Question Time

[Mr Kobayashi]

What we do have and this is an oxymoron, the centrists are the extremists. We know what the far left and far right stand for, those who proclaim to stand on the centre ground will stop at nothing to get into power, they stand for nothing apart from the continuation of the status quo and the continuation of the ruinous Neo Liberal economics that has produced so much inequality in our nation. The far right and far left have answers to this issue, whether you agree with them or not.

I'm not sure communism is the answer in the 21st century?

What about soft lefties, comrade?

 

[Rascal]

I'm not sure communism is the answer in the 21st century?

What about soft lefties, comrade?

The way the Overton window has shifted Socialism is now hard left. When you have the likes of Mick Lynch an avowed Socialist asked live on TV if he is a Marxist the world has gone fucking mad. Farage, Mogg et al are never asked if they are Fascists because their stances have become normalised.

The soft left are now on similar ground to the old one Nation Tories. They are not interested in the transformational effects of Socialism, they are capitalists to the core.

 

[BayernMan]

The way the Overton window has shifted Socialism is now hard left. When you have the likes of Mick Lynch an avowed Socialist asked live on TV if he is a Marxist the world has gone fucking mad. Farage, Mogg et al are never asked if they are Fascists because their stances have become normalised.

The soft left are now on similar ground to the old one Nation Tories. They are not interested in the transformational effects of Socialism, they are capitalists to the core.

You can thank the right wing media machine in the West for that. They have gaslighted all of us.

 

[Zinchilla]

She's the assistant editor of Spiked magazine, which is funded by the alt-right faux-libertarian Koch Institute.

Positions include -

Anti-BBC
Climate change isn't real
Pro-Brexit
Anti-Lockdown, verging on anti-vax
Anti-NHS
Anti-Feminism
Anti-diversity

Spiked. Urgh. All of the above and more. So many connections to lobbying groups like the International Policy Network, Sense About Science, all funded, if you look far enough, through US tobacco, chemical and oil companies and all connected to the Tufton Street Massive. Those good old Living Marxists, Spiked and IPN all did a lot of work in the late 90s on behalf of those companies to promote the ‘science of risk’…

But coming back to the BBC and Question Time, don’t forget they’re a media channel and their reason for being is entertainment, and if that means adding gobby nutters to a programme then so be it. Unfortunately the side effect is that some viewers will believe the gobby nutters. The best explanation is in this old new statesmen article:

The rebels who changed their tune to be pundits

They were once proud Marxists. Today, they are media-friendly Tory extremists. Meet the Revolutionar

www.newstatesman.com

 

[Rascal]

Spiked. Urgh. All of the above and more. So many connections to lobbying groups like the International Policy Network, Sense About Science, all funded, if you look far enough, through US tobacco, chemical and oil companies and all connected to the Tufton Street Massive. Those good old Living Marxists, Spiked and IPN all did a lot of work in the late 90s on behalf of those companies to promote the ‘science of risk’…

But coming back to the BBC and Question Time, don’t forget they’re a media channel and their reason for being is entertainment, and if that means adding gobby nutters to a programme then so be it. Unfortunately the side effect is that some viewers will believe the gobby nutters. The best explanation is in this old new statesmen article:

The rebels who changed their tune to be pundits

They were once proud Marxists. Today, they are media-friendly Tory extremists. Meet the Revolutionar

www.newstatesman.com

Any article by that liberal fucking idiot Cohen I usually take with a pinch of salt, but that was really interesting.

Ta for sharing.

 

[blue for life]

Ian Hislop on tonight so might be worth watching

 

[Don Karleone]

I'll pass

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

I'll pass

May have a butchers but not sure that Shriver should be on there unless it’s all about about the ultra-conservative piece.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Jenrick is a wanker spouting lies - nice to see Fiona Bruce is moderating well. Still it will all contribute to their massive demise at the GE so all power to his elbow.

 

[somapop]

I've tried to watch it tonight with Hislop on but ffs Jenrick is like fucking fever dream and they won't shut the lying mofo up.

It's a painful show.