Question Time this week comes from Woking, which is the town where the Martians first land in The War of the Worlds and also features in Douglas Adams’ book The Meaning of Liff as the word for when you go to the kitchen but forget why.
Woking constituency is represented for the Conservatives by Humfrey Malins with a majority of 6,612. He supported Ken Clarke’s leadership bid in 2001 and resigned from the Opposition front bench in 2003 over the Iraq War.
On the panel we have Foreign Secretary David Miliband, Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary and serial QT under-perfomer Theresa May, the historian Simon Schama and Daily Telegraph columnist Janet Daley. Menzies Campbell will be reprising his part as the grandfather in the Werther’s Originals advert..
Alistair Darling has confirmed that TheEye and David Mosque are only sustainable for the long term if there is a 83% hike in your National Insurance, so vote early and vote often at the slightly later time than usual of 10:55pm.
Eureka… I didnt think we’d have a session tonight. Thanks ASE!
Nobody watches QT.
Except creepy people with sheds to repair or dim daughters who should go to university.
Theresa May – not her again. Another conservative who has no opinion of her own.
Do the BBC keep inviting Teresa May or do the BBC keep offering her up? If the former is it a deliberate tactic, if the latter then why?
Miliband – Left
Schama – Left (anti-Bush, Guardian writer etc)
Campbell – anti-Tory mode well and truly activated
May – weak
Woking being a Conservative area, what’s the betting the audience demograph will be full of the visitors from the Northern Europe’s oldest mosque and labour activists by the busload who will all be ordered to clap more loudly than others?
I don’t think I can bear to watch the circus unless heavily dosed up on Margaux and tightly strapped down to a bench.
Ah no, that’s tomorrow.
The BBC really knows how to pick a diverse, and ever changing, panel which reflects the diversity of view across the whole political spectrum. QT offers genuine taboo-free discussion and the studio audience, whose views also tend reflect those of TV audience, only add to the free and fair atmosphere that only the BBC can produce.
Like with American TV networks such as Fox, the BBC routinely examines and debates the key philosophical issues which underpin policy such as the role of government, national sovereignty, non-socialist economic ideas, liberty, and so on. Thus, in the context of QT, audience questioning takes on a new level of depth for the educated audience at whom the BBC is aiming. No talking about celebrities and the like during this edifying experience. The impartial chair of the show simply wouldn’t allow it.
Now, where did I put my tablets…
Only the tablets? You’ve also misplaced your comfy padded jacket…the one with the flappy sleeves that tie up nicely behind your back. Nurse!
D.Miliband.
A note on Labour’s lobbyist for Islamic Turkey’s EU entry.
“Immigration: now it’s the Foreign Secretary who gets his facts seriously wrong”
http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/pressReleases#224
TEST IGNORE
here\’s another link to a biased bbc covergae. You have o get right to the bottom before you rlaise it wasn\’t just Labour trying to save the day…from Labour (not mentioned)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8608478.stm
TEST IGNORE
here\’s another link to a biased bbc covergae. You have o get right to the bottom before you rlaise it wasn\’t just Labour trying to save the day…from Labour (not mentioned)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8608478.stm