Last night we watched Question Time for the first time in years. Jarvis Cocker was this week's non-politician and he's usually entertaining.
Jarvis didn't really have much to say and only seemed to be on there for the Michael Jackson question at the end.
But demonstrating just how far to the right the Labour Party has gone over the years, I found myself in agreement with Iain Duncan Smith on identity cards and with Peter Hitchens re. the railways.
i.e.
Identity cards are a waste of money
The railways should be re-nationalised
It was also a bit rich of Jarvis to slag off Michael Jackson for being crap for the past twenty odd years when Jarvis himself hasn't exactly set the world alight with his solo "career".
Though still staunchly anti-Tory for most of their views I found myself getting more angry at the audience than the panel. They seemed to clap at everything like performing seals. You even get members of the audience with seemingly very strong views asking leading questions then applauding the panelists who give completely the opposite opinions. What kind of mind-altering drugs are these people on? If the Question Time audience is supposedly a cross section of the public, do we have a public of moronic floating voters agreeing with everybody then closing their eyes to place their cross on the ballot paper?
Probably.
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Moronic Floating Voters.... oh dear I believe you're right!
ReplyDeleteThe horrible truth is that very few politicians feel the public are ready to accept unpallatable truths so we get spoon-fed focus-group pap.
I noticed the clapping thing... Jarvis uttered something banal about teaching... and they all went into seal mode...
ReplyDeleteFunnily enough I hadn't watched QT for a while either.
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And yes it was a peculiar feeling to be agreeing with Duncan-Smith... I had a drink afterwards.
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Quite, the public are cr*p and unfortunately probably get the politicians they deserve for being so spineless/drug-fugged.
ReplyDeleteI quite understand where this comes into the moving to Christchurch part of the story?
ReplyDeleteno no no, I DON'T understand, regardless of what I put, I really don't understand
ReplyDeleteRog - Agreed. But not so sure about Focus group pap. I love Hocus Pocus and Sylvia.
ReplyDeleteScarlet - And there didn't seem to be any Jarvis fans in the audience! I agreed with Duncan Smith about Ronnie Biggs, too. But I could see him fuming when re-nationalisation of the railways came up.
Laura - You'd expect an audience interested in politics to be passionate. They weren't in the slightest.
Ziggi - It's to be continued. This is a little light relief.
ReplyDeleteI agree with everybody. Well done!
ReplyDeleteRound of applause.
ReplyDeleteThe government (whoever they may be) always look shit on QT as they always have to end up defending crapness. They don't help themselves by sending in idiots to state their case.
ReplyDeleteIt was Harriet Harman this week. She failed.
ReplyDeleteSomebody needs to fix the current system which allows any idiot to participate in the affairs of Government.
ReplyDeleteThis is why DUMBocracy is so bloody dangerous and iffy...we (You or I) should/need be able to choose who amongst the Great Unwashed can and cannot vote.
Then and only then will it work the way that You or I want it to.
Even the armchair anarchists are apathetic.
ReplyDeleteIn these situations, I tend to ask myself "what would Tony Soprano do?" and a knowing smile quickly warms my face.
Donn - I'll do Canada and you can do the UK. They'll just love our accents.
ReplyDeleteIstvanski - If Question Time were more like the Sopranos there'd be a whole lot of eating going on.