How The Media Can Stun The Elected Criminals

People in the UK may have noticed there's a General Election campaign going on, where there are several panels consisting of an audience, host and an MP from each of the major parties seeking election. Those MPs tend to spend the entire show evading questions no matter how obvious it is, how often the questions are repeated by the host etc. They will just keep talking over the complaints until the complainer shuts up using lines like "let me finish". They just want the platform to weave their deception, we should take it away.

When they repeatedly refuse to answer the questions asked, the host needs to call a halt to it. "Since you have no intention of answering any questions, there no point in us wasting our time, so this panel is over." What impact would that approach have if a panel session was cut off 15 minutes into a planned 90 minute show? Cut off because they refuse to answer anything. My guess is that the politicians on that show would struggle to live it down.

It'd only be fair to tell them right from the start, before the first question that a pattern of not answering questions will bring the show to an end.

The host could always offer a right of reply to the original questioner, "has that answered your question?? If the answer is no, it's asked again, and again, and again, and again. It killed Michael Howard's credibility when Jeremy Paxman did it on Newsnight. Yes it'd be repetitive, but it'd REALLY annoy the parties and their spin machines that they were being embarrassed in a very obvious way.

The host could also make a game of it with a free bar of chocolate to the first MP who actaully answers a question they were asked, with the question "will it be be won or will it be a rollover with two bars of chocolate until the next show?"