Matt vickers QT… Caught in the headlights..

The BBC have been under pressure to be seen to even the audiences at these events and the conservatives are hot at getting their supporters to attend and be vocal. I have no confidence that the audience balance reflects the general opinion of the public whatsoever and so I always avoid QT.
 
So we had Labour voters who wouldn’t vote labour cos Starmer is a waffler.

Tory members who are only in the party because they want to get rid of Johnson.

And some daft old woman worried that Iceland have stopped free delivery to her sister.

Geordies are a funny lot.
 
The old women seemed to be from Shipley not Newcastle.

Labour didn't really answer the questions about how they would level up the UK - the Labour MP said Labour would change rates for small businesses and have a new Budget. Not many specifics. As said before there are easy votes to win in the North East if they promise to significantly reinvest in the N/E economy and policies in place to re balance. We have a totally unbalanced economy in the UK, too much activity in the South East and too little in the North East. Increased economic activity brings more jobs and better paid jobs. It stops the young and intelligent migrating away which they have been doing for the last 43 years.
 
swordtrombonefish said:
QT is like a Tory Twitterfest - best avoided.
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I’ve said it before on here, but a few years ago I worked with a guy who was very proud of the fact he was once a Tory QT stooge. He had a close friend who worked for Johnson’s office while he was Mayor of London, and he was regularly recruited and ‘given’ call slots to radio chat shows to say things designed to stir up division and anger against those who needed help, to fire up and embolden the angry right wing grey haired mob. Things like ‘single mums spend all their benefits on fags and booze’. That kind of vile stuff.
Anyway, he was sent on QT and told he had a guaranteed question. I think it was around the time of the 2015 General Election and his question was to Andy Burnham. I wouldn’t have believed him to be honest, except I actually saw it.
He said he was told he was guaranteed to be asked a question, and he was given the exact question. When Burnham answered it straight away with the answer that wasn’t the one Gove wanted, the guy kept shouting it out, slightly changing the question, Gove kept going back to it, Dimbleby kept poking on it, until Burnham was made to seem vague and unsure while Gove sat there smugly. Job done.
When the show ended, he was met by Michael Gove who he claims congratulated him on doing such a good job. From memory, I think it was a question regarding whether Labour would rule out forming a coalition with the SNP.

Anyway, since then I’ve never had any faith in the impartiality of Question Time. Just another thing used as a Tory tool for propaganda that is open to corruption, bias and dishonesty.
 
Bruce is as Tory as they come and always intervenes when the Tory on the panel is taking a kicking.

It‘s good to see the Tories are mobilising like this though, it shows they are rattled and think they are in big trouble, not long now until the next election.

Interesting story by Porkpie above, although no surprise.
 
It's purely a Tory propaganda machine, it's probably more biased than Russia Today.

I haven't watched it for years, packed to the gunnels with horrible racists and xenephobes, resembles a rally at Nuremburg.
 
I haven't watched QT and this thread confirms why. I've also stopped watching any BBC related news as they've had their wings clipped seriously by Johnson's ultra libertarian government.
 
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