Question Time

[Bertie]

Very profound Bobbie.....or is that termed as agreeing?

[Mary G]

In case you missed it ...

[£3.73]

boo hiss !!! ... mainstream parties are the good guys after all ... yay ... let's forget the shape the country's in and trash the bad man ... boo hiss !!!

[Mary G]

Admit it though £3.73 ... you did laugh ... didn't you

I am a wee bit concerned about the whole 'I am a victim' card he has been handed. And - frankly - BNP voters were unlikely to be among the pantomime audience, sorry, I mean viewers! So, has he, as Jean Marie le Pen found, really been handed a bit of a golden ticket?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog ... rie-le-pen

[£3.73]

Mary, it's a clever edit ... I would laugh ... but I've already realised the jokes on me, you & everyone else ... would rather he had goose-stepped on wearing a pillow-case, lived up to the hype ... and been verbally thrashed by a panel who know how to debate ... if you can at least acknowledge that there may be some electoraral manipulation here ... then it might dawn on you that this is going exactly to script ... read a history book !!!

[EMDEE]

Despite what anyone may think of Nick Griffin or his views, the programme did look like a bit of a witch-hunt, and this includes David Dimblebey, who I would have thought could have remained a bit more neutral. There was actually no need for him to pick on Nick Griffin, there were enough people up against him already. Would the late Sir Robin Day have handled it more impartially? You really don't need a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

[£3.73]

Even stranger EMDEE ... the BBC is now REPORTING 22% of voters would vote BNP in the election ... that's a crazy figure ... the plot thickens ...

[History]

Despite what anyone may think of Nick Griffin or his views, the programme did look like a bit of a witch-hunt, and this includes David Dimblebey, who I would have thought could have remained a bit more neutral. There was actually no need for him to pick on Nick Griffin, there were enough people up against him already. Would the late Sir Robin Day have handled it more impartially? You really don't need a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

Agree with your post Emdee. I watched it and also agreed with a couple of members of the audience after the programme who felt they would have liked it to have included questions about the postal strike and other current issues.

David Dimbledey is not a patch on Robin day. If he was was he would have slapped down the Tory female for butting in at the top of her voice whenever she liked even though she already had her say. (don't remember her name not that it matters as all the Tories spew out the same song so names don't matter)The other female (can't remember her name either) would make a living on the stage with her exaggerated facial expressions every time Nick Griffin opened his mouth.

Overall I would say the Lib Dem guy and Jack Straw came across as putting their point over without the drama and in the spirit of the programme.

I just felt that the whole show was a witchhunt and not a question and answer programme. What questions were asked about issues that affect Britain at the moment? None that I remember! It was just a heckling mob with loads of opinions on one subject and sounding off at one member of the panel. Maybe they should have just had Nick Griffin on as the panel.

Thousands of British people voted for this man and he has the right to be heard on what he thinks of current issues.. You don't have to agree with him. This programme is supposed to be about debate on a variety of issues but it came across to me as mob rule and never really got past the mob rule stage.

If I looked at it again which I won't I might get a different perspective but the one above is what I percieved on the night.

History

[Bobh]

Good post History. I also thought it was a bit of a 'gang up' both from the panel, the chair and the audience. I thought Straw struggled with some direct questioning re immigration. Huhne was good as was Bonnie Greer albeit facial expressions.

I also felt the audience, which was very small by the way did not reflect a fair cross section of impartiality. I enjoy QT but feel it concentrated too much on Nick Griffin and the BNP. The BBC could have done a lot better.