Question Time | 21st March 2024



Fiona Bruce presents an hour of debate with politicians and members of the public from Middlesbrough. On the panel, the deputy chair of the Conservative Party, Rachel Maclean MP, Labour’s shadow industry and decarbonisation minister, Sarah Jones MP, the environment spokesperson and former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Tim Farron MP, the historical novelist Philippa Gregory and the columnist Rod Liddle. Also live on iPlayer at 20:00.

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49 thoughts on “Question Time | 21st March 2024”

  1. Always makes me sneer when Fiona suggests that "on tonights panel as always we have a wide range of views" LOL.
    My Penis has more Girth than the usual discussion allowed on here and i am no John Holmes xD

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  2. Rod is an idiot. If you accept that poverty doesn't cause mental health. If you are wealthier you are more likely to be able to afford treatment. Therefore people in poverty will suffer more from untreated mental health more often then affluent people. In addition, untreated mental health will likely lead to a deterioration in other aspects of mental and physical health and possibly the triggering of other mental health conditions.

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  3. Maybe next time America want to invade a country and destroy it the UK will not get involved, the last thing we need are more immigrants right?

    I wish anti immigration people would be vocal against actions which will create immigrants.

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  4. Rod Liddle does not understand how statistics work, or how you infer a relationship between a group and outcome. Can the sun not afford a basic course on statistics for it's journalists so they don't sound totally thick discussing and writing about these issues. No wonder the sun's readership is down are they also writing it in crayon!

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  5. If afluence is a major cause of poor mental health, as Rod Liddle said, then surely after years of austerity there should be fewer people with mental health issues. Rod Liddle should have praised the Tories for the cost of living crisis because, according to him, it reduces mental health problems.

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  6. As a non-Brit, I can't get much out of the show when politicians are on because they're usually mostly campaigning for themselves or panning the opposition in the words they use even if it sounds fairly practical.

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  7. It's not that there's no mental health issues in poorer countries, it's that it goes undiagnosed and untreated. There's cultural elements to it where, for example in Asia it's almost taboo to talk about mental health because if you admit to it you're seen as weak or crazy. Social stigma hides the problem. Plus there's the lack of access to healthcare for those who can't afford it. Speaking as an Asian.

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  8. There isn't a link between affluence and mental health, the correlation he see's is affordability to see a psychiatrist or a counsellor. The richest countries can afford more of these!

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  9. 5 minutes in and I’m fuming! Will Fiona Bruce please just let people finish their train of thought.. or at least one sentence! This is another reason the legacy media is dead in the water, on YouTube you can actually listen to people making their point without fighting through a barrage of interruptions.

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  10. "It's normal to feel depressed"
    No it isn't. Feeling sad isn't depression. Fucking hate it when people confuse being sad with being depressed. Dealing with sadness is not easy but it isn't like dealing with depression. Depressed people aren't sad. It's like the brain is a water wheel carrying round the water of your thoughts. If that wheel moves too slowly then it misses a lot of that water. That is what been depressed is like. Stimuli comes in but it doesn't get processed. Doing normal everyday things becomes very difficult. It isn't normal to feel like that for long periods of time.
    It isn't normal to not shower for a couple of weeks or to stop brushing your teeth. It isn't normal to not want to interact with anyone even though you know it will make you feel a tad nicer.

    The problem with QT is that it is snippets about shit. No deep dive, just reactions. We don't have a political program that does these deep dives like they used to, where they used to grill a politician on a specific thing for an hour and get a deep understanding about policy. It is all sound bites, what sounds good for an hour show that asks several questions.

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  11. Bit surprised at Rod Liddle, he's clearly an intelligent man yet fails to see the obvious flaw in his argument re mental health and poverty.

    "It just doesn't correlate," he said to one audience member. Well no, it doesn't, because poor countries don't have the necessary recognition or support for mental health issues.

    Ditto the 1950s Britain that he mentioned – it's not that people weren't dealing with crippling mental health problems. They just suppressed them and lived in torment.

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  12. why do they insist on giving figures? no one cares about figures. you can make figures say whatever you want. all people care about is their own lived experience. not a brit, just an observation. enjoy the show

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  13. Rod Lidl – more people are seeing mental health specialists today because the NHS and private facilities have them to offer, unlike the 1950s. Norway isn't more depressed, they have a better funded health care system that can offer people help if and when they need it as opposed to turning them away or leaving them on seemingly perpetual waiting lists. I appreciate you want to get up on you soap box and insist we pull ourselves together but your complete failure to understand thr statistics you apparently have at your finger tips probably means you should stay quiet on this issue and leave it to the people with braincells and a teaspoon of empathy to talk about.

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