Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Tuesday 20 October 2009
"Not A Scientific Sample"
So there you have it. The BBC doesn't even deny it. Thursday's Question Time audience will be packed (Holocaust survivors, &c). Well, of course it will be. It always is. Like opinion polls, its role in relation to public opinion is one, not of reflection, but of influence. I am very glad if people are influenced against the BNP. But that is not what the Question Time audience is supposed to be for. Is it? Except, of course, that it is. It always has been.
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