Tonight’s Question Time comes from Norwich, and is broadcast shortly after polls close in the Norwich North by-election.
For the Lib Dems, Baroness Shirley Williams enters the fray. She is joined by fellow peeress Baroness Warsi, writer and broadcaster Clive James and from the House of Commons, Geoff Hoon MP and George Galloway MP.
If you’re tuning in, you can join the simultanous online Twitter debate here at #bbcqt, or the LDV debate in the thread below. Meanwhile Lib Dem blogger Mark Thompson will be liveblogging events via CoverItLive at his own blog.
Finally, if you want to be amongst the first to hear the Norwich North by-election result, then make sure you follow Nich Starling on Twitter.
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“Finally, if you want to be amongst the first to hear the Norwich North by-election result, then make sure you follow Nich Starling on Twitter.”
The count is on Friday.
Erlend
George Galloway MP “from the House of Commons”? Are you sure you didn’t mean to write “from the Big Brother house”?
Shirley Williams?
Gosh ! She doesn’t get invited on very often does she ……….
George Galloway?
Can they reach that low in the barrel?
Might be worth watching this week; Hoon and Galloway are good comedy value and this week’s sleb is not only a lot brighter than the norm but I’m sure he used to be one of ours and still might be.
Shirley! I love it when she’s on! Shirley Williams is always fresh, clear, and informative! I think QT should make her a permanent panelist (… that is, if they haven’t already!). I hope BBC QT gives her a cut — she deserves a stipend of some kind for making the show so interesting all these years!
You should listen to George Galloway on Talk Sport He puts his money where his mouth is & is very educated & imformative
You are stuck in a time warp
The ‘married couple’ who were ‘sharing costs’… are either Lord Razzall and Baroness Bonham-Carter or Lord Thomas and Baroness Walmsley. They were criticised by the Daily Mail for ‘double bubble’ claims
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1099159/Revealed-Perk-lets-Lords-couples-claim-living-allowance-twice-share-home.html
In that their claims for allowances are completely legitimate and within the rules but effectively double what other peers can claim for the same Night subsistence expense.
So it doesn’t actually matter, as Shirley implies that they’re sharing the costs of their house, peers allowances are not related to real expense or intended like MPs expenses to pay the full cost of running a second home, they’re just a fixed sum to offset the likely cost of staying in London overnight.
“George Galloway?
Can they reach that low in the barrel?”
With no apparent irony BBC2 is screening “The Death of Respect” at the same time 🙂
A few weeks ago, QT was switched to 9.30 and the crowd were in uproar over expenses. Quite the best QT in a long time. Since then it’s been sent back to 10.40, the panel has the usual ‘padding’ (a clearly drugged-up Jarvis Cocker and last night a rambling Clive James), and a special ‘kids’ edition..
I especially enjoy the Ceefax 155 split screen with viewers texting in comments which illustrate how totally out of touch MPs are with the general populace.
Last night (last in series) and unexplained ‘glitch’ occured where, for lengthy periods, these comments could not be displayed. Hmm.
Actually, I thought Clive James was rather good. OK, I can see why people who can only take the “instant soundbite” might find him rambling and tedious, but if you actually listened to what he had to say it
was serious and quite liberal in tone (I seem to recall him indicating some support for the old LIberal Party many years ago) His comments about the “dangerous populism” of the press were very apposite and chimed in well with what Shirley was saying about the danger of damning all politicians equally.
Shirley Williams said on `social mobility’ that the most important chance comes early in life, in primary school, when the private primary school pupil, and is one of 14 pupils compared in the State sector where there is a doubling up of those class size numbers.
There is at this early stage of education a great divide in opportunity for an individual child.