BBC Question Time LiveChat 3rd May 2012
Tonight Question Time comes from Question Time from London for the second week in a row – presumably because the BBC chickened out of the promised Mayoral Special last week.
On the panel: Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith MP, Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Hatemen MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Sir Walter “Ming” Campbell MP, leader of the PCS union and semi-detached nutter Mark Serwotka and the businessman and panelist on Dragons’ Den Theo Paphitis
Your Moderators line-up consists of David Vance, David Mosque, TheEye and John Ward.
At 11:35pm (UK time) the BBC’s election coverage will begin so we will probably keep the chat window open for a while longer to watch the early biased punditry.
might i say that Mark Serwotka’s comments about the rich might be less hypocritical if he followed his own intentions – note the following from wikepaedia – “In the 2000 General Secretary election, Serwotka pledged that if elected he would only accept the equivalent of an average civil servant’s wage. In 2010, however, he received £88,675 in salary as well as £26,159 in pension contributions and a £474 additional housing cost allowance.“
Significantly more than an average Civil Servant’s salary I imagine unless 13 years of labour made further steps that bankrupted the UK!