Drink when:
- Dimbles is wearing an amazing tie
- Dimbles stumbles over the words ‘twitter’, ‘tweeting’, ‘hashtag’ or ‘Dimblebot’
- The cuts are blamed on the “shameful state the previous government left us in”, or the words ‘deficit’, ‘inherited’ or ‘13 years’ are used
- Two fingers if the audience groans in response to these buzzwords
- Any reference to the coalition as an arranged/gay marriage
- Dimbles refers to member of the audience by the wrong gender
- Dimbles refers to an audience member as “You there in the spectacles, yes you”
- Dimbles refers to an audience member as “You there in the spectacles, no not you, in the row behind, yes you”
- The phrase “LET US BE CLEAR” is used
- The economy is compared to household finance
- Female panellist says ‘as a woman…’
- Audience member says “as a mother”
- Female panellist is talked over
- Obvious Daily Mail reader is obvious
- Fists are used to bang on a table to emphasise a point
- (2 fingers if end of finger is used)
- The phrase “Guardian Readers”, “wet liberals” or “liberal thinking” is used
- 2 fingers if the audience then cheer.
- Sighting of HPN (Hot Political Nerd) in audience
- Two fingers if @mrchrisaddison then tweets about them
- Sighting of audience member wearing tweed jacket/bow-tie combo (BOW TIES ARE COOL!)
- #bbcqt trends on twitter
- The name of one of the panellists trends on twitter
- A panellist tweets during the show’s recording
- Something is blamed on meddling from Europe
- Two fingers if the point has nothing to do with Europe
- Audience member mentions “MPs expenses – it’s one rule for us and one rule for them!”
- Panelist refers to benefits system/NHS as “getting things for free” or similar
- The BBC license fee is referred to as a “tax”
- If people who normally attend drinking game are in the audience and appear on screen
- And finally: if the Question Time music is playing, you are drinking.
