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« on: May 21, 2009, 09:59:44 PM » |
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Lol at the audience wanting a general election because Gordon Brown wasn't voted in as prime Minister by the people.
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« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2009, 07:48:13 AM » |
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I can't watch Question Time anymore..I'd end up throwing stuff at the telly. The level of the show has dropped dramatically over the past few years (or was it always this bad?) and both the audience and panel members tend to piss me off after about 5 minutes.
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« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2009, 10:21:17 AM » |
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I can't watch Question Time anymore..I'd end up throwing stuff at the telly. The level of the show has dropped dramatically over the past few years (or was it always this bad?) and both the audience and panel members tend to piss me off after about 5 minutes.
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« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2009, 10:36:53 AM » |
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I can't watch Question Time anymore..I'd end up throwing stuff at the telly. The level of the show has dropped dramatically over the past few years (or was it always this bad?) and both the audience and panel members tend to piss me off after about 5 minutes.
It's always been like that Victor. Nah, it used to be meatier. Either that or I've gotten less dense |
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« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2009, 12:08:09 PM » |
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I can't watch Question Time anymore..I'd end up throwing stuff at the telly. The level of the show has dropped dramatically over the past few years (or was it always this bad?) and both the audience and panel members tend to piss me off after about 5 minutes.
It's always been like that Victor. Nah, it used to be meatier. Either that or I've gotten less dense Used t be meatier ftw! |
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« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2009, 12:14:10 PM » |
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The problem with QT is that the audience seems to be entirely made up of people who post on the Have Your Say boards on the BBC site or who call radio phone-ins, and the politicians they have on are no-talent junior ministers who are terrified of being asked questions about, well, anything, but who want to be on the telly to boost their profile.
It would be improved immensely if they got rid of the questions and just handed out rotten fruit to the audience.
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« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2009, 12:23:21 PM » |
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The last few shows have been quality entertainment, watching politicions squirm and the audience being outraged at something everyone with more then 1 brain cell knew had been going on for years. I guess it beats talking about pig flu.
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« Reply #7 on: May 22, 2009, 01:51:17 PM » |
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I can't watch Question Time anymore..I'd end up throwing stuff at the telly. The level of the show has dropped dramatically over the past few years (or was it always this bad?) and both the audience and panel members tend to piss me off after about 5 minutes.
It's always been like that Victor. Nah, it used to be meatier. Either that or I've gotten less dense Watch an old episode, I think you've become a more discerning viewer. |
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« Reply #8 on: May 22, 2009, 04:03:28 PM » |
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The last few shows have been quality entertainment, watching politicions squirm and the audience being outraged at something everyone with more then 1 brain cell knew had been going on for years. I guess it beats talking about pig flu.
Anybody with half a brain knows you don't get ballot papers with your choice of prime minister on them so i guess you are right  It would be interesting to compare the general level of trust in mps before and after as i think the scores would be lower but not by much. Sandy |
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« Reply #9 on: May 22, 2009, 04:28:19 PM » |
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The last few shows have been quality entertainment, watching politicions squirm and the audience being outraged at something everyone with more then 1 brain cell knew had been going on for years. I guess it beats talking about pig flu.
Anybody with half a brain knows you don't get ballot papers with your choice of prime minister on them so i guess you are right It would be interesting to compare the general level of trust in mps before and after as i think the scores would be lower but not by much. Sandy You do if you live in either Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath or Witney. |
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« Reply #10 on: May 22, 2009, 05:56:06 PM » |
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They get to vote for their mp same as the rest of us. If they both got voted out then it wouldn't follow that the next pm would come from those 2 seats.
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« Reply #11 on: May 22, 2009, 06:08:44 PM » |
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Anybody with half a brain knows you don't get ballot papers with your choice of prime minister on them so i guess you are right of course people know this, but with the way our general elections work a lot of people will be looking at the bigger picture rather than just voting for who they want to be their constituency MP - voting for the candidate for the party whose leader is most appetising to them as prime minister is what a lot of people do - FACT (or should that be factoid?). |
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« Reply #12 on: May 22, 2009, 06:49:10 PM » |
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Some people look at the bigger picture but many do not. Only 67.55% of votes cast in 2005 were for the 2 biggest parties. That means around 1 in every 3 people have voted for people in parties they know have no chance of containing the PM.
Of the 67.55% I'd imagine a fairly hefty chunk of that vote for a party and have done so for years with the leader of that party making little odds to that choice.
My local mp was voted in many years ago due to Labour voters knowing they couldn't get an mp here so they voted for Menzies Campell to keep the Tories out. He has done well around here and as a result it isn't seen as a blocking vote but a vote for a good MP and being a good Mp is why he gets more than 52% of the votes now. (1400 initial margin which is now 12500)
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« Reply #13 on: May 23, 2009, 12:05:48 AM » |
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Some people look at the bigger picture but many do not. Only 67.55% of votes cast in 2005 were for the 2 biggest parties. That means around 1 in every 3 people have voted for people in parties they know have no chance of containing the PM.
Of the 67.55% I'd imagine a fairly hefty chunk of that vote for a party and have done so for years with the leader of that party making little odds to that choice.
My local mp was voted in many years ago due to Labour voters knowing they couldn't get an mp here so they voted for Menzies Campell to keep the Tories out. He has done well around here and as a result it isn't seen as a blocking vote but a vote for a good MP and being a good Mp is why he gets more than 52% of the votes now. (1400 initial margin which is now 12500)
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« Reply #14 on: May 23, 2009, 12:14:22 AM » |
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Some people look at the bigger picture but many do not. Only 67.55% of votes cast in 2005 were for the 2 biggest parties. That means around 1 in every 3 people have voted for people in parties they know have no chance of containing the PM.
Of the 67.55% I'd imagine a fairly hefty chunk of that vote for a party and have done so for years with the leader of that party making little odds to that choice.
My local mp was voted in many years ago due to Labour voters knowing they couldn't get an mp here so they voted for Menzies Campell to keep the Tories out. He has done well around here and as a result it isn't seen as a blocking vote but a vote for a good MP and being a good Mp is why he gets more than 52% of the votes now. (1400 initial margin which is now 12500)
Sandy
In my experience Lib Dem MPs are very good on a local level. My current MP (tory) might as well be invisible for all I know about him and whatever he does around here. I think he does a very good job, considering.  |
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