Question Time with Fiona Bruce

Fiona Bruce is brilliant. She manages both the audience and the panel with panache and humour. Geoffrey Cox's codpiece?!!!! made people laugh and defused a difficult situation. Dimbleby was excellent too, and Fiona is a worthy successor.

Why shouldn't the likes of Melanie Phillips , a perfectly respectable journalist, be on QT? Why should Nigel Forage not be on QT? As long as there is a an opposite opinion why is it a problem?

Yes, I wondered why there could be any objections? It's an "I don't like them or their views, therefore let's ignore them" left wing blinkered approach. Surely both sides of any argument have to be expressed and challenged in the name of fairness?

I agree, the liberal left wing agenda of the BBC is becoming more and more obvious. The BBC is an organisation doing its best to channel the viewing public down routes of their self-satisfied, unchallenged left wing propaganda. There is no balance.

BBC BIAS: Viewers 'TURN OFF' as Brexit talk show FAILS to invite any Leave voting MPs

"The Emma Barnett show on BBC 5Live invited Shadow Communities Secretary Andrew Gwynn, Lib Dem MP Ed Davey and Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner on to the programme this morning - and none of the three supported Brexit. Prominent Brexiteer and journalist Tim Montgomerie took to Twitter to voice his outrage, writing: “Listening to this now. No Brexit voting MP yet AGAIN. It’s called public service broadcasting apparently.” Others soon flocked to his cause."

In the years before 2016 only two MEPs were ever allowed to appear on Question Time. One was ultra-right wing Tory Daniel Hannan (who told us absolutely no-one was talking about leaving the single market. )He appeared once. The other was Nigel Farage who appeared 29 times!!!!!!!

For most of these years only a tiny proportion of the population were concerned about EU membership, but the BBC kept promoting Farage again and again and again.

Don't talk to us about BBC bias. The Brexit Broadcasting Corporation practically created the monster that is Nigel Farage.

Nigel Farage a monster?!!! I don't think so! The gunman in New Zealand is a monster!

I agree that gunman is a monster, but there are more than one types of monster.

Columnist Catherine Bennett writes-

"Why does the BBC keep creating posh political monsters?"

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/23/bbc-nigel-farage-boris-johnson-jacob-rees-mogg

The worrying thing varian is that you are entirely serious.

monster, noun meaning a thing of extraordinary or daunting size

That could in fact describe the EU.

I think the BBC gives so much coverage to tbe Johnsons and Rees-Moggs of this world because they are seen by the Beeb's Tristrams (as A.A Gill used to describe them) as essentially risible right-wingers. It only occurs to them too late that they are indeed creating "monsters" who appeal to a large part of their audience who do not share their views.

I think you mean Jo Coburn on Politics Live BBC2 who I agree would make an excellent choice.

However, the audience needs managing. Sadly Fiona has chosen to play to the audience which seem to be in the main boorish Brexiteers.

She doesn't let panellists give their answers which is why they are there. I don't know whether someone behind the scenes is pulling the strings but the programme has sadly deteriorated and needs an overhaul top down. Not fit for purpose anymore.

I caught a bit of this last night. She let the Tory go on for ages, I was shouting at the tv for her to shut him up and give someone else a chance. An when she did it wasn't the Labour bloke he had been attacking but the Lib Dem woman.
And Varian is right about who selects the biased audience.

Gave up watching anything political on BBC. Maybe Andrew Marr rarely. BBC impartial! Don't make me laugh, it's as biased as old getout.

I could not believe that Isabel Oakeshott was invited again. How many times has she been on in last 2 years??? Why?

This woman is up to her ears in the Aron Banks and Russian interference evidence Johnson is trying hard to hide and refuses to publish. The word traitor is used far too much recently- but Oakeshott has known about Russian money and interference as she worked closely with Banks- and should have come forwards and disclose. She chose to hide the evidence, for political, but even worse, financial reasons.

Let's blame the BBC for being biased, the audience for being too right ring, the panelists for being too right wing and Fiona Bruce for not allowing enough left wingers to speak. In other words, let's see what we want to see and blame everyone for not putting forward the panelists that agree with ME and the views that I have!

Totally agree Chesnut, and sadly most of the political threads on Gransnet are the same.

yes not professional at all

are you saying that Iabel Oakeshott should not be challenged for hiding the link between Aron Banks and Russian oligarchs- and the manipulations during the campaign? And that Boris is right in refusing to publish the report on such he was given recently by the investigative Commission?

Actually what I have seen is QT last night it was simply a question of Bruce simply not knowing the facts, and wrongly correcting people.

She is very poor.