{"id":1571266,"date":"2024-03-24T13:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1676365"},"modified":"2024-03-24T13:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T13:41:34","slug":"nothing-to-see-here-just-two-tory-plants-for-the-price-of-one-in-the-crony-bbcqt-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/24\/nothing-to-see-here-just-two-tory-plants-for-the-price-of-one-in-the-crony-bbcqt-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing to see here \u2013 just TWO Tory plants for the price of one in the crony BBCQT audience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BBC Question Time<\/em> (BBCQT<\/em><\/a>) is not known for a) balance on its panels, nor b) balance in its audience. So it comes as little surprise that on Thursday 21 March’s episode an audience member who praised a Tory mayor was in fact mates with said Tory mayor – with her husband being a business associate of his.<\/p>\n

BBCQT<\/em>: another day, another plant<\/h2>\n

If you watched 21 March’s episode of BBCQT<\/em><\/a> from Middlesborough, you couldn’t have missed the woman in the shocking pink scarf. Not only was her scarf shocking – but her comments on Tory Mayor of Tees Valley Ben Houchen clearly shocked the audience into hysterics, too:<\/p>\n

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So BBC question time was in the Boro last night and a lady said that Ben Houchen \u201c is a man of our time and a man of our town\u201d I am not laughing but the audience & panel did.@carolvorders<\/a> @raycasey2003<\/a> @skatothecore<\/a> @TeesVMonitor<\/a> @utb_smith<\/a> @GreckoMedia<\/a> @Conservatives<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/aMEyBedKhr<\/a><\/p>\n

— Teesside_Rambo (@Teeside_Rambo) March 22, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n