I went to bed slightly early last night as I was tired, so I missed Question time. I just gave it a watch on Iplayer, though. I probably shouldn’t have, because it made my heart pound with rage. Firstly, why the fuck did they waste a perfectly good panel seat on a bigot from UKIP? He added nothing sensible to the debate, but merely spooled out the same old xenophobic pseudofascist crap one expects from his ‘party’ about how the EU is the source of all evil and singing the praises of segregated, two-tier education. Second, Rod Liddel proved himself a complete hack: the way that barely literate turd accused Simon Schama of being too emotional when he outlined the reasons for a tolerant approach to immigration really got my goat. Thirdly there was the usual snobbish turd from the tory praises, singing the praises of CaMoron, spewing the usual lies about how they are turning the economy around, refusing to apologise for the suffering those insults to humanity have inflicted. Then there was Simon Schama and a woman from Labour, valiantly trying to insert reason, logic and humanity into the debate, while the rest of the panel and most of the audience attacked them. I fear this is the way things are going: I fear more and more people are falling for farage and his posse of imbeciles, not helped by that vile insult to humanity currently in downing street, and turning away from reason, tolerance and the pursuit of true equality. If that is so, then I can expect more ‘debates’ like the one I just saw, where most of the audience members seemed to be unthinking young twits who see nothing wrong with the shit Farage and his minions spew. Given this one had me shouting at my screen so violently that no doubt I disturbed Lyn, still trying to sleep (sorry dear) I better stop watching things like Question Time.