BBC Question Time, 28th January 2010

This week's guests and how we rated them: -

Ben Bradshaw (Labour) Good grief. Typified one of the root causes of what may well be 'broken Britain'. Here was have someone who is part of the Government and his take on life in Britain appears to be 'See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil'. The only thing that he thinks is 'broken' appears to be the climate - right at a time when most seem to accept that 'climate change' science has a huge number of question marks against it. Our Rating: 0/12

Baroness Jenny Tonge (Lib Dem) There's probably a politically correct convention that we're about to break but... we're sure she makes a wonderful grandmother for the lots of grandchildren that she told us she has. However, on issues of politics, she seemed to be woefully missing so many points. And when a columnist from The Sun has enough where-with-all to be able to reduce an accusation of 'cheap populism' to nothing more than a dismissive arrogance, then it really is time to give up. Our Rating: 1/12

Jane Moore (columnist) Yes, a mixed bag. We agreed with her sometimes and disagreed with her once or twice. She did, however, give a sense of being genuine... almost. Don't know why, but she gave this blogger a teeny sense that she was holding back on saying a bit more about what she truly thought of a couple of the issues of the day and - on that basis of what she did say - we'd like to encourage her to be more forward in expressing her heartfelt opinions. We may agree, we may disagree - but we'll respect her for having an opinion... and she appears to have a large number of views well worth listening to. Our Rating: 7/12

Lord Lawson (Conservative) Fourthly, we look at Lord Lawson. There was nothing that he said which actually we found difficult to listen to. We praise him for his open and honest appraisal of what has been the backstory of the climate change scandal. The only question mark for him on this performance is his how his persona might be interpreted. One thing that the politically correct thought police have no problem with is attacking people who are British and have a well spoken, 'posh' accent and one wonders how much his performance will reinforce the perception of 'Tory toffs' amongst those who really don't like good elocution and words of more than a syllable. Not that he should care a stuff about them anyway. Our Rating: 8/12

Douglas Murray (writer) The caption kept telling us that Mr. Murray is connected to an organisation called The Centre for Social Cohesion. Now, that title made us think he'd be a repulsive leftie. How wrong were we!? He was a small 'c' conservative who this blogger agreed with wholeheartedly so many times and certainly impressed us with his delivery style. We've got the website of The Centre for Social Cohesion open in our browser to have a look at in a moment, so impressed were we with him. Even though 'think tanks' bother us a little normally. One wonders whether this is the same Douglas Murray who wrote a fantastic biography of 'Bosie' a few years ago - a book that this blogger found totally engaging, enlightening and enjoyable. Can you tell we liked him, yet? Only we did. Very much. Were he to be a politician standing for Parliament, we'd definitely consider voting for him. Perhaps he should. Bang in tune with a lot of our outlook on life and we certainly respect him for his intellect and his fearless manner of expressing an opinion. Our Rating: 11/12

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