Why the reluctance to answer questions and face the real electorate ?

Was upbeat, appeared upbeat, it amounts to the same thing.
Corybn being rattled when out of his comfort zone really showed, he hates being challenged on his views.T May is used to being asked awkward questions and the government already in power is usually at a disadvantage anyway.Making unpopular cuts is never going to get smiles and applause even if it's the right thing to do.Somebody on the news was complaining that the Conservatives had not got the huge deficit down much, but is more massive borrowing from Labour going to help.No.
For all concerned about Brexit, voting Labour is a massive gamble.

Because neither of our views are objective.

May tried to appearupbeat - that was her brief because her campaign has been so downbeat and miserable to date.
But she was far from giving a smooth performance, stumbling and unable to give any reassurances that people's lives would improve as a result of Tory cuts etc.

I realise that which is why I made no comment on the performance of TM - but I thought the 'money tree' quote was a bit unnecessary and gave the nurse no hope of any increase.
Corbyn did admit if he thought a mistake had been made and gives families split because of bad Home Office rules hope that it should be changed. He does come over as man who understands the problems of the population and is willing to do his best to help them.

How come you can 'grin' at my saying I watched it objectively ( which I did) and yet your own is objective ww? I watched them both critically, and how can you argue with my view that T May was polite and upbeat?
You must also admit that Corbyn became rattled and his demeanor changed considerably with the defence questions.
May has not run a good campaign up to now, coupled with an unpopular manifesto.Her advisors need sacking.Corbyn and his team have led a good campaign coupled with a very popular manifesto ( if you don't worry about tons more massive borrowing.)
Which is why the polls are showing closer figures.However, I think last night did
Change things and will make people think.

It is amusing thst Corbynites critcise May for not attending two debates yet defended Corbyn who refused to take part in one during the Brexit campaign,

The BBC were biased because he had to look up facts and figures on his iPad during an interview.

It really is amusing,

You need to watch the whole exchange ( from York) Welshwife because bits of it don't show the whole picture.

How come my assessment is biased whilst yours is objective rose?

I only saw bits of TM - those shown on the News etc but did see most of Corbyn. He said quite clearly that Trident would be renewed but that talking to others was the way forward as nuclear war was total destruction. The men who got apoplectic are just fools and one in particular simply showed his complete ignorance.
I thought Corbyn continued to improve really - when he started off as leader I felt he was not up to the job at all but his confidence has improved and he can speak without notes and go from one subject to another. He also seems to understand that diplomacy is required when dealing with International affairs and will be very important in the Brexit talks.

The Newsnight discussion was a bit of a mess -- one chap was totally biased and was not going to allow Paul Mason to speak if he could help it. The young woman was very patient and waited her turn!

Boris was totally ignorant when interviewed late last night - was like a robot which was switched on and could only spout what it was programmed to say and not actually listen or answer any questions.

He may reject 'the insanity' which is why it makes him unsuitable to be PM. It would be true insanity to get rid of our deterrent or to say we will never retaliate.
Having it and saying we are prepared to use it if attacked keeps us safer.We have not had a PM before who is/was a vice president of CND.

Corbyn is not honourable

Yes ww watched it objectively....perhaps you should try it once in a while, it makes for more interesting viewing.

Watched it objectively

Here is my objective assessment.

May had no answer for the questions about social care, funding for schools, pay cuts in the public sector -in fact anything thst directly affects peoples day to day lives.
She clearly has no idea or answer for the utter misery shown by the partially sighted person. Mays comfortable life in the Westminster bubble which she leaves only if forced shows that she is unsuited to deal with the problems of the vast majaority of folk
Cornyn is uncomfortable when answering questions about the IRA when they are taken out of the historical context in which theg took place. Attrocities were commited on all sides, history showed that the only way to end hostilities anywhere in the world is by discussion. Dont forget at the same time Tories were branding Mandela a terrorist, and the Tories were mever able to bring peace to NI - it took a Labour government to achieve that.

Turning to nuclear weapons. Corbyn belongs to a long and honourable tradition which sees the use of nuclesr weapons which kill so many innocents whilst leaving others with unspeakable injuries as highly immoral and the use of ehich will almost certainly mean the end of the planet.
He rejects this insanity

I don't take any newspapers, but interesting to see what they say.

World wide nuclear disarmament is a dream, a good dream of course, but simply giving up your own, while other countries possess them ( and some dodgy countries at that) just will not work.

Nobody wants a nuclear exchange!
However, in the imagined scenario of a country targeting one of our major cities with a nuclear missile, whilst in the full knowledge that they would get one back at them .....would they then do it? If they knew our PM would never sanction it, then we fail to have a deterrent, and that country or group could then feel free to target other cities here with no redress.

I watched it all last night, May did really well although asked difficult questions she stayed polite and upbeat.Corbyn did well for half if it, then went to pieces over questions of the IRA and the nuclear deterrent.His voice and body language said 'angry and don't question my judgement'.
I watched it objectively with no bias to see how they both performed.May hasn't been campainging well up to now, Corbyn has, but I think last night changed things.

What drew? That drew!

I thought that young girl's response (what drew a huge, spontaneous applause) was well said. It is obvious that many people are totally ignorant of how the fall-out from a nuclear weapon works. Even a small (compared to a bomb) radioactive release such as Chernobyl affected us, thousands of miles away.

Anyone read Neville Shute's On the Beach ?

I noticed it was men of a certain age that were interested in killing the worlds population the most.

The young and women were more interested in education, health and the basics that make life worth while.

I watched QT last night and this is just a reflection on what I recall. I thought Corbyn sounded like a man who believed what he was saying. You don't have to agree with him, but he was at least spontaneous in his responses.

Although TM did at least attend and did her best to be upbeat, she gave weak answers to heartfelt questions from ordinary people, although she seemed genuinely moved by the emotional contribution by the young woman who was partially blind, and had a bad experience at a fit-for- work interview. However she responded to a nurse who said her wages had been falling for 8 years with, "We don't have a magic money tree". We don't have enough nurses either.

Dimbleby allowed far too much time to several nuclear questions fired at Corbyn, in particular a man getting all red faced and angry about Iran and North Korea, which led to a young girl wondering why some people are so obsessed with mass murder. Frankly I would want someone for PM who would pursue more peaceful relationships with other countries. Brexit is enough to cope with without making the prospect of nuclear war a sticking point.

It seems TM was unaware that North Korea had received aid from the UK.

Just reflecting...

Headline news tomorrow in The Sun will probably be 'Corbyn will not press the nuclear button so we're all going to die'

Call me naive if you like, but I'd always thought that if the nuclear button was pressed we were all going to die..

horribly...

Tegan

Headline news tomorrow in The Sun will probably be 'Corbyn will not press the nuclear button so we're all going to die'

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I was out tonight so missed Question Time. However the telly was on when I got back and they were saying on Newsnight that May was amazing and had won hands down. BBC bias again [?]. Seems people in this country are now more worried about our leader not starting a nuclear war than the thought of nurses being poorly paid/schools not being able to afford books etc etc. As with leaving the EU which, to my knowledge no one seemed particularly interested in until Cameron decided they did, we have now been persuaded that the thing we most need to worry about is having a leader who doesn't want to instigate the end of the world as we know it. But we don't need that anyway because Theresa May's 'bestie'Trump will probably do it for us anyway....[sigh]. Headline news tomorrow in The Sun will probably be 'Corbyn will not press the nuclear button so we're all going to die'.

No ww I thought I'd buy the DM, DE, DT, S and T tomorrow morning. Coupled with Nick on the Today programme, I thought that way I should get a nice measured balanced account of what transpired.

Did anyone see the qt?