David Starkey Harriet Harman Victoria Coren fight on Question Time

Filmed on then day of Local Elections in the UK, May 2 2013. UKIP gained a record number of seats shaking up the political establishment at Westminster. Classic debate with Dimbleby in the Chair. An edited version.
View the full Programme here:
Part 1 • David Starkey Harriet ...
Part 2 • David Starkey Harriet ...

[@TheTranceCartel]

Dimbleby was laughing and smiling until he was called out, what a slimebucket

[@cyclist68]

Did you catch when he had a dig at Jacob Rees Mogg about him attending Eton. JRM replied "Yes that's right David, I was there with your son" Boom!

[@paulwild3676]

Like the Snow family. It is all about knowing the right people.

[@alunthomas2698]

@@cyclist68that was epic

[@221Dw]

Great to see David Dimbleby squirming. He looked terrified because its so true.

[@serenityinside1]

“ leave me out of it” dimbleby !

[@TheTranceCartel]

He was laughing until he was called upon

[@antonyware9887]

@@serenityinside1 true isn’t it, a pure product of BBC elitism

[@neilcraig7254]

Just watch the Question Time clip where he points out that Jacob Rees Mogg went to Eton...... He squirms even more at Moggs response! 😁

[@antonyware9887]

@@neilcraig7254 stupid of Dimblebore to say that. Like a lot , if not all, high achievers who have enjoyed a privileged background, socially, economically, educationally, they prefer to attribute their success down to personal brilliance and hard work rather than good fortune. Look at the buffoon who is our current PM

[@user-yf6nd4sn3k]

they totally missed the point of what was said by starkey, they copped out by choosing to take it as a personal attack, when really what he was saying is that there's a big disconnect between public opinion and political decision making because of an echo chamber effect in the govt/media establishment

[@user-yf6nd4sn3k]

doesnt make it any less true

[@glammer]

It's a fair point, though he uses a very small sample set of two on the right who came up from "nowt," the first time he's probably ever used that word, to back up his spurious claim that it's a liberal left issue. The House of Lords is hardly full of Che Guevara posters. We've just had almost the entire Johnson family from the right on our reality TV screens.

[@libertyordeaf]

@@glammer Quite right. His implication that only liberals or the left-wing share and hand down places in the media or polity is utter baloney. The panel of any given Question Time is not representative of the establishment as a whole.

[@sassquatch72apeape10]

Don't follow leaders and watch the parking meters.

[@quaid667]

@@sassquatch72apeape10 I'm on the pavement, thinking about the government

[@cadge]

Yes, the Coren children are certainly a bunch of 'system workers', can you imagine that Giles ever getting a job on merit?

[@1526andrews]

At least Victoria is slightly clever, Giles really is thick

[@jaquesravalec242]

Harriet Harman claims credit for something Barbara Castle achieved long before she came in.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

And Margaret Thatcher

[@lizclegg7556]

Its fascinating watching this 9 years later after the 2016 referendum. I often find Starkey is an old git but he was absolutely bang on here. And his summary of the backgrounds of the other people on the panel is also bang on.

[@royroyston8480]

Yes, but he's a preening, arrogant twat.

[@Daveinnorfolk]

Wow. Are you watching from the future?!

[@Mr___X]

@@Daveinnorfolk not the brightest, are you, dave?

[@CanadianMonarchist]

David Starkey would probably agree with you that he can be an old git.

[@brooke4627]

David Starkey has his plusses and minuses just like anyone. I didn't like his attitude towards Laurie Penny. However here he is totally accurate and needed. We actually needed someone of his intellect and strength of character to take down the hypocritical Harriet Harman and the complacent Shirley Williams. I am not on the right like Starkey is, but we deserve better than this champaign Socialist and this disgustingly smug Liberal both of whom are from privileged backgrounds.

[@johnwillis9534]

Those were the days when a discussion could be had.

[@charlesottowilliamwade5328]

Not really, it's just worse now than it was

[@987mattj]

Call this a discussion?

[@JohnJones-wo1bc]

Harriet Harman sat opposite me on a train from St Pancras, whilst her PA sat next to me. Ms Harman decided to talk to her PA requesting that she ask me a couple of questions. She did that at least twice in my earshot ( as if I was death). Rude, arrogant, out of touch and stupid is how I describe her. David Starkey was spot on about her.

[@timcolledge3732]

No surprise to hear this !!

[@jeffrey44]

@@timcolledge3732 You can hear it because you are not death, I mean deaf.

[@martinplatt5928]

He was. She is a very irritating and arrogant woman. David Starkey is RIGHT.

[@santorini8423]

@@seckie1001 typical leftie, go on, cancel me 🤣😂

[@hoboheathen8926]

She is also an enabler of the worse type of predator and I'll leave it there. Do your own research , skeletons dwell in her cupboard.

[@SgtAndrewM]

i saw this live and thought it was fucking great

[@totalgod90210]

Harmen had a hard time when she came into the HoC because she was a woman? She probably wouldn't ever mention Thatchers struggle though when she came into Parliament in 1959 now would she?

[@pendorran]

Or Barbara Castle, Pat Hornsby-Smith, etc.

[@theonlylampshade]

Harperson might like to remember that when she joined the House of Commons, there was a woman Prime Minister. That women fought to prove that women could do the job equally as good, or better as a man. Harmen fought for positive discrimination so that women could get jobs regardless of whether they were the best person for it.

[@keepingitwild5994]

@uklum 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@MrSupercampeao]

"hereditary journalist/comedian" spot on.

[@fhebbert]

Like Starkey, you say Coren has no comedic talent. I disagree. and while we're about it, how many poker tournaments had daddy won?

[@MrSupercampeao]

fhebbert Where? I didn't say that she has no talent and neither did Starkey. That was not the point or at least not mine. I don't think she is talentless and it is not a criticism of her - far from it. She has however followed (at least in respect of her role as a journalist/comedienne) in her father's footsteps. Not her fault of course but one cannot help but suspect that some of her success (at least initially at least) may owe something to her father...just like Dimbleby himself. I suppose it is therefore a mixed blessing to have a famous parent!

[@garthlyon]

I do not like former-"wheel-on" or "go-to prof"* Starkey for the BBC. However, on this occasion , he knocks it out of the park - and with the validation of hind-sight, correctly identified the missing 50% or more disconnected moiety of the electorate that voted Brexit in June 2016. A shock for the other 50% of the electorate represented by "politics as a profession" panelists like Harmann. ___________________________________ *regardless of topic/expertise required

[@gollumtheartisticnewt1028]

Coren got to her place totally through her father.

[@robcousins231]

Her father was a world class poker player?

[@core-nix1885]

@@robcousins231 easy to keep a poker face when you've still got a cool million in trust funds could've spent years learning and practicing, given that she didn't have to work for a living give me a fat cash injection and a few months to train, I'd be a top dog in no time

[@punkphloyd]

@@core-nix1885 No you wouldnt.

[@jazztheglass6139]

Harrit Harman worked alongside PIE in the 80'S

[@pizzaboy4463]

In what way did Harriet Harman fight for equal pay, given that the Equal Pay Act was enacted in 1970 and she became an MP in 1997?

[@1526andrews]

She Became an MP in 82, but you're right . The left like to pretend they are out confronting grave injustices (Crobyn and Abbott) when most of that work is already done.

[@stephenroney2366]

B.T.W. P.I.E. means Paedophile Information Exchange. I believe her husband was affiliated with the group. He became like her a Labour MP.

[@mathieuleader8601]

Harman being as hypocritical as usual with an equally condescending answer

[@mellowb1rd]

Victoria Coren is so irritating. She can't say the simplest of things without a huge surge of "By golly I hope I sound intelligent" running through it

[@worldpeace8299]

mellowb1rd Everyone hates someone. Sometimes for the the weirdest of reasons. Makes you feel glad to be born into this world

[@WakeupMEDlA]

mellowb1rd yes shes the typical pseudo intellectual bourgeois ideologue.

[@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels]

mellowb1rd True, but you would, wouldn't you?

[@thunderc45]

Nickel arse After that twats been there!! Probably not.

[@TheGalacticEmperorOfLabels]

thunderc45 Yeah, fair point. Having taken that on board, I probably wouldn't.

[@ashleyburns6752]

If you come from a working class background in the UK it is very difficult to move up the ladder and it is dominated by middle class establishment figures from the media to politics to business such as Coren, Harmen, and both sides of the house.

[@Mr___X]

i'd disagree with this, you can climb the ladder, in fact a majority of working class people have done precisely that since thatcher and then blair made social mobility a key part of their bribery to the british people at the cost of...well, the rest. however, you will probably only get so far up the ladder before realising just how big it really is. the middle class is now huge, however the differences between the lower middle classes and upper middle classes has probably never been greater.

[@19sept76]

Vote Labour and climb up the greasy pole

[@Aerojet01]

@@Mr___X Only a few succeed compared to an overwhelming number of entitled people. This world isn't designed for the poor, it's designed for wealthy families who make it difficult for the working class to succeed, unless you're dynamic and start your own business.

[@Mr___X]

@@Aerojet01 not really, many 'succeed'. that's the point, blair's britain was all about giving out participation medals. half of people under 40 will have degrees. the trick is giving people the illusion of social mobility. you're woefully out of date thinking it's 'the rich', as if we're still in 1922, who make it difficult for success to happen. wrong! true success is impossible because exceptionalism is denied to those who aspire to be something more than being a cog in the machine.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher, and David Starkey made it, but it was certainly hard for them.

[@paulmelville2126]

Starky is rude, but most of what said was true and he was spot on with UKIP. Brexit only happed because of a weak government failed, allowing a strong voice in UKIP to succeed.

[@alftupper9359]

Fascinating to watch this now after nearly three years of our protest vote to leave the EU being totally ignored. Starkey was spot on in describing the disconnect between the cosy elites and the lowly working and welfare classes.

[@folksinger2100]

Yet Starkie is a member of s cosy privileged elite

[@alftupper9359]

@@folksinger2100 Well, as he says, he wasn't born into it. He had to put the work in. I think it's called meritocracy. Or should no-one rise and better themselves in your book?

[@thesprawl2361]

@@alftupper9359 Almost everyone thinks they 'put the work in'. Most people on earth, no matter how privileged, believe that. It doesn't make them right. And your nauseating fantasy land britain, the ';lowly working classes' and the 'cosy elites', is like something out of a Victorian baron's most fatuous reveries.

[@thebigspliffdaddy5470]

@@thesprawl2361 when the life expectancy between the richest area in the UK to the cheapest is nearly 30 years I'd say there is a cosy class and lowly working class

[@thesprawl2361]

@@thebigspliffdaddy5470 And you think poor ickle Starkey is part of that lowly working class?

[@libertyordeaf]

Starkey has a point here but he's such an attention-seeking provocateur that he trips over his ego while making it.

[@mickpenning6132]

Has a point here? But he was proved to be wrong in his views -Wasn't he?

[@noelpucarua2843]

His attention seeking ego is his point.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

That's true

[@kevinsimpson8686]

Starkey can trip on his own ego as many times as he wants as long as he is totally correct in his description of the privileged nobody’s that make no contribution to the working class’s fight for a better life.

[@pizzaboy4463]

But he makes no pretence ar false modesty and that's an honest position. Unlike the ego-based virtue signallers who delude themselves.

[@tonyclifton265]

david starkey is epic. it was awesome when he called out the smug tw4ts on that panel for being lucky heirs who didnt have to struggle and they got triggered ( especially dimbleby) LOL bravo, starkey!

[@martinplatt5928]

100% correct. David Starkey nailed all of them.

[@fishfoodlad]

Ugh he's so correct

[@hunterluxton5976]

Starkey is spot on. He calls out the privileged who pretend to be likecthecrest of us, their goal is power, they are narcissistic in the full bodied meaning of the word.

[@johnwaters9899]

He's a horrible, self-obsessed Prick, and his comment here are him to a tee. Yes. He came from humble beginnings, but he sure as shit ain't humble now, because he now views himself as an elitist academic who is cleverer than his peers. I came from nowt. I have stuff now, and so I don't want to give my taxes up. You can almost excuse a privileged person for being a snob, because they were brought up to be self-entitled and know no different. He, in the other hand, us the worst kind of snob. A working class one. A little rat, who climbs a ladder and then promptly pulls it away from anyone else, to stop them from being able to climb it.

[@tynebar]

He'd never be spot on if he lived to be 150 years

[@Mr___X]

@@johnwaters9899 If you think he's the one who's pulled up the ladder, you have your head up your jacksie. Absolutely clueless.

[@jackkruese4258]

The privileged have a huge sense of entitlement.

[@Aerojet01]

@@jackkruese4258 I agree. He was spot on about women fighting for equity. Only if you're from a certain class.

[@paratrooper6]

Thanks for a good chuckle.

[@paulbuckland132]

The very last point made by Ms Coren, that peaceful protesting is ignored, is spot on, and something I have always said. Its the reason we are allowed to do it.

[@davebrayfb]

Yep, she's spot on about it alright. I'll give you a clear example. I'm from Ireland, & when people were protesting peacefully for equal rights Catholics in the North of Ireland they were ignored, when the protests turned violent they were shown on TV in Ireland, Britain, America & even in parts of the Soviet Bloc. The most famous one was the Civil Rights Protest March on 30th January 1972 better known as Bloody Sunday in Derry, when the British Army shot dead 14 Catholic Civilians. After that thousands of young men around 17/16 - 23/24 years of age joined both wings of the IRA who only about 18 months earlier had about 300 Volunteers, after Bloody Sunday both the Provo & Official IRA wings had around 2,500 new recruits each to choose and this was just in Derry, even more people joined the Belfast IRA's,

[@sramcs]

Haha david starkey doesnt give a damn

[@grahamreeve673]

Specifically about facts

[@pianobanter]

Adam Balding Protesting a bit too much? Enjoying yourself by the sound of it.

[@pizzaboy3946]

He does, but about what matters and not about virtue signalling.

[@ellecto]

I think his point was more about a general feeling amongst the electorate, not (perverse as it may seem), about what politicians have actually achieved. They'd long gone off topic by the time Harman started defending her position. I think it's an entirely fair point to say that there is a kind of educated and often London-centric elite which feeds directly into the political party system (and other 'high flying' areas), and which most people have no point of relation to whatsoever.

[@porkbroth]

We had already had a female prime minster for three years when Harmen became an MP

[@kellycheung999]

Starkey is the academic historian version of Jonny Rotten :)

[@scottb32a]

of Nigel Farage more like

[@MAC-mp2hu]

I think that those who dislike David Starkey are always unwilling to accept the uncomfortable truths of the world!

[@crickman76]

He might have a point here but he ruins it all by being a racist piece of shit.

[@SaguarosPlants]

Such as all tories are scum

[@johnm9845]

That's hilarious. Uncomfortable truths i e. what you agree with. Also, whatever his political views hes just naturally loathsome. Dropped by university and publisher for racist remarks presumably for promoting those uncomfortable truths. Forced to apologise later so had to admit his mistake

[@carltonlibertine]

Shirley Williams answers the question. People vote UKIP not because they are racist, it's because they are sick of formula politics.

[@theonlylampshade]

UKIP has allot of racists in the party, but that is quite irelevent. As they've become more popular they have no doubt felt isolated by the more mainstream views that aren't racist. You're spot on, people vote for them because they're sick of the mainstream parties. I won't vote for them, but i cringe whenever anyone dismisses them as racists. It's just arrogant

[@fredrich99]

theonlylampshade Do a google search and you will find members of the other political parties are just as racist . Not that thats a good thing its not .

[@kakapofan6542]

@@fredrich99 I feel that everyone is racist, the way you know if they let it affect how they act is the effort they put into educating themselves on racial politics, not just by people like themselves, but also the people who are worse off from it.

[@adamgrimsley2900]

He's right, he's a popping jay but he's right.

[@Frohicky1]

If only Coren did think about that responsibility.

[@paulh7360]

wow remember when question time was actually entertaining.

[@stephenroney2366]

Fiona Bruce should go back to talking to old folk, getting grannies vase valuated.

[@dobbinthehorse]

i remember watching this at the time and how how wrong was i. david starkey spoke the truth and the other ppl are proper cowards.

[@tynebar]

he's the coward, calling people but he daren't look them in the eye for a second.

[@brianlopez8855]

9 years on and the UK is out of EU: Result ! Starkey is right on the money as always. Dimbleby was finally de-throned from QT and his brother from the BBC's Any Questions. Coren, is as smug as her father was.

[@Cashback13]

and how is the country better than 10 years ago?

[@stephenfolds822]

"Don't you patronize me.." Girl, you would be a nobody if it weren't for the patriarchs and matriarchs in your family whose coattails you rode in on...

[@MaxwellBennett]

i want to watch the whole episode

[@josephlennon8475]

Harriot Harman, Victoria Coren and Shirley Williams, shown up for what they are by a brilliant historian and anylast. When parliament goes, these three stooges will go with it. Let's make it sooner, rather than later.

[@brianlopez8855]

Harriot and Victoria left.

[@nsotd4]

2 days ago, May 2nd on the day of the UK local elections.

[@sirmalus5153]

You can always tell when someone is used to privelage in their daily lives, they 'see' and 'identify' with the struggles the working class have to put up with. Yeah, just until they go around the corner and wash their hands.

[@edwardm250]

great viewing

[@alanwitton5039]

God Bless you David Starkey

[@SpielinWhelan]

There is no God and if there was he wouldn't bless that obnoxious piece of work

[@adamgoudie7418]

Victoria Coren the only sensible one there by far. Starkey off on one - "my mum used to scrub floors" oh grow up!

[@peterdavis3210]

The women having a go at him were all ignoring the point he was making either deliberately or because they didn't understand it.

[@thunderc45]

How the hell could Dave Dimbles for a minute consider he was free from the classic BBC nepotism tribes. The royal lineage of BBC Dimbleby will likely reign longer than the House of Hanover! My god didn't those leg-up merchants squirm with the notion their presence was merely on the back of their parent's talent

[@theseeker3771]

He's wonderful.....

[@Sawrattan]

3:01 Justine trying not to grin like a Cheshire cat

[@MrSupercampeao]

I didn't say she has no talent and neither did Starkey. That was not the point.

[@guglesux6327]

No idea who David Starkey is but he's spot on here.

[@stephenpark8133]

Both his Parents are from Bolton, moved to Kendal for work, David was born there and went to Kendal Grammer School.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

He’s a famous historian of Tudor England.

[@waftychizler3994]

It's odd to watch Starkey place the class card. It's the politics of lacking policy though, the lack of real answers. You don't need results, you just need the voters to dislike the other guy more. And class, race, and principles, are all weaponry when you lack ideas.

[@waftychizler3994]

@John Morris absolutely; it's perverse when the likes of Farage, Reese-Mogg, even Johnson, present themselves as representing the interests of working-class people. It doesn't take to much searching and back-reading to find who they really represent, and who their political ideologies benifit. And, it's not the ordinary person, that's for sure.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@waftychizler3994The trouble is that Labour also seems unable to appeal to the ordinary voter. Their last leader from a working class background was Neil Kinnock.

[@Ulric-Wolfshead-Khan]

David Starkey brilliant...

[@muchopomposo.6394]

You gotta love Starkey..! You're always guaranteed some argey-bargey when he's on any panel. Bravo sir! 🎉

[@LouiseAnnHalliday]

Good old David Starkey

[@123jataylor]

ultimately starkey is correct.

[@MiltiadesOfMarathon]

Starkey is a baller.

[@gregw4303]

He’s speaking some sense.

[@TheTradWarrior]

Harriet Harperson is outed and so can't cope with it that she is nearly beside herself with tears of indignation!

[@paulwild3676]

Harman is exactly what he said she is. A rich convent school girl related to titled people. Ellen Wilkinson she is not. The people’s flag is deepest red, as long as it isn’t flying over the posh school I went to.

[@tonyclifton265]

this is fantastic. found it by chance and I'm glad I did. starkey is great!

[@sammyt1111]

As usual David destroys the weak politically-correct out of touch hacks that are so typical of Question Time

[@robert-hh2ft]

but you cant burst the bubble of these people obviosly they are so wise and intelligent that cant be put down

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

You've got to admire Starkey's chutzpah in giving himself a licence to be right wing because he "came up from nowt"

[@d.f.4830]

I think that’s a likely outcome. Against-the-odds success often seduces people into believing in a functioning meritocracy, leading them to right-wing ideas. It’s a very “I made it; what’s your excuse?” way of looking at the world.

[@peterhoare3754]

To me, the most jealous one is Starkey. He makes a good point but then ruins it by bleating on about his mother. As if to say "Your work for women is hypocritical and meaningless because you had a wealthy upbringing." I hate it when people indulge in competitive struggle/poverty stories.

[@mrfox8256]

Starkey hanging out the fishing rods 🤣

[@petewright3240]

He isn't bn patronising condescending etc he's talking the truth.

[@angiehenno3941]

Version 2

[@tonywalters3111]

Good to see David Starkey hasn’t lost his working class Cumbrian accent.....

[@RickyB464]

You really have no idea do you...

[@petermills542]

@@RickyB464 He's obviously taking the micky out of Starkey's very pompous manner, which is far removed from his 'floor scrubbing' Mother no doubt!!

[@plokijm22]

In the days when Starkey went to school, if you wanted to go to Cambridge and make something of your life like he did... you were taught to drop your accent. Nothing to do with "forgetting" his roots

[@paulwild3676]

He is a Westmorlander for your information,born in Kendal.

[@Chris-the-Saxon]

David is right as usual!

[@mn5499]

You can’t stump the Starkey

[@npc3po301]

Starkey-slapped their nepotistic lips off into the car park lol, magnificant moment, silenced but currently re-emerging like the veritable pheonix, I wish him well

[@martinjohnson9316]

Me too. It says everything about how low the BBC has sunk, that they w'ont have him appear again for one mistake he made (and publicly apologised for) yet one of their mainline presenters can get away with the same 'crime' yet still be in a job.

[@alexcollier9584]

David Starkey speaking as though he has just had an in-depth conversation with Bell Hooks and embraced her ideas on intersectionality 🤣

[@d.f.4830]

People starting with left-wing premises and deriving right-wing conclusions is depressingly common

[@CanadianMonarchist]

I would actually love to have watched that! I suppose bell hooks is dead. Maybe a clairvoyant could contact her spirit and go visit David Starkey? I should clarify I’m being silly; I don’t have a lot of faith in clairvoyants .

[@AmyWinehouse.914]

Let's not forget Harriet Harman supported PIE in the 70s.

[@mathewamphlett7377]

Harriet Harmann should be remembered for fighting for P.I.E. along with her partner.

[@arynrowland862]

I love how when he was talking about the “cozy, pat-on-the-back club” politics is, Baroness Shirley pats him on the back.

[@grahamreeve5209]

"I wasn't condescending" well that would be first.

[@wezzmusic]

Whether you like David Starkey or not, you cannot deny that he speaks his mind.

[@robdale88]

Yeah shame that mind is full of pompous tory nonsense

[@johnwaters9899]

Exactly EladTrebor. He doesn't speak for validity, he speaks for self-attention. He's always done it. He never answers a single question without looking down his nose and snearing at something or someone. He did it here. He smears an entire group of people and patronises every one if then in the process, then spits his dummy out and says "I won't be condascended to" when he gets a taste of his own medicine and the journalist lass makes him look a silly little boy. He's got his head so far up his own arse it's a wonder he doesn't choke on it. If does explain why he talks shit, though.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@robdale88 Better than pompous Labour nonsense

[@robdale88]

@@CanadianMonarchist I know you are, you said you are, but what am I

[@colinbaker3916]

Victoria Coren - she then was - has found happiness and acknowledge that she was lucky to find David Mitchell. He in turn has expressed how much he loves her. Their engagement and wedding were joyfully traditional. David Starkey, content to resort to irrelevant ad hominems in response to a question about the Eastleigh by election, makes me wonder whether he is ever happy as a gay right winger.

[@MrXaphus]

Colin Baker How is describing each of the panellists family backgrounds an ad hominem? Starkey didn't insult their characters in the slightest, he simply reminded people of something worth taking into account when progressing the debate. He was making a wider point about the detachment from the political and media classes from the ordinary person by highlighting their family history (as a historian he is well qualified to do so), which underpinned his argument about the vacuum that UKIP inhabited. Harriet Harman plays the 'i'm for all women' card but Starkey is correct to say female liberation favours richer, well-connected women like her first and foremost - that is not an ad hominem attack because it is rooted in historical fact. Why do you think there have been repeated attempts, or waves, of feminism down the years instead of one swift, continuous movement? The wave has fallen in accordance with the wealthiest among their ranks achieving their desired level of parity on their own agendas, but then the women's movement rises up again when suddenly that isn't enough for the affluent women anymore. Wealth is a sickness because absolute power corrupts absolutely, and lust for power is never slaked.

[@colinbaker3916]

He was referring to their backgrounds to make the point that only he and Justine Greening got anywhere without a family leg up. If even we disagree on that, it had nothing to do with the Eastleigh by election, which was what the question was about. There are pundits from left and right whose appearances on Question Time leave the impression that they live lives without happiness.

[@mrjwh5980]

Harman so quick to bring up the angle on gender equality when described (accurately) as an hereditary careerist. Yet Starkey also mentioned Greening as the only other panellist to come from 'nowt'. Thus if he was offending Harman somehow for her gender; he was doing the opposite for Greening, which shows an equality of opinion regardless of gender.

[@missrachael1709]

Know nothing about Starkey but he came across as a bit of a pompous rude dude.....didn't like letting the women speak without interruption that's for sure. How awesome is Coren tho.

[@angiehenno3941]

Version 1

[@angiehenno3941]

Mia as Beaver Emma as Bear Andrea as Rabbit Olivia as Raccoon Stephanie as Mr. Owl Livi as Fox Kate as Goose Naomi as Franklin

[@magiclocortez9389]

"does the panel think that boris johnson would make a better boris johnson than boris johnson".

[@sbowley23]

David Starkey is a legend. BY FAR the most intelligent person in the room.

[@samlangdon9879]

Have you changed your mind about this now he's been sacked for rascism?

[@samlangdon9879]

@Catherine Hill It's not about my opinion, it's about the racism.

[@gloriousrevolutionary2306]

@@samlangdon9879 It was a stupid joke, get over it!

[@dustyboi8975]

Starkey is an old fusty dinosaur with old dusty opinions. Don’t let the veneer of old well spoken English man fool you. He’s rarely said anything worthwhile.

[@Ribbo]

David was the most intelligent person in his own mind, that's for sure...

[@samuelwragg8615]

Good old David Starkey putting these political elite in their place

[@countycricklewood]

Ms Corens subtle sideswipe @ the old fruitcake and snob Starkey was quite amusing

[@DessieTots]

Stopped watching this a long time ago. No David Starkey, no George Galloway, no point.

[@marilynlewis6253]

I'd love to see David Starkey argue with that Katie Hopkins whose been appearing on This Morning lately :p

[@paulwild3676]

What would they argue about? Hopkins says it as it is like him.

[@notrut]

Starkey gone up in my estimation... ... Harman couldn't go any lower because she already is the bottom of the barrel with more faces than a Rubik Cube.

[@d.d.4703]

When QT was worth watching. Haven't watched it since it became woke, and panelists became frightened to say what they really think, or dare not speak about elephants in the room, for fear of backlash, so just speak in platitudes instead.

[@martinjohnson9316]

Alot of the what the BBC does is woke & biased, not just QT...why i cancelled my TV licence.

[@rebellion2054]

@@martinjohnson9316 there’s endless cringe in nearly every single programme and column the BBC produces. I don’t blame you for cancelling. It’s painful and alienating.

[@martinjohnson9316]

@@rebellion2054 The BBC wokeness has even spread to the radio ''World service'' overnight. I am sick of tuning in at say, 3am, thinking i'll be safe from it and there's a programme about LGBT black americans being disadvantaged in 1960's USA. Nothing against that minority of people per se, BUT you'd think they were a majority, the number of programmes the bbc makes about them. Bias in action!

[@avisionofsorrow]

Starkey slapped some truth around but unfortunately didn't have any support for the backlash. He is unabashedly honest and I love him for that.

[@denisdaly1708]

na, he is a condescending narcissist. entitled racist.

[@dariusdoodoo]

Harriet Harman was almost crying at the end after exposure to the truth of her life.

[@angiehenno3941]

Beaver as Nancy Goose as Bree Harriet as Jojo Bear as Lionel Rabbit as Freddy Raccoon as Jonathan

[@angiehenno3941]

Bear as Fry Beaver as Leela Mr. Owl as Bender Goose as Amy Wong Rabbit as Dr. Zoidberg Fox as Hermes

[@angiehenno3941]

Bear as Finley Franklin as Dex Beaver as Jesse Goose as DJ Badger as Isabelle Rabbit as Miguel

[@mrsose1872]

Where Mick Jagger went to school, well Question Time seems quite cool now

[@angiehenno3941]

Bear as Frank Rabbit as Buster Fox as Ned Beaver as Mitzi Mr. Owl as George Raccoon as Sammy Goose as Josie Skunk as Alice Franklin as Archie Badger as Penny Mrs. Goose as Lolly

[@colinstewart1432]

Question Time is a pointless exercise. Questions reviewed in advance and a stacked audience.

[@The3rdRail826]

I wish David starkey would of been a politician.

[@johnwakefield3141]

That's what I call exposure thank you mr starkey.