An audience member took aim at Conservative MP Andrew Murrison tonight (March 30) as she spoke passionately about what she described as a "woeful" past 13 years under Tory rule. Tonight's epsiode was filmed at SGS College WISE campus as Fiona Bruce was joined by Murrison, Labour's Shadow Attorney General Emily Thornberry, Lib Dem MP Helen Morgan, chief executive of Oxfam Danny Sriskandarajah and the editor of The Spectator, Fraser Nelson.
The Bristol showdown was packed with interesting moments aplenty, with the pièce de résistance being when Claire Stewart-Hall went on a lengthy rant, directed at Murrison, about the issues that have not been addressed by the Tories since they took over in 2010.
As she was given the chance to speak, Claire said: "Yeah, I'm staggered to be honest at the gap between the audience and the panel, and the notion that you think you're succeeding on green energy, or that people support human beings washing up on our shores or being deported to Rwanda. I'm absolutely staggered.
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"The way we talk about serious youth violence is not to talk about crime, it's to talk about the trauma that they've actually experienced in the last two years." Claire continued, before reeling off an extensive list of cuts made by the current government. "You have cut funding, you've cut budgets in schools, we can't recruit teachers, we can't recruit teaching assistants.
"You've cut social workers, you have cut local services to the bone and then you're worried about antisocial behaviour. There are no youth services."
As her fellow audience members began to clap, Claire added: "There is such a massive gap between what you're saying and people's experience. Why can't people buy a house? Look at their wages - they're a teacher, they have been through university, paid over £30,000, if not more, to go to university.
"Use rent control. Want to have more houses? Build more houses because you can find the money to build HS2 and drill through forests.
"This is what we're talking about - these are ideological choices. You've done nothing for green energy in 13 years, nothing! Absolutely nothing! So, I think when we're talking about young people and supporting them... what has been put in place for young people?
"That tutoring programme, a tutoring programme. That's it. It's woeful, it's woeful."
The powerful contribution from the "staggered" audience member comes after Question Time was criticised for not including a representative from Bristol's largest political party on the panel. Whilst the panel consisted of representatives from the Conservatives, Labour, the Lib Dems, as well as The Spectator's editor and the boss of Oxfam, Green Party figures from Bristol and beyond hit out at the BBC as nobody from the party was featured.
The Green Party has the largest number of councillors elected to City Hall - 25 - including party’s national co-leader Carla Denyer. Carla is the candidate for Bristol West, which is believed to be the Green Party's number one target seat in the next general election.
In a different part of the programme, Fiona asked if anybody in the audience supported the government's proposed Illegal Migration Bill, with just one person keeping their hand up.
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