BBC Question Time defined by 'epic' battles

However much I like the BBC Question time program, for me it brings into sharp focus the role of Question Time, the BBC and the media in general when dealing with the important issues of the day. We should not be focusing on the personalties on this panel but what they have to say and more importantly do.

I care not for either Campbell or Galloway. For me they are a pair of nobodies who became somebody for dubious reasons. Campbell, as a so called spin doctor, if asked the time could not give you a straight answer in case it compromised government policy! As for Galloway, he has been going around exercising his right to free speech and then some without really stopping to think a little more about the effect. Neither of these people are good examples of politicians that I would look up to. Neither of these two politicians could answer why some 30-40 years down the line, poor people still cannot get a good paying job, cannot get good healthcare and housing.

Granted, Question Time is a television show which relies in part on ratings but part of the reason why it has lasted so long is that it has allowed ordinary people to really get up close and personal with these politicians that claim to be working on our behalf but in all reality, they are just as self serving and reprehensible as the next liar or cheater that appears on the show. The clips of so called famous and epic battles clearly highlights why the UK is in a bad way e.g. Jeffrey Archer - a criminal. Michael Heseltine - a rich man who is alright jack. John Prescott aka Two Jags Prescott, a poor boy who got lucky and then turned out to be just as bad as Heseltine!

Question Time needs to re-focus and allow ordinary people to ask the very hard and difficult questions that need to be asked and answered and not worry about WHO is on the show but what it is they have to say. I would be happy to have a panel which was a mix of politicians AND ordinary people who could speak to their own experiences on a range of topics. That is how I would like to see this show go forward - invite applications from ordinary people to appear on the panel and sit directly opposite some of these politicians and go head to head with them.

Now that would make good TV!

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