Question Time LiveBlog 23rd June 2011
Question Time comes tonight from Huddersfield in the Colne Valley – where the surrounding hills provide a stunning view of the permanent yellow smog over the town. To the east lies the tourist attractions of the ICI complex, various shopping complexes and Leeds Road – the main escape route – which is lined by a selection of everything’s-a-pound shops, Netto, Lidl, and derelict buildings.
Who is actually on the panel this week? Let’s run it as a competition.
Okay: John Redwood. Okay, no prize for knowing him. Wikipedia reckons Norman Baker is either a Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Transport or the navigator on Thor Heyerdahl’s Ra, Ra II and Tigris reed boat expeditions. The explorer would be more interesting.
Rachel Reeves is apparently a Labour MP who is so unbelievably obscure that in her biography under “Personal” it only tells us that she moved house in 2006 and who her sister is. Yes, really.
Fern Britton is someone who was last spotted when ‘retiring’ from daytime television two years ago.
David Mitchell? No idea. A Tory MP who stepped down in 1983? A cricketer who played for Devon? Once? Or this murderer hung in Barbados in 2000? The studio might get a bit smelly if so.
No, really…I give up. Who is he?
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 Postman Prat…Alan Johnson.
David Vance, TheEye and David Mosque will be moderating the abuse here from 10:30pm. See you later!
Can Mr Cameron tell nursing and health professionals working on wards and clinical area’s – who will carry the nurse off the ward at the age of 66 because one of the patients pinched her zimmer frame!
Has anybody in government got a grip on the kind of physical demands are placed on nurses and other health care professionals? What happens to those staff who physically can not do the job until the age off 66?
Same old pro left audience chaired by the disgraceful Dimbleby who always allows his own socialist bias to shine through. He is an old Labour luvie relic and I do believe he is looking for a Lordship and to head up the BBC. The panel tonight were absolutely dreadful with cliched sound bites designed to gain maximum audience approval. This programme needs a new radical non partisan presenter, panellists who are not afraid to speak the truth be that popular or otherwise and an audience who fairly reflect the electorate.