As usual this week the BBC treated us to another enlightening, impartial, balanced politics debate. Dimbleby, the archetypal BBC Tory-Baiter, had a panel consisting of the classic QT make-up. Two socialists, two social-democrat leftists and a wet Tory centrist.
The Communistic SNP member almost made me throw my TV into the river, and the rest of them weren’t any less blood boiling.
And it’s always the same inane, boring questions on pointless matters that don’t mean anything, with a loaded, rigged audience of BBC liberals all howling out the Tory and giving the Labour politicians grief for not being left wing enough. Then Dimbleby makes little comments that all add into the BBC filter of Britain being a lefty country, somehow starved of the socialism it needs.
When anyone with an ounce of sense and decency knows that it is precisely the BBC brand of communism that has served to dig this nation into the lice infested trench it finds itself in.
David Mitchell, the TV comedian and writer, was utterly disappointing. Tub thumping for Brown and papering over the cracks in his awful leadership, as if there aren’t enough weasly politicians to do that job for us.
The Labour bloke quite frankly needed a punch in the head. The lib dem person, like all lib dems, may as well have stayed at home. And Andrew Lansley was nothing short of simpering and pathetic, desperately trying to pretend to know and/or care about the ‘little person’ at the bottom of the pile, when he couldn’t give two shits really and it’s all part of the Cameron make-over ploy.
No-one touched on the truth of anything. No-one had a clue about the ‘credit crunch’ and everyone, in their usual leftist bumptiousness and idiocy, blamed the economic problems on the fact that the media keep talking about…economic problems. Right, so all made up then. Just something to sell rags. Despite the fact I was warning people about serious economic crises long before newspaper editors woke their underpaid business desks up to go dig stuff about it.
In all fairness, QT is bad for my health and only serves to wind me up. It is run, organised, staffed, audienced and panelled by socialists and lilly livered sell-outs. Their agendas are barely concealed. At least some of the Scots in the crowd were open in their loathesome brand of politics, rather than the English who tend to attempt to posit their politics in some form of arrogant, lofty elitist fashion. As though socialism were an exclusive club (spot the paradox).
Does the BBC think no-one notices? Or do they do it anyway, knowing people understand their blatant bias, but fuck it they’re all Mail readers anyway?
And herein lies the problem. Rightists like me are wrongly branded Mail reading loony right by people of the type that go on QT (panel, audience, Chairman)…because it’s easy and helpful to delegitimise your enemy. And it’s hard to engage with your enemy.
Well, it is if you’re a pathetic lefty with low intelligence. I should imagine.
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QT is getting worse every week and only redeemed when they drop some of the politicians and put someone outside politics with strong and knowledgeable opinions and the balls to say it.
This week we have 4 politicians God help us.
The audience is either of senior school children or they are papering the walls , it is difficult to spot the difference.
Any Answers is also rigged with some incoherent people allowed to go on for ages and bore us stiff, while those with definative views are cut short especially if it knocks the government or goes against the bbc agenda.
Note how no caller on Any Answers has a go at the bias on the bbc – a no brainer so no prizes offered.
It’s a shame because QT skews how people see the Beeb and allows its critics to have a good pop. I’d still rather watch BBC1 than ITV, and GNTV is just a total waste of time.
But the Beeb needs to get a grip and wake up to a growing resentment amongst the public. The licence fee/tax needs to be reduced not increased, although a pinch of salt here would be that the government does expect the Beeb to spend a fortune on digital and HD.
My mine issue with QT though is that twat Dimbleby. A total arse of a man whose barely, and badly, concealed socialist Grauniad ways make a mockery of a show that could be of great benefit to the people fo the UK.
Good Jaysus, Dimbleby – a socialist? Are you lot off your heads? Dimbleby was one of the most right-wing, exploitative newspaper proprietors in the business up to 2001. Some of the things that went on in his newspapers would make Murdoch blush.
Eh? I don’t think the Richmond and Twickenham Times really puts him at the heart of the capitalist monster does it? And it’s the show that is the main issue, not DD.
The show is rubbish because most UK politicians are rubbish, left, right or centre. However, to call Dimbleby a socialist is surreal.
Donnacha, have you actually read this? Nowhere in it is Dimbleby directly called a socialist, in fact this is the one comment about him and the left:
“Then Dimbleby makes little comments that all add into the BBC filter of Britain being a lefty country, somehow starved of the socialism it needs.”
That is not calling Dimbleby a socialist.
Question Time is viewed across the board as a left leaning show – just like the beeb itself and other programs like Newsnight Review – and Dimbleby has a habit, on this and others, of making snide remarks against peoples comments in a way that he shouldn’t, in that he is meant to be a neutral chair of a political debate show on neutral broadcaster.
You also make an error previously by basically saying that socialist newspaper proprietors don’t run a harsh business.
In fact, out of a whole article about Question TIme and its undoubted bias you have managed to come to the conclusion that John is calling Dimbleby a raving socialist.
I wasn’t refering to the article itself, I was referring to the previous comment:
“A total arse of a man whose barely, and badly, concealed socialist Grauniad ways make a mockery of a show that could be of great benefit to the people fo the UK”
That would be where you called Dimbleby a socialist. Oh, and “socialist” newspaper proprietors who pay their staff peanuts and keep the profits – not socialists.
Well tht would be my view, not John’s, who wrote the article. I think the man has serious lefty issues, his comments during the Queen’s birthday celebrations about the monarchy and his constant carping on QT. But hey, what do I know.
You on the other hand seem to think that if he were a socialist then his paper would be run like willy wonka. My understanding is that most papers pay their staff peanuts and then they do keep the profits (well any profit left, most lose a fortune). Business is about profit.
Sorry for the confusion, if you were refering to my comment you should have said so rather than ‘you lot’.