Question Time LiveBlog 30th June 2011
Question Time comes tonight from Birmingham; a post apocalyptic prison-city which was extensively remodelled in the mid 20th Century by Adolf Hitler and is located in a huge bomb crater somewhere in the Midlands. Highlights include nightmarish buildings, utterly miserable public transport and sadistic traffic systems. For this reason Birmingham has been designated an IKEA World Heritage Site.
Birmingham currently holds the world record for fruitless scratch card scratching and bitterly screwed up lottery tickets.
On the panel tonight we have Secretary of State for Transport Philip Hammond MP, Shadow Business Secretary John Denham MP, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers Christine Blower, Labour supporting Sir Richard Lambert (although recently in favour of deficit reduction) and Polly Toynbee.
LiveBlog commenters are kindly asked to leave sharp objects at the door. Your moderators accept no responsibility for injury or damage to nearby objects. Alcohol is virtually essential.
The LiveBlog will also stay open for the bizarreness of This Week with Andrew Neil, and Michael Portillo. They are joined on the Sofa of Mediocrity by Gisela Stuart MP; hindered by some people calling themselves “Michael Rosen” and “Trevor Beresford Romeo OBE” who all of you down wiv da kidz peeps will know as “DJ Jazzie B“. Plus a political round-up from Adam Boulton. Joy.
David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be moderating the abuse here from 10:30pm. See you later!
Phillip Hammond is a little outnumbered is’nt he?
It looks that way on paper. But if he fights his corner well against 4 lefty panelists + a lefty chairman then he deserves a few strong beers afterwards.
Fair and balanced?
I suppose the BBC will say that Labour supporting Lambert calling for a reduction in the deficit means he mistakenly thinks there is a deficit. He’s therefore a swivel eyed nazi who hates the poor and eats babys. But, I think its 4 against 1 and its pathetic for a once serious political program.
Hell’s teeth, that line-up could bring out my Emo streak.
Phil Hammond is the one who has been flattered in to the highly-debatable High Speed line. They are going to name it after him. He’s barely a Conservative. But then so are all the others.
Don’t know if anyone is interested, but there is a cache version of the Hookway ruling which has thrown the administration of bail in to confusion.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:bDktXSl3iWcJ:crimeline.info/app/download/5043325739/GMP%2Bv%2BHookway.doc+Paul+Hookway+murder&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.co.uk
I’ve been trying to understand it but either I’ve had too much to drink or I’ve not had enough.
“Question Time comes tonight from Birmingham; a post apocalyptic prison-city which was extensively remodelled in the mid 20th Century by Adolf Hitler and is located in a huge bomb crater somewhere in the Midlands. Highlights include nightmarish buildings, utterly miserable public transport and sadistic traffic systems. For this reason Birmingham has been designated an IKEA World Heritage Site.
Birmingham currently holds the world record for fruitless scratch card scratching and bitterly screwed up lottery tickets.”
ROFL!!! Wow, I guess I should cancel my trip over there, then? 😛
It’s been a long time since it was a serious program, and I can’t see it getting back there.
HS2 is going to be the graveyard of lots of politicians. Boris is coming out against it and there could still be at least one Cabinet resignation.
The wheels, with apologies for the pun, are falling off it.
I’m sorry – it is my sense of humour rather than genuine views. As it happens I’ve never been there, so it could all be horribly unfair! 😀
But I doubt it.
It seems as though it’s going to be ‘clarified’ by a change in the law rushed through by next Thursday now.
I doubt that judge has much of a career left, even if he was technically “correct” though!