To loathe Fiona Bruce?

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She can't even pretend to be impartial like she's supposed to be. Anyone on the left is constantly interrupted by her (quite aggressively at times) and not allowed to finish -or even make - their point. She also goads the audience against them.
Last night was another shower.

AIBU to think a QT presenter should be completely impartial to both the right and left?

At least Dimbleby was funny!

I’m not keen.

I don’t really care about her political leanings but her smug face gives me rage

Mods please don't delete this thread, this is not about her personal bitching (unlike other threads). This is about her presentership (is that a word?!) Thanks

Yes she was very smug after the GE, it would have been decent of her to at least hide it

I was quite pleased when she took over QT, and I think the first episode was a promising start, but she has turned out to be insanely irritating. Her judgement is quite strange. Last night's "Priti Patel says the criticism of Meghan is nothing to do with race," in response to an audience question of the subject. Well, that's settled then isn't it? - if Priti Patel says so; the dozens and dozens of celeb and BME people who feel it partly is don't count, then.

@BiarritzCrackers
To be fair she was pointing out the obvious when Lawrence Fox was castigated by some smug person about being a privileged white male and therefore insinuating his view wasn't valid, that Priti Patel (who is female and BAME) also had the same view

@ OP...just chill. The BBC gets accused by every political party of being biased and it gets boring really

I think the wider point is that QT has gone to shit. The rot started when they added a guest which managed to dilute debate without lifting the quality.

Add an extra 25% water to your next recipe and you'll get the idea ...

Perhaps you should ask for the thread title to be amended to add "on QT"?

@ProfessorSlocombe

I think you have made a very pertinent point

Not seen last night's programme, but I think she does a decent job. I don't see bias in the way she makes counterpoints/adds relevant detail. She is sometimes funny. It's inevitable that she sometimes has to talk over panel members when they're skirting around a question or taking too much time at the expense of other contributers.

I haven't seen FB presenting QT, don't watch it as it was sliding towards Jeremy Kyle last time I saw it - this would have been some time in the Brexit squabble - and I lost patience with it. Any Questions going down the drain too. It's probably age. Bah 😠

She's so ghastly I can't watch her, so Question Time is another programme I can't watch

YADNBU.

She is not popular at all in our house. Soooo smug.

I am very disappointed that it seems acceptable for bbc interviewers to be so right wing biased
Spreading Fake news and manipulating the British Public for huge salaries
The BBC has fallen into the sewer

The BBC has fallen into the sewer

I think it's crawled up Tory Centrals arse in the vain hope that when the carnage starts it will somehow be exempt.

I also think that's probably the one thing which could be cited as the fatal step. Rightly or wrongly, the BBC now has precious few friends in the real world. I for one have no problem if the license fee is scrapped and we get an honest BBC that has to fight for subscriptions along with all the other, everyday media outlets. Maybe in a quiet period of contemplation (stop sniggering !) I might allow myself a brief moment to remember how fucking awesome the BBC was growing up. But then I'll pull my collar up, and go back into this Brave New World they decided to be part of, rather than apart from.

I watched the very first QT back in the 70s just after the Tory landslide. Robin Day would have eaten an entire audience of Fiona Bruces. But he was a seasoned political commentator, not someone who gawped at shit ceramics for a job.

I can't watch QT with F Bruce presenting, she irritates the life out of me. I find her so twee and simpering.

*The BBC has fallen into the sewer

I think it's crawled up Tory Centrals arse in the vain hope that when the carnage starts it will somehow be exempt*

This made me lol, and it's spot on imo.

I can't watch QT any more. FB's comments are either inane or not balanced, she can't control the audience or the panel, and is generally shite.

Imo Kirsty Wark (very on the ball, fierce and firm, but fair) or Emily Maitlis (who has a gift for asking an innocent-sounding question that leads interviewees to drop their guard and show their true colours) should have got the QT gig.

Bruce should go back to doing lighter stuff. She's fine on Antiques Roadshow and I think she's good on Fake or Fortune.

I think she is an extremely balanced presenter and has been a good replacement for Dimbleby who was a tough act to follow. The last two Question Times have been very good, I feel Fiona Bruce is getting into her stride now. I'm left of centre btw.

Everybody on the left thinks the BBC is biased towards the right and is just the mouthpiece of the Tory establishment.
Everybody on the right things the BBC is run by liberal London lefties and it's basically pumping out socialist propaganda.

So that tells me that if everyone thinks it's against them, it's probably doing a reasonable job.

Loathe is a strong term to use.I watched QT last night and it doesn't seem nearly as high brow as it used to be.Surely that's a good thing.

I watched QT last night and it doesn't seem nearly as high brow as it used to be.Surely that's a good thing.

What is wrong with "high brow" television, pray tell ? It's hardly like we're awash with it. Are you hoping for something like "Love Island does Question Time" ?

I don't watch QT anymore. She is simpering and clueless, no idea why she got the job over capable presenters such as Jo Coburn, Emily Maitliss or Kirsty Wark, or even better would be Andrew Neil.

She seems a bit insipid to me. I would have liked Eddie Mair to present it. (I would wouldn't I?)

Andrew Neil would be great. That's why Boris is afraid of him!

I watched QT last night and it doesn't seem nearly as high brow as it used to be.Surely that's a good thing.

What!?! I think the dumbing down of society and the anti-intellectual stance of populism is the reason why Britain is in the state it's in now.

Higher brow is what we need.

So that tells me that if everyone thinks it's against them, it's probably doing a reasonable job.

Or an appalling job that makes no-one happy?

I like her on Fake or Fortune, except that she always makes out she's been doing the research herself and I don't believe her. Shallow comment but I think she dresses really well.