Thursday December 4 , BBC question time had an Immigration Special programme that was clearly an ambush on the political party Reforms Zia Yusuf who was told , only 2 minutes before the programme was going live on air , that there would be 2 illegal immigrants  ( small boat crossing from France ) in the audience and that they would be asking questions . All the other panelists were told the day before . Once again ( as I have said before on this forum ) the audience were biased against Yusuf and applauded the likes of the Green parties Polanski opinions . Indeed the QT presenter , Fiona Bruce , seemed to be making things difficult for Yusuf who was the only panelist who was speaking sense .

The BBC is supposed to have impartial views but is now under a lot of scrutiny as well as having a reputation for workplace bullying . Indeed the Beebs credibility has taken a downturn with a growing discontent from viewers with many refusing to pay for the TV licence .

The illegal immigrant was clearly reading a pre-prepared question on his phone, and he had a radio earpiece.  Just a BBC plant.  (And entering the country illegally is a crime, so the BBC is using people who commit crimes to ask their questions).

 

And if arranging an illegal immigrant to place questions on a programme about the impact of immigration on the UK is an acceptable action, I dread to think what the BBC would arrange for a programme about the stalled rape gang enquiry.  Would they think it's acceptable to place a Pakistani rapist in the audience?

Hmm.  Reform only have 5 seats in parliament and yet get invited on Question Time far more frequently than Lib Dems or Greens.  Funny how the far right complain when ordinary people react to their horrible policies!

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Hmm.  Reform only have 5 seats in parliament and yet get invited on Question Time far more frequently than Lib Dems or Greens.  Funny how the far right complain when ordinary people react to their horrible policies!

 

   Reform will likely form the next UK Government .

Lib Dems or Greens wont be doing that 

6 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Reform will likely form the next UK Government .

Lib Dems or Greens wont be doing that 

 

There won't be an election until 2029.  You're in cloud-cuckoo land if you think the current polls will be the same pre-election.  Question Time is about holding elected politicians to account, plus additional non-political views.

3 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

There won't be an election until 2029.  You're in cloud-cuckoo land if you think the current polls will be the same pre-election.  Question Time is about holding elected politicians to account, plus additional non-political views.

 

   Reform are favorites with the bookies to be the next Government 

25 minutes ago, superal said:

Thursday December 4 , BBC question time had an Immigration Special programme that was clearly an ambush on the political party Reforms Zia Yusuf who was told , only 2 minutes before the programme was going live on air , that there would be 2 illegal immigrants  ( small boat crossing from France ) in the audience and that they would be asking questions . All the other panelists were told the day before . Once again ( as I have said before on this forum ) the audience were biased against Yusuf and applauded the likes of the Green parties Polanski opinions . Indeed the QT presenter , Fiona Bruce , seemed to be making things difficult for Yusuf who was the only panelist who was speaking sense .

The BBC is supposed to have impartial views but is now under a lot of scrutiny as well as having a reputation for workplace bullying . Indeed the Beebs credibility has taken a downturn with a growing discontent from viewers with many refusing to pay for the TV licence .

Absolutely.

 

There’s clear evidence of  bias in that episode.

 

500+ complaints in 48 hours (biggest spike since the 2023 Gaza special)

Reform UK lodged a formal impartiality complaint

 

Zia Yusuf says he was told about the two small-boat migrants only minutes before going live, while other panelists knew the day before.

 

Audience repeatedly applauded the Green co-leader and the migrants, groaned at Yusuf

Fiona Bruce pressed Yusuf harder than others on deportation hypotheticals.

 

But this is nothing new, the BBC has been sliding left for 20 years, its now at tipping point!

1 minute ago, mikeymike100 said:

Absolutely.

 

There’s clear evidence of  bias in that episode.

 

500+ complaints in 48 hours (biggest spike since the 2023 Gaza special)

Reform UK lodged a formal impartiality complaint

 

Zia Yusuf says he was told about the two small-boat migrants only minutes before going live, while other panelists knew the day before.

 

Audience repeatedly applauded the Green co-leader and the migrants, groaned at Yusuf

Fiona Bruce pressed Yusuf harder than others on deportation hypotheticals.

 

But this is nothing new, the BBC has been sliding left for 20 years, its now at tipping point!

The BBC is sliding right and has been since Cameron appointed his Tory cronies to the Board!  Right-wing hosts like Bruce and Laura Kunesberg are everywhere.

 

People groaned at Yusuf because what he said was awful!

18 minutes ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Reform will likely form the next UK Government .

Lib Dems or Greens wont be doing that 

 

What may or may not happen in a future election is irrelevant. What matters is the the standing of the political party in parliament. Reform has 5 seats, but DUP has 5 too and are never invited for this type of segment. How about Sinn Fein at 7 seats and the Scottish national Party at 9 seats? Why are they not included? 

2 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

. How about Sinn Fein at 7 seats and the Scottish national Party at 9 seats? Why are they not included? 

 

   Their accents would be quite difficult to understand for most viewers .

The obvious answer was 'I don't speak with illegals'.

36 minutes ago, mikeymike100 said:

But this is nothing new, the BBC has been sliding left for 20 years, its now at tipping point!

 

32 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The BBC is sliding right and has been since Cameron appointed his Tory cronies to the Board!  Right-wing hosts like Bruce and Laura Kunesberg are everywhere.

 

 

40 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The BBC is sliding right and has been since Cameron appointed his Tory cronies to the Board!  Right-wing hosts like Bruce and Laura Kunesberg are everywhere.

 

People groaned at Yusuf because what he said was awful!

Total nonsense.

The BBC has been marinated in woke, metropolitan leftism for decades.

Cameron’s “cronies” were a pathetic speed-bump against a staff room that’s 90% Guardian readers. Kuenssberg and Bruce are constantly accused of right-wing bias because they occasionally let a Tory finish a sentence without screaming “racist.”

Farage gets invited on once a week and the entire building has a meltdown and calls it “platforming fascism.” Meanwhile trans activists, climate extremists and Hamas apologists stroll on unchallenged every night.

The real scandal is the license fee bankrolling this left-wing propaganda machine.

1 hour ago, mikeymike100 said:

Absolutely.

There’s clear evidence of  bias in that episode.

500+ complaints in 48 hours (biggest spike since the 2023 Gaza special)

Reform UK lodged a formal impartiality complaint

Zia Yusuf says he was told about the two small-boat migrants only minutes before going live, while other panelists knew the day before.

Audience repeatedly applauded the Green co-leader and the migrants, groaned at Yusuf

Fiona Bruce pressed Yusuf harder than others on deportation hypotheticals.

But this is nothing new, the BBC has been sliding left for 20 years, its now at tipping point!

I disagree on one point - the BBC passed the tipping point - that occurred during Covid.

1 hour ago, mikeymike100 said:

Total nonsense.

The BBC has been marinated in woke, metropolitan leftism for decades.

Cameron’s “cronies” were a pathetic speed-bump against a staff room that’s 90% Guardian readers. Kuenssberg and Bruce are constantly accused of right-wing bias because they occasionally let a Tory finish a sentence without screaming “racist.”

Farage gets invited on once a week and the entire building has a meltdown and calls it “platforming fascism.” Meanwhile trans activists, climate extremists and Hamas apologists stroll on unchallenged every night.

The real scandal is the license fee bankrolling this left-wing propaganda machine.

Many years ago I was 'debating' with a lefty about how the ABC (Australia's publicly funded equivalent to BBC) was totally biased and that it should be defunded.  Besides so many points of proof, I pointed out that of all the people employed at the ABC who went into politics, 100% of them went to the left-wing Labor Party. I also pointed out that of all the ex-politicians employed by the ABC, 100% were from the Labor Party.  I was astounded that he could still try to argue that the staff and management at ABC was not overwhelmingly biased towards left wing politics. 

 

He was losing badly - so one of his hive-minded mates tried to help out by admitting that they were 'a bit' biased, but that was OK because it counter acted all the right wing media like Sky News. I pointed out that Sky News was a business and could support who they wanted, but ABC was funded by all taxpayers (not just left wing taxpayers). Their brains literally exploded in front of me, and they did what all pigeons (and wokes) do when they lose a game of chess - knock down all the pieces, khrapp on the board, and fly away.  

2 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Their accents would be quite difficult to understand for most viewers .

 

True. I was going to mention that but chose to be respectful for the sensitive readers. Had Plaid Cymru been included, I believe that viewers would have been left gasping for air. Plaid supports a Sanctuary" model where all are welcome. They believe that the migrants will come and repopulate Wales' dying small villages. The party platform is from fantasy land, in that it bases its position on an assumption that the migrants are educated and include a large number of  trained healthcare workers who can fill much needed skilled labour shortages. More startling is that Plaid Cymru is the most trusted political party in Wales.

 

3 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The BBC is sliding right and has been since Cameron appointed his Tory cronies to the Board!  Right-wing hosts like Bruce and Laura Kunesberg are everywhere.

 

People groaned at Yusuf because what he said was awful!

 

 

I disagree. The BBC is biased. It may not necessarily be "leftist", but there is a distinct political bias in its news and documentary content. There is a group think. These content producers have come from a biased educational and training system.

3 hours ago, Nick Carter icp said:

 

   Reform will likely form the next UK Government .

Lib Dems or Greens wont be doing that 

Labor & Starmer really made a mess of National Sovereignty 

42 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

These content producers have come from a biased educational and training system.

Reeducation camps needed you think? #rhetorical

8 minutes ago, Palatus said:

Reeducation camps needed you think? #rhetorical

 

No. A return to unbiased education in universities and journalism schools. They have created a cadre of media workers who live in a deluded bubble, unaccountable for the damage they do.  They hire others who espouse their political and social views and attack those who disagree. One need only look at how the Martin Bashir web of deceit was managed to understand how pervasive the dishonesty is.   The BBC in particular is rotten to its core. The fiasco with Donald Trump's edited Panorama video speaks to the political bias of the show's producers. It is inexcusable that the BBC Arabic service intentionally misrepresents and presents false information on a weekly basis.    BBC Arabic has had to make 215 corrections and clarifications over the past two years on stories that were found to be biased, inaccurate or misleading. That's 2 stories a week that were false or inaccurate. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/09/bbc-forced-to-correct-two-gaza-stories-a-week/

 

And the worst part is that the BBC and its journalists refuse to acknowledge that it has a problem with its  integrity.

 

 

4 hours ago, superal said:

clearly an ambush on the political party Reform

Biased ambush? What I saw was five panelists of diversity expressing their viewpoints each as valid as any others, not sabotage. If anything, it highlighted how immigration debates are a minefield where sense of bias depends on your side of the fence.

24 minutes ago, Patong2021 said:

 

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/09/bbc-forced-to-correct-two-gaza-stories-a-week/

 

 

 

 

banging on about bias and suggesting a Torygraph article.....clear to see where your tent is pitched...

The BBC.

British, Biased, Corporation.

What's new. nothing. 

 

This whole discussion shows once again how much western society as a whole has move to the right.

5 hours ago, mikeymike100 said:

But this is nothing new, the BBC has been sliding left for 20 years, its now at tipping point!

 

5 hours ago, BeastOfBodmin said:

The BBC is sliding right and has been since Cameron appointed his Tory cronies to the Board!  

 

 

Two rather different views of the BBC. 

6 hours ago, Kinnock said:

The illegal immigrant was clearly reading a pre-prepared question on his phone, and he had a radio earpiece.  Just a BBC plant.  (And entering the country illegally is a crime, so the BBC is using people who commit crimes to ask their questions).

 

And if arranging an illegal immigrant to place questions on a programme about the impact of immigration on the UK is an acceptable action, I dread to think what the BBC would arrange for a programme about the stalled rape gang enquiry.  Would they think it's acceptable to place a Pakistani rapist in the audience?

All the Questions asked are pre-vetted, as they are for PMQs.

6 hours ago, superal said:

Thursday December 4 , BBC question time had an Immigration Special programme that was clearly an ambush on the political party Reforms Zia Yusuf who was told , only 2 minutes before the programme was going live on air , that there would be 2 illegal immigrants  ( small boat crossing from France ) in the audience and that they would be asking questions . All the other panelists were told the day before . Once again ( as I have said before on this forum ) the audience were biased against Yusuf and applauded the likes of the Green parties Polanski opinions . Indeed the QT presenter , Fiona Bruce , seemed to be making things difficult for Yusuf who was the only panelist who was speaking sense .

The BBC is supposed to have impartial views but is now under a lot of scrutiny as well as having a reputation for workplace bullying . Indeed the Beebs credibility has taken a downturn with a growing discontent from viewers with many refusing to pay for the TV licence .

Perhaps you have been watching too much GB News (no bias there eh?? #sarcasm) and have formed a biased opinion where the Zia Yusuf narrative came from.  

Two audience members with direct experience: former asylum seekers who'd arrived by small boat from France but have since been granted refugee status (so legally in the UK now, per BBC clarification). One (from Iran) questioned Reform's deportation plans and defended the ECHR, even referencing Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement. The other (from Afghanistan, rejected by six other countries en route) challenged Reform's stance on not needing "foreign doctors."

Yusuf later said on GB News that he was only told about them "two minutes before going live," while other panelists knew the day before—calling it a "bewildering" setup that felt like an ambush on Reform. He texted a reporter mid-broadcast to vent, and Reform has since filed a formal complaint, labeling it a "serious failure of impartiality" and "inappropriate" for a public broadcaster. Some viewers and X users piled on, spotting what looked like headphones on one questioner and accusing the BBC of "coaching" him with a script—fueling "defund the BBC" calls. You'd have to be blind not to see the agenda here. 

All parties were briefed Wednesday (December 3) about the participants, who weren't "illegal immigrants" but vetted contributors with lived experience to add balance.

43 minutes ago, Will Iam Not said:

 

Two rather different views of the BBC. 

And some humourless ctun decided to downvote even that.

6 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Hmm.  Reform only have 5 seats in parliament and yet get invited on Question Time far more frequently than Lib Dems or Greens.  Funny how the far right complain when ordinary people react to their horrible policies!

 

Nicely on topic there. Not.

24 minutes ago, WorriedNoodle said:

Perhaps you have been watching too much GB News (no bias there eh?? #sarcasm) and have formed a biased opinion where the Zia Yusuf narrative came from.  

Two audience members with direct experience: former asylum seekers who'd arrived by small boat from France but have since been granted refugee status (so legally in the UK now, per BBC clarification). One (from Iran) questioned Reform's deportation plans and defended the ECHR, even referencing Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement. The other (from Afghanistan, rejected by six other countries en route) challenged Reform's stance on not needing "foreign doctors."

Yusuf later said on GB News that he was only told about them "two minutes before going live," while other panelists knew the day before—calling it a "bewildering" setup that felt like an ambush on Reform. He texted a reporter mid-broadcast to vent, and Reform has since filed a formal complaint, labeling it a "serious failure of impartiality" and "inappropriate" for a public broadcaster. Some viewers and X users piled on, spotting what looked like headphones on one questioner and accusing the BBC of "coaching" him with a script—fueling "defund the BBC" calls. You'd have to be blind not to see the agenda here. 

All parties were briefed Wednesday (December 3) about the participants, who weren't "illegal immigrants" but vetted contributors with lived experience to add balance.

 

Yes, you'd have to be blind not to see the agenda here. QT well known for loading audiences and questions. 

 

Of course those entering illegally will complain about any hint of deportation.