A BBC One Question Time audience member, who was heavily applauded by the audience, claims she was made to wait almost one hour before confronting politicians. The programme aired last night (March 30) when Claire Stewart-Hall went on a lengthy rant, directed at Conservative MP Andrew Murrison, about the issues that have not been addressed by the Tories since they took over in 2010.
Claire spoke passionately about what she described as a "woeful" past 13 years under Tory rule. Claire heavily was applauded by fellow audiences members as she continued to highlight a number of issues.
Claire then took to Twitter claiming that she was made to wait 50-minutes before she was able to speak on Question Time. In a post alongside a video of the rant, Claire wrote: "So this happened….They made me wait 50 minutes to speak so by the time I got there…"
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Speaking on the show, 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.
"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."
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