Question Time/ Momentum Time

[Khandro]

Last night, I watched (on YouTube) the previous evening's Q.T. with disbelief, 'A bizarrely shouty crackers episode – even by its current standards – during which the audience was allowed to heckle and jeer questions on Grenfell and the situation on the Gaza border. One audience member trying to put forward a valid point, quipped to the mob: “this is not a Momentum meeting”… but it certainly seemed to be !!
One of the panel members - not another Chakraborty !! claimed that the recent shootings of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers was the fault of Britain for selling them rifles!!
Did anyone watch this?

[vetuste_ennemi]

I wonder where the poster who spoke about "Israel’s genocide of its Arab population" gets his patently absurd theory from.

Clearly no obviously rational processes are involved.

[naomi24]

I've given up watching Question Time.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit: "It was democratically elected in free and fair elections. " - forgive me, Godwins law, but -- So was Hitler.

[Khandro]

TTT; That was my immediate thought when I read it, but I didn't dare say it. :0)

[ichkeria]

I went off QT a lot when it went to 5 panelists, which I think makes things rather crowded.
Actually a bit of ‘banter’ from the audience is good. Livens it up. If you go to Any Questions they actually encourage audience reaction! The latter I prefer anyway as you just get the words and don’t have any visual distraction.

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I've given up watching Question Time//

Me too - decades ago. Occasionally they let a maverick so that the audience can throw rotten vegetables at him, but usually the members of the "debating" panel have as many different opinions among themselves as the Graeae had teeth.

[naomi24]

^For that very reason.

[ludwig]

//I went off QT a lot when it went to 5 panelists, which I think makes things rather crowded. //

It also means Dimbleby has to spend more time interrupting and telling people to answer the question, or asking them a different one, which means he spends more time talking than any of the five actual panellists.

[ludwig]

More of the same last night. I used to look forward to watching QT but I got bored during the first question and ambled off to bed.