IT'S EITHER 'QUESTION TIME' OR 'LISTEN WITH MOTHER'.

The winter schedules are returning to our TV screens, not least, our weekly dose of child-like politics by way of 'Question Time'. QT is typical of the BBC, a mixed political panel, plus a so-called celebrity, normally a 'champagne socialist', this week it was Steve Coogan. Now he is a waste of space when talking politics. His infantile manner, going on about plebs at every verse end, that was when he wasn't casting derogatory remarks about private education, which to him is the confined domain of the Tories. He was obviously unaware that he was sitting next to Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour Party, who had enjoyed a private education. The audience, as ever, was predominantly of the 'left'; selected largely to include Labour's client voter, people very often 'on the take'. Perhaps it would be fair to acknowledge Coogan's response regarding the deplorable situation in Rochdale, where a group of Asian men have been charged for grooming schoolgirls for sex. This has been going on for some time, and was known to the authorities; he at least suggested that the inaction was due to politically correct concerns.

The questions, as ever, were banal, ignoring  the chaos in the European Union. Whatever goes on in the UK is small beer, as we won't make any progress until we shed the yoke that is control from Brussels. The crowd, nevertheless, is always enthusiastic about taxing the wealth creators, with little or no attempt to get off their own backsides. They actually think that somebody else should find them a job, presumably by spending more of taxpayer GB's money. Another fact that is totally ignored, and that no panelist dare mention, which part of the £5trillion deficit do we spend in paying for all this 'robbing Peter to pay Paul' nonsense.

At least the programme is fodder for blogging purposes, and over the season, should include the odd 'maverick'.

WE CAN ONLY HOPE.