David Dimbleby presents tonight’s fun and games from Cardiff. Joining him are Conservative secretary of state for Wales Stephen Crabb MP, Daily Telegraph columnist and Margaret Thatcher’s biographer Charles Moore, singer and campaigner Charlotte Church, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock (now where have I heard that name before?) and Plaid Cymru Leader Leanne Wood AM.
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My money is on inane cheering and clapping for everything the infantile Leanne Wood says.
Poor Leanne got a pasting-but she`s a thick as Natalie Bennetts cheroots, so someone will have to tell her whilst she opens up the Pontypool hairdressers she surely works in.
Mind you she was a One watt star in comparison to poor Charlotte Mosque…that kid has had loads of money and a showbiz life-and seems to have learned nothing, except that Bollinger is best poured through Russell Brands string vest to be a truly rebellious show of solidarity with the poor.
If Welsh girls are all as educated as Leanne and Charlotte-no wonder the rest of Wales is pissed off with Labour there-these ladies were DENSE!
As for Syria being a basket case because we don`t recycle enough and it`s all hot and dry there now?…even the audience were stunned at her thickiness-if only David Dimbleby could have flapped his jowls to applaud, the embarrassing silence could have been less so.
Just as well we`re not firing up Redcar then Charlotte then eh?
Dum, dumb dumber-and dumbing hell!…
Charlotte ‘I can sing’ Church? What does she bring to the party? At least Leanne Wood engages with the electorate. But I wont be watching.
“Kinnock”
Is there any member of that family of sanctimonious hypocrites who is not living off the taxpayer?
Good to see that charlotte church is still no brighter then. “Yeah,i agree wholheartedly with jeremy corbyn” answer to every question. Twunt!
The girl with the glasses who comented,”its like charlotte said,” is it not childish not to scrap trident” , sums up these naive lefties a treat. Keep surrendering lefties and fingers crossed,the “bad guys” shall see sense and join the party.
Its good to see political intellectuals like Charlotte Church on the panel, after all it would be bloody stupid to have UKIP representation when they only came 2nd in Wales in the 2014 Euro elections and 3rd (in Wales) in the 2015 GE…
…Aaanndd Charlotte Church jumps the full shark on QT. She is firmly of the opinion (based on no evidence whatsoever) that Islamic State is the net result of something she calls ‘climate change’. Amazingly, and for once, the usual morons in the QT audience didn’t reward such idiocy with one single clap.
Remind me again, what exactly are the fragrant Ms Church’s qualifications viz-a-viz climate change, the Syrian crisis and international terrorism..?
Well she had a voice like an angel, apparently, before she ruined it with booze and fags.
RiC
Actually she did not have the voice of an angel.
If you listen to her “Ave Maria”, “the best version ever”, according to YouTube, it’s fine.
That is, it’s fine until you listen to Joan Sutherland or Renata Tebaldi (also described as having the voice of an angel) sing the same piece.
However I concede that she has a lump of anthracite from the Rhonda for a head.
More of Church on QT please BBC, she could not win an argument with a wet paper bag.
This actually seems like the first qt audience in years that isn’t biased. Why? I can’t work it out
I agree – a surprisingly balanced audience, for once. What on Earth is going on?
Even the Welsh are getting fed up with 17 yrs of Liebore hegemony.
I suspect it was the fact that Church’s comments where so mind blowing stupid that not even a question time audience could agree with her.
Lazy dated BBC assumption that Welsh are left wing. So less need to vet audience.
Dimblebug gave a ridiculous ammount of time to the guy who was keen to send British soldiers to their deaths in Syria! For some reason the BBC is very keen to get British ‘boots on the ground’ in that country, a country which is nothing to do with us!
By the way Charlotte, a pretty young woman, looks absolutley awful peroxide blonde when her eyebrows and skin tones are Italian dark.
Face like a roof tyler’s nailbag without all the “slap”.
No I disagree. She is very pretty, although she has a cheeky look stemming from an over confident and aggressive personality combined with a total lack of class.
But you’d still need weapons grade ear defenders 🙂
Indeed – & I’d wager she can be pretty dirty in the sack
She can be dirty with me all she likes….
Agree with other comments. A very strange QT with a surprisingly even handed audience. Al-Beeb will be all over that to make sure it doesn’t happen again, so expect rent-a-mob next week. They also got their fingers burnt when the ‘lightweight’ Tory they had booked turned out to be pretty good.
Charlotte Church of course was a total waste of space, rambling, inconsistent, incoherent.
Where Dimbleby missed a trick by accident or design was in not clearly identifying which subjects are devolved and then make sure the correct people are held to account. For example I think NHS Wales is devolved so can ‘Tory cuts’ be blamed for issues there?
A bit of credit too for the Welsh in not having the stupid chips on the shoulders that so many dreadful Scots have.
I wonder if the BBC are making a real effort to make QT less biased ? Charter review etc. It seems too much of a coincidence.
Although I couldn’t face QT, I think they are playing a semblance of non-bias until the charter review is completed – and then back to normal.
Deborah, Yes, I can’t think of any other reason. If that is the case, it proves that the BBC is aware that QT has always been biased in the past so their denials have been lies ! They are not half as clever as they think they are !
The welsh nats’ are going nowhere with that leader. I have heard 12 year old debate better than her.
She always sounds as if she is reciting a pre-prepared script and cannot improvise ‘on the hoof’. A bit of a female Miliband IMHO. After the next Welsh assembly elections it’ll be Leanne Who?
Agreed and Charlotte Church diplayed as much substance in her arguments as is seen in a baby’s soiled nappy.
Welsh underfunded!
Anyone on the panel ever heard of the Barnett formula!!!! Apparently not!
Wasn’t mentioned.
Headline in today’s Times (p8): Mad Cow Disease on Welsh Farm
Kinnock had a face like a slapped arse and Church was just funny…Quite an enjoyable QT for once.
I wonder if Charlotte Church has ever even heard of a thing called the “scientific method”? Let alone knows anything about what it is. I’ll be willing to bet that she has never ever applied the scientific method to the CAGW hypothesis.
I doubt if she has ever even heard of the rhythm method, let alone the scientific method.
I’ll file that away for future use.
Great watching Welsh Windbag Junior tie himself in knots trying to explain how Steptoe and Labour can still be credible if they have already stated they will never use the nuclear deterrent. Still their consultation may persuade Steptoe that he has to change his mind. Flying Pig Squadron scramble !
When have nuclear weapons ever been of any use in keeping us safe ? I noticed how Dimbledunce quickly moved on when an audience member raised the very valid point that one country has already given up their weapons unilaterally. I’m sure the Ukranian Government regrets every second of every day that it signed over the third largest number of nuclear weapons to Russia twenty years ago under the Budapest Memorandum. In return for a worthless promise from said renegade state and the US guaranteeing Ukraine’s borders. That went well then. Where was the anti nuclear panelists comment on that
I can’t understand people saying they don’t know why the intellectual giant Charlotte Church was on the panel. She went on the anti-austerity march didn’t she ? And she represents the yoof flocking to Steptoe the Pied Piper of honest politics. Unlimited free pass in the BBC !
Actually, I though Kinnock was quite good. Not sure how you can be a welsh Labour MP and have a wife in Denmark who is their PM; love, family and togetherness should outscore political ambition, as should living in your constituency and truly representing your electorate. However, his answers seemed measured and fairly honest.
I believe the Danes dispensed with Mrs Kinnock’s services as Prime Minister at the recent elections when they turned right, and hence are now not quite so welcoming of invaders.
I agree.
Stephen Kinnock was far better that I`d have expected from the groins of that windbag dad of his and Glenys on the make-a template for Cherie Blair.
I know Kinnock Jnr is privileged, has no real links to Wales (but neither does Peter Hain)-is a Eurocrat type and married to the Danish trolley dolly in charge there a while back-but he was measured. let a few words say a lot and was generally amenable and capable.
Don`t agree with much of what he said-but he was tactical and smart-and knew what Russia was up to.
Impressive for a Labour type-like an albino Chukka Umunnah without the pretensions and vanity.
Best I`ve seen from the new intake-he may do very well.
Slightly off topic but not totally.
Lots of press coverage of Robert Peston moving to ITV. Or not – option to stay may include the QT seat (thus on-topic!). Got me thinking. Various Al-Beeb options not open.
Newsnight – Evan Davies – Gay
Political Editor – Laura Kuennsburg – female
Disabilty correspondents – disabled
Sorry Robert – white heterosexual able-bodied males like you are not really that welcome in Al-Beeb these days. Unless of course you want to be the strategy director, then you don’t even need an interview or a job advertisement, just be someone’s ‘preferred’ candidate.
Spot a white English male Newsreader on the main news programmes! You would not believe this is England.
Does the term ‘able-bodied’ include washing?
You may be overlooking his mental and physical disability … his head can’t turn to the right !
Laura Kuennsburg is also a Scot so extra BBC point to her.
And Peston’s dad is a Labour peer so 100 extra BBC points to young MR P!
Re AceFlying Pig at 1107
Not heard of the Corbyn – Steptoe likeness (many of his acolytes will not even have heard of Steptoe) but what a great idea.
Problem is – which one?
By appearance – Albert, of course
But by philosophy?
Harold had the dreamy ideals – wanting to better himself of course, yet with some sad delusions about reality. Albert torpedoed Harold’s dreams but often based on the practical down-to-earth experience of life. (Example: “Full House” available on you tube). Maybe you’re right to just say Steptoe and not specify which. I think I’ll also start referring to Jezza in this way.
Steptoe Snr was a Tory, though.
I haven’t bothered with QT for many years (especially since I became TV-free, plus it’s on at pub o’clock), but happened to catch it on the radio this time because for once Fatty Nolan didn’t have me rushing for the off switch (he seemed rather subdued and chastened for a change, though the main news item was the latest US school shooting so it may be that rather than a telling-off after his last performance). I was amazed at how balanced, calm and un-whooped up it sounded — it was almost like it used to be in the Robin Day years, when they could book Enoch Powell, say, and the audience and other panellists would listen politely to what he had to say rather than shout him down as soon as he opened his mouth.
It’s a good job that this isn’t the army.Marching to “left, left, left left left” with the occasional token right would be very difficult.