Why do I watch it? Question Time, I mean. Did you see it last evening? It was AWFUL. Let's review the panel as they were grotesque.
First in terms of annoyance was the appalling Lord "Charlie" Falconer. This Blair lickspittle is so bad that I'm amazed that is continues to parade across the media, leaving a trail of disaster behind him. His answer to the current hot issue of Judicial sentencing amounted to little more than "yes it was a problem, yes we need to sort it out quite quickly, but no, you can't really attribute blame to the Judiciary or Labour."
Next up, Theresa May. Well, Theresa may be many things but she's a limp-as-a lettuce CINO whose only redeeming feature was to have once upon a time worn some rather fetching shoes. Her answers were pathetic, gutless and an affront to any authentic Conservative.
Talking of gutless, Mark Oaten was the Glib-Dem representative on the panel. Poor old Mark has been through the wringer a bit in recent months, he has had a crap time, you might say. However, I actually thought he answered some questions fairly honestly, and was about the only person who defended the London police from manic baying of the extreme left audience. He did want to talk about himself a lot though. He wanted to share his pain. Not bad for a Liberal.
Shami Chakrabarti is a frequent Question Time guest. She is the Director of Liberty, one of these dreadful Human Rights organisations. I have little time for her arguments - though she is cute! She is clearly beloved by the BBC. Says it all.
Last, and most barking of all, Derek Dougan, the former footballer. He's a moonbat, plain and simple. I laughed at the number of times he inserted George Best into his convoluted answers. I also was entertained at the "moving" way he talked about all those "poor lads" locked up in Guantanamo Bay. The UKIP let themselves down having this moonbat in their ranks. "The Doug" was just barking....
And then the audience. Comprehensively and viciously anti-American and dhimmified.
There was so much that COULD have been debated. I took issue with so many of the outrageous claims made by the Panel. But in essence the BBC seems to contrive panels massively skewed to the Left, with a token "moderate" Right-Winger who then has to prove just how moderate they are by damning George Bush and declaring that the war in Iraq is "illegal" - in other words by becoming a shill for the Left.
The question on Guantanamo Bay was the one that drove me most to distraction. There was unanimity amonst the panellists and the baying audience that it needed to close and close right now. There was NO discussion on why the Jihadists were interned there, no debate on how they should be punished form the terrorist activities - just a mass exercise in Bush bashing. I would have LOVED to had a chance to give it to this cabal of appeasers, cowards and half-wit dhimmis. But in BBC land, the very prospect of a PRO-WAR, PRO-GUANTANAMO BAY, PRO BUSH Brit is..well, just unthinkable old boy, don't you know and possibly a thought-crime...!
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Posted by: neil | June 15, 2006 at 09:21 AM
Yes, I have to agree with most of what you say. Though I have noticed that Shami Chakrabarti is now much more measured in what she says, this has to be welcomed - and she is a little babe as you rightly say. She is also very intelligent and articulate. The inclusion of Dougan says it all about how dumbed down the BeeB now is. The guy is really, really embarassing but some clown must have thought he is popular so should be included. The fact that he knows nothing about anything - as his answers soon testified - didn't enter the equation.
Dougan as a footballer, then a football pundit was embarassment enough for this place - now he fancies himself as a politico. Give me strength.
What next on Question Time, arch-populist Stephen Nolan?
Posted by: Peking | June 15, 2006 at 01:15 PM
When it was announced an election or two ago that Derek Dougan was to stand in East Belfast under the title of Northern Ireland Football team candidate i was surprised the big man only picked up a few hundred derisory votes, until last nights Question Time that is! Its not stretching it too far to call him a football legend, he like Best and Jennings would have made a UK team, who from Ulster would make it today?
Although Derek wouldnt have got as many caps as George or Pat because, he probably would only have got a look in if Bobby Charlton was injured!
My favourite moment of Question time was when a women in the audience in reference to Heather Mills - McCartney said "I wouldnt like to be in her shoes!" seeing the repressed smirks and sniggering from the other audience members was enjoyable!
Posted by: Scouseproud | June 15, 2006 at 08:08 PM