The Talking Clock: Review: BBC Question Time

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Thursday, 22 October 2009

Review: BBC Question Time - the BNP "special" edition

Normally, this blog would write a proper review of the BBC show Question Time - but this was not a proper edition of the show, it was just a BNP hatchet job rather than a topical current affairs debate show. Hence, just a brief opinion sum up. Hopefully we'll go back to normal next week. This was a ridiculous hatchet job show - though the man himself did little to show he didn't deserve it.

Jack Straw (ZaNuLiebour) - yes, passionate. Easy to be part of an attacking pack. Was called up on his party's refusal to engage in any debate on immigration. 5/12

Nick Griffin (BNP) - in fairness to him, the show was a hatchet job and always was going to be. And that's about all that we can find to say that was positive. Not good and it would be difficult to see why anyone would vote for him and his party after this performance. 0/12

Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative) - massively impressed throughout until, right at the end, Dumblebee challenged her about her views on LGBT civil partnerships and Section 28. 7.5/12

Chris Huhne (LibDem) - did not stand out in any way. Seemed comfortable in a hunting pack of panellists. 4/12

Bonnie Greer (playwright) - a little slow getting off the mark but did work her way up to making a number of intelligent and interesting points. 7/12

Seriously though, this was an utterly abysmal edition of a normal much anticipated show. Viewing figures were no doubt sky high after all the hype, but the only topical issue debated was the furore over Question Time itself. Nonsense.

Thank goodness some sensible programming and opinion followed with the enjoyable and thought-provoking This Week.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Review: BBC Question Time - the BNP "special" edition

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