Question Time - 10/04/2014

[Greebo]

They all love building houses don't they? Houses which are going to be sold off on the open market at market rates.

Bragg's just making that point.

 

[editor]

You'll get much better ones elsewhere. Like here.

I like to hear as many opinions as possible, from as many different sources as possible.

 

[weepiper]

They all love building houses don't they? Houses which are going to be sold off on the open market at market rates.

Curiously not so keen on building houses for social rent that anyone can afford to live in on minimum wage though.

 

[free spirit]

They all love building houses don't they? Houses which are going to be sold off on the open market at market rates.

and bought by buy to let landlords, or foreign investors who have no intention of allowing anyone to even live there.

 

[Orang Utan]

I like to hear as many opinions as possible, from as many different sources as possible.

But fake cartoon opinions paraded for the purpose of entertainment rather than enlightenment?

 

[weltweit]

Thursday nights used to be Question Time night. Since I stopped watching, I find I don't miss it a bit.

 

[editor]

But fake cartoon opinions paraded for the purpose of entertainment rather than enlightenment?

Just like some of the opinions on here? Yep, them too.

 

[SovietArmy]

Just come back from work, my husband always watching Question Time, I just dont see point at all of this programme, it just talk and talk and audience as always clapping.

 

[butchersapron]

Thursday nights used to be Question Time night. Since I stopped watching, I find I don't miss it a bit.

Two problems going on here.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

That's the first time I even turned it on (on the web) recently. They genetically engineered that Tory specifically to make Harriet Harman look reasonable, surely.

 

[peterkro]

I watched tonight and in spite of the fact I know it would be counter productive I'd like to shoot the fuckers (including most of the audience).How come in my day to day life I seldom come across such vile human beings?

 

[Corax]

It usually goes something like this ...

Plenty of legit objections to QT, but fuck me that was sneery classist hate

 

[Orang Utan]

Plenty of legit objections to QT, but fuck me that was sneery classist hate

Against what class?

 

[8ball]

I think the first chap in the red jumper made the most sense.

 

[editor]

 

[Corax]

Against what class?

The class that didn't go to the right schools.

 

[Orang Utan]

The class that didn't go to the right schools.

It seemed anti smug middle class if owt.

 

[Gingerman]

Sajid Javid? Isn't he the latest in a line of culture ministers with fuck all interest in culture?

Reminds me a bit of Ray Wilkins.

 

[Awesome Wells]

What a joke Bragg could have laid into javid after his waffling meandering defence of Miller, instead he says fuck all and his contribution is tepid at best. Why not point out the expenses scams of his fllow cabinet members, like Osbornes pony farm, or Zahawiws stables?

 

[butchersapron]

No such farm, if he'd pointed it out this would have been returned to him with sauce on top. Which would have been nice to see. First rule, get your facts right, which tends to mean not from pictures on Facebook.

 

[caleb]

Plenty of examples of Bragg saying class no longer matters on twitter, none of them sarcastically. And so what? The mans politics have always been light pink at best, and his version of the Internationale - manages to turn it into something even the soppiest liberal could hum along to.

 

[rekil]

The last thing you want is a minister actually interested in culture. Or you'd end up with something like the french minister for rock and roll. (real job)

The current French minister for culture, Aurélie Filippetti, wrote a novel called The Last Days Of The Working Class. (!)

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Even reading about these people is annoying me.

 

[Sprocket.]

Question time is placation for the masses filmed one hour before broadcast and if they don't get the 'show' they expect they do another edition ten minutes in front of what is broadcast.
Tis pants.

 

[Dogsauce]

I don't think the 'masses' pay much attention to it. Probably watched by a mix of political hacks and wisecracking twitteratai. I think most of the TV audience is aware of the futility of sticking carefully vetted trained politicians that have remembered their lines in front of an audience with predictable questions. Nobody gets caught out. To keep it 'entertaining', alongside the cardboard politicians they have a carousel of reactionary bellends (McKenzie, Farage, Mad Mel etc) and a few equivalent leftists to get the backs up of right-wing viewers, such that the viewers can let off a bit of steam shouting at people they don't agree with. Away from this all the bad stuff (privatisations, welfare reforms) still carry on unhindered, but the hacks and other viewers get to feel like they're participating in the democratic process by bawling stuff at Starkey. It's become futile and boring, possibly always was.

 

[Welsh lad]

Welsh and Scottish Independence isn't an inherently left-wing position, the SNP has a fair number of right-wingers.

Both parties are considerably more left-wing and progressive than the Labour party.

 

[Awesome Wells]

i love twittering and winding up the right wingers. Someone's got to do it. The bloody panel won't.

 

[J Ed]

Both parties are considerably more left-wing and progressive than the Labour party.

That doesn't say much at all

 

[Dogsauce]

SNP pretty much disgraced themselves by sucking up to Donald Trump, possibly the world's biggest bellend. Friend from Inverness always maintained that the SNP were 'as bad as the Tories'. I wonder if some Scots see supporting them as a means to an end, and if they succeed in independence then return to support other parties?

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't think the 'masses' pay much attention to it. Probably watched by a mix of political hacks and wisecracking twitteratai. I think most of the TV audience is aware of the futility of sticking carefully vetted trained politicians that have remembered their lines in front of an audience with predictable questions. Nobody gets caught out. To keep it 'entertaining', alongside the cardboard politicians they have a carousel of reactionary bellends (McKenzie, Farage, Mad Mel etc) and a few equivalent leftists to get the backs up of right-wing viewers, such that the viewers can let off a bit of steam shouting at people they don't agree with. Away from this all the bad stuff (privatisations, welfare reforms) still carry on unhindered, but the hacks and other viewers get to feel like they're participating in the democratic process by bawling stuff at Starkey. It's become futile and boring, possibly always was.

spot on