Question Time - EU Again! edition

  David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Ipswich.{recent gains to 11 seats up from just 1 for UKIP}

On the panel: defence secretary, Philip "reservists" Hammond MP; 

shadow immigration minister, Chris "underpants" Bryant MP; 

former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Charles " I may have had a wee problem but don't you wish I was leader now?"Kennedy MP; 

 Financial Times journalist Gillian "global crisis" Tett; 

and the chair of Arts Council England, Peter "Baguette" Bazalgette.

This tournament is sponsored by 

Timbo 614

  

Week 16

DtP 115 -

Measured 102

BQ(MP) 98

  Timbo614 98

ND 94

 Hopper 91

Budgie 83 
Malcolm Tucker 82
  GSD 82

 Botogol 65

kynon 66

Blue Eyes 64

Idle 48
Taff -45

CU 41

Sackerson - 11
 Andrew -13

James Higham - 7 
anon - 3
 Phil5 - 2

BQ thinks 

1} Is Cameron the new Major?

2} Were the Pakistani trafficers targeting white girls, or are there just less Asian girls in care homes?

3} NHS 111 & A&E crisis - Should GP's be made to open back up on weekends?

4} Afghan withdrawal . Longer tours and "Why are we there?"

5}Oil companies fixing the price at the pump.

DImbletie - A bit orangey.

Question Time - Bored after 50 years of reading out aspiration lists, Queen demands shorter speech edition.

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Coventry. 
On the panel: Business minister, Jo 'gender blender' Swinson MP.
 Former Shadow Home Secretary, David ' standing against myself' Davis MP.
 Shadow Education Minister, Tristram 'parachute' Hunt MP
 Germaine 'I was the future once' Greer, feminist writer and academic,
 and Jerry 'SDP' Hayes, criminal barrister and former Conservative MP.

Dimbletie - Mauve and white splodge.

Questions guess.
1. Have the coalition run out of ideas, time, money or all three.
2. Childcare. Should we put our children's lives at risk like they do in those third world countries of Germany,France,Holland,Switzerland and Norway? 
3. UKIP. The rise of the purple. Lawson says get out of EU. Portillo says get out of EU. The polls say get out of EU..{cheeky dimby turns to DD and says 'What's your view on the EU? Same as Cameron?'
4. SIRALEX. End of an era. Can anyone follow the most successful British soccer manager of all time?
5. Age of consent should be 13 to protect TV entertainers from the 1970's and 80's.

This tournament is still sponsored by 

Timbo 614

  

Week 15

DtP 108 -wow!

BQ(MP) 94

 Measured 92

 Timbo614 91

ND 90
 

 Hopper 87
  GSD 81

Budgie 77 
Malcolm Tucker 73

 Botogol 65

kynon 64

Blue Eyes 64

Idle 48
Taff -45

CU 41

Sackerson - 11
 Andrew - 9

James Higham - 7 
 Phil5 - 2

Question Time to 'chav or chav not' edition

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament. On the panel: Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan 'Shhhh! Quiet'' Smith MP, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette 'shouty shouty' Cooper MP, former leader of the Liberal Democrats Charles 'glug glug' Kennedy MP, businesswoman and star of Dragons' Den Deborah 'I'm out' Meaden and the Independent columnist Owen ' shriek, squeak' Jones.
Enter your guess for what you believe the regional audience will ask of the panel. Maximum of 5 guesses allowed. Various special rules apply that are hidden even more cunningly than on a apple iphone update.

Nick Drew guessing from Singapore has

1. Gaza ceasefire. Tony Blair fixed it?
2. Women Bishops. Church to discuss for 2000 years more.
3. Life sentences for crims. Yuman roits iinnit?
4. Leveson says + new BBC DG
5. Student march - Owen tells us its the end of hope.

 
 

BBC Question Time Competition

 

With Grant Shapps,big majority Tory seat holder. Cameron's backer and future big hitter. Caroline Flint, Why do I dislike her so? There's plenty of other incompetents in government. Shadow Energy and climate change..Yes, there is a shadow climate change minister. the science is settled, buried and concreted over with a windmill, rainbow energy, subsidised field of dream planted on top for all our bio fuel needs. Simon Hughes, unsuccessful London mayor candidate and unsuccessful Libby leadership candidate. never mind. Third time lucky. Clegg hasn't long left. Benjamin Zephaniah Jamaican Street poet, which since evil Gove decided on school reforms is no longer on the curriculum. And Cristina Odone.Well traveled across the political spectrum journalist. Can be good.

Enter your guess for what you believe the entirely balanced and impartial regional audience will ask of the panel. maximum of 5 guesses allowed. Various special rules apply that are hidden in the terms and conditions even more cunningly than on your mortgage application.

BQ predicts.

 

1. We're all still in together. but Cameron's leadership seems secure for a bit longer.

2. GCSE resits. That's not what the unions wanted. Or the parents. Or the kids.

3. BAE merger. Now what are we going to do?

4. Abu Qatada - Last time for him, ending a show running longer than the mousetrap.

5. Lowering the voting age. Will it help? 18-20s are already the least likely to vote.

Question Time

Its that time again.
this Libya edition comes from Scotland
David Dimbleby is joined in Glasgow by
Jacob Rees-Mogg, Super rebellious anti-euro MP, who's constituency is next door to Dr Fox. Exactly the sort of Posh Tory MP that Cameron doesn't want in the New Tory party
Alistair Carmichael, Lib Dem whip, from the lefty side of the yellows. Orkney based.
Margaret Curran,Labour MP from of Glasgow East. Got promoted in the E-shuffle to Shadow minister for Scotland. Which might mean she is very talented or possibly no one else would take the job.
Mike Russell, SNP minister for education {and lifelong learning?} Big hitter in SNP.
Cristina Odone Dep. ed of the New Statesman. Author of A Perfect Wife {1998} that still has yet to get a review on Amazon. you'd have thought she'd have got at least one friend to do one.
and
Brian Cox, who I guess is the ultra-labour supporting actor who often shows up on QTscotland.

Of the three regional shows, Scotland is usually the best.
BQ predicts

1. Gaddaffi is dead/alive? Does the panel agree with the war and something about Al- Megrahi.
2. Euro referendum that would allow MP's to begin thinking about a referendum.Why are all parties so afraid of a Euro vote? {SNP excluded}
3. Dale Farm. Isn't there some space in Scotland that the travelers could illegally build on? A heather moor or an old oil derrick or something?
4. Inflation, growth and the poor economy. Are Scots justified in feeling they will be hit hardest by the public sector chops.
5. Wind farms and scrapping of subsidy, feed ins and carbon capture.As the UK belatedly comes to its senses on the damage a high energy price does is the Highland wind farm dream coming to an end?

And if the Dubai-Karachi betting syndicate is watching replace all those with 'the Mong word'- 99% protest-Fox and Strictly Come Highland Dancing

Leaderboard as of
21/10/11

Botogol - 21½

BQ - 20

Timbo614 - 19½
Nick Drew - 19½
Budgie - 19
Sebastian Weetabix - 19
Measured - 18
Philipa - 17
Miss CD - 16½
Hopper - 16½
Hatfield Girl - 16½
Appointmetotheboard - 16½
Malcolm Tucker - 15½
Mark Wadsworth - 15½
Dick the Prick -15
GSD - 14½
Miss S-J -14½
Hovis - 13½
Andrew - 12½
CU - 11½
Jan - 10 1/2

Woman on a raft - 4½
Alex - 1½
Anon {1} -3½
&
Electro-Kevin - ½

Lot of movement around the 15½ s. Still time.

Question Time warm up.

The world famous question Time competition begins tomorrow night. For the benefits of the uninitiated, here are the rules again.

You guess questions from the 4 or that will be asked by the hand picked audience. A point is awarded for each correct choice plus completely arbitrary bonus points for predicting a key word, theme or phrase from members of the panel and a few other special undisclosed reasons. All guesses drop into the comments.

There is no requirement or need to actually watch BBC1 's Question Time. In fact cardiovascular clinics recommend you don't. All you need to do is consider the most likely news worthy to have arisen recently. Compare that to the show's location and consider the panel. Condition your mind to operate as a media executive, Guardian reading, Liberal vegetarian, rating chasing producer might view the world, and you're there.

Or you can do as previous winners have done and just make random,blind guesses.

As an example : Question Time returns on Thursday 8 September 2011. David Dimbleby will be joined in London by
Liam Fox,{defence cuts to front-line troops.}
David Miliband, {why did you allow torture when you said you didn't?}
Richard Perle,{ well, it could be anything! His defence of Israel. His advocacy of regime and then his withdrawal of support when it all went wrong. US congress budget disaster.9/11 anniversary. But probably there for his role as advisor to Mad Dog.}
Bonnie Greer,{could be many things. Riots and poverty would be my guess.}
Tariq Ali { Libya and torture..general Tory cuts opposer}
and Christina Schmid.{widow of the bomb disposal hero. An Afghanistan question. British Council compound attack ?}

The first one is always the hardest as many weeks worth of news are available.

This season BQ will send out some live chat tweets which will be interned directly to you if you subscribe to @BillQuango , or so I'm informed.

So there you have it. Early guesses can be entered here.

"Cry Ad Hoc, and let slip the blogs of war!"

Final Standings Summer edition

Measured -24.5

Botogol - 23

Mark Wadsworth -21.5

Appointmetotheboard -21

Dick the Prick -19.5

Bill Quango MP -19.5

Miss S-J -18.5

Nick Drew -18

Malcolm Tucker -18

GSD - 17

Timbo614 - 14.5

Miss CD -14

City Unslicker -14

Hatfield Girl -13.5

Philipa -11.5

Budgie -10

Andrew - 9.5

Hopper -5

Lilith - 5

Jan -3.5

Amy -2.5
Blue Eyes -2.5

Hovis -2

QUESTION TIME GAME RIOTS SPECIAL

"There will be an extra edition of Question Time on Thursday 11 August to discuss this week's riots. The panel will include John Prescott, Brian Paddick, Camila Batmanghelidjh, John Sentamu and Fraser Nelson."

OK, BQ is still trying to get Mrs BQ out of custody after the rioting (she just could not resist when it was Debenhams).

In the meantime for the rest of us, a summer treat. Question Time Special. Now of course we know that the questions are all going to be on the Riots. So the usual game is to guess which questions the BBC producers will allow Dimbebly to pick out at random from the live studio audience in London.

For added spice, a slightly different scoring system with a point for each correct riot question (e.g. itz all the Feds falt, innit?). We are going to be very strict, in line with new Cameronian DemoKracy so no answers like "Police", "Fatcher"

Double bonus for guessing the end question whether it be humorous or another topic. Bonus' for getting the relevant guests answers spot on (impossible with Prescott, obviously)

The panel itself if a terrible mix of mindlessness, incompetent idiots and batshit craziness. They have not even found a Government representative yet, if they even want to. At the moment it is 4:1 socialist loons vs reality so I expect much heat to be generated and little light. Maybe interesting to see whether the 'hand-picked' audience still buy all the lefty guff though or whether hang'em and flog'em gets the claps.

Get your entries into the comments before showtime.