Thursday 12th February 2026
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Re: Thursday 12th February 2026
Question Time came tonight from Bristol.
For Labour we had Luke Pollard. Luke began the evening bringing to mind the chant from that Simpson's cult episode, "The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date." Starmer is a good man, an honest man, prepared to admit his mistakes. So said Luke with a weird gleam in his eye, before going on to claim that everything that's been happening over the last couple of weeks is actually great for the country and the Labour Party because it's allowed Starmer to demonstrate just what a splendid fellow he is. Astonishingly nobody laughed, possibly because it was genuinely disturbing. You'd think there'd be no coming back from that but luckily for Luke he was sat next to a gobshite madwoman who kept offering him opportunities to ridicule her, which he did a couple of times, even getting a few laughs in the process. So a mixed bag for Luke but it could have been worse.
For Reform we had Nadine Dorries. Nadine's highlight of the evening was saying that while Jim Ratcliffe might have got his language and his figures completely wrong he was still right, but when has Nadine ever been troubled by such trifles as factual accuracy or rationality. Give her a break. Like the consummate professional she is she's clearly already up to speed with her Reform brief, skilfully repeating the word 'immigration', claiming they're a 'grass roots' political movement, pretending she was never in the Tory Party. Sadly her efforts weren't rewarded by the Bristol audience who had the effrontery to laugh at her when she was reminded of her Conservative past. Despite the fact that as she explained she'd been one of the good Tories, always loyal, never plotting to bring down any leader, which will be news to Theresa May and Rishi Sunak. On the plus side she didn't appear to be completely pissed for a change.
For the Greens we had Ellie Chowns. Despite Fiona Bruce's best excruciating efforts Ellie had a good night, in fact she was the only panellist to get any applause that wasn't a result of mocking Dorries. Why shouldn't we have safe and legal routes for refugees? Why shouldn't we have social housing being built to rent at an affordable rate? These are things Labour were proposing while in opposition and now they're examples of the Greens being crazy? Upon mentioning rent controls she was sneered at by the Tory who claimed it was the best way to ruin a city. Really? New York? Berlin?
For the Tories we had Ben Spencer. the highlight of Ben's night was getting himself tangled up in all sorts of horrible knots trying to claim Jim Radcliffe was wrong while simultaneously trying to defend his Tory colleague Katie Lam who wants to deport tens of thousands of legal migrants. He attempted this not inconsiderable feat by blathering on about 'British values', which according to him don't include protesting against mass murder. A member of the audience who worked in the NHS tried to pin him down about what those values might be given they (and he as a former doctor) worked with a lot of immigrants professionally. Ben, as is par for the course when the right are asked these tricky questions, blathered on about freedom of speech and tolerance, despite the fact that mere minutes before he'd singled out 'Gaza protesters' as undesirables who'd be first in line for deportation if he had anything to do with it. Make it make sense.
For Labour we had Luke Pollard. Luke began the evening bringing to mind the chant from that Simpson's cult episode, "The leader is good, the leader is great, we surrender our will as of this date." Starmer is a good man, an honest man, prepared to admit his mistakes. So said Luke with a weird gleam in his eye, before going on to claim that everything that's been happening over the last couple of weeks is actually great for the country and the Labour Party because it's allowed Starmer to demonstrate just what a splendid fellow he is. Astonishingly nobody laughed, possibly because it was genuinely disturbing. You'd think there'd be no coming back from that but luckily for Luke he was sat next to a gobshite madwoman who kept offering him opportunities to ridicule her, which he did a couple of times, even getting a few laughs in the process. So a mixed bag for Luke but it could have been worse.
For Reform we had Nadine Dorries. Nadine's highlight of the evening was saying that while Jim Ratcliffe might have got his language and his figures completely wrong he was still right, but when has Nadine ever been troubled by such trifles as factual accuracy or rationality. Give her a break. Like the consummate professional she is she's clearly already up to speed with her Reform brief, skilfully repeating the word 'immigration', claiming they're a 'grass roots' political movement, pretending she was never in the Tory Party. Sadly her efforts weren't rewarded by the Bristol audience who had the effrontery to laugh at her when she was reminded of her Conservative past. Despite the fact that as she explained she'd been one of the good Tories, always loyal, never plotting to bring down any leader, which will be news to Theresa May and Rishi Sunak. On the plus side she didn't appear to be completely pissed for a change.
For the Greens we had Ellie Chowns. Despite Fiona Bruce's best excruciating efforts Ellie had a good night, in fact she was the only panellist to get any applause that wasn't a result of mocking Dorries. Why shouldn't we have safe and legal routes for refugees? Why shouldn't we have social housing being built to rent at an affordable rate? These are things Labour were proposing while in opposition and now they're examples of the Greens being crazy? Upon mentioning rent controls she was sneered at by the Tory who claimed it was the best way to ruin a city. Really? New York? Berlin?
For the Tories we had Ben Spencer. the highlight of Ben's night was getting himself tangled up in all sorts of horrible knots trying to claim Jim Radcliffe was wrong while simultaneously trying to defend his Tory colleague Katie Lam who wants to deport tens of thousands of legal migrants. He attempted this not inconsiderable feat by blathering on about 'British values', which according to him don't include protesting against mass murder. A member of the audience who worked in the NHS tried to pin him down about what those values might be given they (and he as a former doctor) worked with a lot of immigrants professionally. Ben, as is par for the course when the right are asked these tricky questions, blathered on about freedom of speech and tolerance, despite the fact that mere minutes before he'd singled out 'Gaza protesters' as undesirables who'd be first in line for deportation if he had anything to do with it. Make it make sense.
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Re: Thursday 12th February 2026
As a Manchester United supporter fuck Ratcliffe, he's a parasite, takes millions from British taxpayers in business subsidies while living it up in Monaco paying fuck all tax himself. Why are people like him allowed to thrive in this country? It's not normal. Just look at what happened when he recently tried to plead poverty and pull Ineos out of their deal sponsoring the New Zealand rugby team. It was settled out of court but one side ended up a lot happier than the other and Ratcliffe wasn't smiling.
Blame immigrants, blame benefit claimants, I'll tell you what, how about we start blaming greed. Not just fools like Ratcliffe but landlords who want £700 a month for a single room with a tiny bathroom attached. 'Studio flat' my arse. I viewed 2 today and they were smaller than my bedsit with no storage space whatsoever. If I'd tried to swing a feline the poor beast would not have fared well.
Blame immigrants, blame benefit claimants, I'll tell you what, how about we start blaming greed. Not just fools like Ratcliffe but landlords who want £700 a month for a single room with a tiny bathroom attached. 'Studio flat' my arse. I viewed 2 today and they were smaller than my bedsit with no storage space whatsoever. If I'd tried to swing a feline the poor beast would not have fared well.