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Question Time 15/1/15
Phil_Coulthard
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Tonight's edition of the Topical debate show comes from Lincoln and joining Dimbers on the panel tonight are...
Anna Sourby (Conservative Defense Minister)
Douglas Alexander (Labour Foreign Secretary)
Baroness Brinton (Liberal Democrat)
Mehdi Hasan (Journalist & Broadcaster)
David Starkey (Historian)
The show will be broadcast on at 22.35 on BBC 1 in England, Scotland and Wales
Anna Sourby (Conservative Defense Minister)
Douglas Alexander (Labour Foreign Secretary)
Baroness Brinton (Liberal Democrat)
Mehdi Hasan (Journalist & Broadcaster)
David Starkey (Historian)
The show will be broadcast on at 22.35 on BBC 1 in England, Scotland and Wales
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But Hasan Vs Starkey...
You just hope that Hasan will bite a la Galloway when Starkey starts
Starkey will keep him quiet!
Well, I can't stand Starkey either, but if he silences the odious bully then it might be worth a watch.
I tend to avoid these days. I get wound up and angry then can't sleep
Yeah but Starkey is Question Time gold
Perfect way to sum him up. I'd have him on every week.
One of my favourites was when he laid into Harriet Harman, Shirley Williams and Victoria Coren about the fact they got where they did in no small part because of who their parents and relatives were. The only panellists who came from nowt were him and Justine Greening - the only non wishy washy lefties.
Still if your mum is Vera Brittain, your dad is Alan Coren or you come from a family of aristocrats and Harley Street doctors it's clearly no advantage to getting on in life - compared to growing up with no famous or connected relatives.
Same applies to Dave, Ed and Nick - who all got their political careers started or their first jobs because of their relatives influence and connections!
Question time platinum more like!
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/rod-liddle/2013/05/starkeys-right-yesterdays-question-time-panel-dont-know-the-meaning-of-struggle/
Agreed
But there is other potential. Has anyone else not heard of Baroness Brinton before tonight?
According to wiki she: 'Chairs the Libdem Diversity Engagement Group and has a particular interest in increasing the number of women, black, Asian, and minority ethnic MPs'. Amongst other things.
Then there's Anna Soubry. Intense and unpredictable. Likes to go on the attack.
I feel sorry for Wee Dougie.
That's the funniest DS comment I've read
I don't think it will be a left-wing love in. I do expect some seats round there and Boston to go to UKIP in May
Seems a bit unfair. They can hardly be blamed for being born into influential families!
Why is it unfair to state the truth? Its a burden they have to put up with just as others have to put up with the burden of having been born into unifluential families. In reality I don't suppose people in either case give it much thought.
Try as I might I just can't conceive of Douglas Alexander travelling abroad to represent the nation.:o
Anna Soubry btw
You have promoted him - he is the SHADOW Foreign Secretary and long may he remain so.
Baroness Brinton, daughter of former TV newsreader Tim Brinton was on the Daily Politics the other day.
She was in a wheelchair and the wheels of her chair were perilously close to the edge of the raised podium the DP debates take place on.
I was more concerned she would move back and fall of the podium, than what she actually said.
I couldn't care less for the other Con-Lab-Lib bores to be honest.
Yes I believe you are right. I think Farage was on that one. I'm surprised they haven't got a UKipper on the panel for this one.
I can't watch because of Hasan. If anyone blocks me on Twitter, I take the view that if they won't listen to my views, why should I listen to theirs.