BBC Question Time.

I occasionally watch Question Time on BBC One, but every time I do I think that it is a complete waste of money and is very boring. This isn't because I find politics completely dull or think that there isn't a need for political debate, because there is.

The problem I have is that there is no political debate on Question Time. For me a debate is a useful argument. In a debate if somebody makes a statement that you disagree with then you should deconstruct what the person has said and explain why you think they are wrong and what in your view is the correct way of doing something. Instead on Question Time each person on the panel simply offers a contradictory statement to the other. They don't debate at all. The Tory politician will just stick to the the Tory rhetoric, the Labour politician will stick to the Labour rhetoric, the Lib-Dem politician will stick to the Lib-Dem Tory rhetoric and so on. None of the panellists are willing to change their opinions or points of view. Therefore no matter how long the show goes on for, no progress will be made.

Another issue with the show I have, aside from all of the aforementioned making it very dull, is the audience. The typical audience seems to consist of a bigot, an angry person, a posh person, a moron, a bumbling person and only one person who can actually articulate a reasonable question or statement that reflects most normal people's views.

On the whole, it isn't just Question Time that fails to provide any political debate, this is just the mainstream example. In fact if you watch almost any political show or even BBC Parliament, there is no debate at all. The whole political attitude is wrong. In the House of Commons all they ever do is shout and jeer. Is it any wonder hardly anyone votes any more?