Kag
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Tonight's episode was a brilliant car crash.
The historian. What a waffling codger.
The historian. What a waffling codger.
Just generally. The reaction to his leadership was much more positive on today's QT than previously, although of course that could just be the selection of the audience.
I think he is underestimated though. He started the leadership election as an 100/1 outsider. He stood no chance of winning that contest in May. Four months later he won the largest mandate of any Labour leader. He has four years work on the next contest he stands no chance of winning.
I think he'll just go from blunder to blunder, the clowns he's brought in are as bad, or worse than him. You're very optimistic to think he has four years to do his mission, he's gone by 2017 at the latest.
During the rather lengthy debate on immigration i switched over to Newsnight, they were doing a feature about the upcoming Holyrood elections and the mood music is not good for Labour presently. According to their reporter, some in Scottish wing of the party fear that the Tories will end up with more MSPs next year.
Labour and Tories polling about equal in the most recent Scottish polls I believe. SNP still 25-30 points ahead. Have to say that I thought Corbyn would at least have SOME impact up there, but maybe it's too soon. The ultimate worry is that Labour don't make any comeback in Scotland and Corbyn permanently damages their chances in England. Worst of both worlds.During the rather lengthy debate on immigration i switched over to Newsnight, they were doing a feature about the upcoming Holyrood elections and the mood music is not good for Labour presently. According to their reporter, some in Scottish wing of the party fear that the Tories will end up with more MSPs next year.
I went to a grammar school. They do nothing to help social mobility, they just separate middle/upper class kids from the rest.
Nah, only takes one recession to turn the tables.Labour and Tories polling about equal in the most recent Scottish polls I believe. SNP still 25-30 points ahead. Have to say that I thought Corbyn would at least have SOME impact up there, but maybe it's too soon. The ultimate worry is that Labour don't make any comeback in Scotland and Corbyn permanently damages their chances in England. Worst of both worlds.
It concerns me that this seems to be Labour's electoral strategy at the moment. Can't win the arguments, so just hope the economy tanks.Nah, only takes one recession to turn the tables.
It's hard to win an argument where even papers you'd think would support Labour are crying out for a Blair clone.It concerns me that this seems to be Labour's electoral strategy at the moment. Can't win the arguments, so just hope the economy tanks.
I went to a grammar school. They do nothing to help social mobility, they just separate middle/upper class kids from the rest.
Give Corbyn time and the public will come round
I think you've more chance of winning the lottery than Corbyn becoming PM.
Almost time for me to lose my @bbcquestiontime virginity. Eeekkkk! Give us a watch!
She is fit at least. Greer's rambly point earlier suggests she is losing it.More heavy weight panelists this week, Michelle Dewsbury
She is fit at least. Greer's rambly point earlier suggests she is losing it.
I liked it. Showing that with our grubby past, we are on thin ice dictating to others. Maybe a more recent example may have worked better.What do the Opium wars of the 19th Century have to do with...anything in that question?
It is a dull episode tbf. Need a good immigrants row.
I think they'd just bore each other (and us) to death. Get Michelle in there oiled up.Put Johnson and Farage in a cage?
I think they'd just bore each other (and us) to death. Get Michelle in there oiled up.
Dewsberry is good at regurgitating others' arguments.
I think they'd just bore each other (and us) to death. Get Michelle in there oiled up.
She's from a shithole estate in Hull. The lass done good.How did this woman win The Apprentice?
I bet if it was starting on channel five right now you would flick over, if only out of morbid curiosity.Each to their own Jip, but that's not a threesome i'd pay to watch.
The healthy food is expensive argument is a crock. My veggie missus got through uni on a shoe-string buying fresh veg from markets.
Thankfully she works in hedge funds now so we can be more profligate.
I don't like the "it's a tax on poor people" argument, if you reverse it it implies that you're okay with those without a lot of money being economically encouraged to have a terrible diet. And one of the worst things for sugar and obesity isn't even food, it's fizzy drinks. The healthy alternative to that doesn't cost much at all, you get it out of the tap.
Alan Johnson was bang on, as ever.
hthIt's a minefield. Some people will be buying unhealthy stuff because it's cheap, some people will be buying it because they don't have the time or energy to cook something healthier and some people will be buying it because they like it. Regardless of the situation, I don't really see how taxing unhealthy food will make any difference.
True but as they won't be taxing the healthy stuff then that should help right?I'm not sure that making all food unaffordable will help poorer families improve their nutrition.