Question Time 12th December 2024
The Panel:
Wes Streeting (Labour)
Tom Tugenhat (Conservative)
Nigel Huddleston (Conservative)
Christine Jardine (LibDem)
Emma Dabiri (Writer)
Piers Morgan (Broadcaster)
Venue: Beckenham
Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Lauren. With something to say on a subject close to her sweet schoolgirl’s heart, she entered the Speak Out Challenge to say it. Although mild by the norms of public discourse in these troubled days, her carefully chosen words, recited while waving a little flag, triggered some. Banned by the meanies, local MP Wes Streeting came to the rescue and, in the interests of free speech, cute Lauren was reinstated. You can enjoy her performance here.
Years later, Lauren was old enough to stand for parliament – and she did. In the July 2024 general election, Lauren Mohammed stood for Hamas in Wes Streeting’s Ilford North constituency and almost beat him, cutting his majority from 5,000 to 500. A message there, both about gratitude and about MPs who assume allowing mass, uncontrolled, unlimited immigration will fill their constituencies with grateful voters.
While the aspiring lower middle classes embarrass themselves with wood-burning stoves and freemasonry, the upper classes make fools of themselves by giving their children multiple stupid names. Previously, QT Review HQ cringed before Rees-Mogg’s six children’s 22 names, running from Alphenge to Wulfic. As further proof that Rees-Mogg isn’t posh, rather well-married and monied via trade, Jacob is challenged by tonight’s panellist Tom Tugenhat. Not his real name, Thomas Georg John Tugendhat MBE VR, is the son of High Court judge Sir Michael Tugendhat and his French wife, Blandine de Loisne.
Blandine is the daughter of Pierre-Charles Marie Menche de Loisne and Françoise de Romanet de Beaune and one of five siblings. Therefore, Tom’s uncles and aunts by blood on that side of the family enjoy being monikered (in alphabetical order): Blandine, Eudes, Henri, Henri-Raphael, Jean, Jean, Marie, Marie, Marie, Marie, Marie-Josephe, Mathilde, Michel, Pierre, Phillippe & Therese.
Going back another generation, we have a winner. I can’t quite get my tongue around her. No, don’t. Stop it. Don’t. Behave. Not this close to Christmas. The lot of you. Fortunately, for the benefit of the podcast, Puffins have a favourite French film star both expert at such things and available. Tom’s great-grandmother was: Thérèse Anne Marie Espivent de La Villesboisnet de La Prevalaye.
Both readers and listeners will be pleased to discover that although this humble reviewer’s French is a bit rusty, his Pidgin Loire-Atlantique-Morbihanic is excellent. I can assure the reader that Therese – one of the Nantes Espivent de La Villesboisnet de La Prevalayes – is monied via descent from lords of the squire, commissioners of the navy and ship owners on France’s northwestern Atlantic coast.
Great grandson and man of the people Tom attended St Paul’s School (£51,000 per annum inc VAT). There followed the University of Bristol, where he studied theology. Later he earned a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. [My heart, you would say Gonville and ‘keys’]. The 51-year-old entered parliament in 2015 and serves as the Conservative MP for Tonbridge and Malling.
As ever, the dullard of the family is exiled to Question Time. Tom’s uncle, also of Gonville and Caius, after £54,000 pa Ampleforth, is Christopher Tugendhat, a journalist, author and member of the House of Lords. A former European Commissioner, Chairman of Abbey National and Blue Circle, advisor to Lehman Brothers and a director of both Rio Tinto and Eurotunnel, Christopher is even the survivor of an IRA assassination attempt.
They can be sacked, resign, be implicated in a phone hacking scandal and caught insider trading with their wife’s life savings. Be photographed laughing and joking with numerous paedophiles, embarrass the Army with fake photographs of Iraqi prisoners being mistreated and be reduced to broadcasting only on YouTube. But you still can’t get rid of them.
Piers Morgan, not his real name, Piers Stefan O’Meara-Pughe-Morgan, was educated at the £28,000 a year Cumnor House, Sussex and is a journalism graduate of Harlow College. A bit of a mouthful, we shall refer to Mr O’Meara-Pughe-Morgan by his nom de guerre (or rather his nom de Going-Postal) of Penis Moron. After a long and controversial career in London media, unemployable Mr Moron now has his own YouTube channel. On the latest episode of ‘Piers Morgan Uncensored’, Penis introduces an all-star guest lineup of Natalie Winters, Caly Travis, Brianna Joy and Maahad Ali. Oh.
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Question one. Are the government’s housing plans an assault on our green and present land? La Bruce summarised a new housing regime which sees more power to Westminster’s elbow in planning disputes. No, said Wes, it’s an attack on people not being able to rent or buy. It’s a simple supply and demand issue. He had plenty to say about supply but omitted to mention demand being rocket-fuelled by mass, uncontrolled immigration.
The debate settled around London’s green belt, which Wes decided consists of disused petrol stations and scrubland. But Mr Streeting objected to 800 homes being built in his own constituency, pointed out La Bruce. It was on playing fields, Wes objected. Such good reasons can now be overruled by the new housing regulations, pointed out Fiona.
Nigel Huddleston, Tory MP for Droitwich and Evesham, boasted the previous government built one and a half million homes, albeit in 14 years. At a rate of slightly more than 100,000 a year, well below the 300,000 annual total the Tories promised. Yes, Nigel Huddleston. The advertised Tom Tugendhat hadn’t turned up. Perhaps writing the names on Christmas cards for his aristocratic Gallic relatives over-ran? Or maybe he was having a sold kidney removed to pay for the postage to France?
A gentleman in the audience said it was a pipe dream for people like him to be able to buy a home. By ‘people like him’ we shall assume a Londoner incapable of leaving London. If we look on the property selling websites, our Home Counties friend can buy a house up the North with his credit card. However, we will be generous and allow him things like doors, glass in the windows and a roof. Prices for a two-bed, one-bath, one-reception property in South Shields start around the £40,000 mark. Problem solved.
It ain’t going to happen, said Penis. He offered Mr Streeting a wager. A pound to charity for every home Wes doesn’t build below the 1.5 million promised during this parliament. Mr Moron referenced Hammersmith Bridge and Notre Dame, both of which suffered building trouble five years ago. Since then Notre Dame, at least on the inside, is rebuilt whereas crack-infested Hammersmith Bridge is still shut. West London dwellers such as Moron have their Aston Martins stuck in the traffic, he wailed.
There hasn’t been a new reservoir in Britain since 1992. High-speed rail is awesomely more expensive here than in Continental Europe. Piers has three sons; housing is incredibly expensive for the young. I was hoping to send Les Morgans to the Muslim half of a wrecked mill town, but the guide prices there are distorted by the auctioning of multiple-occupancy buy-to-let benefits-funded slums. Back to South Shields then. For the price of Mr Moron’s Aston Martin, he could have bought each of his sons a house there for cash.
Christine thought such things are developer not community-led. Unfortunately, the new rules will be Westminster-led rather than community-led. Despite a weighty cadre of new, young MPs following the summer general election, QT presents the same old, same old. Christine Jardine is the LibDem Member of Parliament for Edinburgh West and has been since 2017. The 64-year-old is a graduate of the University of Glasgow, where she studied politics and economics. Before entering the House of Commons, Christine was a BBC wallah as a journalist with the corporation.
Is there a reason for this? Yes. The new MPs are lobby fodder. Devoid of any real-life experience, they vote en mass how they’re told to by the party high-ups and by lobbyists paid for by extra-democratic globalist institutions and big business. For example, the passing of the recent euthanasia bill and, no doubt, the covering of the green belt in concrete.
Emma Dabiri worried that a help-to-buy policy would push up prices. There needs to be more houses. She then blamed Brexit. Yawwwwwn. It’s not a housing crisis but rather a housing catastrophe. One of the Dublin Dabiris, Emma is an Irish author, academic, broadcaster and race obsessive. Her debut book, ‘Don’t Touch My [frizzy black?] Hair’ hit the shelves in 2019. Specialising in race, race, race, race, race and race, Emma is also a qualified journalist and a graduate in African Studies from the London School of Oriental and African Studies. Pleasing to the discerning gentleman’s eye, when still a student Emma’s modelling work morphed into television presenting with BBC Four’s ‘Britain’s Lost Masterpieces’ and Channel 4 documentaries such as ‘Is Love Racist?’
Question two. Why does the NHS take so long to treat people? Nigel wanted an integrated approach that would stop us from being ill in the first place and, presumably, somehow stop us from becoming old. Is this what that euthanasia bill was about? Eeek. This isn’t a spending arms race. The NHS improved over the previous government. Mr Moron interrupted, calling the previous government a disaster. ‘Let me tell you my experience,’ he continued. Moron told the audience about his mother’s heart attack. In A&E, she’d been on a trolley in a corridor for eight hours alongside 35 other patients.
Nobody mentioned the pressure that uncontrolled immigration puts upon the Health Service but an audience member did say, without uttering the ‘I’ word, that the population has risen from 50 million when the NHS was founded to 70 million today.
The next question was about the murder of ten-year-old Sara Sharif. Apparently, this is to do with home-schooling, not the Pakistani brutes who killed her. La Bruce pointed out there was no need to mention the savagery, just the home-schooling. To his credit, Piers Morgan ignored the chair and reminded us Sara’s father had been allowed custody of the victim despite his history of violence against women and children. Everybody knew. The police, social services, school and family courts all failed her. There were 15 occasions when someone official should have stepped in. Sara was failed by her monstrous father and stepmother but was also failed by the authorities – that is why she is dead.
Emma agreed. The issue of homeschooling is misleading. The school was aware of the girl’s injuries and did nothing. Emma blamed chronic underfunding and the resultant crumbling social infrastructure. La Bruce wanted a register of home-schooling and so did Wes. Nigel wanted one too. Nobody mentioned the part played by immigration, immigration and yet more immigration, from countries where women and girls are treated appallingly.
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