Question Time

Watched Question Time, and have two points to make.

So, England lost their bid to win the 2018 World Cup.
They didn't lose by a narrow margin. They got eliminated in the first round of voting after they received just 2 votes, one of whom was English.

And suddenly it's the BBC's fault for running the Panorama show a couple of nights before.

Panorama said that FIFA's selection process is corrupt and some of the people have accepted bribes to vote for a certain country to win.

Then the winning country turns out to be Russia, undoutbedly the most politically corrupt of the countries who were bidding.

So what do we do?
Blame FIFA for being corrupt? No. Let's blame the BBC for pointing out they are corrupt.

The BBC couldn't win.
They were right, and yet they have been blamed for being right. We weren't going to win anyway. We got two votes!

It wouldn't have made a difference if Panorama had aired a 3 hour special showing their journalists going around molesting the selection board's children.
We had already lost before Panorama had anything to do about it. 

Of course you could argue that Panorama didn't know that we had already lost, so had the vote been very close they could have swung it against England's favour.
But imagine if that was the case...

Russia beat England by one vote to win the World Cup 2018. And two days later the BBC brings out "new evidence" to show that FIFA is corrupt.

No one would take it seriously. It would just look like England were bad losers trying to save face. If anything it would probably have exhonerated FIFA from corruption.

The BBC couldn't win, no matter what they did it would have been wrong.

Congratulations to Russia, by the way, I wasn't actually displeased to see Russia win. They've never hosted a World Cup before.

The second point I wanted to make comes from a statement made by Nadine Dorries, the Conservative MP on the programme.

It was just a very good indicator of general Tory attitude towards life, and exactly why they are completely the wrong people to be running the country.

She said on the issue of increased tuition fee:
"maybe students will think a little bit more about the tyoe of course they go on, one that will pay them well at the end... and get them a better education"

That's right Nadine. Let's have everyone make every decision based on what financial benefit they will get from it. Just like the Tories do.