Thursday 12th June 2025
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Re: Thursday 12th June 2025
Let's not forget The Times were also at the forefront of the campaign to strip the disabled and mentally ill of their benefits.
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Re: Thursday 12th June 2025
Jesus fucking Christ. Remind me never to go to Fleetwood and the BBC should be utterly ashamed of themselves. An hour dominated by questions about Reform and immigration with the most gammon on show since the Brexit debates. There was absolutely no pretence of balance, when Fiona Bruce asked how many in the audience voted Reform at the last election about a third of them stuck their hands up. If that was a genuinely representative audience Reform would have walked the seat last year yet the records show they came third and Labour won comfortably. In all the years I've been watching Question Time I've never seen anything like it. An absolute fucking disgrace.
For Labour we had Darren Jones. Darren is the treasury prick who compared disabled people receiving benefits to his kids getting pocket money and somewhat gratifyingly I can report he's the first Labour panellist I've seen being laughed at. The problem was though he was being laughed at by people who are even worse. To his credit he did make the case for the humane treatment of asylum seekers in the face of a hostile audience and even got a smattering of applause for it but otherwise, especially when discussing the economy, he was hopeless. Maybe trying to hide your tax rises and cuts with sophistry and misleading statistics works with treasury focus groups but when it doesn't survive contact with the public for more than about 5 seconds it probably doesn't help if, like Darren, you maintain a superior, smug, fuck you attitude and treat everyone like they're idiots (though to be fair, as mentioned there were a disproportionate number in the audience this evening).
For Reform we had Zia Yusuf. Good grief. Where to start. He can only be doing what he's doing for money. It has to be transactional. A promise of future power and riches. For a brief moment last week he seemed to have a genuine human response to the abuse he receives from his own 'party' and thought 'Fuck it, why am I doing this?' Yet here he was tonight, back in the fold, sounding chillingly evil. He spouted exactly the kind of dehumanising language about asylum seekers as those who racially abuse him use online (if they're being polite). He even referred to them as 'aliens'. Bruce let him spout this rancid shit at length while occasionally trying to get answers out of him as to how Reform would accomplish their mad schemes but it didn't matter that he couldn't answer, the gammon monkeys were happy to hoot and slap their stinking paws together regardless.
For the Tories we had Simon Clarke. Well not for the Tories really because Simon hilariously lost his seat by 200 votes, apparently he was there representing yet another bullshit right wing thinktank. Simon had a curious evening, on the one hand he was advocating leaving the ECHR so we could be more beastly to immigrants and pitifully attempted to distance himself from the Truss government he happily served in. While on the other hand he actually got some applause for being a voice of reason when it came to Reform's batshit economic and immigration policies. Even Simon had to point out to the grumbling gammon natives that when in government he'd been advised that our navy (such as it is) would not take kindly to trying to turn back flimsy boats overflowing with women and children which would inevitably lead to more deaths. It would be illegal and immoral. Before going on to explain that Reform were offering triple the level of unfunded tax cuts that brought down his former boss.
For the Lib Dems we had Sarah Olney. For any vaguely civilised, sentient human Sarah was the only panellist who wasn't utterly objectionable. I'd like to say she got the loudest applause of the night asking for asylum seekers to be treated with humanity but I'd be lying. There was some applause but there were also members of that audience looking angrily askance or were mocking her. As I said, remind me never to go to Fleetwood.
Not that I need much of a reminder, it shares its constituency with Blackpool which after one visit I solemnly vowed never to return.
For Labour we had Darren Jones. Darren is the treasury prick who compared disabled people receiving benefits to his kids getting pocket money and somewhat gratifyingly I can report he's the first Labour panellist I've seen being laughed at. The problem was though he was being laughed at by people who are even worse. To his credit he did make the case for the humane treatment of asylum seekers in the face of a hostile audience and even got a smattering of applause for it but otherwise, especially when discussing the economy, he was hopeless. Maybe trying to hide your tax rises and cuts with sophistry and misleading statistics works with treasury focus groups but when it doesn't survive contact with the public for more than about 5 seconds it probably doesn't help if, like Darren, you maintain a superior, smug, fuck you attitude and treat everyone like they're idiots (though to be fair, as mentioned there were a disproportionate number in the audience this evening).
For Reform we had Zia Yusuf. Good grief. Where to start. He can only be doing what he's doing for money. It has to be transactional. A promise of future power and riches. For a brief moment last week he seemed to have a genuine human response to the abuse he receives from his own 'party' and thought 'Fuck it, why am I doing this?' Yet here he was tonight, back in the fold, sounding chillingly evil. He spouted exactly the kind of dehumanising language about asylum seekers as those who racially abuse him use online (if they're being polite). He even referred to them as 'aliens'. Bruce let him spout this rancid shit at length while occasionally trying to get answers out of him as to how Reform would accomplish their mad schemes but it didn't matter that he couldn't answer, the gammon monkeys were happy to hoot and slap their stinking paws together regardless.
For the Tories we had Simon Clarke. Well not for the Tories really because Simon hilariously lost his seat by 200 votes, apparently he was there representing yet another bullshit right wing thinktank. Simon had a curious evening, on the one hand he was advocating leaving the ECHR so we could be more beastly to immigrants and pitifully attempted to distance himself from the Truss government he happily served in. While on the other hand he actually got some applause for being a voice of reason when it came to Reform's batshit economic and immigration policies. Even Simon had to point out to the grumbling gammon natives that when in government he'd been advised that our navy (such as it is) would not take kindly to trying to turn back flimsy boats overflowing with women and children which would inevitably lead to more deaths. It would be illegal and immoral. Before going on to explain that Reform were offering triple the level of unfunded tax cuts that brought down his former boss.
For the Lib Dems we had Sarah Olney. For any vaguely civilised, sentient human Sarah was the only panellist who wasn't utterly objectionable. I'd like to say she got the loudest applause of the night asking for asylum seekers to be treated with humanity but I'd be lying. There was some applause but there were also members of that audience looking angrily askance or were mocking her. As I said, remind me never to go to Fleetwood.
Not that I need much of a reminder, it shares its constituency with Blackpool which after one visit I solemnly vowed never to return.