Sunday, 25 April 2010

First-time voters QT 2

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/mar/04/first-time-voters-question-time

"But it turns out that watching something aimed squarely at you is pretty depressing. It seems people my age are constantly in danger of being addressed earnestly as "you guys": I began to feel like a cheerleader in a teen movie. It was tiring. 


The MPs appeared uncomfortable talking to young people, and the celebrities brought in to liven things up – Tim Campbell from The Apprentice, Rory Bremner and pop singer Jamelia – were a little insulting. Are these really the figures that the BBC thinks young people respect the most? 


At one point, Tim proposed that it might be a good idea for all politicians to get together in one room and have a debate to thrash things out. Really, Tim? What about if they were to do it in some kind of "house"? Maybe with green upholstery?"


"Jamelia said she had liked Margaret Thatcher as a prime minister because she remembered her appealing to the working class. Admittedly I remember nothing of Thatcher's time in power, but I've studied British political history and watched Billy Elliot, and it seems that something somewhere doesn't add up."


^ kinda speaks for itself.

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