BBC Question Time bias reaches new levels

BBC Question Time has long been accused of bias in favour of the Tories – spotting and outing the weekly Tory plant(s) is a popular pastime for the left-wingers who can still bring themselves to watch.

But as journalist – and guest on the programme – Owen Jones observed on Twitter, at least five of the audience members who got to ask the panel a question on last Thursday’s programme broadcast from Dudley were local Tory activists or even candidates.

Jones’ awareness of the scale of the ‘coincidence’ unfolded over a period of about twenty-four hours, beginning when he tweeted about a failed Tory candidate who had made a strange demand:

The same activist had tweeted his glee at being thanked by Tory Home Secretary Sajid Javid for his bizarre intervention.

Jones then discovered more:

But was there no corresponding number of Dudley Labour activists asking questions on the programme, there were none at all:

One Labour member – not from Dudley itself, though from the borough – was allowed to make a comment rather than ask a question. No other local Labour members were able to get into the audience at all, according to the SKWAWKBOX’s contacts in Dudley.

SKWAWKBOX comment:

The BBC’s bias has been growing more and more naked, not only on Question Time but in news coverage and the make-up of panels and guest lists, for a long time. Now it seems even the pretence of impartiality is being dropped.

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