Last night, what was probably one of the best ever episodes of the BBC's Question Time was broadcast.
The BBC One topical debate series, hosted by David Dimbleby, features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience (and it IS carefully selected. The BBC usually packs the audience full of Left-wingers who give the Left-wingers on the panel an easy ride yet boo and hiss the panel's more Right-wing members).
The series tours the country, with each episode coming from a different town or city. Last night's episode came from Canterbury, and what an episode it was.
The panel included Left-wing snake Russell Brand and Ukip leader Nigel Farage who faced-off against each other in a bloody battle.
But it wasn't just those two. Even the audience members took part. A woman with purple hair, one of the audience's Left-wing rent-a-gobs, bussed in by the BBC to give Farage a hard time and who prefer shouting obscenities rather than take part in polite debate, harangued Farage, who is standing as the Ukip candidate in South Thanet in May's General Election, calling him a "scumbag."
And there were audience members who sided with Farage against Brand, with one anti-Russell Brand audience member turning around to argue with an anti-Ukip protester behind him.
It wasn't long before some in the audience got irritated with the loudmouth Left-wing rent-a-gobs, with one woman calling the purple-haired anti-Farage heckler "very rude" when the heckler started shouting yet again when the woman was trying to get her point across to the panellists.
And, as is so often the case when Mr Farage comes up against a Left-winger, I think it's fair to say that Farage won.
Seconds out, round TWO: Farage claims Brand had his chest hair straightened by stylist ahead of Question Time appearance... as Brand accuses HIM of 'drinking too much'
The star, who is famous for his long hair and open shirts, also had his lips moisturised with a chapstick by his own stylist before last night's show in Canterbury, the UKIP leader said. Russell Brand responded by saying Nigel Farage drinks too much, which the firebrand politician dismissed, although he admitted to having a gin and tonic before the show. Mr Farage also pooh-poohed Brand's view that the best way to change British politics is by not voting, saying: 'This isn't the way politics is done in this country. And I'll be damned if a chest-hair obsessed Hollywood type tries to tell us it is'. Their clash on TV last night was highly anticipated and Twitter users compared it to a 'posh Jeremy Kyle' show as audience members turned on Russell Brand, Nigel Farage, and each other.
Loudmouth: A voter in Nigel Farage's potential South Thanet constituency called him a 'scumbag'
In-fighting: One anti-Russell Brand audience member turned around to argue with an anti-Ukip protester
The fight went out of Brand. A balloon shrivelled. QUENTIN LETTS reviews the bar brawl that was last night's Question Time
Russell Brand and Nigel Farage turn BBC's Question Time into a 'posh Jeremy Kyle show' as audience members scream at the comic, the UKIP leader... and each other
The BBC One topical debate series, hosted by David Dimbleby, features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience (and it IS carefully selected. The BBC usually packs the audience full of Left-wingers who give the Left-wingers on the panel an easy ride yet boo and hiss the panel's more Right-wing members).
The series tours the country, with each episode coming from a different town or city. Last night's episode came from Canterbury, and what an episode it was.
The panel included Left-wing snake Russell Brand and Ukip leader Nigel Farage who faced-off against each other in a bloody battle.
But it wasn't just those two. Even the audience members took part. A woman with purple hair, one of the audience's Left-wing rent-a-gobs, bussed in by the BBC to give Farage a hard time and who prefer shouting obscenities rather than take part in polite debate, harangued Farage, who is standing as the Ukip candidate in South Thanet in May's General Election, calling him a "scumbag."
And there were audience members who sided with Farage against Brand, with one anti-Russell Brand audience member turning around to argue with an anti-Ukip protester behind him.
It wasn't long before some in the audience got irritated with the loudmouth Left-wing rent-a-gobs, with one woman calling the purple-haired anti-Farage heckler "very rude" when the heckler started shouting yet again when the woman was trying to get her point across to the panellists.
And, as is so often the case when Mr Farage comes up against a Left-winger, I think it's fair to say that Farage won.
Seconds out, round TWO: Farage claims Brand had his chest hair straightened by stylist ahead of Question Time appearance... as Brand accuses HIM of 'drinking too much'
The star, who is famous for his long hair and open shirts, also had his lips moisturised with a chapstick by his own stylist before last night's show in Canterbury, the UKIP leader said. Russell Brand responded by saying Nigel Farage drinks too much, which the firebrand politician dismissed, although he admitted to having a gin and tonic before the show. Mr Farage also pooh-poohed Brand's view that the best way to change British politics is by not voting, saying: 'This isn't the way politics is done in this country. And I'll be damned if a chest-hair obsessed Hollywood type tries to tell us it is'. Their clash on TV last night was highly anticipated and Twitter users compared it to a 'posh Jeremy Kyle' show as audience members turned on Russell Brand, Nigel Farage, and each other.
In-fighting: One anti-Russell Brand audience member turned around to argue with an anti-Ukip protester
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The fight went out of Brand. A balloon shrivelled. QUENTIN LETTS reviews the bar brawl that was last night's Question Time
A stout geezer in the BBC audience had a barney with Russell Brand - and made mincemeat of the self-appointed, wheedly-voiced, hairy-chested Pied Piper of Twitter, writes QUENTIN LETTS.
Russell Brand and Nigel Farage turn BBC's Question Time into a 'posh Jeremy Kyle show' as audience members scream at the comic, the UKIP leader... and each other
The unlikely pair faced off on the flagship BBC debate show in Canterbury, Kent, where audience members broke out into shouting when the topic moved on to immigration.