Question Time

[The Far North]

It appears that QT was so short of gammon in Scotland that they had to use the same UKIPer for the 4th time in the audience. Questions have apparently been asked.

The application form requires prospective guests to say whether they have previously been on the show and when.

Guests must also reveal who they would be most likely to vote for in a general election, how they voted in the EU referendum and whether they are a member of a political party.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bbc-investigating-after-scots-ex-13973034

 

[TheDecameron]

It appears that QT was so short of gammon in Scotland that they had to use the same UKIPer for the 4th time in the audience. Questions have apparently been asked.

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/bbc-investigating-after-scots-ex-13973034

A known religious bigot and audience plant.

“He even has the same shell suit on he wore previously”. Love it!



Surprised he didn’t get run out of a Motherwell when he showed up. It is not the first time and we’ve even had Union Jack waving/ nazi saluting extras bused in from Ulster and England.

 

[droodzilla]

A good article about a QT audience member who's very popular with the programme's producers:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/1...over-ranting-ukip-mans-panel-show-invitation/

Not that the BBC is trying to normalise the far-right or anything.

 

[The Far North]

A good article about a QT audience member who's very popular with the programme's producers:

https://www.thenational.scot/news/1...over-ranting-ukip-mans-panel-show-invitation/

Not that the BBC is trying to normalise the far-right or anything.

According to another article in the National, Fiona Hyslop's reply to this guy was edited down to some 7 seconds, as Mitchell started shouting over her. Quality BBC

However, we can now reveal that Hyslop had in fact continued to reply at length, but as she was giving her answer Mitchell started to shout over her.
Host Fiona Bruce was happy to allow him to speak up, but an audience member told us that at one point during the exchanges he started shouting about recent allegations surrounding former First Minister Alex Salmond.
Court restrictions around the live case ensured that the BBC would be unable to broadcast the footage, and therefore most of Hyslop’s response to him.

But producers will now be facing urgent questions over why they then made the decision to broadcast his initial anti-independence rant without a proper right of reply, rather than just axing the entire exchange with Mitchell.
Instead, Hyslop was made to appear as though she hadn’t been able or willing to respond fully to his points.
The BBC confirmed to The National that there had been a cut for legal reasons, but refused to say more.

 

[Nigel]

Tonight's panellists are Jacob Rees-Mogg, Lisa Nandy, Jimmy Wales, Grace Blakeley and Geoff Norcott.

 

[Darmok]

^ Popcorn ready.

JRM will do the usual, Puke.

 

[Seanm]

So I understand JRM was on last night defending concentration camps.

Normal country, very normal.

 

[Tony L]

So I understand JRM was on last night defending concentration camps.

Yes, unsurprisingly he seems to rather like them.

 

[misterdog]

As history is raided, indeed raped, by identitarians and populists, glib judgments on the past become fodder for every tribal grievance.

From The Guardian.

 

[Nick_G]

So I understand JRM was on last night defending concentration camps.

Normal country, very normal.

Right. So the BBC aren't normalising far-right fascism then. At all. It's just in the name of balance and impartiality, of course.

 

[palacefan]

I think it would be better to include the fact that the discussion was about Churchill as to whether he was a hero or villain. Certainly a war hero because he was about the only suitable leader around, we have come full circle with the latest lot,Blair, Cameron and May.
All our family and local friends reckoned that every time he opened his mouth we got bombed during the war and such opinions get lost over time.

Issues under debate included the miner killed at Tonypandy for which a lot of longstanding feeling has been carried on against Churchill and camps to hold people while the farmers were involved in the Boar war.

John Macdonnell felt that Churchill was a villain and gave the wrong political answer and who would expect JRM to say anything but support his own kind.

 

[Brian S]

At least the idiotic question on Churchill, and John Macdonell's mistake in answering it, gave Nicolas Soames an opportunity to voice his high Tory contempt for the less fortunate. I was disappointed that Fiona Bruce seemed to think Soames' comment 'Poundstore Lenin' had some merit, and quoted it.

 

[Colin L]

We like Grace Blakeley very much. Oh yes.

 

[Cav]

Why does anyone watch this? Do you also watch Jeremey Kyle?

 

[TheDecameron]

At least the idiotic question on Churchill, and John Macdonell's mistake in answering it, gave Nicolas Soames an opportunity to voice his high Tory contempt for the less fortunate. I was disappointed that Fiona Bruce seemed to think Soames' comment 'Poundstore Lenin' had some merit, and quoted it.

Soames himself is utterly odious- a grotesque entitled bigot from the 1950s.

 

[Darmok]

^ I concur, a Knight?

Pfff, Lard more like.

 

[Brian S]

Why does anyone watch this? Do you also watch Jeremey Kyle?

It does make death much more agreeable.

I have never seen Jeremy Kyle. A friend assures me that would have the added benefit of suicide.

Cheers, Brian S

 

[The Far North]

From today's Sunday Herald concerning JRM's assertion that the death rate in the concentration camps was the same as Glasgow at the time, but you already knew he was a liar who sounded authentic.

Rees-Mogg's comparison with Glasgow at the time is misleading at best. The concentration camp figure of deaths spans a year, totalling more than 48,000 who perished, Boer and black, from a prisoner population of less than 200,000. Glasgow, in 1901, had a population of 762,000 and, according to the National Records of Scotland, 16,190 people died. That dropped slightly to 15,530 in 1902.

The usual measurement is of deaths per 100,000 population, and on that measurement camp deaths were an astronomical 24,000/100,000 – more than 10 times that of Glasgow at the time, at 2,124/100,000.

The Scotland-wide death rate today is around half that Glasgow figure.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news...oer-war-concentration-camps-true/?ref=mr&lp=2

 

[TheDecameron]

That’s why I think a Mogg is dangerous- he gives the air of someone with ‘high moral standards’ and thus would never tell a bare faced lie to the public, in much the same way some clergymen would never attract suspicion when they were interfering with your children.

 

[Tony L]

Anyone spotted the Tory audience plant yet?

PS I lived in Chester for a while back in the early ‘80s. In a mental hospital!