Thread by @thefreepress2

Followers, it's that time!

Please RT into the top #bbcqt tweets our thread on the things Fiona Bruce WON'T tell you about this week's guests

Things like:

2 out of 5 guests this week are MILLIONAIRES

BBC promoting democratic, egalitarian debate as always... 1/

First up it's Michael Forsyth, the former Tory MP who appears to be involved with every cut throat, bonus-bloated finance company ever:

Chairman of Secure Trust Bank, Director of J&J Denholm, Director and Chairman of Hyperion Insurance Group, Deputy Chairman of JPMorgan UK... /2

"Lord Forsyth of Drumlean" as he's also known (in the unelected House of Lords) is a big fan of access to education.

"Voted for raising England’s undergraduate tuition fee cap to £9,000 per year"

"Consistently voted for university tuition fees"

/3

theyworkforyou.com/peer/13473/lor…

His Labour counterpart on the panel is Scottish Secretary Ian Murray

Murray is described as a "vocal critic of Jeremy Corbyn", a description that could be applied to the entire Shadow Cabinet

One wonders if they might be better being vocal critics of Boris Johnson... /4

Fans of civil liberties will be delighted to know that Murray

"Voted FOR mass surveillance of people’s communications and activities"

Butg "Voted AGAINST investigations into the Iraq war"

Transparency fine for Ian when it comes to your personal comms, but not govt. wars 😬/5

Up for the SNP is Jeanne Freeman, who's had a busy year as Scottish Health Secretary during the pandemic

Freeman was described as a "lobbyist and quangoteer" in an article in The Scotsman after a FOI request on "Freeman Associates" was denied 🤔

/6

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

Transparency emerging as the thread of this week's...thread

Enter Stephen Fitzpatrick, making his second QT appearance in a few months

"Fitz" is transparently a multi-millionaire

Our study on QT guests finds they are outrageously overrepresented /7

the-free-press.co.uk/question-time/

Fitzpatrick has enough money that he could throw £30 million of his own cash at a rubbish F1 Team

Those who frequent food banks (like Glasgow one with huge queues in image) will be delighted to have "one of their own" speaking for them on the show...

telegraph.co.uk/sport/motorspo…

/8

Still, at least we've got corporate journalist Angela Haggerty to speak up for common folk

According to her bio @AngelaHaggerty has written for "The Observer | Sunday Herald | BBC/STV/Sky News commentator

Contrary to what she says... /9

...this does not make her a "Risk taker | Troublemaker"

Corporate media outlets ONLY employ those who fit within the parameters of debate/comment the Establishment tolerates

For a recent example of this check out this eye-watering article

👇👇👇 /10

currentaffairs.org/2021/02/how-th…

That's all for this week's #questionabletime round-up of #bbcqt

If interested in learning more about the bias of QT guest selection (not right-wing/left-wing but ELITE) check out our research study, published today by @M_Star_Online

Reform required👊

the-free-press.co.uk/question-time/