Rant #3 About BBC Question Time: The Off The Shoulder Irrelevance Whilst The Fourth State is In Peril Sophia C Botha Follow Feb 7 · 4 min read

So at a Downing Street press briefing on Monday, there was a mass walkout by journalists when a senior communications adviser to Boris Johnson tried to exclude reporters from various publications including the Mirror & the Independent & the Huffington Post, even the BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg who many have thought has her tongue way too far up the arse of Boris Johnson walkout in solidarity.

But rather then debate Boris Johnson being a pound shop Donald Trump by taking inspiration from Trump’s fascist playbook in undermining freedom of the press to question the government of the day which is a cornerstone of any liberal democracy, last night’s edition of BBC Question Time dedicated more fucking time to debating Labour Shadow Secretary of State for Culture & Sport Tracy Brabin wearing an off-the-shoulder dress in parliament, for fucks sake never fucking mind the government of Boris Johnson threatening the freedom the press its apparently more important to be debating an MP wearing an off-the-shoulder dress at the dispatch box because Piers Morgan has been getting in a fucking tizzy about her doing so. It wasn’t just the complete & utter irrelevance about what kind of dress a female MP happened to be wearing which makes one livid, Labour MP Stella Creasy who was one of panellists on last night’s edition of Question was pretty livid that the shite being flung at Tracy Babin for the dress she happen to have been wearing in parliament on Tuesday is blatant sexism, which it most definitely is, but hey that figures perfectly as the likes of Piers Morgan is a sexist pig being as he’s an all round gammon bigot.

Tracy Brabin

Prominent disability rights activist Adam Pearson was alongside Stella Creasy as one of the panellists on last night’s edition of BBC Question Time & yet there were no questions from the audience about any issues relating to disability, yeah because what fashions MPs happen to be wearing is apparently far more fucking important then the Tories having murdered over a 100,000 disabled people. Of course the BBC would defend what gets debated on Question Time by saying it’s dependent on the questions asked by audience members & QT’s presenter Fiona Bruce did try to use this as a defence when you could hear mutters of disapproval in the auditorium as to the irrelevance of discussing Tracy Brabin wearing an off-the-shoulder dress, but it’s a bullshit defence as the producers of Question Time will have screened the questions which are going to be asked by audience members thus are editorially selective about what topics get debated etc.

Yes journalists being banned from Downing Street briefings was debated on last night’s edition of BBC Question Time, but it felt something of an afterthought as it was the last topic to be debated, okay I’m a journalist so I’m naturally going to big up the importance of the Fourth Estate, but that’s a lot harder to do when so many journalists are mercenary scum without a shred of integrity who are only ever interested in publishing sensationalist & salacious bullshit about celebrity tittle-tattle which generally makes people think 100 journos wearing concrete boots at the bottom of the ocean would be a good start.

Julian Assange

There is a serious side to journalism, there are many journalists rotting in prison cells around the globe for simply doing their job in asking questions of those who govern over us, here in Britain Julian Assange is currently incarcerated in HMP Belmarsh & could eventually find himself be carted off to Gitmo or some CIA dark site for having exposed the nefarious activities of those who govern over us don’t want us to know about including shit like war crimes & election rigging. Yes Assange is somewhat of a dickhead but he’s of the journalistic fraternity & journalists should be defending him because I always thought it was the job of journalists to be exposing shit like war crimes & election rigging.