The Despatch Box

🚨 This is how easily politicians can twist data. 📊 A Labour MP just claimed that inflation was higher under the Conservatives last term. ✅ Technically true… ❌ But here’s the catch: that period included a GLOBAL PANDEMIC 🌍🦠 when governments had no choice but to print money to keep people alive. 📉 In fact, the Tories were already bringing inflation down, exactly what a responsible government should do after such a crisis. ⚡ Fast forward to the election: inflation has shot back UP ⬆️🔥. And this time? No pandemic. No global meltdown. Just… Labour’s incompetence 🤦‍♂️. 🤔 That’s the trick: politicians cherry-pick data 📈📉 to spin the story their way. But looking at the chart, it seems clear 👉 Labour comes out looking worse than the Conservatives.

@ZackPolanski How? They are taxed already, which tax do you want to rise and what are the implications? How?

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. End Rip off Britain. (And enjoy yourself!) Join.greenparty.org.uk

Actually what Reform have said about tax cuts (especially around small business) to encourage growth and job creation and DOGE style cuts to reduce the tax burden is exactly how you help normal people. Zack just doesn’t understand economics full stop. Also the fascist line is getting old. Doesn’t even mean anything anymore.

@PeterMcCormack 😂😂😂 he doesn’t understand economics for normal people, he understand economics for billionaires, fuck over the normal people and hand all the profits to billionaires! How exactly does that cunt offer freedom 😂😂 he’s a fascist

This is how dumb our country is. The tit whisperer dances with a gimp in bondage gear and says some words and people are like - cool, let's vote for him. He can't actually explain how he will achieve this. He has already said he will bring in rent controls, which have been implemented in Spain, guess what, higher rents, removed in Argentina, guess what, lower rents. Does he care? No. Will he change his mind? No. He wants to lower bills, which bills? How Zack? How are you going to reduce the cost of capital? Do you know what this actually means? Tax billionaires? Cool, what will you do about capital flight?

I don’t think you’d score very high on an IQ test if that’s your logic. Scratch below the surface a little bit and you will soon realise that leaving the ECHR does not mean removal of human rights. If we leave the ECHR we will still have our British human rights act so just based on that alone they do not want to remove our human rights as you put it. If you think about it a little bit more and look into why they are doing it, one of the main reasons is so we can deport people who are taking advantage of the ECHR to stay. If you don’t agree with that then fair enough but that is why.

They literally want to remove your Human Rights. They’re not hiding it. They are literally fucking telling you. Politics in the big old year of 2026 is nothing more than an IQ Test, and if you’re considering voting for this, you’re frankly fucking stupid.

@Ryandally08 No it won't !!! That would be terriballah

#BREAKING Shady Alsuleiman the president of the Australian National Imams Council, has a message for Australia. “Islam will enter every house” “Islam sent to dominate the world”

@EssexPR Where is Mothin Ali? Why isn't he dancing with the LGBT community?

Bonkers. Simply bonkers.

You're obsessed with this non-story. From what I've read he gifted his partner the money to buy it. Anyone is allowed to do that. You could gift a partner the money to buy a house, it would be in his/her name only, so better hope they don't leave you 😅 so it is a risk. But you are allowed to do it.

Hey @bbcquestiontime a suggestion. A single issue show in Clacton - who paid for Farage's house?

🚨🇬🇧 Meanwhile in UK Mosques Undercover reporting reveals Imams in Mosques all over the country, calling for the death of all Jews, their children and the destruction of Israel.

It is fairly obvious but everyone on that panel are MPs apart from Nadine Dorries and Tom Skinner? They aren't even councillors or work for Reform in any way? Maybe that's why? If you were a member of a political party but your profession was a reporter what do you think they would put as your title?

.@bbcquestiontime have now twice failed to correctly identify Reform UK representatives on their panels. They may not be elected, but they are still political representatives. Viewers deserve the full picture.

@georgebernhard @MikeHolden42 Well it clearly is because their official account has said it? I don't think you can argue with them when they are the ones that make their own policies.

@UKDispatchBox @MikeHolden42 That's not their actual policy though.

Fucking hell, I have never known QT step into a debate to defend a panellist, let alone a non-pannelist. This is shocking.

@SophieP25397 That would be the greens!

Don't forget the clocks go forward on Sunday. Unless you vote #Reform and they go back socially to 1945 and economically to 1900

@reformexposed BBC have confirmed Farage is correct.

@timetoshine1234 @LesleyClar28715 How can they lie about this? It’s their show, they make the rules 😂

@LesleyClar28715 BBC lied.

Here we have Nigel Farage. The MP for Clacton Willingly lying on Twitter. The BBC has not banned Farage. He is too scared to attend tonight as he’ll face criticism from his Clacton constituents. Entirely deserved criticism. Nigel Farage is a pathological liar.

@BladeoftheS Yep nobodies like @ZackPolanski who has been on 😂

Question Time is a joke, random nobodies are invited on to make long pointless speeches about made up stories. No questions, no facts, no debate. Just BS. #bbcqt

@NFFC_owen But Zack name calls all the time. If you don’t agree with him he calls you a fascist, racist or any other of the many insults. So yeh @iamtomskinner is right about Zack 😂

Well well well Mr Skinner Here you are calling someone a bell end for not agreeing with your politics. The hypocrisy. It’s absolutely sickening. Just straight lies. Tonight on Question time - ‘I hate how divisive social media is’. Melt.

@McrGreenParty You are on a mission to give it away to Islam

🟩 Greens are on a mission to save our country ➡️ Reform are on a mission to give it away to Trump and the rich

@AaronBastani They have 2 from the left and 2 from the right here I'd argue. Also people from the left outside the parties such as Owen Jones have appeared on QT before.

Fascinating. When they do these 4 person shows, BBCQT has one person from the right beyond parties, but not from the left. Same happened when they had no Greens the week before the Greens won a by-election. Entirely unserious program.

@MothinAli Really? You don't know why? Why is it people have a problem with Islam but not other religions? It can't just be random bullying surely 🤔

The rise in Islamophobia is absolutely disgraceful. Politicians peddling hate and division are directly to blame. The relative media silence with this attack is disappointing bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@jimthegiant I'd rather live in a yankified Britain than an Islamified Britain. I know these are probably not real words but you get the point!

The green are the only party who will deyankify britain

Exactly, I thought I made a good point in terms of the numbers. Nobody seems to mention this. I know how company taxes work and how directors can choose to pay themselves salaries and dividends. I also know how company and property valuations are really quite variable until someone buys some or a percentage of an asset/company. Only then do you know the value and money changes hands. But we have a tax for that and it's called capital gains tax. So yeh this wealth tax idea is just a terrible one and I can only see it devastating our economy.

@UKDispatchBox @RGBEANIE_YT @drew_r95 @PeterMcCormack @rivkahbrown @mehdirhasan Thats the left for you, never able to have a real debate and instantly turning to personal attacks.

Zack Polanski sets out his day 1 priorities if PM: 1. Change voting system from FPTP to PR 2. Introduce a wealth tax 3. End homelessness (including by ending right to buy, building social housing and freezing rent)