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I only caught the last 15 mins on I Player. Had no idea this was a pre-arranged thing. The BBC runs some breaking news feed where they reported a Galloway tweet that made it sound like he was calling her out for a straight fight, and she'd refused, instead of her being a panelist refusing to take the stage with him

Galloway got the last word but mindlessly slipped into the idea that we're all better together for fighting wars and tried using the example of how we stood alone against Hitler as his summary, and that if we hadn't done, "we'd be having this debate in German". For someone so versed in Soviet history it was remarkable oversight. We might be having the debate in a foreign language George but it would be Russian not German. In any event, if we've got to stay together so that we can fight wars more effectively, then I'd have loved someone to ask him to nominate our most likely enemy. Be interesting to see what reception he got back in Bradford

The other seriously disappointing aspect was the audience. If we're going to embrace the 16 year old voter, then was it necessary to insist they wore school uniform and belittle them that way. It looked like the BBC was mocking them. I'm sure equally that the questioners were hand picked and scripted by others, but there was nothing I heard in this stage managed event admittedly, that would suggest they were any less ill informed and incapable of reconciling the issues then many people older than them were struggling to grasp. I actually thought it was quite healthy that they participated as actively as they did. The supplementaies and reaction shots told me they were able to evaluate the answers they were being given to the level you'd hope, but there was more than just a hint of patronisation (Galloway worst offender)

In fact when you compare the performance of the Scottish teenager in the audience to Lord Prescott saying we should unite to beat the Germans at football, and now Gallowway suggesting we need to do so to beat the Germans at war, it does make you wonder whether society has got this completely the wrong way round

<blockquote data-quote="Warbler" data-source="post: 2469890" data-attributes="member: 65228">I only caught the last 15 mins on I Player. Had no idea this was a pre-arranged thing. The BBC runs some breaking news feed where they reported a Galloway tweet that made it sound like he was calling her out for a straight fight, and she&#039;d refused, instead of her being a panelist refusing to take the stage with himGalloway got the last word but mindlessly slipped into the idea that we&#039;re all better together for fighting wars and tried using the example of how we stood alone against Hitler as his summary, and that if we hadn&#039;t done, &quot;we&#039;d be having this debate in German&quot;. For someone so versed in Soviet history it was remarkable oversight. We might be having the debate in a foreign language George but it would be Russian not German. In any event, if we&#039;ve got to stay together so that we can fight wars more effectively, then I&#039;d have loved someone to ask him to nominate our most likely enemy. Be interesting to see what reception he got back in Bradford The other seriously disappointing aspect was the audience. If we&#039;re going to embrace the 16 year old voter, then was it necessary to insist they wore school uniform and belittle them that way. It looked like the BBC was mocking them. I&#039;m sure equally that the questioners were hand picked and scripted by others, but there was nothing I heard in this stage managed event admittedly, that would suggest they were any less ill informed and incapable of reconciling the issues then many people older than them were struggling to grasp. I actually thought it was quite healthy that they participated as actively as they did. The supplementaies and reaction shots told me they were able to evaluate the answers they were being given to the level you&#039;d hope, but there was more than just a hint of patronisation (Galloway worst offender)In fact when you compare the performance of the Scottish teenager in the audience to Lord Prescott saying we should unite to beat the Germans at football, and now Gallowway suggesting we need to do so to beat the Germans at war, it does make you wonder whether society has got this completely the wrong way round</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2469890, member: 65228"] I only caught the last 15 mins on I Player. Had no idea this was a pre-arranged thing. The BBC runs some breaking news feed where they reported a Galloway tweet that made it sound like he was calling her out for a straight fight, and she'd refused, instead of her being a panelist refusing to take the stage with him Galloway got the last word but mindlessly slipped into the idea that we're all better together for fighting wars and tried using the example of how we stood alone against Hitler as his summary, and that if we hadn't done, "we'd be having this debate in German". For someone so versed in Soviet history it was remarkable oversight. We might be having the debate in a foreign language George but it would be Russian not German. In any event, if we've got to stay together so that we can fight wars more effectively, then I'd have loved someone to ask him to nominate our most likely enemy. Be interesting to see what reception he got back in Bradford The other seriously disappointing aspect was the audience. If we're going to embrace the 16 year old voter, then was it necessary to insist they wore school uniform and belittle them that way. It looked like the BBC was mocking them. I'm sure equally that the questioners were hand picked and scripted by others, but there was nothing I heard in this stage managed event admittedly, that would suggest they were any less ill informed and incapable of reconciling the issues then many people older than them were struggling to grasp. I actually thought it was quite healthy that they participated as actively as they did. The supplementaies and reaction shots told me they were able to evaluate the answers they were being given to the level you'd hope, but there was more than just a hint of patronisation (Galloway worst offender) In fact when you compare the performance of the Scottish teenager in the audience to Lord Prescott saying we should unite to beat the Germans at football, and now Gallowway suggesting we need to do so to beat the Germans at war, it does make you wonder whether society has got this completely the wrong way round [/QUOTE]

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