BBC Question Time

[SussexFamily]

Originally Posted by Moorlandman

Thursday night’s Question Time featured a lengthy racist rant by an audience member: “Close the borders, completely close the borders,” she frothed with hateful rage, adding in lies about foreigners being showered with never-ending freebies while destroying the education system and the NHS. It took the commentator Ash Sarkar to challenge her unabashed bigotry with truth, pointing to research that migrants pay in more to the state than they get back.

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Ash sarkah 🤮

Nhs spend millions each year on translators -how does that work?

[quartergill]

It is amazing how likeable Michael Portillo is now as a TV presenter. His programmes are really good. So different from the persona he portrayed as a politician. Ed Balls is the same. If only people could be themselves when they are/become politicians.

[Ds4ljs]

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

I’m not surprised ... we’re the audience bussed in?

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I don’t know but it was all a bit bizarre. There were certain questions we were ‘advised’ against asking and it was the same people on the audience who were chosen to put their points across despite a wide range of people putting their hand up to speak. I became a bit disillusioned after that.

[SussexFamily]

Originally Posted by Ds4ljs

I don’t know but it was all a bit bizarre. There were certain questions we were ‘advised’ against asking and it was the same people on the audience who were chosen to put their points across despite a wide range of people putting their hand up to speak. I became a bit disillusioned after that.

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Stage managed too much now - I’ll certainly watch next weeks from the Boro !

[Loftus]

Originally Posted by Moorlandman

Thursday night’s Question Time featured a lengthy racist rant by an audience member: “Close the borders, completely close the borders,” she frothed with hateful rage, adding in lies about foreigners being showered with never-ending freebies while destroying the education system and the NHS. It took the commentator Ash Sarkar to challenge her unabashed bigotry with truth, pointing to research that migrants pay in more to the state than they get back.

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The audience member who turns out to be a Tommy Robinson supporter and former National Front candidate and was seated front and centre.
Blooming left wing bias...

[Nimbus]

Originally Posted by SussexFamily

Nhs spend millions each year on translators -how does that work?

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Well, they pay some people who know at least two languages (one of them English) a fair wage to express the sense of words from another language into English (and vice versa) for those people who don't speak English. I think that's how it works.

The NHS spends less than 0.01% of it's total spend on translators - so it's a fairly tiny amount. If somehow the NHS no longer had any need for translators whatsoever it would make very little difference to the NHS's budget.

Of course, the NHS needs translators not just for immigrants but also for the millions of visitors we get to the UK every year. At least those immigrants do pay for those translators in the form of taxes - on average they each contribute more than the rest of us do. Perhaps we should shut down our £200+ billion tourism industry and stop the rest of those bloomin' foreigners from ever visiting us?