Question Time 1st April 2010

Question Time this week comes from Stevenage, which is twinned with Shymkent in Kazakhstan, and location of The Pied Piper which is the only pub in the world to be opened by Her Majesty the Queen. Stevenage is represented for Labour by Daphne Barbara Follett, who is standing down at this election after overclaiming the highest amount of expenses of any MP in the country.

On the panel is ex-postman and soon to be ex-Home Secretary Alan Johnson, shadow Business Secretary Ken Clarke, broadcaster Richard Littlejohn and poker-playing Grauniad columnist Victoria Coren.

For those who wish to take part in the Biased-BBC Buzzword Bingo, we will be playing by the "April Fool Rules" meaning that anyone with enthusiastic references to "Capitalism", "Thatcher" and "Ashcroft" on a diagonal line will be disqualified for watching a spoof show.

Once again TheEye and David Mosque will be scanning the small text for dodgy Labour statistics, and we look forward to the pleasure of your company at 10:30pm UK time.

Open Thread

Taking us gently towards the Easter weekend....

Dogma

The economics editor of BBC TV's flagship news programme:



And if he ever gets a budgie he can call it Venceremos.

REWARDING GUILE?

I note that The Time has exposed more BBC duplicity...

A BBC executive who is paid almost £200,000 a year to award bonuses to senior managers tried to manipulate salary information to hide the number of staff earning more than £100,000.  

Robert Johnston, who is “reward director”, asked staff responsible for releasing the data to the public to “deliberately disguise” the number of managers on six-figure salaries, according to e-mails seen by The Times.

Have they no shame? And yet, day in day out, they talk about the "fat cat" bankers????