Remainers livid as BBC QT particular to have solely Brexit voters in auduence

Jun 09, 2023 at 2:46 PM

Remainers are livid over an upcoming particular Brexit episode of BBC Question Time which can have an viewers made up of Leave voters solely.

Host Fiona Bruce final evening introduced the one-off present in Clacton-on-Sea on June 22 to mark the seventh anniversary of the EU referendum.

Members of the viewers will all be Brexit voters, however the programme can have its common panel of 5 politicians and commentators from throughout the political divide.

Ms Bruce stated: “I want to tell you about a special Question Time programme we’re making on Thursday June 22.

“That day is the eve of the seventh anniversary of our resolution to depart the EU. We’ll be devoting a programme to it.

“We’ll be having a conservation with a cross-section of people that took that call, Leave voters. How do they really feel about Brexit now seven years on?”

The resolution to solely embrace Leave voters within the viewers has prompted fierce debate on Twitter.

A professional-EU account with the deal with Remain Central, which has 20 thousand followers, tweeted: “More Brexit bias from the BBC.

“They’re excluding anybody who voted Remain from a Question Time particular on Brexit. Absolutely outrageous.”

The Best for Britain marketing campaign group, which tried to cease Brexit, stated: “To mark the anniversary of the referendum, #BBCQT has an all-Brexiter viewers, for a ‘particular’.

“I don’t know how special it is to ignore Remain voters, people who didn’t vote, or young people and EU citizens who couldn’t vote. Pretty much what BBC has executed for seven years.”

Adam Bienkov, the political editor of the pro-EU Byline Times, added: “So to mark the anniversary of Brexit, BBC Question time is… going to exclude anybody who did not vote for it.”

But former BBC journalist Lewis Goodall defended the panel present and stated he didn’t perceive the “furore”.

He stated: “It’ll should be researched correctly, quite a lot of work for the producers, but it surely has the potential to be way more attention-grabbing than the entire many different Question Time reveals on Brexit through the years.

“To these saying ‘stability!’ – QT has executed actually a whole lot of reveals since Brexit the place the panel and viewers can have been balanced.

“Assume the panel will be for this one. If they were proposing to do it every week obviously it’d be absurd. This is one show. It’s interesting.

“And to these saying ‘the place’s the Remainer present!’, come on. We can safely assume almost all Remainers are disillusioned with Brexit.

“The interesting thing, the thing which matters for our politics in future, is what Leavers think. That’s what the show presumably is trying to test.”

Ex-BBC head of political programmes Rob Burley added: “I’d say a Question Time viewers of Brexit voters is an attention-grabbing concept that could be extra illuminating than the same old bun struggle.

“My solely reservation is whether or not the QT format as is could make that work effectively, but it surely’s price a go. The panel will nonetheless be balanced on the difficulty.”

A BBC spokesperson stated: “This is about understanding the views of our viewers and public attitudes in the direction of Brexit to discover how individuals who voted to depart now suppose Brexit goes – seven years on.

“This is an important part of the debate to explore so we’ll hear from a range of views and opinions to understand how Leave voters feel now, some of whom wouldn’t necessarily vote in the same way now.

“We will announce the panel nearer to the time however it should additionally signify a spread of views on the EU and Brexit together with from those that voted Remain.”