Says she is amazed some MPs spend such little attention to detail when voting on issues at Westminster.

An audience members says she feels "disillusioned" with politics, as do many other young people in the UK.

Tim Walker: Russell Brand doesn't get that #bbcqt is not a one-man show.

"We say we don't like Punch & Judy politics, but [the electorate] tune in for Prime Minister's Questions..."

The Tory MP says that, with nine million followers on Twitter, Russell Brand would be better served to deliver a positive political message to voters.

Brand responds by saying she is a member of parliament and has the power to change.

Dean, Timperley: Nigel Farage seems to speak more sense the more I watch him.

Michelle, Staffordshire: Politicians like Nick Farage are the reason the younger population do not turn out to vote!

"There's a big choice facing us at the next General Election. I still think politics really matters.

"The question now facing us at the next General Election is - who do you want the country to work for? Do you want it to work for a few people at the top or for everybody in this country so that everybody has the chance to get on? The ideological divide and the choice at the next General Election could not be clearer between Labour and the Conservatives."

"I agree that it is petty. We now debate what colour of tie is Ed Miliband or David Cameron wearing. We're not doing real politics any more, we're not discussing big political issues.

"You know, 25 or 30 years ago there was a big difference between left and right. Whether Michael Foot became prime minister or Margaret Thatcher became prime minister fundamentally affected the country, and we have seen the growth of a career professional political class, who do the same degrees, who have never had a job in their lives, go straight into back offices age 23 and become career politicians."

"I sometimes think people in our country feel detached from what takes place in Parliament, that the issues being discussed and the manner in which they are discussed are detached from ordinary people.

"I think we get a bit tired of seeing poor attendance in Parliament for issues that we care about and high attendance when they are talking about their pay rises. So I think that petty, adversarial nature is contributing to decline."

"Is the petty adversarial nature of politics causing its own demise?" Jonathan White, information analyst

David Dimbleby laments the fact that his appeal for postcards to be sent to Glasgow, where the show is produced, has fallen on deaf ears.

David Dimbleby says: "welcome to Question Time" and we're under way.

Roger, Hitchin: Brand and Farage - should be good tonight with two comedians on the panel.

Don, Plymstock: Why Russell Brand? What is the point?

This will be the final Question Time before the festive break. The programme will return on 8 January.

Jon, Canterbury: Hope David D keeps panel in order tonight.

Shaun, Oldham: Who will come out on top tonight: the dandy, Brand, cocking a snoop at the establishment or the bane of the Tory Party, Farage?

Ryan, London: Normally I'd rant about Farage being on Question Time again, but seeing him come up against Russell Brand will just be too brilliant.

Joe, London: The excitement over Brand v Farage shows how desperate people are for alternatives in politics. The age of crowded centre ground.

Chele, Liverpool: Bring it on. Let's hear Brand's verbosity take on Farage's Quixotism.

Camilla Cavendish is associate editor of The Times and is a columnist and leader writer for the paper. The Times website, external states that "She was the Wincott Senior Financial Journalist of the Year 2012, Campaigning Journalist of the Year 2009 and won the 2008 Paul Foot Award for exposing miscarriages of justice that convinced the Government to change the law and open the family courts.

"A mother of three, she has been a McKinsey consultant, aid worker and CEO of the trust that rebuilt London's South Bank."

Mary Creagh is the Labour MP for Wakefield and the Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. The UK Parliament website, external lists her areas of political interest as Europe, employment, social policy, disability issues, Irish community, human rights, children's issues, environment and genocide prevention.

Penny Mordaunt is Conservative MP for Portsmouth North, Royal Navy Reserve ASLt, artist, amateur astronomer and Burmese cat lover and breeder. She had a majority of 7,289 over Labour at the 2010 General Election.

The Conservative Party website, external says that "she worked at the old Johnson and Johnson factory and as a magician's assistant for former President of the Magic Circle, Will Ayling, before becoming the first person in her family to go to university".

Comedian Russell Brand first appeared on Question Time in June 2013, with London Mayor Boris Johnson among his fellow panellists.

Brand previously told BBC Newsnight that he has never voted, and never will, as the UK's political system has created a "disenfranchised, disillusioned underclass" that it fails to serve.

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"It is not that I am not voting out of apathy. I am not voting out of absolute indifference and weariness and exhaustion from the lies, treachery and deceit of the political class that has been going on for generations", he added.

Nigel Farage is leader of the UK Independence Party. He is the MEP for the South-East of the UK. He was born in Kent in 1964. He attended fee-paying Dulwich College, where he developed a love of cricket, rugby and political debate.

He decided at the age of 18 not to go to university, entering the City instead.

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He joined the Conservatives but became disillusioned with the way the party was going under John Major. Like many on the Eurosceptic wing, he was furious when the prime minister signed the Maastricht Treaty, stipulating an "ever-closer union" between European nations.

Mr Farage decided to break away, becoming one of the founder members of UKIP, at that time known as the Anti-Federalist League.

His website, external states that: "he has served his constituents in opposing the encroachment of the European Union into British public life since 1999, and has been the leader of the UK Independence Party, with a brief break in 2010, since 2006".