āDavid Cameron made the referendum policy because he didnāt want to risk losing 10 or 15 seats to UKIP and look where it has got usā
This 16-year-old says the Conservative Party are responsible for Brexit.
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āThis is from someone that voted for you. What a disappointment you are.ā
Tonight on Question Time, this
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audience member says the Government āknow the cost of everything and the value of nothingā. Watch on
@BBCOne
after the news, or live via the iPlayer.
āCorbyn is not an anti-Semite, the right-wing press takes things out of contextā
This
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audience member, who is Jewish, says the media choose to attack the Labour leaders ācharacter, because his policies are correctā.
āFor you to blame Jeremy Corbyn, particularly after your colleagues on the right of the party pushed him to adopt that position of a second referendum, is absolutely abhorrentā
This
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audience member criticises parts of the Labour Party for their treatment of Jeremy Corbyn.
āWhatever your politics, you can agree that punishing disabled and sick people for falling on hard times is absolutely morally wrong and they have blood on their handsā
@chessmartinez
on the governmentās austerity policy.
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''The UK is one of the least racist societies across Europe"
"It's funny that you're a white man saying that! How are you going to experience it? You're a white man!"
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āItās a metaphor for an entire year of Covid incompetenceā
Journalist Ian Hislop says itās āa ridiculous amount of moneyā to spend Ā£2.6 million on a briefing room while granting NHS workers a 1% pay rise.
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āIreland owes this country nothingā
@Bonn1eGreer
says Britain cannot āshaftā Ireland if they want a post Brexit trade agreement with the US.
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'From me, a happy Christmas and not goodbye, but goodnight'
David Dimbleby receives a standing ovation from the panel and audience as he says goodbye to BBC Question Time after 25 years.
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āI find it staggeringā
This audience member questions why politicians have been given several opportunities to change their vote on Brexit, while the public have been denied the same chance.
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āYouāre effectively saying to all these public sector workers, āget poorer and be happy about itāā
Journalist Ash Sarkar asks why the government lifted the bankersā bonus cap but accepts a real-terms cut to public sector wages
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āI think itās important to say they are not illegal, nobody is illegalā
This
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audience member says sheās āboredā hearing about MPs doing reality TV and is more concerned by the home secretary using words like āinvasionā
āBring on a general election. I hope Boris gets a majority, delivers Brexit and defeats a Marxist Jeremy Corbyn governmentā, says this
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audience member.
āHeās corrupt, heās entitled, heās a liarā¦ and the sooner he is out of that place the betterā
Former No 10 press secretary
@campbellclaret
shares his views on Boris Johnson's resignation as leader of the Conservatives.
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āWhen two million people in the richest country are skipping meals because they canāt afford it, the fact youāre not acting, I think, is unforgivableā
Economist
@Miatsf
accuses the government of not āgrasping the scaleā of the cost of living crisis.
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āI'm sorry but your going to have to cut your cloth accordingly like state schools have had to for 14 yearsā
Labourās Wes Streeting defends plans to charge VAT on private schools fees to pay for state school teachers
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āWe should completely close the borders ā¦ enough is enoughā
This audience member says the number of people āflooding inā to the UK is costing public services too much.
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āAs adults we are not supposed to be burying our children, our children are supposed to be burying usā
This grandmother says she is āso scaredā and tells politicians they need to get something done about knife crime.
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āTheyāve had five years to prepare for it, but there was no plan.ā
This
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audience member says āthere was no economic basis in leaving the EU.ā
āHow can I put my faith in a leader when that same leader likens me to a letterbox?ā
This audience member, who is an English teacher, criticises Boris Johnson for previous comments he made about Muslim women in burkas.
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āWhat this is really about is the government shirking responsibilityā
This teacher blames Conservative government cuts for the knife crime crisis.
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āNow youāre in this mess, youāve got to deal with itā
Formula 1 Driver Sebastian Vettel gives his opinion on Brexit after being asked about the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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"The leaders of Brexit have fled the scene... We are trapped in hell. For the love of god get me out of here now"
@MrNishKumar
does not believe the Brexit process is going well.
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āYou've talked a lot about energy...does that make you a hypocrite?ā
āWhen I get out of the car, of course Iām thinking, is this something that we should do?ā
On
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tonight, F1 driver Sebastian Vettel and the panel discuss the energy crisis.
Join us at 10.40pm on
@BBCOne
.
āIt doesnāt matter how many times he apologises, itās never enoughā
This
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audience member says Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn does not get a āfair dealā from the press.
āI donāt like the rhetoric..are we starting a war with these people down in Manston?ā
Asda chairman Stuart Rose criticises the home secretary for visiting an immigration centre in a chinook and says his immigrant parents probably wouldnāt be allowed into the UK today
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āāNo one puts a child in a boat, unless the water is safer than the landā... itās tragic, and it expresses perfectly the plight of those peopleā
Chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall says he is "delighted" the Rwanda policy has been ruled unlawful
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āMigrants to this country bring more and contribute more in tax than they take outā
@AyoCaesar
says there is a āhuman caseā in support of immigration to Britain.
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āI saw Gove, Johnson, Farage promising things that could never happen and theyāve all run away nowā
This 18 year old audience member believes false promises were made before the EU referendum in 2016.
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''Someone lied to me and now I know it's the wrong thing to do''
This audience member, who voted leave, says she has now changed her mind and wants a second referendum
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āItās not a cost of living crisisā¦itās a cost of Conservatives crisisā
Anti-poverty campaigner Jack Monroe says the cost of living crisis hasn't "fallen out of a clear blue sky" but is the result of stripping back on public services
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āAs a businessman Iām sort of finished with politiciansā¦they come first, the party comes second and the nation has come a very poor third over the last three yearsā
@TheoPaphitis
says āvery little regulationā has led to a lack of accountability in politics
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āIt does feel increasingly to people that weāre being treated with contempt in the North of England.ā
@AndyBurnhamGM
says the government needs to support businesses with āa full furlough schemeā if localised lockdowns continue.
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āIād like to call out Labour as liars. I am one of the people he will tax moreā
This audience member, who earns over Ā£80,000, criticises the taxation promises in the Labour Party manifesto.
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āIf you legalised cannabisā¦not only would that take a hell of a lot of power, control and money away from criminals, it would free up a lot of time for police officersā
This police officer says the government should look at reforming drug policy to combat knife crime.
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āYou have cut local services to the bone - and then you worry about antisocial behaviour?ā
This
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audience member gives an excoriating appraisal of the governmentās performance, saying sheās āstaggeredā at the gap between the audience and the panel
āYou had no deal, no currency, you told us that oil was going to be a million pound a barrel, now you can get a barrel for a tenner down the barrasā
This audience member says the SNP have failed to listen on the issue of Scottish independence.
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āWhat an insult that we should be expected to eat the crumbs off a rich person's tableā¦we should be at that tableā
Musician
@nee_massey
discusses public opinion of the Tories
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ā52 to 48ā¦ you wouldnāt even change the constitution of your local golf club on thatā
This audience member says that with the information available now, many voters have changed their minds on leaving the European Union.
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āI just do not think she is the right person for the job. And I also donāt trust herā¦ so, I aināt a fanā
Actor Brian Cox gives his verdict on Liz Trussā premiership to date
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āPatients are at risk every single day of the weekā¦ people are dying in the back of ambulances and this cannot go onā
This
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audience member, a nurse, says she will continually vote to strike āfor patient safetyā
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āYou were told that it would be pain-free. You were told that it would all be upsides, no downsidesā
Former No 10 Press Secretary Alastair Campbell claims the British public were ālied toā and calls for Boris Johnson to be held accountable
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āI think the Hancock farce and the Williamson disgraceā¦ are absolute symptoms of a rot at the heart of this Tory governmentā
The Green Partyās
@CarolineLucas
calls for a general election
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āYour water bills are going towards making foreign corporations richā
Ash Sarkar hits out at private water companies which spill sewage into waterways, adding it makes āfinancial senseā to renationalise the water industry
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āThey are dividing a society, they are making us feel like refugees are the scumā
Barrister Hashi Mohamed says the rhetoric created by the Rwanda policy is āpoisonā and describes the policy as āunconscionableā
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āWe need to export to our biggest and most obvious market which is 20 miles across the Channelā
This
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audience member who trades with European countries says his business is āhanging in thereā, claiming Brexit is a ādisaster for our economyā
Watch
āI went to university, I got a job and with my cerebral palsy have been a successful and independent human being. I am proud of who I am.ā
Comedian
@josierones
says her life has āwithout a doubtā been better because of the Disability Discrimination Act
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"I voted for Brexit because I want the people in charge of my country to be democratically accountable to me and everyone else here."
@JuliaHB1
says Britain is being treated like a "naughty schoolchild" in EU trade negotiations. Question Time, 10:45pm,
@BBCOne
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āYou canāt just change the rules when you donāt like them.ā
@Carolinelucas
asks how you can hold the Prime Minister to account when he is ājudge, jury and courtā.
āThat is the type of power that scares Boris Johnson, that scares Theresa, that scared Thatcher.ā
This man says people are being divided by the UK media, instead of uniting to resist Government policies they donāt believe in
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āThere was no reason, given what was happening in Britain, to bring in these restrictions...ā
Broadcaster Michael Portillo calls the Plan B measures put in place āpreposterousā given their inconsistency.
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āThe language that we useā¦ even in the question āDo we have a sick note culture?ā Itās cruelā
Chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale says the use of āperformativeā language needs to stop, and the government should show more "compassion"
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āWe are going to see cases go up. The virus is going to continue spreading.ā
Professor
@devisridhar
says lifting the coronavirus lockdown is āpointlessā if we do not have the proper infrastructure to detect and trace.
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āTo hear our government congratulating itself on the way itās handled this outbreak. Itās insulting to the people who continue to die every dayā
Author
@afuahirsch
calls on the government to be honest about the āmistakesā it has made in its handling of coronavirus.
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āWhenās the governing going to start?
āFor the last year all youāve governed is your own survival and the country is on its kneesā
Labourās
@jessphillips
says today's politics overshadowed a major report on child abuse
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āLike in business when you realise things have changed, you change your plan.ā
@TheoPaphitis
says he has changed his mind since voting Leave and wants another āclear referendumā on Brexit.
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āWe wonāt admit it, because we are afraid of being called racistā
@officialbarnesy
says people need to have open and honest conversations about unconscious discrimination and racism.
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āThere is no such thing as an illegal human being - especially not those who are fleeing war and persecutionā
The SNPās Mhairi Black argues the Rwanda policy should be scrapped for both moral and financial reasons
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āItās remarkable to me that politicians in this countryā¦seem to have given up on the belief in reality, that sex is real and that itās irrefutableā
Journalist Ella Whelan says women are an afterthought in the debate around single-sex spaces
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āI think itās crazy to have three years of learning and then treat the population as childrenā
@Chris_Boardman
says that a second referendum on leaving the EU is the only āsensibleā option.
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āIt is a national scandal, we shouldnāt be in this positionā
@RichardHorton1
says the UK has āwasted Februaryā when we should have been preparing the NHS for coronavirus
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āPrivitastion just doesn't work - not just in health but in water, in energy, in railā
Green energy entrepreneur Dale Vince argues against privatising the NHS, adding that he thinks āthis government is setting the NHS up to failā
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āNo matter what he does heās not embarrassed by his failures, by the image he gives off and by his behaviourā
Mick Lynch of
@RMTunion
hopes the Conservatives lose the by-elections but questions if it will make any difference as the prime minister is āunembarrassableā.
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āWe have a genuine democratic crisis in this countryā
Brexit Party leader
@Nigel_Farage
says politicians are doing their āutmost to thwart Brexitā.
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āThere was this ridiculous excuse that somehow some of these people might be spiesā¦ that doesnāt seem to affect any other country.ā
Comedian
@domjoly
says the Governmentās handling of Ukrainian refugees is ādisgusting.
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āWe, sadly, have elected a Prime Minister who has no moral compass whatsoever.ā
@campbellclaret
says MPs break the rules because Boris Johnson is setting a poor example.
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āShe was born in the UK, she was raised in the UK, she was educated in the UK and she was probably let down in the UKā
This
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audience member cites his own circumstances in the Shamima Begum decision, adding āunfortunately, sheās our problemā
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āIf I had to pay Ā£20 more in tax, but my energy bills were reducedā¦ surely thatās what we should be looking at? Rather than saying we need to keep cutting taxesā
This
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audience member says they are āfineā paying more in tax if they saw more benefits
āIf I said I had taken Class A drugs, I would not only lose my job but I would be struck off the registerā
This nurse talks about politicians and drug use.
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āHe seems to have a pathological shamelessnessā
This
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audience member suggests Boris Johnson will stay in 10 Downing Street until he is āmarched outā.
āHe looked like a sullen school child being hauled in front of the Eton headmasterā¦itās the attitude of a man whoās never been made to answer for anything in his lifeā
Journalist Zing Tsjeng gives her take on Boris Johnsonās Partygate hearing
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āIt is nothing but sheer arrogance of people that have lost, and people that want to subvert democracyā
This audience member says he is against another referendum on leaving the EU.
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āHe wasnāt sorry. He was sorry he got caught.ā
Labourās
@jessphillips
questions Boris Johnsonās integrity and suggests his apology in parliament was disingenuous.
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āLanguage matters. Language is what started in Bosnia. Language is what started in Rwandaā
Journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown quotes the poet WH Auden while discussing the power of language and defending Gary Linekerās recent tweet
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āPeople seem to think Meghan Markle was harassed and hounded by the press, that wasnāt a millionth of a scratch of the relentless campaign about Jeremy Corbynā
This
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audience member says the media will not allow a āsocialist to be elected in this countryā.
āHeās just knocking things out of the park and people canāt stand itā
This audience member says Boris Johnson has done a ābrilliant jobā.
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āWeāre better off on day one without a deal and it will continue to get betterā
Businessman Tim Martin says a no deal Brexit would leave the UK Ā£39bn better off than Theresa Mayās current proposal ā because of the lack of ādivorce paymentā
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ā12% of the health and social care work force are foreign nationals, we couldnāt function without themā
This nurse says discouraging foreign nationals from coming to work in social care could cause the system to ācollapse even furtherā.
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āHe is now fighting for his survival day in, day outā¦all that Downing Street is thinking about is the next newspaper headline and that is no way to govern a countryā
Former minister
@RoryStewartUK
discusses the lasting impact of Mondayās vote of confidence.
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āLetās be really clear about what this is, letās call it by its name, itās racism.ā
āWeāre the most tolerant lovely country in Europe, itās not racismā
This audience member clashes with actor
@LozzaFox
over the treatment of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex.
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āThe referendum was about leaving the EU and all of its institutions, it was very simple, and thatās what we should have doneā says
@BrexitAlex
.
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āItās an absurd act of gunboat diplomacy.ā
Former Commons Speaker John Bercow says No. 10ās actions were ājuvenile and down marketā after the UK sent two navy vessels to Jersey over a fishing row with France.
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āHe knew exactly what he was saying and I think it is a disgraceā
This audience member criticises Boris Johnson and Attorney General Geoffrey Cox on the language they used in the House of Commons.
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āIn the next 10 years, Ireland will reunify and Scotland will become independent and we will both be in the European Unionā says the SNPās
@joannaccherry
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''That's my whole lifetime and I didn't vote on this''
This audience member says she should not have to deal with the consequences of Brexit for the rest of her life
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