Douglas Ross had a rough time on Question Time, getting slated by the panel and audience for trying to defend Liz Truss' government.
I have stated on this blog many times before that I think that the Conservative Party needs to go the way of the Whigs: into extinction! What they have done to this country, especially with and since Brexit is totally and utterly unforgiveable. We should never have been brought out of the European Union. Nobody in his right mind would walk away from the biggest single market in the world: The Single Market. One has to have sawdust for brains to believe that such an act of self-harm could lead to economic success.
As a result of Brexit, this country’s economy is forecast to shrink year on year for the next ten years. So what is this poppycock Liz Truss is talking about wanting “growth, growth, growth”? If she truly had wanted growth, she would never have changed her politics from being a Remainer to being a Brexiteer. Clearly, she did that for one reason only: for self-advancement.
She spouts extreme-right dogma about economic growth, the neoliberal idea that by making the already mega-rich richer still, economic growth will be stimulated. And then, by some miracle, some wonder, it will trickle down to the ‘little people’. That is balderdash: economic make-believe! Voodoo economics if you will.
So here we have it: an ex-bean-counter, an accountant, as a prime minister and a practitioner of voodoo economics as her chancellor. The results are plain to see; and will go down in the history books under the title, Tory Folly.
This week's Question Time, filmed in Dartford. Hot topics include the disastrous Chequers Brexit plan and Trump's visit to the UK. Last Question Time until September. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland.
This week's Question Time, filmed in King's Lynn, with the main focus of debate being dominated by Brexit, and the concept of party before country. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland.
This week's Question Time, filmed in Exeter, where panellists focus on key issues such as Heathrow expansion and Brexit. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland.
This week's Question Time, filmed in Caernarfon, with topics such as the final Brexit deal dominating conversation. All rights go to the BBC and Mentorn Scotland
This week's Question Time, filmed in Leeds. Topics include the row over Facebook data being harvested by Cambridge Analytica, and the generational divide over Brexit. Panellists: James Cleverly MP (Conservative Party), Shami Chakrabarti (Labour Party), Stewart McDonald MP (SNP), Peter Hitchens, Paris Lees
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Hereford. On the panel, the Conservative culture minister, Margot James MP, the mayor of Greater Manchester and former Labour MP, Andy Burnham, chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Howard Davies, arts advisor and former deputy mayor of London for culture, Munira Mirza, and the Oscar-winning screenwriter, Dustin Lance Black.
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Barnsley in South Yorkshire. On the panel are Conservative MP and former secretary of state for education Nicky Morgan, Labour's shadow business secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, scientist and broadcaster Professor Robert Winston, comedian Geoff Norcott and political journalist and commentator Isabel Oakeshott.
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Swansea. The panel includes Conservative MP and member of the Vote Leave campaign Bernard Jenkin, the shadow secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Labour's Owen Smith MP, the leader of Plaid Cymru at Westminster, Liz Saville-Roberts MP, TV and radio presenter Richard Bacon and Kate Andrews of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Scarborough, with a panel including Conservative MP and prisons minister Sam Gyimah, Labour's Chuka Umunna, Ukip's new leader Henry Bolton, deputy editor of The Sunday Times, Sarah Baxter and the economist and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis.
Question Time BBC 22.06.2017. David Dimbleby chairs topical debate from Plymouth. On the panel are Conservative justice secretary David Lidington, Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth, the SNP's new Westminster leader Ian Blackford, businesswoman Gina Miller, and Daily Mail columnist Peter Oborne.
A Question Time audience member has claimed he was handed an anti-Western leaflet at Didsbury Mosque in Manchester.
The mosque was previously attended by the father of Salman Ramadan Abedi, the man who carried out Monday's bomb attack.
However, an attendee of the mosque who was also in the audience said the mosque had a "multi-cultural community" and said the leaflet was "not official". The mosque condemned the attack on Wednesday, saying "cowardice has no place in our society".
