Question Time will actually be worth watching tonight as our Layla Moran makes her debut on the show.
She will be on the panel in Penzance with Conservative MP Nadim Zahawi, Labour’s Rebecca Long Bailey, Professor Benjamin Zephaniah and Tim Martin, the founder of Wetherspoons, a chain few self-respecting remainers will be seen in these days.
We know Layla is brilliant at these things because she has always rocked on Any Questions with openness, honesty and strong arguments.
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It should be a good show. It all starts on BBC1 at 10:45 pm.
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Layla handled the first two questions well, a far more reasoned approach than Martin and the Labour spokesperson. However I then gave up, twenty minutes of Dimbleby, the worst chairman on TV, is about as much as I can take.
After Laylas barnstorming 1st question Zahawi looked surprised. Then ,as far as I was concerned was allowed for far too long to hog the limelite. Dimbleby patheticWetherspoons comment on WTO rules. They know we will need them, why will they be any easier to deal with than the EU.
Fishing The large ships are foriegn owned and drop their fish off abroad it does not help us. Small ships will find it hard to survive. What with Macron baying for blood will our fishing industry survive. The Tories have a past on selling them down the river .
I increasingly don’t bother watching Question Time -or just dip in and out. Last night however Layla made it worth watching all the way through.
A real breath of fresh air, she is articulate, confident, knowledgeable and punchy in her delivery.
Pity she got off on the wrong foot by getting her ‘leave’ mixed up with her ‘remain’. She comes over in a rather ‘jolly hockeysticks’ and yet feisty way. I thought her best contribution was at the end when she talked about her experience as a teacher. The other panellists were rather disappointing. As usual, Ms Long Bailey was being “perfectly clear” about everything, Mr Zarfarwi towed the party, or should that be May line ? There was nothing but the ‘deal’ on offer, while Mr ‘Wetherspoon’ Martin might be able to run a pub; but would you want the likes of him to run the country? Benjamin Z was amiable enough and honest about fisheries, from his point of view. To be honest, some of the best comments came from the audience.
I tend to support the view of ‘Question Time’ as voiced by Paul Holmes. Will a change of ‘chairman’ make much difference? Perhaps. Or is it, like many current affairs programmes in the past, getting past its sell by date in terms of its current format?
I watched because Layla was there and she spoke well. It’s a pity the question about mental health in our schools came last. Much of the rest of the programme did not help us much, partly because of the questions but mainly because with the exception of Layla, the panellists struggled to give coherent and concise comments. The worst was the question about what happens if the deal is voted down; all the panellists should have said no one knows and then said what they personally would want to happen.
@ John Marriott “Or is it, like many current affairs programmes in the past, getting past its sell by date in terms of its current format ?”.
I’m afraid you’re right, John. In my yoof – before the Boer War – we used to get a bit of humour (despite other problems) from Jeremy Thorpe, Norman St John Stevas…. and later Charlie K. Now they’re such a boringly predictable lot.
I’d happily watch Giles Brandreth, Chris Bryant or even Jamie Stone …. but now the vast majority of the others couldn’t liven up a mortuary. As for Dimbleby….. pompous and predictable. The sooner he’s gone the better.
However……. having watched the programme on iplayer……. Layla Moran is a breath of fresh air without the taint of Coalition. With good professional background support – she could well be the right person to lead the Lib Dems back to political success.