Can't see the BBC breaking out of London to make it north to Stoke-on-Trent again. The MPs and celebs got a bit of a kicking from the good folk of the Potteries.
They were ill-prepared to deal with a passionate and informed audience. Their real-life stories of NHS drug postcode lotteries, unemployment and the fight against the BNP left the panel floundering for answers because they all live so far away from the real world.
Did it make Stoke-on-Trent look bad? No, the people of this fair city showed it was able to debate with the best in Britain and come out on top.
Question Time in Stoke-on-Trent was intellecutually stimulating and achingly painful at the sametime. It was compulsive viewing, as long as you were prepared to wear a crash helmet while watching.
Rarely has this programme been so raw, so fascinating.
The golf between the panelists perceptions of life and the dose of reality served up by the audience left our stars, James Caan, Claire Short, Dominic Grieve, Geoff Hoon and Julia Goldsworth, either speechless or groping in the dark for some kind of answer.
With this kind of passion you wonder why any Government would have left Stoke-on-Trent to rot for so long...maybe they are scared of real debate.
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