Louise Bagshawe gets booed for telling the truth

*There was an exchange on Question Time that may go some way to explaining why the government's health plans are so mired. One panellist, media lawyer Charlotte Harris, said that she was very worried by the substantial cuts being made to the NHS' budget. Large sections of audience greeted this with rapture.

Immediately, Tory Louise Bagshawe and Lib Dem Jeremy Browne tried to grab David Dimbleby's attention. It fell to Bagshawe to correct Harris, pointing out that the government has increased spending on the NHS when Labour would cut. The audience responded with boos -- more in disbelief than disagreement, incredulous that the Tories would do anything other than cut the NHS. Labour's Hilary Benn sat in knowing silence, unwilling to correct the audience's extremely useful misconception. Sure enough, the latest polls suggest that voters don't trust the Tories with the NHS*:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/6980528/less-listening-more-talking.thtml




Last week it was Melanie Phillips who was subjected to animal noises by the tolerant Left because she told the truth about international aid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58dpVjljsNA



And the week before it was Douglas Murray who was subjected to the same liberal open-mindedness when he had the temerity to feel elated about the death of a mass-murderer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppYsuakMKI

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