Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Nigel Farage running rings around everyone else on tonight's edition. The wimmin from Labour and Green parties particularly weak both on facts and presence.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Yes it's great to see Worcester Woman make up a large proportion of the audience - a change from the usual great unwashed bused in from the metropolis who resort to type and clap like performing seals to any politico who says " Money for all and five trillion to be pumped into the NHS".
Edit:
Goodness Me the lies from labour, the stupidity from the green and what appears to be drunken rantings from Simon Hughes is quite astonishing.
As for the Tory non-entity there's nothing much to say.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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why do you bother watching it philip, i gave up on it about 15 - 20 years ago - cheap mass entertainment with hand picked audiences primed to cheer and boo whenever the attention seeking panellists utter something.
Guest 756- Registered: 6 Jun 2012
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Couldn't agree more Howard. I once attended a Meridian Debate, what a farce! Questions had to be deposited in a box by the entrance and were then presented to the panel to select the ones they were willing to answer. As a result we spent an eveing discussing trivia, not the questions relating to health, education and the state of the economy which tthe majority of invitees had hoped for.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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You are, of course, quite correct in one respect Howard - it is a fruitless task watching Question time if one were to watch to glean anything significant in terms of how things stand in the world but on another level it's required viewing in order to find where the parties stand on various issues. Not that it's impossible to know the state of play on their views without this programme but bad television can be somehow weirdly enticing.
For example the Jools Holland show. I sometimes tune in to reinforce my view on how bad most of the turns on that show really are. Most of them are awful but, as usual and is the case in Question time, the audience seem to lap up the rubbish. It validifies my world view that most music featured on the Holland show (and Radio 2 by the way) is as bad as the opinions put forward by most of the panelists on Question time.
The One show is another example of the infantile production value foisted upon the public which follow a standard format which makes it's easily recognisable as coming from BBC productions.
Think David Attenboroughs' output or most nature/science drivel and think fluffy, cosy, insulated from reality and vast production budgets. Think of thei BBCs' news output which is sterile to the point that you could eat your dinner off it.
Question time is an opportunity for folk like Me to reinforce their opinion on how silly and quaint and parochial the current BBC output really is.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Don't you think it's scary that such output is so influential in shaping opinions?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i doubt such stuff does influence public opinion, a bit like prime ministers going on mid morning television. the audience are more interested in what their favourite celebrity is wearing that day and what their favourite colour is.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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thats true
not to interesting to every day folk
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