Anti-austerity campaigner Louise Harrison denounces Tory on Question Time

Last Updated: April 16, 2016By
Louise Harrison attacking Dan Hannon on Question Time.

Louise Harrison attacking Dan Hannan on Question Time.

It looks like Question Time‘s anti-left-wing, anti-women, pro-Tory policy has backfired big time.

The programme’s right-wing position on who should ask questions, and what they should be, gave Louise Harrison a chance to demand that other voices be heard.

That gave her the opportunity to tear a strip off Tory Dan Hannan on Thursday evening – gaining the largest and loudest round of audience applause in the process.

It seems clear that Question Time is no longer in the business of presenting a balanced representation of public opinion to viewers.

While it continues with this lunatic policy, the programme’s makers can only embarrass themselves.

Louise told Socialist Worker, “The response to Question Time has been absolutely fantastic.

“We had a protest in Doncaster today. People were coming up and saying that politicians live in a different world to us. That they have lied about their taxes. And everyone had a story about somebody losing their job.”

Louise said the original plan on Question Time was to have only men asking questions. She added that the questions were all “right wing”.

Women in the audience protested and branded the BBC sexist. Host David Dimbleby then apparently agreed to let a woman speak.

“It was phenomenal,” said Louise. “When women found out that only men would ask questions they said they weren’t having it. It moved the audience to the left.”

Louise has been key to a campaign in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to defend Women’s Aid in the town. Women’s Aid has existed for around 40 years – but faces closure in two weeks due to lack of funding.

She told Socialist Worker, “We know of other services to support vulnerable women that have had some of their funding cut too. And some have been privatised and workers are on zero hours contracts.

“Austerity is state violence against working class women. But our campaign is not going away.”

Source: Anti-austerity campaigner Louise Harrison denounces Tory on Question Time

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3 Comments

  1. Brian April 16, 2016 at 2:53 pm - Reply

    I have seen producers weed out ‘disruptive’ participants from these broadcasts. It was a breath of fresh air (time) to hear Louise Harrison have her say, not what Dimbleby wanted at all, well done Louise. Can’t see the BBC complaining, but then, their not concerned with ratings.

  2. Dez April 16, 2016 at 4:20 pm - Reply

    Best part of an otherwise very boring Cons PR exercise. Did not realise the programmers had operated a men only gagging order on the audience and vetted the questions so closely….explains why it has become so boring and one sided. This fiesty interruption was brilliant. It also amplified what a small world politicians live in and how distant they are from real life and the impact their decisions have on the majority of the population of this once great country…..now known as the Eton mess….

  3. mrmarcpc April 18, 2016 at 3:23 pm - Reply

    I’m surprised she wasn’t silenced, for dare having a go at Herr Camoron and his bunch of fascists over their incompetent of running the country, but what do you expect from clueless, out of touch, pompous, posh boys and girls who don’t live in the real world, I’m surprised the BBC didn’t wet themselves with fear for letting her speak out and have a go at the tories!

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