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Angry QT audience member was 'Tory mole'
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It been discovered that the small business owner who attacked Ed Miliband over the 'there's no money left note' and Ed Balls is in fact an active member of the Conservative party.
http://labourlist.org/2015/05/about-that-question-time-audience/
Obviously there's nothing wrong with having committed Tory supporters in the audience, however including party activist is a step too far. The debate is suppose to be able 'normal' people discussing issues with the leaders in a reasonable way, not people pursuing a political agenda.
http://labourlist.org/2015/05/about-that-question-time-audience/
Elena – whose Twitter bio is “Cats, Conservatives & Chelsea FC” was one of the people who asked Miliband a rather aggressive question last night. You’d have thought the BBC might have filtered out party supporters and activists from the audience.
Obviously there's nothing wrong with having committed Tory supporters in the audience, however including party activist is a step too far. The debate is suppose to be able 'normal' people discussing issues with the leaders in a reasonable way, not people pursuing a political agenda.
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And the simple reason for it is people leave their electronic size tens and faces all over the place and then act surprised when it takes ten seconds to follow their prints back to the source
Where they appear to be saying Ed Balls was the victim of bias.
25% of the audience were made up of Labour voters
25% of the audience were made up of LibDem voters
15% of the audience were made up of voters for the smaller parties
10% of the audience were made up of undecided voters
Shock, horror, Labour expose the bleeding obvious.
Pity people who are Trade Union activists are not looked on as kindly.:D:D
No - but I was rather surprised that she went on about how hard it had been to run her business after the end of the last government.
Does she think running a business is ever easy?
She's obviously prospered and done well - didn't seem as if she gave a hoot about those in less fortunate positions.
Are the Tories too stupid to play at Dirty Tricks?
Cameron had the food bank "deaths", its not her fault if Labour could not find a mole as loud and direct as her.:D
And that goes for all parties...
I think the point of this one...in that it matters...is that she claimed to be an undecided...when in fact she wasn't....which might have deprived a genuine "undecided" of a chance to be in the audience.
Yeah they did....built by a Tory carpenter...
Supplied by Tory small business champion Karen Brady.:D
I agree...but this is a no win scenario...the politicians seem to demand more and more granular analysis of the audience to feel assuaged on the matter of balance...and yet the people applying tell fibs.
Aside from depriving someone told the truth on their form...what are the people "screening" the audience supposed to do...start doing the sort of deep background checks qualify for top secret clearance...though in this instance it seems she was "rumbled" pretty quickly with a few internet clicks.
Though as you know I have a much simpler solution to this nonsense...no TV debates or half show and never tell events on TV ;-)
Why do you think i have re-named it Bulls-it time.:D
Edit: That fella who tried to make Nick Clegg look laughable is an absolute idiot. Talk about childish.
It's probably been done by the other parties too.
The fact that she's been exposed is the best thing.
Yes, she applied on the basis that she was an undecided voter. So a bit out of order.
Referring to the question about whether it makes her point less valid, no - but I think it's only fair for a viewer to know whether someone is open to the leaders response or not. I watched the programme last night and thought: "Wow, this woman is really angry about Ed Balls and the note thing". But now I know that she's an Tory activist I know that she's biased against Labour and so might not be 'really' angry at all.
25% of the audience were made up of Conservative voters
25% of the audience were made up of Labour voters
25% of the audience were made up of LibDem voters
15% of the audience were made up of voters for the smaller parties
10% of the audience were made up of undecided voters
But not for the reason she intended.
Oh dear.........