Just about to watch QT....

And I know already I want to put my boot through the screen and it aint come on yet...

 

Danny Alexander. Another one who should be sent for crushing.

 

I would have thought most people on here would love it what with the biased left-wing audience every week.

 

I'd never heard of Dominic Raab but as soon as the camera panned onto him I could tell he was a smug, self serving T*** ****.

 

Did the TV survive.

 

I can't watch it. Whenever I do, it tends to anger me.

 

lol

 

They actually choose the audience by party allegiance. It's something like 30% Labour, 30% Tory, 20% Lib Dem, 10% others and 10% undecided. My maths isn't that strong but I make that at least 80% supporting a right-wing liberal capitalist party, with the addition of perhaps a couple of social democrats who still cling grimly - against all evidence - to the idea that Ed really is Red...

 

Have you just made this up?

 

if these figures are correct,then a lot of the audience remain silent.Most comments and questions from the audience are definitely left wing bias.I f anybody in the audience dares to comment on say immigration and their opinion is of the 'right' they are usually heckled and cant get their point across.

 

They're not IMO. Anyone can apply to get tickets for the show and as far as I am aware you don't need to declare your political allegiance and take a lie detector test 'just be sure' before they let you sit down. I would say the geographical location would be far more indicative of the political views of the audience. There are some places where you would struggle to fill the seats if you had to adhere to a quota.

 

They do ask you to declare your political allegiance.

Looks like I misremembered slightly though - they do select by political allegiance, but in an attempt to represent the views of the area in which it's filmed (with the aim of ensuring a balance of the nation over a whole series). Reference (apologies for DM).. And although they don't ask you to take a lie detector test (intriguing a concept as that would be), some research is done to establish whether people are telling the truth.

 

Even when it's held in Home Counties Tory strongholds the audience is left-wing though, even when they went to Boston in Lincolnshire which has been affected by immigration more than any other English town, where they have actually held anti-immigration protests, the audience were left-wing and pro-immigration.

The programme is biased and not worth watching IMO

 

I'd fully agree that it is biased an not worth watching - but I'd argue it was right wing bias.
I suppose they must be getting it right if everyone believes it to be biased on the opposite way to there own feelings if that makes much sense.

 

Finally - something on which we can agree.

 

I tend to agee, I also find that the audience is biased to the left.

 

That’s very interesting but I'm still a little sceptical that they achieve their objective - the reaction of the audience to many topics suggests either the process isn't Woking or they are getting people who are a little confused politically.

 

One theory is that left wing people are more likely to speak up because they have a "spray-on niceness" whereas right wing people keep quiet as they don't want to be seen to be unkind.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100201053/bbc-question-time-bias-a-mystery-solved/

 

Just. Danny Alexander is enough for me to destroy my house though never mind the tv

 

I'm with you on this.