Priti Patel furious after being asked about death penalty support
If looks could kill. Esther McVey’s replacement at DWP did not look impressed to be asked about whether she still supports the death penalty:
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Bunny Boiler: “I’m coming for you Farage” audience member was SWP organiser
The Question Time set piece of Russell Brand vs Nigel Farage (VIDEO) was in danger of being upstaged at one point during tonight’s show — when the audience started fighting with each other over whether the UKIP leader was “a racist scumbag”: “I live in South Thanet and I’m coming for you, Nigel Farage, don’t […]
Question Time: Farage slammed on immigration scaremongering
It’s happened before. Another UKIP panellist on Question Time … and UKIP’s scaremongering immigration rhetoric is slammed. This time the audience member is joined by Tory minister Anna Soubry.
You can get married … just not to a man: Paisley Jr goads Tatchell
Having previously called gay people “repulsive”, Ian Paisley Jr’s homophobic pedigree is not in doubt. Last night’s Question Time featured the unedifying spectacle of him goading Peter Tatchell: “You’re entitled to get married tomorrow, Peter. You’re just not entitled to get married to a man.” The studio audience seemed less than impressed.
Peter Oborne tries for applause by praising Thatcher (in Liverpool)
Having this week prompted an EU Commission spokesman to storm of Newsnight by repeatedly calling him an “idiot in Brussels”, charming Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne has once more covered himself in glory by attempting to convince an audience of Scousers that Margaret Thatcher showed “compassion” as Prime Minister: “I think she was a great woman but whatever she was […]
Watch Boris Johnson’s false smears of UK Uncut in full
It’s over eleven months until he faces voters in London but Boris Johnson and his campaign team have already smeared several individuals and organisations who oppose his Conservative agenda. His remarks about UK Uncut, ranging from hyperbole to outright lies, came to the fore yesterday after he struggled to justify them in a City Hall […]
The TV battle of the decade!
UPDATE: Or perhaps not! Sadly, our source in the audience reports our pair “did not come to blows”. Dorries lives to lie another day. UPDATE II: The programme did provide entertainment in the rodent-shaped form of Danny Alexander. Check out the video! The Scrapbook team are banking on Ken Livingstone administering a richly-deserved televisual trouncing to compulsive […]
Carol Vorderman metamorphosises into Sarah Palin on BBC Question Time
Numerous tweeters had noted the similarity between the shrill, shallow, populist Carol Vorderman and the shrill, shallow, populist Sarah Palin before a member of the audience did so with some style, adding that that Boris Johnson wasn’t the only Tory on the panel. Dimbleby had it about right: “This programme is an hour … it felt like […]
As thick as thieves
Sarah Teather seems to be compensating for her persistent and all-too-convenient absence from Parliament this year with an appearance on tonight’s Question Time. Given this week’s revelations on her office expenses, one assumes her exhortations that “thieves should not be attacked” bear an element of self-interest! From the look of Tory Bear’s teaser post, tomorrow’s Guy News […]
Mark Thompson: BNP on Question Time could be annual fixture
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