Time for answers
YOU may or may not have noticed, but there’s a General Election happening soon. In less than a week in fact.
So the good news is that seven days from now, it’ll all be over. And, depending wher you stand politically, we could find ourselves standing on the frontier of a brave new future or staring into a horrifying abyss.
It feels like there have already been plenty of these election special shows, whether it was Wednesday’s seven-podium chaos, or Jeremy Paxman laying into Jeremy Corbyn like that drunk fella in the pub who doesn’t ever let you get in a word in and calling Theresa May a blowhard. And who could forget Theresa’s hubby Phillip talking about putting the bins out on The One Show?
Anyway, this is the Beeb’s flagship political show and they’ve got the top man David Dimbleby in place, ready to preside over the grilling of the two main contenders. But don’t expect to see Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn face to face, firing questions and answers at each other as they debate the big issues of their manifestos.
Yes, they’re both in York. Yes, they’re both being quizzed by a Question Time audience of the voting public.
Yes, it’s live. And yes, Dimblebot will be making sure it’s a clean fight. But they won’t actually both be appearing on stage at the same time, or speaking to each other, as the Prime Minister would not agree to a debate.
Anyway, consider this your last chance to really find out what Labour and the Conservatives respectively intend to do for this country were they to be in power.
Obviously as a professional journalist I have to stay resolutely impartial.