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This week's edition of Question Time was much more enjoyable than last week's programme, with Ken Clarke on fine form and the much-abused Richard Littlejohn shining too. The lovely Victoria Coren (whose quiz Only Connect is one of the few BBC programmes I watch for fun) was amajor disappointment, revealing herself to be a typical BBC left-winger and talking a lot of absolute drivel about pretty much everything. Alan Johnson was a grumpier version of his usual self and wouldn't have won many votes on the strength of that performance (and to think he was being strongly touted as Labour's saviour a couple of years ago). Lib Dem Sarah Teather spent a lot of her time and energy doing what the Lib Dems usually do these days - strongly attacking the Tories and saying the odd nice thing about Labour. (The Lib-Lab pact has been up and running for months now.
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After that long preamble, here's this week's Dimbledata:
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Who got most time to speak?
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1. Ken Clarke (Con) - 13 minutes 35 seconds
2. Alan Johnson (Lab) - 12 minutes 52 seconds
3. Richard Littlejohn - 7 minutes 31 seconds
4. Victoria Coren - 6 minutes 12 seconds
5. Sarah Teather (LD) - 4 minutes 55 seconds (I know! That surprised me too - given how often she interrupted, but she was interrupted in turn.)
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Who received the most interruptions from David Dimbleby?
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1. Ken Clarke - 16
2. Alan Johnson - 8
3. Richard Littlejohn - 6
4. Sarah Teather - 5
5. Victoria Coren - 1
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Who scored the highest interruption coefficient?
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1. Ken Clarke - 1.2
2. Sarah Teather - 1.1
3. Richard Littlejohn - 0.8
4. Alan Johnson - 0.6
5. Victoria Coren - 0.2
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Who was asked the most supplementary questions by David Dimbleby?
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1. Ken Clarke - 17
2. Alan Johnson - 9
3. Richard Littlejohn - 7
4. Sarah Teather - 5
5. Victoria Coren - 1
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The general trend for the Labour politician to receive an easier ride than the Conservative on Question Time continues. After a somewhat rough start for Mr Johnson, things eased off considerably for him after the first question - which was when David Dimbleby's usual Tory-hunting began in earnest and continued, on and off, throughout.
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Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteI admire your courage in being able to watch an entire episode of QT. I've not been able to for many, many months, although this week I was keen to watch the lovely Victoria, but once she opened her mouth and had barely finished the first sentence, the off button was hammered incessantly until the foul stench of Marxist ideology had been forever silenced and my hypertension had eased.
Thank for that.
ReplyDeleteYes, I avoided it for about 10 years before beginning to monitor it again for this blog late last year.
I couldn't bring myself to watch it live. I need to have a ready-and-available pause button, so I can take a breather every so often!
And I have to have the Biased BBC blogsite commentary in the corner which I scroll down as I watch it. That's the only way to make it even half bearable.