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Mrs Optician Editor is a little put out today. We were supposed to be enjoying a seat in the audience at the BBC's question Time in Woking tonight. The nice man from the Beeb had phoned over the weekend and just needed to confirm.
The announcement of the general election seemed to have changed the rules somewhat. Despite filling out a comprehensive questionnaire and getting the nod over the weekend by Tuesday we suddenly had to be Labour stalwarts to get on the show. Being a floater wasn't what they wanted.
It is interesting that it is assumed that anyone who won't guarantee they will vote Labour are assumed to have moved to the right. I don't see a lot of Socialism in New Labour presumably the BBC thinks Gordon brown is as far left as politics goes.
Either way it doesn't say a lot for political debate.