Reply to: Rumble in the Beeb

[Mich the Tester]

In other news, the gym was good; some quite tasty female specimens, then off I went ot the Italian restaurant where I had a canneloni instead of my usual pizza, and it was delicious. Belgian TV was good too, showing a collection of rather fit female bicycle racers. Did I miss some middle aged farty politicians on BBC?

[Flashman]

I missed it. Did Nige come out on top?

Nigel had a rocky start with the Ukraine, Syria and Putin but finished strongly. At the end Clegg refused to answer the question on what was point of voting in the next general election if the EU runs everything.

YouGov's snap poll gives the debate to Mr Farage by 68% to 27%, a larger margin than last week.

Clegg's toast.

The Europhiles are finished.

Vive la revolution!

[Gittins Gal]

I may have been a little harsh on the BBC.

That was a pretty fair debate. The audience and dimblebore were perhaps even slightly weighted in Nigels favour. Well, well.

I missed it. Did Nige come out on top?

[Flashman]

I may have been a little harsh on the BBC.

That was a pretty fair debate. The audience and dimblebore were perhaps even slightly weighted in Nigels favour. Well, well.

[Flashman]

Maybe most people's views are a simply a little to the left of yours. That would correspond with elections, where AFAIK the total votes for Labour and LibDem are greater than the votes for Conservatives and UKIP.

Well you maybe correct there. But generally speaking there's maybe about 30% of the people who are left wing, 30% right wing and 40% in the middle. The QT audience seems heavily weighted to the 30% lefties

[Gittins Gal]

They say that every week about Question Time. And every week its a bunch of howling lefties in the audience.

Still might be wrong. I shall watch and compare the audience/questions with the LBC debate last week.

Innerestingly, I heard that this isn't the case from a very surprising source. None other than the great Dellers himself who has guested on qt in the past.

He just thinks that lefties are shrill and noisy by nature while more conservative people are quieter. And also people are less likely to wear right wing views as a badge of honour like the lefties do because it's not very fashionable so they keep quiet about their views.

Of course, this could be a load of old tripe but I thought I'd throw it into the mix.

[VectraMan]

I had to stop watching Question Time. I'm sure it used to to be better. After one week of wanting to put a fist / boot through the TV I thought it was a one off. After several consecutive weeks of it I had to accept that I wasn't going to see an intelligent debate anymore.

WHS. I quite like listening to the politicians, for the most part, but can't cope with the sub-humanoid drongos they let into the audience.

[Mich the Tester]

They say that every week about Question Time. And every week its a bunch of howling lefties in the audience.

Still might be wrong. I shall watch and compare the audience/questions with the LBC debate last week.

Maybe most people's views are a simply a little to the left of yours. That would correspond with elections, where AFAIK the total votes for Labour and LibDem are greater than the votes for Conservatives and UKIP.

[Mich the Tester]

No one will win. Some people will lose an hour of their life. I pity them.

I won't. I shall visit the gym, then go to an Italian restaurant for a pizza, then I shall watch Café Corsari on Belgian TV.

[Ticktock]

They say that every week about Question Time. And every week its a bunch of howling lefties in the audience.

Still might be wrong. I shall watch and compare the audience/questions with the LBC debate last week.

I had to stop watching Question Time. I'm sure it used to to be better. After one week of wanting to put a fist / boot through the TV I thought it was a one off. After several consecutive weeks of it I had to accept that I wasn't going to see an intelligent debate anymore.

[Flashman]

Yep, that's right:


They're really pushing a biased audience in there.

They say that every week about Question Time. And every week its a bunch of howling lefties in the audience.

Still might be wrong. I shall watch and compare the audience/questions with the LBC debate last week.

[vetran]

Yep, that's right:


They're really pushing a biased audience in there.

I think he might be jaded by the question time experience. Where there is no doubt they pick their audience to support their leftie views.

[Ticktock]

Watched it last week on Sky. I was interested in the debate as I'm a confirmed Eurosceptic.

However even the studio audience looked disinterested and I think the ordinary voter will find whole thing a turn off.

Agree about the Beeb though. The LBC audience seemed fairly balanced but the Beeb just won't be able to help themselves and will try make sure Clegg wins this one.

They will pack the audience with left-leaning trade unionists, public sector workers and odd-ball community groups whilst claiming the audience has been carefully picked for "balance." Dimbleby will try to get onto the subject of UKIP being "closet racists" then egg on the crowd to shout abuse and jeer.

Yep, that's right:

The audience of 100 people was recruited by polling organisation ICM reflecting as far as possible the broader voting age population in terms of gender, age, ethnicity and social class
The audience also has similar numbers of people who support UK membership of the EU and those who believe the UK should leave, with some undecideds as well

They're really pushing a biased audience in there.

[Flashman]

Watched it last week on Sky. I was interested in the debate as I'm a confirmed Eurosceptic.

However even the studio audience looked disinterested and I think the ordinary voter will find whole thing a turn off.

Agree about the Beeb though. The LBC audience seemed fairly balanced but the Beeb just won't be able to help themselves and will try make sure Clegg wins this one.

They will pack the audience with left-leaning trade unionists, public sector workers and odd-ball community groups whilst claiming the audience has been carefully picked for "balance." Dimbleby will try to get onto the subject of UKIP being "closet racists" then egg on the crowd to shout abuse and jeer.

[VectraMan]

They did this last week on the radio. Pointless but I'll still watch.

They also did it last week on the telly. Which makes this doubly pointless.

I quite enjoyed it.