Question Time 10th December
In what appears to be a blatant bit of ratings tourism, Question Time tomorrow comes from Wootton Bassett and is set up to be completely devoted to the war in Afghanistan. The panel will consist of former head of the British Army General Sir Richard Dannatt, Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, and former News of the Screws editor Piers “Moron” Morgan. Armed Forces Minister Bill Rammell will be on, presumably to shield Bob Ainsworthless from the public, as will Salma Yaqoob, the leader of Respect.
George Galloway has already got his ha’pennyworth in the much ignored Swindon Advertiser saying that the panel is biased in favour of the war, and the local mayor is boycotting it because he wants to talk about something, indeed anything, else.
As usual, Biased-BBC will be hosting a live-chat on that blog to follow the discussion – chaired by our very own no-nonsense David Vance and with your host from here helping proceedings through to the end of This Week. For those playing QT Buzzword Bingo this week, we’ll be playing by the Pre-Election Rules where Thatcher‘s are wildcards and G20 scores double points. Good luck and see you over there at 10:30pm!
Biggest buzzword will be climate mixed with change or whatever shite.
Total propaganda. Good for the mayor! Let’s see how often the new buzz word ‘mission’ is used. War, conflict, invasion have all been dumped.
Well the Pentagon now call the War On Terror the ‘Overseas Contingency Operation’. Doesn’t quite trip off the tongue in the same way, does it?
With the questions being checked in advance there’s no chance of the BBC letting a question about bad science slip through so it’s either going to be a question allowing a my-windmills-bigger-than-yours-athon or nothing.
My money is on “Thatcher’s fault” coming up in the 10-15 minute bracket.
Well, it’s worth a watch on the iplayer I guess, but I hope it isn’t abused like the last special issue one with that BNP bloke whose name escapes me.
I wish they would replace Dimbleby with a more competent chairman (I’d have Sue McGregor).
Yes, they aren’t calling it a ‘special’ but to do a single issue QT the day after a PBR and during the Copenhagen hairshirt exercise is odd. It’s going to be a political agenda-driven ambush.
Hmm, that gives me an idea for a poll during our live-chat…a replacement for Dimblebore. Cheers!