyn) our Lord?
If you click on the Gistar.net image on the questionti.me page, a new page will open, which looks identical to the questionti.me page, apart from the lack of biased bbc banner. You will be able to log in to it and chat, but this is a completely different chat, believe it or not, and you will likely be talking to yourself. To be sure that you’re in the questiontime chat, look for the biasedbbc banner at the top of the web page. I will sort this out as it is definitely confusing. Apologies to all those who have spent past Thursday evenings all alone because of that.
Hi Julio.
My first attempt to log on took me to the “register” page. Having been told my username was already in use I exited and a bit of hacking let me in – Woohoo!
Best of luck sorting this out.
See you next week – Number 7.
No sarcasm – I’m an ex- systems analyst.
are you staddlerstones@….. ?
Julio, got myself all confused last night (it’s an age thing – wait and see!), and locked out of QT chat. When I tried to change password, got a drop down “error 404” dialogue. Can I have another go, please?
Expect the phrase ” Let them ALL in ” to get a rapturous applause, probably a 20 minute standing ovation.
How much does it cost to visit the world Sandy Toskvig lives in?
Google “Somewhere to the LEFT of Planet Zargon”.