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Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:49 GMT 23:49 UK

Jacqui Smith was (deservedly) bullied by Chairman, panel and audience.

Last week Wossisname was bullied and is whining about it as if he was the only person to get a rough ride.

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Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:48 GMT 23:48 UK

Why are the Banks making customers pay for their mistakes, ie.
taking away interest rates on overdrafts and replacing them with a daily rate as much as £2 a day.
I believe that they have done this to plough back the money they lost, I pay taxes and it's like paying twice for a service that i receive from them.

Bryn Jones, Cwmbran

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:48 GMT 23:48 UK

I have to laugh. Last week we had an audience that was 98% ethnic when the BNP was on, this week 100% was white.

And they BBC call themselves a british company.

Also why not stop allowing disgraced policial members onthe panel. Jackie Smith should not be given the time of day to even say that she was in the "right" to defraud the british tax payer of £112,000.

David, Essex

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:47 GMT 23:47 UK

On drugs use: In the early noughties there was an experiment run where heroin users were allowed to inject heroin under supervision by a doctor - result crime dropped by 75% in Plymouth.

Stephen Hollinshead, St.Ives

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:47 GMT 23:47 UK

Lembit Opek's stance on the classification of drugs is the most sensible thing I've heard a British politician say on the issue in recent times. Prohibition doesn't stop people wanting to take drugs and it doesn't stop drugs being available. Instead it makes them more dangerous; there's no consistency in terms of quality or strength of the substance which increases the scope for tragic accidents. Additionally the trade itself is left to a mixture of youths and international criminal gangs.

david, london

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:46 GMT 23:46 UK

When are our so called politicians going to listen to what the real people of this country want.When you speak to most people (ie the working man and woman) what they want is to speak to the people that supposedly represent them in parliment.IWe have lived in our house for nearly 13 years.Not once have we seen anyone knock on our door from any party suggesting why we should vote for them.We are a married couple both working full time and more.We get nothing,if we had kids then maybe.

Dave Eden, STOCKTON ON TEES

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:43 GMT 23:43 UK

Jaqui Smith ignored advice about drug re-classification from her advisors yet didn't ignore her advisors on expenses though she must have known it was morally wrong!

Doug, Whitehaven

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:39 GMT 23:39 UK

Question time from wales but only one person in the studio with a welsh accent? Come on BBC where are the real Welsh people?

The Ghosts of John Galt, Ghost Town

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:38 GMT 23:38 UK

The display of ignorance concerning the 'drugs' issue is almost laughable. How many deaths were attributed to Horse Riding compared with the use of exstacy?...It's a no brainer...Horse Riding is far more dangerous....the figures confirm this. I dont advocate the use of illegal drugs, but i certainly am aware that the people who preach such nonsense wouldnt know a lump of hash from an oxo cube, perhaps if these so called experts opened thier eyes and lived in the real world, maybe they would

Chris Lacon, Worcester

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:36 GMT 23:36 UK

Nothing on the postal strike workers who obviously feel when people lose their jobs and pensions in the private sector feel the right to earn final salary pensions and guaranteed benefits and yet feel the right to strike! Who do they think they are?

Jonathan Boland

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:36 GMT 23:36 UK

I have been made redundant and am very upset that having served in the armed forces and worked since I was 15 years of age, I now, having been on Jobseekers for 13 weeks, have been reviewed and told that as part of my Jobseekers contract I have to travel for up to 90 minutes on public transport.
Do you not think that I should be able to claim for a second home??!!

Oh! I reside in the constituancy where the MP (Mr Petter Viggars) claimed for a duckhouse.... Give me strength!!!!!

Christine Stobbs, Gosport

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:35 GMT 23:35 UK

Why not simplify MP's expenses similar to commercial world. In typical year I work 6-8 months away from home. I live in either company or client provided apartment else a hotel. My food allowance comes in the form of Per Diem or actual receipted restaurant bills. £200 a month is reasonable Take Aways bill. I am allowed travel, not First Class; I am allowed to employ my wife, i.e. apart from 2nd homes, most categories of MPs' expenses were reasonable until those who milked the system. Use hotels.

Steven Chow, Burgess Hill

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:35 GMT 23:35 UK

Won,t be as many watching this week back to the usual same old same old, out of touch and boring to watch panel. Politicians who haven,t got a clue what the public want and Jackie Smith sat smirking over her mistake of not knowing where her main home was. What a joke. At least it was interesting last week for a change.

d. wheatcroft, chesterfield

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:34 GMT 23:34 UK

off with the birds? stealing from people?
Sounds like MPs to me ;-)

Steve Adey, Southampton

Added: Thursday, 29 October, 2009, 23:33 GMT 23:33 UK

Why not reclassify alcohol and tobacco then?

Steve Adey, Southampton