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[Politics] No official Question Time thread?



Publius Ovidius

Publius Ovidius

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Jul 5, 2003
46,038
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Easy 10 said:
Same here. MASSIVE anti-climax when it was just Abbott dropping the N and P bomb. Just imagine if the BBC introduced the show each week by saying "and a warning that some viewers may find some scenes upsetting". They'd have a captive audience for the whole hour (at least the first couple of times).

Someone needed to have a word with that McGuinness bint to explain that it was Question Time, not 'An Audience with Mairead McGuinness'. Shit the bed, she barely came up for air all night.
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It was the guy saying how black people brandishing knives and stabbing people need to be exterminated

That was what the warning was about.

I actually thought Abbott came over well last night
 




Easy 10

Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,767
Location Location
Publius Ovidius said:
It was the guy saying how black people brandishing knives and stabbing people need to be exterminated

That was what the warning was about.

I actually thought Abbott came over well last night
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No, I don't think it was that. It was a fairly extreme (and daft) viewpoint, but thats nothing new on QT. The warning was absolutely about the n*****rs and p**is remark by Abbott.

I'd agree that (for her) she was better this week then usual, probably as there were no numbers/statistics for her to get tangled up in. But she still has that highly irritating manner of speaking to everyone as though she is conversing with an upset 6 year old. And appearing to read everything she is saying from an autocue on the ceiling.
 


Simster

Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,207
Surrey
BigGully said:
I happened to have shared a sauna (mixed) with an older gentleman that had been an audience member on QT.

He said they have a full rehearsal without the panel, to give their questions and so on, they then choose due to a) the question and b) if the audience member might be able to actually say it.
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Correct. My step-mum was chosen to ask a question on there about 3 years ago. :thumbsup:
 


vegster

vegster

Sanity Clause
May 5, 2008
27,894
Not Andy Naylor said:
I'd been looking forward to it because David Aaronovitch and Jordan Peterson are interesting, but having the knife-crime question first killed the programme. Dimbleby gave far too much talk time to the audience (before one panellist had said anything), and there was no tension between panellists because essentially everyone agrees that knife crime is a bad thing. This one question took over half the programme, leaving insufficient time for other issues where there was potential for debate. Mairead McGuinness was long-winded and repeated herself, and I'm with Jack on Diane Abbott.
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The whole knife issue comes down to the breakdown of society and reduction of police numbers. If people knew there was a high chance of being caught in possession and a long sentence they would not risk it.
 


clapham_gull

clapham_gull

Legacy Fan
Aug 20, 2003
25,324
Publius Ovidius said:
It was the guy saying how black people brandishing knives and stabbing people need to be exterminated

That was what the warning was about.

I actually thought Abbott came over well last night
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It wasn't - they wouldn't have put a warning on about that. His language wasn't offensive only his viewpoint.

It was Abbott's remarks. The context was fine, it's post watershed but they'd drop in a warning for that.
 




Westdene Seagull

Westdene Seagull

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Oct 27, 2003
21,024
The arse end of Hangleton
Thunder Bolt said:
Nobody watches anymore when it's well known they put stooges in the audience.
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Hmmm ..... intrigued by this claim. Where is the evidence ? I ask as it wasn't obvious when I went to see the show and it hasn't been obvious on any of the shows I've watched.
 


Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,497
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
Westdene Seagull said:
Hmmm ..... intrigued by this claim. Where is the evidence ? I ask as it wasn't obvious when I went to see the show and it hasn't been obvious on any of the shows I've watched.
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There have been activists as clapham gull said, but the most obvious one was the Scottish nurse who talked about having to use food banks when she spent her birthday in New York quaffing champagne, and other luxury holidays.
 


Westdene Seagull

Westdene Seagull

aka Cap'n Carl Firecrotch
NSC Patron
Oct 27, 2003
21,024
The arse end of Hangleton
BigGully said:
I happened to have shared a sauna (mixed) with an older gentleman that had been an audience member on QT.

He said they have a full rehearsal without the panel, to give their questions and so on, they then choose due to a) the question and b) if the audience member might be able to actually say it.
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They do have a rehearsal but it's about 30 minutes and for sound and camera checks. People from the audience sit on the panel and staff ask them random non-political questions.
 




LlcoolJ

LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
I don't care if there are stooges or staged questions. The whole thing is a big pile of TURD anyway.
 




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