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Here is this week's Dimbledata for Thursday's shockingly bad Question Time:
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25th February 2010
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Who got most time to speak?
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1. Peter Hain (Lab) - 8 minutes 38 seconds
2. Liam Fox (Con) - 8 minutes 27 seconds
3. Janet Street Porter - 8 minutes 25 seconds
4. Nigel Farage (UKIP) - 7 minutes 1 second
5. Elfyn Llwyd (PC) - 6 minutes 19 seconds
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Who received the most interruptions from David Dimbleby?
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1. Nigel Farage (UKIP) - 6
2. Liam Fox (Con) - 5
3. Peter Hain (Lab) - 3
4. Janet Street Porter - 2
5. Elfyn Llwyd (PC) - 0
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Who scored the highest interruption coefficient?
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1. Nigel Farage (UKIP) - 0.9
2. Liam Fox (Con) - 0.6
3. Peter Hain (Lab) - 0.4
4. Janet Street Porter - 0.2
5. Elfyn Llwyd (PC) - 0
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Who was asked the most supplementary questions by David Dimbleby?
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1. Peter Hain (Lab) - 7
2. Nigel Farage (Con) - 6
3. Liam Fox (Con) - 6
4. Janet Street Porter - 3
5. Elfyn Llwyd (PC) - 1
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The audience - and I think I'm being very fair here - were nothing more than a braying mob of imbeciles and/or Labour supporters. I'd love to know just who was in this audience. How many were Labour Party activists? (It really sounded like most of them!! And given the show's past record that's not completely beyond the realms of possibity!)
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Mr Fox went unclapped until the final question. Tumbleweed blew around almost all his contributions, except for that moment when some madman in the audience screamed at him. That one decent clap (over some stupid question about John Terry and Wayne Bridge) was clearly not something Dimblebias was going to allow him to enjoy - even at this very late stage in the show -, as he asked him a supplementary question designed to prick his bubble.
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Liam Fox, however, faced nothing like what faced Nigel Farage.
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The mob were after his blood. They booed and jeered and shouted and groaned, and there were HUGE cheers for all his critics (except Liam Fox). Dimblebias allowed audience member after audience member to slag the man off, often abusively, repeatedly stopping him from responding and telling him to "take it on the chin". He did the same on several occasions when Mr Farage tried to respond to attacks from the panel.There were plenty of hostile questions from Dimblebias too, delivered with all his usual self-satisfied malice. The third question from the audience itself was "Are Nigel Farage's rude and attention-seeking remarks about the president of the European council not conclusive proof that UKIP and he have become nothing more than a boorish national embarrassment?" Nigel stood unshaken and unbowed throughout. What a man!
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I couldn't bear to watch this programme live. I need a pause button and the Biased BBC blog commentary in the bottom right hand corner of my screen to make it even half bearable!
http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/02/thrown-to-lions.html
Of course I was already in bed after my mug of hot chocolate. ( no insult to my wife intended, not pictured ).
ReplyDeleteBut I did watch some of the replay.
The attempted mugging of Nigel failed, in my view.
It was so funny when the Leftists tried to smear him as racist and Nigel asked which race, Walloons or Flemmings ?
Not only the audience, but also the panel did not have a clue what he was talking about.
Their ignorance of European history was amazing.
Craig, love your phrase about Dimblebore "self-satisfied malice ".
You should copyright that !
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ReplyDeleteOf course, the point being that leftists cannot abide difference but want conformity.
They should try telling that to the Wolofs, Mandinkas, Jolas, Fulas and especially the Serahulis !!! And other proud tribes in West Africa.
Africa on my mind.
But the leftists will support any race or tribe so long as it is not British.
Somewhere in the BBC archives is a black and white TV film of Richard Dimbleby motoring to the south of France in the 50's with his family. His two, early teenage sons, Jonathan and David are featured. They both spoke with that squeaky upper-class accent that was fashionable at the time and both came across as unctuous little prigs.
ReplyDeleteWhenever I saw the Dimblebys on the TV I was always reminded of that ghastly and pompous TV clip.
Have to say that I gave up on QT after their shameful broadcast on 13/09/2001.
Andy C