QT In Running. Audience is typical Beeb ..:(

Why do you watch it JC ?, just a controlled propaganda show.

The BBC are leftrotten to the core.

I only watch it because the quality banter on the Chit Chat threads make it worthwhile :)

But I agree, the BBC news coverage of this issue has been insanely "leftrotten".
This Chris Bryant is a d*ck. He's such a fool ... is he in the Corbyn cabinet?

This is very on topic, the Labour MP Bryant who is just full of dim Guardian soundbites, his previous job was:
"Head of European Affairs for the BBC"

I'm sure he was objective though and there no bias with the Journalism

Ken Clark: 75

If you think 'Question Time' is a barely-concealed propaganda-fest, it has a close rival in the increasingly ludicrous 'Newsnight'.

The show has become a humiliating shadow of its former self, with a blatant pro-lefty outlook. As I tune in this evening, they broadcast a feeble interview with Farage, and lo and behold we now have an excruciating and straight-faced chat with Frank Moloney.

QT made by independent company, Mentorn.

'Newsnight' also had a piece on today's Vibrant Stampede and the many attendant deaths, without asking ANY questions that anyone with an ounce of common sense would.

Saying who made it is a complete cop-out. Like when the BBC had that obvious **** audience during the election debate and they said "it was a balanced audience done by an an independent company" but when pressed on it and the actual figures came out, it was obviously a very left wing audience. Who does it doesn't change facts.

agree...she very sexy ladie

Ken clarke would do naughty things with his cigars.
He's got a copy of the "Clinton Sutra".

I don't find QT or Newsnight even slightly left-wing

I don't even watch newsnight now as the presenters are all so annoying.
The main looks like he's an anorexic and ill and is weak and annoying and the other, o'Brien or something, is so patronising I want to hit things.

Yeah, you've really got to laugh at how "balanced" QT audiences are these days.

The wierd thing about the greek guy is I dislike his politics but I kind of like him. I think it's because he has a brain in his head, though you may disagree with him. I could imagine an intelligent conversation with him.

Unlike Bryant who is a fatuous soundbite spouting kn*b who likes to talk over people, he's classic modern Labour.

Wesdag - when did you last volunteer to go on?  Whatever you think of it, the audience is clearly a product of the volunteer population and the selection/screening process.  Call me old-fashioned but I'd be a layer of the latter in the conspiracy stakes.

Idiots on the panel making simplistic arguments and idiots in the audience clapping like seals as if the panelists have the first clue. If this is representative then we are truly doomed.

Just Checking

Varoufakis intelligent? Just look at his comments about immigrants built America. Complete fool.

Well he sounded inteligent enough there. Maybe I'm just comparing him to Bryant .
Actually now I think about it maybe it's his delivery.
I'm old enough to have heard Plato speak, and he reminded me of him

Yes his earlier comments about "we're all immigrants" and so on were a load of irrelevant left wing rubbish.

QT is on a bit later in my region but Varoufakis is playing an absolute stormer. I might not fully agree his ideas for dealing with refugees as they are a bit divorced from reality in that your potentially dealing with tens of millions and not hundreds of thousands but other than that he is a very impressive speaker.

The audience are loving him.

to think some of the idiots here think the BBC is a subversive left wing organization

they must be on purple  hearts or something dear me

The ukip lady made some reasonable points when she spoke to open up the programme but the silence was deafening in the audience reaction. Not a single clap from the entire audience.

First time I have ever seen Varoufakis speaking at any length but he has a very personable and likeability factor about him.

Of course they are loving him paddle. He sounds just credible enough but crucially populistic enough to a audience of public sector half wits. Take it from someone who knows, he's a charlatan.

"The audience are loving him."
Errr.. that's the opening post on this thread . He's the "Marxist bald Greek ars*hole" I was referring to, when I was pointing out the biased audience makeup. If you did a poll I'm guessing like 60% of them think Corbyn is Jesus.

paddletoe I also mentioned that at the top of the thread. She was measured and reasonable and didn't say anything bad but got silence, they were literally whooping for everything the Greek guy said.

Although I do agree that there is something personable about him and he expresses himself in a calm above the cut and thrust kind of way.

I don't know enough about him or everything he stands for but I like QT from a purely debating perspective and he is coming across as highly impressive in winning over an audience with a very charming style about him.

I don't know enough about him or everything he stands for but I like QT from a purely debating perspective and he is coming across as highly impressive in winning over an audience with a very charming style about him.

Agreed Checking. When Farage resigned they should have put her in charge. Taking him back was lunacy despite him doing well for many previous years. UKIP needs to be a broader church.

Come off it paddle. He isn't winning them over. He is pushing at an open door.

He'll still be signing autographs for the audience, and getting Grauiand groupies back to his hotel room to show them his "rhetorical device".

Totally agree with you EO on his calm way of putting across points. As a contrast Chris Bryant talks twice as fast but talks in a very calm and slower way. His ideas might not stand up to scrutiny but its easy to appreciate why he is winning over this audience totally.

back to basics for you just checking

He is making some strong points about socialism but at the same time highlighting good things about Britain.

The sucking up is maybe why he pulled me in, you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
What a smoothie

His comparison between immigration to America 200 years ago was not his finest point but would you not agree EO he is very good at putting across general points in a persuasive down to earth way. I appreciate you don't rate him at all but I am specifically taking about his style.

Its endemic,this love of the strange and hatred of your own,its a left wing thing.

The audience were whooping and hollering Yanis like it was a rally.
They whooped when he declared there should be no borders,when he said you should take 3 million refugees,dear oh dear.

This is a self loathing audience and a product of your education system which has taught your young to despise your history and culture.

Nicola Sturgeon makes an appearance at the end of This Week.

Wildman you cant keep saying people don't love their country just because you have a different idea of what the country should be.

You have a different idea of what our own country should be Wildman. I would never say you hate your country as I believe the opposite. Its very disrespectful for you to say people many people hate their country when they just have a different view of it.

How come they all hate religion,especially European religions yet have this love of the religion of peace.

How come they claim to be feminists yet have no problem with FGM and stoning for adultery.

They were not applauding him because he was foreign Wildman. You can disagree with his economics but when he make "socialist" arguments which lots of people agree with in principle its no surprise he won over the audition. I think people are also sympathetic to what he fought for in his own country.

You should not use the word "all" so broadly Wildman.

The loudest applause came when he called for no borders,he despises Britain despises the nation state yet the audience loved him.

paddletoe they were whooping and applauding him like mad from his very first sentence.
One direction get less of an audience reaction.

You've seen enough of how I view things to conclude that I don't rate him paddle. In a world of political mediocrity and often idiocy he is a man who thinks about things which is certainly a step up. I was railing against his populism and what you describe as him, putting across general points in a persuasive down to earth way. I don't need him to simplify his message.

Varoufakis knocked out the guy who thought a country works in same way as personal finance with a clean shot. That was a muddled argument that was floating around for a while, for that alone he was worth the appearance, He is mixed bag, but clearly his own man and thinks for himself.

Yanis Varoufakis is a writer a politician and a Marxist.

He certainly shot that bloke in the audience down, who was simply saying that if you are spending more than you have coming in then you have to spend less.

Pity the bloke in the audience wasn't able to come back when all he had to say was - ''so what got Greece in the mire, and how do you propose getting them out of it by not cutting the spending?''

Varoufakis voted against the terms of the third bailout package for Greece, and heaven only knows the trouble they would be in now if he'd had his way.

It's politicians like him that got Europe in the trouble they're in today.
People like him would bring the whole house of cards down if they were given enough rope.     
He's a smooth talking Marxist and boy doesn't he suck the gulible in a treat.

Spot on Dr C.
Varoufakis more or less rubbished the opening statement from the UKIP spokesperson.
He hinted at an open door but on getting challenged stated we need to debate the issue better. WTMs.
I found him arrogant and typical of all lefties in that he spouts what he thinks the masses want to hear.
BTW how can anyone doubt the bias in the audience given their reaction to his comments.