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The Question Time Thread

Portishead said:
Westminster private school, show jumping and marriage to an energy company deputy CEO.
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I've never seen a government as visibly corrupt as this one... It's almost as if they've thought "fuck it, don't hide it anymore boys cos nobody is going to do anything about it".. I think it's just politicians being able to show their true nature
 
Flippin_lump said:
I've never seen a government as visibly corrupt as this one... It's almost as if they've thought "fuck it, don't hide it anymore boys** cos nobody is going to do anything about it".. I think it's just politicians being able to show their true nature
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** and girls
 
26-0 said:
QT audience in stitches tonight when Tory Helen Whateley says it will take 25 years to fix the problem of all UK Water Companies dumping raw sewage into all our rivers and beaches on a daily basis. Yes 25 f*ckin years!

She says they’re (Tory Government) taking really tough action which I assume she’s referring to these relatively piddling occasional fines of a couple of million £ compared to the obscene dividends they’re paying out. Failing to invest in the necessary infrastructure, running up debt, fleecing customers with extortionate bills and just flushing human sewage straight into the rivers to maximise profit.

What about public health, the environment and our vital water security?
All far, far less important than their rich friends obscene profits.
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They should take all the money that would be given to share holders in fines, it will soon stop.
 
raefil said:
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And this is what a lot of ordinary every Day people vote for. How on earth there can be anything called working class Tories is beyond me!
That being said how any very left wing person doesn't buy into Centre left policies is also beyond me.
You can't solicite any sensible socialist policies until you get elected.
TBH, i think that any relatively ordinary person who votes Tory is pretending to be something they are not!
 
deepdaledreamer said:
how any very left wing person doesn't buy into Centre left policies is also beyond me.
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I mean you should probably define what you mean by "very left wing"

I'm certainly left wing and the idea that I would vote for someone/something offering neoliberal, centrist, re hashed thatcherite diarrhoea is repulsive to me. Because I have some self respect.
 
Winkytinky said:
I mean you should probably define what you mean by "very left wing"

I'm certainly left wing and the idea that I would vote for someone/something offering neoliberal, centrist, re hashed thatcherite diarrhoea is repulsive to me. Because I have some self respect.
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I take it from that you are depicting Starmer and the current labour party as having neo liberal policies.
Labour needs to appeal to a majority of voters to get elected so that they can then promote and adopt policies that genuinely level the playing field, that do promote a fairer society and that does distribute wealth more evenly.
Too many should be Labour voters either don't vote at all or won't because they don't think that they are radical enough.
Under the current scenario there will always, or more often than not be right wing Conservative Governments in power, there has been for at least 75% of the last 120 odd years.
Like them or not the Blair/Brown Government managed to get a lot of socialist policies through in respect of benefits and allowances that even the Tories haven't totally managed to overturn.
It is unlikely for instance that there could be a mass re-nationalisation of things, however 2 things do need putting back in the public domain that is the Railways and the Water Utilities.
 
deepdaledreamer said:
I take it from that you are depicting Starmer and the current labour party as having neo liberal policies.
Labour needs to appeal to a majority of voters to get elected so that they can then promote and adopt policies that genuinely level the playing field, that do promote a fairer society and that does distribute wealth more evenly.
Too many should be Labour voters either don't vote at all or won't because they don't think that they are radical enough.
Under the current scenario there will always, or more often than not be right wing Conservative Governments in power, there has been for at least 75% of the last 120 odd years.
Like them or not the Blair/Brown Government managed to get a lot of socialist policies through in respect of benefits and allowances that even the Tories haven't totally managed to overturn.
It is unlikely for instance that there could be a mass re-nationalisation of things, however 2 things do need putting back in the public domain that is the Railways and the Water Utilities.
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Will they actually do that? Of that, I am not so sure, sadly.
 
Sepp Blatter said:
Will they actually do that? Of that, I am not so sure, sadly.
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Well i am sure that there intentions will be more and further than any other party (that has any chance of actually being elected!).
The problem with many is that what they manage to do, in the face of rich & powerful individuals, the markets and the right wing press, won't be enough, even though it will be more than what would be done under the alternatives.
Sometimes you have to be pragmatic.
 
deepdaledreamer said:
Well i am sure that there intentions will be more and further than any other party (that has any chance of actually being elected!).
The problem with many is that what they manage to do, in the face of rich & powerful individuals, the markets and the right wing press, won't be enough, even though it will be more than what would be done under the alternatives.
Sometimes you have to be pragmatic.
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Fascist!!!!
 
deepdaledreamer said:
I take it from that you are depicting Starmer and the current labour party as having neo liberal policies.
Labour needs to appeal to a majority of voters to get elected so that they can then promote and adopt policies that genuinely level the playing field, that do promote a fairer society and that does distribute wealth more evenly.
Too many should be Labour voters either don't vote at all or won't because they don't think that they are radical enough.
Under the current scenario there will always, or more often than not be right wing Conservative Governments in power, there has been for at least 75% of the last 120 odd years.
Like them or not the Blair/Brown Government managed to get a lot of socialist policies through in respect of benefits and allowances that even the Tories haven't totally managed to overturn.
It is unlikely for instance that there could be a mass re-nationalisation of things, however 2 things do need putting back in the public domain that is the Railways and the Water Utilities.
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He's not playing 3D chess, he's telling everyone what he is.
 
Anyone watch last night? I do wonder, with leading Tories still going “all-in” on this policy- and again calling for changes in the laws on human rights legislation because of this ruling, …might the Tories start to change tack, given the REMARKABLE response to a question whether a single audience member supported the Rwanda policy.

 
… oh and anyone who bleats ‘bias’ and ‘Tory stooges’ in the audience…. they really need to take blinkers off and see that all sides are represented in those audiences. The black lady (perhaps the first audience member to be asked to comment??) who spoke so eloquently and cuttingly about the government will no doubt be being roundly described as an anti government stooge in certain Twitter circles today.
I didn’t see the program beyond perhaps half way… but there was a pretty strong anti government sentiment from the audience.
 
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