I watched QT last night, I don't see the bias..and only the labour mp got asked any difficult questions...and rightly so, as corbyn politics is current topic. When Cameron lets us plebs know the deal he has negotiated with Europe, I'm sure the tories will have as much press.
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But it's the BBC, so it must be biased/have the wrong focus/be factually incorrect so I can moan about the TV Licence
I can guarantee a lot of left wingers will see QT as biased towards the right....you see what you want to see.
I don't find it biased on the whole but I find it quite irritating usually. We need Question Time to be more like a TED talk where people go on and use data and actual real life information to make their points.
I don't find it biased on the whole but I find it quite irritating usually. We need Question Time to be more like a TED talk where people go on and use data and actual real life information to make their points.
Other than Fox and DPRK news stations the BBC is about as biased as they come. The HSBC secret accounts for example was news elsewhere long before the BBC... Could it be because the head of the BBC sits on their panel and various others? Nope no bias there 
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Are you actually kidding? Do you honestly see the BBC as pro Corbyn? Well if watching one ep has amde you think that shows what a dream world people have been living on.... Last night was the only time i saw the BBC actually give people the NEWLY ELECTED LABOUR time to speak without being snarlled at!
LOL!
So wait, you're all crying because the BBC invited a weak tory to the panel?
This supprises me as the BBC and all the other media spend most of their times sticking the knife in!
Get over it, theres a change to politics coming... As someone quite rightly pointed out last night... 17million people didn't vote, if Corbyn continues as he has done so far, ironing out all the negative press and previous statements made by his shadow cabinate then who knows whats going to happen!
One things for certain Tory's and their supports are claiming this huge victory as Corbyn is now leader, but i smell fear more than anything else... We've lurched to far right, now the left will try and pull it back over.
Cant wait.
i missed most of it, but can someone tell me roughly when this guy was on?
ta.
Toward the end, absolute tool. Basically said he'd rather see the Migrants drown than get here. Then got lost, back tracked and reiterated what the tory said about taking them for the camps.
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No they are not.
Nearly every week they have the following panel.
1 x Labour
1 x Conservative
1 x Left wing, non politician
1 x Right wing, non politician
1 x Politician from one of the other parties
The last one used to be a Lib Dem politician most of the time. Since the rise of UK and the SNP, along with the fall of the Lib Dems, that last spot has been more diverse.
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That is actually the complete opposite of what he said. He said he would rather see migrants collected by boat and taken back as is happening in Australia. He said that the benefit of this was that nobody was drowning.
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He was nervous and couldn't quite get his point across in the best way.
I think he meant to say. because we have not been tougher by stopping boats before they have arrive (like Australia) this has caused many more people to make the dangerous journey and has resulted in more loss of life.
I think he meant to say. because we have not been tougher by stopping boats before they have arrive (like Australia) this has caused many more people to make the dangerous journey and has resulted in more loss of life.
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question time and any questions both seem to me to be very left leaning.
maybe its just that the left wing members of the audience are more vocal and applaud every ludicrous socialist comment that is ever made.
annoys the **** out of me - and yet still i listen / watch
maybe its just that the left wing members of the audience are more vocal and applaud every ludicrous socialist comment that is ever made.
annoys the **** out of me - and yet still i listen / watch
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caused a bit of a stir on /pol/ last night, was curious as to what he asked.
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cheers, that explains it then
On Libya, I have some sympathy for Cameron, because he was damned if he did, and damned of he didn't.
The intervention that led to the collapse was preventing a massacre in Benghazi by Gaddhafi's forces, whose instructions were to root out the "insurgents" if it meant levelling the place, and shelling had already commenced. Action was taken to stop that. But not to invade, or take over, or change regimes.
So, intervene, dominos fall and he gets the blame.
Don't intervene, a massacre results and he gets blamed for standing by and watching, and not acting to prevent it. After all, we intervened in Kosovo, to prevent ethnic cleansing.
No PM, either Blair or Cameron, can know in advance where those dominos will fall, but they are caught in a dilemma - acting can have adverse consequences, but deciding not to act can, too.
There are no easy right answers.
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Question time is worse than bias because it pretends to be neutral when it is clearly biased. I would prefer if it they stopped pretending that they were not biased.
The host is full on socialist/labour/anti-capitalist and the audience looks like a labour party meeting with the odd crack pot they could find that they bring in to misrepresent non labour ideology.
The host is full on socialist/labour/anti-capitalist and the audience looks like a labour party meeting with the odd crack pot they could find that they bring in to misrepresent non labour ideology.
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question time and any questions both seem to me to be very left leaning.
maybe its just that the left wing members of the audience are more vocal and applaud every ludicrous socialist comment that is ever made.
annoys the **** out of me - and yet still i listen / watch
Oh please!!! Like every other news paper and main stream media isn't as far right as they come! You're just pathetic, hear's the truth .... cries "propagander", grow up like.
Thats the problem with the right to much "left this and left that".... Did you ever think that maybe the reason you think its propaganda is because people are actually speaking the truth? Or have you become so lost in spin you literally cant see blatant truth when it smacks you right in the chops?
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And as for the guy who said about turning them back to stop them from drowing!
Its happening, talking about it and saying "WE SHOULD HAVE" makes no difference.
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[TFU] Thegoon84;28580397 said:Oh please!!! Like every other news paper and main stream media isn't as far right as they come! You're just pathetic, hear's the truth .... cries "propagander", grow up like.
Thats the problem with the right to much "left this and left that".... Did you ever think that maybe the reason you think its propaganda is because people are actually speaking the truth? Or have you become so lost in spin you literally cant see blatant truth when it smacks you right in the chops?
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And as for the guy who said about turning them back to stop them from drowing!
Its happening, talking about it and saying "WE SHOULD HAVE" makes no difference.
There is no right wing media, except the alternative media. All the media is left wing. Daily mail, guardian, express, telegraph, the times. All advocate egalitarianism and socialism. Sure all of them don't necessarily support labour as much as the BBC does but they are not right wing either. They are liberal and centralist they are not against socialism they are just not as anti-capitalist as the BBC and labour is.
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Tim Stanley, "Labour party gave us the minimum rage"... 12 minutes in. lol 
I'm laughing to myself here, you're obviously a lot more right wing than most of the british public.
DM, Telegraph etc are not left wing, the Sun is whatever Mr Murdoch tells it to be (usually whoever he thinks best serves his interests).
About the only way the DM is left wing is that it seems to support the idea of the NHS.
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Exactly this! Well said!
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Technically I don't classify myself as right wing because the mainstream view of what constitutes right wing is not what I consider as right wing and thus I don't fit the mainstream view of what constitutes right wing.
In terms of the mainstream view of what constitutes as right or my own interpretation the media still does not qualify as either understanding of what right wing is. The most right leaning is probably the telegraph because they are most critical of the state and they are usually pro capitalism. The rest are left.