Eddie Izzard on Question Time

[3dogsandacat]

His face was a picture when Allison Pearson asked him to give it a rest, --put a sock in it, as all the men on the panel had their at turn at speaking and now 'she wanted to say something'
Priceless.

Also, why's he on it? He keeps butting in..

[StillDrSethHazlittMD]

I have no allegiance to any one party but the only person who I thought came over as an intelligent and sensible person was Hilary Benn. I think that about him generally, actually, even when I don't necessarily agree with him - he comes over as someone who actually does his research and thinks before he speaks and speaks what he genuinely believe.

Grayling always comes over a bit weak and weasly but he acquitted himself better than usual. Izzard was frankly embarrassing, Farage was his usual smug boorish self and Pearson is a disgrace.

[Millyonthefloss]

I like Eddie Izzard but he's not right for QT.

What I don't understand is why Remain is fielding such bad spokespeople so close to the vote?

Eddie Izzard on QT.
Amber Rudd (known Eurosceptic - see link below) on ITV

I'm beginning to think that Remain don't have enough people who really believe in the EU. So they're running out of convincing people to go on the telly.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03hkb84

[LittleLionMansMummy]

Eddie is trying to build his political profile because he wants to stand as an MP at the next election. While there was little substance in what he said, he's passionate and expressive by nature, which is a good start for politics, and I believe he's intelligent enought to learn to structure his political speaking better in future. It's not like he was born into politics and is therefore a skill he'll have to learn. I just hope it doesn't make him become a bore because I rather admire the man he is already. I hope politics doesn't ruin him.

[PaulDacreCuntyMcCuntFace]

Bolo

Haven't watched it. I used to like EI but in latter years he seems to have fallen into the unfortunate trap of believing his own PR and appears to have disappeared up his own bottom.

[Millyonthefloss]

Why do you think Farage is a racist?

He has been campaigning for years and years about extravagance and waste in the EU. And the fact that is is undemocratic.

He led the campaign to keep the pound (even though Gordon Brown often gets the credit). That's why UKIP has the silly pound sign in its logo.

He was doing all this long before the free movement of people ever became an issue.

[EmpressOfTheSevenOceans]

I went off Eddie Izzard when he started equating liking "nice heels" with being female.

[mummymeister]

I watched a bit of the ITV debate and all of QT. as far as the first goes it felt like 3 people bullying someone else and did not do the remain campaign any favours imo. I turned off in the end because I deeply dislike Nicola. Not my sort of politician at all.

I always watch QT and have seen it descend over the years from interesting political debate into slebs and shouting.

I don't give a monkeys what Eddies opinion is, I really don't. he has no influence on my life and he is an unelected mouthpiece for..... Eddie. Its demeaning to the audience to think we are all suddenly going to go "oh look well if the great Eddie says this then it must be right cos he is a sleb and they never lie"

The QT panel should be people who have been elected. whether that's to a parliament, a union or whatever. Newspaper columnist similarly get on my news.

I never thought I would say it but after last nights debacle I think that this should be the end for QT. it isn't about serious debate anymore. its about shouting and personal attacks on other panellist and I really don't find bullying like this entertaining.

[mouldycheesefan]

Eddie was only on it about four weeks ago? Why was he on again yesterday?
Last time he was in he had the pink beret on and I thought it was an homage to Prince who had just died. It seems not!
I like Eddie but we don't need to see the same thing twice in two weeks. They need a refresh of the panel.

[mummymeister]

nerves not news

[SpaceUnicorn]

I'm a huge EI fan.
I'm pro Remain.

I thought his performance last night was an embarrassment. I know you need an element of egotism ti do stand-up, but the constant references to himself (I'm trans/I campaigned for Scotland/I did gigs in different languages) were cringe-inducing. He was there to debate the issues, not recite his CV. He also did his usual rhetoric of running lots of themes/points together very quickly, as he does in his stand-up, which is very effective onstage but on QT I feel it left the audience too confounded to process what was actually being said.

As I said, huge fan of his comedy (I've seen him live more times than I've seen anyone else, I think) but I was sadly unimpressed last night.

[Chippednailvarnishing]

It's interesting that someone like Hugh Grant who doesn't appear to have an political aspirations was probably one of the best "celebrity" panelists QT has had.

[Woodhill]

Yes he was rude and some people whose parents were immigrants want controlled immigration as well so going on about NF's heritage was a bore.

[ZaZathecat]

I am (was?) a big fan of Eddie Izzard but I have found him irritating when he's trying to be political. And much as I don't care if he wants to wear skirts etc. I don't understand why he' was done up like one of Victoria Wood's comedy characters for a serious debate.

[ConcernedParent88]

Why bring his clothes and lip stick choices into it? I thought apparel vitriol was reserved by sexists for women.

[derxa]

Eddie Izzard bleuch! He is smugness personified.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

Well quite, MrsD. Bleat they're not racier but then support a pretty openly racist man and his party.

I accept that Farage is occasionally correct, a stopped clock is still right twice a day and all that. But he is still a racist.

[captainproton]

A comedian, a lying toe-rag war-monger former PM, the leader of the SNP a party whose former leader was plastered over Tory election material to scare you into voting blue, is this the best that Remain have? Even Jeremy doesn't seem that bothered about campaigning to remain. Were the rest of team remain washing their hair last night? I am fed up of the lot of them. Have any of them got any answers to the uncontrolled immigration problem? because if they don't find one soon then leave will win.

And fgs stop harping on about the bus. Whatever the figure is its stills a lot. All they are doing is reminding everyone over and over again.

Come on team remain it's not the walk in the park you thought it was going to be, pull your socks up and convince me once again!

[Alisvolatpropiis]

*racist.

One day I will learn to proofread

[ArcheryAnnie]

I used to be an Izzard fan, but I am not any more. He's become a crashing bore, doesn't listen to other people (especially if those other people are women) and if he really is angling to be selected as an MP (I hadn't heard that) then he's only going to get worse.

He can wear what he likes! I don't care what politicians or proto-politicians wear. But it doesn't make him interesting, and it isn't a substitute for having any actual expertise on anything.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

I liked a lot of what Eddie Izzard was saying.
I'd rather listen to him than anyone else on the panel.

[JugglingFromHereToThere]

It was all a bit shouty though.
Simmer down!

[seanjo]

Soldiers!

[Millyonthefloss]

I accept that Farage is occasionally correct, a stopped clock is still right twice a day and all that. But he is still a racist.

This is a genuine question so I'll ask it again. Why do people think Farage is a racist?

To my mind he is geezer from Kent. A bit of a street fighter in a campaign. Not everyone's cup of tea. With a huge bee in his bonnet about waste and unaccountability in the EU - which he has made his life's work to get the UK out of.

"Farage is a racist." It's one of those things that people say all the time. But what is the evidence?

We thought Rolf Harris was nice. Turns out he wasn't.
We thought Farage was nasty ....

[seanjo]

QueenLaBeefah Thu 09-Jun-16 23:27:29
But who wears a beret in the middle of summer?

Soldiers!