Some years ago I heard Graham Watson speaking about Europe. He was a Member of the European Parliament for South West England from 1994 until 2014 and was the leader of the Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party 2002–2004 and the first leader of the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe 2004–2009, the position now held by Guy Verhofstadt.
Graham is an accomplished linguist, fluent in four European languages; and a brilliant speaker, erudite and witty. After his speech he was asked why he had never been on Question Time and he said "the BBC won't allow any MEP to be on Question Time - except Nigel Farage".
Since then the BBC has invited the likes of Paul Nuttall and Daniel Hannan as well as Farage - but still no Liberal Democrats, no Labour, no SNP, no Plaid Cymru, no Green and not even another Tory except Hannan.
And yet lemongrove tells us -"I don’t go along with all this ‘the BBC is biased’ stuff. I think people see what they want to see, and if it doesn’t accord with what they themselves think, they think it’s unfair."
If people like Graham Watson had been on QT all these times instead of Farage, it could have made a significant difference to the outcome of the referendum and we might not be in this mess. The BBC has a lot to answer for.