So now we know…. the BBC told us that moving production out of London was providing jobs for Taxi drivers and hairdressers:
Host David Dimbleby was forced to apologise to viewers as panelists Labour Peer Baroness Bakewell – formerly TV presenter Joan Bakewell – and blogger Tim Stanley were left stranded in a stricken train. Their train was diverted because of a trackside fire near Tamworth which caused widespread disruption to Virgin services on the West Coast mainline.
Should have put the taxi driver on the panel to fill in….talk more sense than little old Russell ever does.
If they were short on the panel why were two members of the public not invited to take part, they are equally qualified !
If from the ‘public’ audience, the equality of qualification may be subject to some interpretation.
Rather ironic that such a Cluster-FUBAR on dragging folk around the country to tick boxes was most noticeable when the venue seems closest to their new home.
Question Time audiences do not represent the public. Odd though that in a city like Manchester they couldn’t find someone to fill in. Not doing so is rather incompetent.
The BBC couldn’t find anybody in Manchester because there is no room on the BBC phone lists because they are jammed full of BBC London Sycophants, the PC Brigade from the Westminster Bubble and BBC list of Tame Trots. They daren’t risk asking somebody they haven’t already vetted, after all they may be unPC, non-Leftist, anti-BBC Heretics and that would never do they may say something sensible and that would never do
I don’t think that audience in Manchester were anywhere near qualified to sit on the panel. Did you hear the clapping of hands when that woman claimed the reason people can’t afford to buy their own homes is because of the ‘bedroom tax’?
Yes, there was plenty of applause – hilarious!
Perhaps if Question Time concerned itself with people local to the place of discussion then they wouldn’t have this problem. Bussing Labour supporters and subscribers to Socialist Worker who rarely venture outside of London isn’t being representative of the country.
Oh dear-and there`s Jonathan every Friday speaking from his mobile on the train on PM.
Proud to be using public transport to his latest leafy school in a nice area-or at least one where Labour tools can get into with ease to “participate”.
Funny he never goes to Page Hall Comp isn`t it?…all their venues are thriving multiculti OFSTED patsies or vibrant arts/community centres-wonder why?
I missed the intro-so for a second was glad to see that the “comic” or”token lefty” had been binned…then I saw Sadiq Khan and turned off immediately.
Could be a job here in diverting the likes of Brand and Mother Owen Jones to sidings in Norris Green; instead of infesting the BBC studios at will.
If I`d wanted an idiot brother shouting out SWP tracts I hid in the loft…I`d have asked for one.
Just to verify the railway side of the story (because these days we never can trust what the bBBC tells us), I was on the 2007 last night from Euston to Liverpool. Euston was packed, some trains were cancelled and others diverted. My train left about 45 minutes late and arrived about an hour later than scheduled.
http://www.tamworthherald.co.uk/BREAKING-Huge-reported-Tamworth/story-20113644-detail/story.html
Though I doubt the two missing guests would have improved things much (Stanley, the token ‘Conservative’ is a dripping wet who posted non-stop Probama & Romney hit pieces during the presidential campaign), I must say the resulting 3-way LibLabCon stitch-up made for quite possibly the worst QT ever. eg. The question on why 25% of Brits <20 are unemployed: all three talked about who had cut / expanded what training scheme – all three studiously avoided the elephant of the room: the 6 million unskilled immigrants the LibLabCon invited in to take all those starter jobs our young people would normally do. Unbelievable. And while Khan talked rubbish and Hunt was useless, that Libdem woman was just totally and utterly braindead: Nothing but "um.. errr… platitude… err..um… platitude". And we're stuck with her in the Lords for the next 30-40 years!
VOTE UKIP