Question Time

Sorry to hi-jack this thread but I was trying to Start a New Discussion under News and Politics and don't seem able to do so.

Is anyone else having problems?
GNHQ - please?

Isabel Oakeshott – a long-standing Brexit supporter who has close links to the Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft – has, by her own admission, been aware of emails since the end of last year.

“It was always my intention to publish this information,” Oakeshott has insisted, in the face of accusations she chose to sit on potentially explosive information for political reasons.

The ultimate source for the material was Banks himself, after he employed Oakeshott, a former political editor of the Sunday Times, during summer 2016 to ghostwrite a diary-style account of the referendum entitled The Bad Boys of Brexit.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jun/11/profile-isabel-oakeshott-and-the-bad-boys-of-brexit

Thank you Cari - I will try to start the thread tomorrow unless someone has done it first.

What do you think about the various candidates to replace Dimbleby?

Who, me?
Now who should replace Dimplebum (as my friend used to called him - affectionately of course).

Now, who would be impartial, gives each speaker the same amount of time without letting them drone on and on, stops them interrupting each other .....
I have no idea, sorry, varian, but definitely not a Jeremy.

Not Jeremy Vine, not Jeremy Paxman. What about Jack Dee with a bit of ironic eye rolling at the more lunatic members of the panel and audience?

Jalima, you are so right, not a Jeremy, maybe a Victoria, a Martha, a Kirsty

Why not, indeed, Iam64. I think any of those would do an excellent job. But could they overcome the 'packed' audience?

Yes I'm sure they could MaizieD. It would be a different experience for the audience at home and in the QT venue. I wonder if it would be as different as the JV show is when Venessa presents it. That is, better, more informative, more enjoyable and less polarised/patronised.

A Kirsty would be good

or a Martha

A good time for Question Time to look at it's format.

I just want somebody with the ability to 'control' both the panel and audience and for the panel to consist of equal numbers of left/right voices which is blatantly not the case . The chair, whomever he/she may be , must be devoid of showing bias.

Who could carry it off ? No idea but it needs somebody who does not like the sound of their own voice and opinions and that is hard to find.

If you find it difficult to believe how the QT audience is selected, just look at this.

"Question Time: Audience member claims that someone like President Donald Trump may be needed to take over the Brexit negotiations, and the MP's should 'get their act together' and get rid of the negativity in parliament."

www.express.co.uk/videos/542846/QT-Audience-member-says-Brexit-needs-someone-like-Trump

The Daily Express has suggested that Julia Hartley-Brewer might make a good QT chairman.

In 2016, she supported Britain leaving the European Union during the EU referendum.

Just what we want- an unbiased chairman???????

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TznJaGJX-J8

Well, let's hope that the Daily Express has no influence varian. Julia H-B is an absolute nightmare imo.

Julia *** Hartley-Brewer??

Is someone having a *** laugh??