[TV] Question Time - Fiona Bruce Debut Tonight

[Blackadder]

I thought anand menon was very good.

He sounded plausible and not excitable.

I actually thought there was some really good contributions from teh audience, at the risk of upsetting people, I thought the contribution from the Asian chap with glasses who ripped into the panel was brilliant.

I wonder why they have Abbott on. She is a dreadful speaker and never puts her point across without you thinking" get on with it and stop prevaricating"

I think Fiona is very very good. Doesn't put up with any crap.

Agree on the Asian guy. Told the politicians some home truths.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I just don't get it. Jezza keeps harping on about wanting a General Election, and in the same week....

Refuses to discuss Brexit with TM. (yeah he will if she discounts hard brexit, knowing full well it would be political suicide for her to agree to).

Allows DA , on her own, go on QT.

I would vote labour like a shot tomorrow. This is a dreadful Tory Govt but those two!!

Put Keir Starmer or Yvette Cooper in as leader of the opposition, and Labour would romp away with the ratings.

 

[carlzeiss]

Jeremy took Diane on a day trip to Hastings yesterday . The sea air must have affected her speech .

 

[Bwian]

Put Keir Starmer or Yvette Cooper in as leader of the opposition, and Labour would romp away with the ratings.

As long as Abbott is put out to pasture along with Corbyn. With those two in the party, Labour in unelectable.

 

[rippleman]

Call me old fashioned if you want but I prefer the host to control the debate not participate in it and start gurning when someone said something she didn't like. The host should be impartial and Bruce clearly wasn't last night.

The way Bruce behaved last night, it just showed what a great host Dimbers was.

And the reaction of the audience suggested to me that they were overwhelmingly leavers. So am I but I expect the QT audience to be balanced.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Call me old fashioned if you want but I prefer the host to control the debate not participate in it and start gurning when someone said something she didn't like. The host should be impartial and Bruce clearly wasn't last night.

The way Bruce behaved last night, it just showed what a great host Dimbers was.

And the reaction of the audience suggested to me that they were overwhelmingly leavers. So am I but I expect the QT audience to be balanced.

The QT audience hasn't been balanced for a long long time.

 

[Ernest]

Put Yvette Cooper in as leader of the opposition, and Labour would romp away with the ratings.

The most idiotic thing I've read this week

 

[Bodian]

Rory Stewart is a Tory that I really like.

He's going places.

Rory Stewart seems to have integrity, and his candour is both refreshing and rare for a Government minister. He's also prepare to say unpopular things if he genuinely believes in them. He even seems to have won the respect of the organisations who's job it is to hold the Government to account on issues of criminal justice - Frances Crook from the Howard League has nothing but admiration for the work he has done at the Ministry of Justice.

He's the guy who has promised to resign if Prisons don't improve. Quite refreshing in this day and age. As you say time will tell.

And to prove that I am not one sided there is something I like about the prisons minister, he made me listen as soon as he got the gig, low and behold we may have an honest as you can possibly get politician and a Tory one at that.
No doubt he will prove me wrong any time soon.

I've met 'Rory the Tory' in a professional capacity quite a few times now, and he is as impressive in private as he is in public. He's one of the few politicians I've met in my line of work who actually seemed to know what it was actually all about. I couldn't vote for him, but if we do have to have Tory MPs I wish there were more like him.

 

[neilbard]

Jeremy took Diane on a day trip to Hastings yesterday . The sea air must have affected her speech .

The salt air must have rotted her Hampstead Heaths too!

 

[Dick Swiveller]

The most idiotic thing I've read this week

Really? To get back in power, they need the support of floating voters like me. And I could never vote for a party that left wing. I admire those who have the ideals of a socialist utopia but can't see it ever working. And there weren't enough of you to get them in despite a shambolic government. There are large swathes of people like me in the middle ground with no-one to vote for. Labour coming back from the left would be a good start.

 

[Ernest]

I've met 'Rory the Tory' in a professional capacity quite a few times now, and he is as impressive in private as he is in public. He's one of the few politicians I've met in my line of work who actually seemed to know what it was actually all about. I couldn't vote for him, but if we do have to have Tory MPs I wish there were more like him.

Absolute upper class clown, shouldn't be prison minister but in prison

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Compared to the more sensible and intelligent London audience, it seems that most of Derby audience are pig shit ignorant.

Comments like that, are why people in the North think that people in the South, and London in particular have no grasp in what is going on in their towns and cities.

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

5. Derby - Home of Rolls Royce and Toyota - a city of turkeys voting for Christmas. Depressing to hear these fools. A world away from last week's London audience.

Another depressing 'we are better in the South than those stupid Northerners' comment.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Why does the man in the street think he knows better than experts in the field and the majority of our MPs?

Because that man is BRITISH, he won two World Wars and one World Cup and he doesn't trust Johnny Foreigner.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Another depressing 'we are better in the South than those stupid Northerners' comment.

FACTS:
1. Derby has huge factories dependent upon Just In Time parts going to/coming from the EU.
2. The expert explained manufacturing would be severely disrupted by Brexit and that many jobs would be lost.
3. The audience cheered Hard Brexit like The Rams had scored a goal.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Because that man is BRITISH, he won two World Wars and one World Cup and he doesn't trust Johnny Foreigner.

Quite!

No amount of "facts" cited by "experts" is going to sway the average Leaver from the fact that we will be ok on our own.

They may well be right. But if they're not, it won't be their fault.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I've met 'Rory the Tory' in a professional capacity quite a few times now, and he is as impressive in private as he is in public. He's one of the few politicians I've met in my line of work who actually seemed to know what it was actually all about.

I feel the same way about Keir Starmer ie having met him at work several times. That was over four years ago, of course.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Quite!

No amount of "facts" cited by "experts" is going to sway the average Leaver from the fact that we will be ok on our own.

They may well be right. But if they're not, it won't be their fault.

Of course, they conveniently forget that we didn't win either war on our own, or because we were British.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Thoughts on tonight's QT:

1. Fiona Bruce good again.
2. Diane Abbott remains a shambles.
3. Tory Minister Rory Stewart surprisingly plausible. Shows there is the odd decent Tory if you look hard enough.
4. Oakeshott her normal smug Hard Brexit self.
5. Derby - Home of Rolls Royce and Toyota - a city of turkeys voting for Christmas. Depressing to hear these fools. A world away from last week's London audience.

Agree with most of this .....

1. Very surprised how seemlessly she's taken over.
2. "Labour have left all options on the table", "Including no deal", "Well ......"
3. I thought Stewart came across exteremly well. Understands there are two sides to the issue. Seemed a balanced thinker. Possible future leader ?
4. I still would though
5. And in a few short words you've summed up why leavers believe many remainers to be completely arrogant.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Agree with most of this .....

5. And in a few short words you've summed up why leavers believe many remainers to be completely arrogant.

Nothing more arrogant than a blatant disregard of facts in pursuit of dogma. There can be absolutely no doubt that leaving the Single Market under No Deal Brexit will leave these car workers worse off.