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Moley

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I’ve been invited to be in the audience of Question Time this week. The only panel member confirmed so far is the Labour MP Annalise Dodds, but they usually have a couple of opposing MPs and one or two other people.

They’ve asked for two questions I’d like to ask - one current and political and one more general.

So I thought I would throw it open to the OCUK crowd!

What would you like to ask, if you were given the chance?

Need to know by this afternoon as that’s when we have to mail over our tickets questions for selection.
 
Murphy said:
Given governments around the world have spent the good part of 50 years fighting the criminal gangs involved in the drugs trade what make the government think they're going to do any better when it comes to the criminal gangs involved in so called illegal immigration.
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I like this. Might have to do with this one.
 
unwashed potato! said:
Honestly surprised that this was your outcome. You had bojo and still kept your membership, Liz truss, and then when a semi adult finally takes over again, you tore it up.
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I tore it up because us party members were disenfranchised by Sunak being 'installed' rather than another vote taking place. For clarity, I voted for Bojo. For the more recent hustings the grass roots membership (myself included) wanted Penny Mordaunt but the Truss and Sunak camps manipulated the selection process to push her out. The expectation internally was that this would lead to Sunak being voted in but a membership protest vote (which I didn't take part it) gave Truss the numbers to win. Neither Truss nor Sunak were the right candidate in my mind, but taking away our basic right to select the leader was a bridge too far for me. Ironically the Labour party leadership process is far more democratic, with the membership voting from day one. I now count myself as an independent voter, I'll decide who gets my vote going forward based on manifesto's.
 
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Kyle009 said:
But you won't be voting Tory right?!

Out of interest, was it just the "installation" of Sunak that was an issue? Not the myriad of other issues that have wreaked havoc with the country over the last 13 years?

Do you believe Boris got "the big calls" right? Was Truss justified in her unfunded tax cuts? Has austerity been a success?

Genuinely interested to know. I'm not a Labour party member by the way, just never been able to understand someone who has only voted one way in their entire life.
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Bojo was voted in to handle Brexit.
Truss was an abomination - a wannabe Thatcher with none of the ability.
Johnson got things wrong and some things right, but he was hugely popular when voted in - you don't get that kind of majority from just Tory voters - but was not the right person to handle Covid. I'm honestly not sure who the right person is when it comes to handling a one-in-a-lifetime global disaster.
 
Kyle009 said:
Do you think he handled Brexit well? I mean we've lost 4% of GDP (according the the OBR) and numerous other issues (such as the N. Ireland border protocols which Boris falsely claimed to have sorted).

I hope you'd agree that the right person to be in charge of a once-in-a-lifetime global disaster definitely wasn't a proven liar and someone who was errant in their leadership responsibilities as Boris was.
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On point one - as well as he possibly could bearing in mind he didn't really do it himself and passed it off to Lord Frost to actually get it over the line. EDIT: and the whole process was hampered by 1) Terry May's tenure and her letting Brussels set out the agenda for the process 2) The ERG sticking their oar in.

On point two - no argument from me there.
 
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