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Prime Ministerial Debates- Thread

Fiona said:
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I must say I am really surprised if anyone thought Cameron did well: maybe it was different on TV but if that was better than last week it is amazing if he dresses himself even
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I think you will find that he is dressed by focus group.
 
Was it just me or did Brown come across as the irreverant drunk at the bar hurling cutting abuse at the upper-class snob (Cameron) who just came in?

And that's not a bad thing.
 
Sadly what I thought would happen if we ended up with these types of debates, the media story is about "who won the debate" - not about anything that was said, not about policies, not about anything else. The media loves this because it's now a story about the media (as is a lot of the reporting these days about politics).
 
Darat said:
Sadly what I thought would happen if we ended up with these types of debates, the media story is about "who won the debate" - not about anything that was said, not about policies, not about anything else. The media loves this because it's now a story about the media (as is a lot of the reporting these days about politics).
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Although you could say that the debates are largely on policy rather than personality, hence why Gordon has actually done quite well in this one especially, and why David Cameron has been totally out of it.
 
MarkCorrigan said:
Although you could say that the debates are largely on policy rather than personality, hence why Gordon has actually done quite well in this one especially, and why David Cameron has been totally out of it.
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But is Cameron out of it? Yes I agree he is out of his depth but its not being reflected within polls and the media in general.
 
Darat said:
Sadly what I thought would happen if we ended up with these types of debates, the media story is about "who won the debate" - not about anything that was said, not about policies, not about anything else. The media loves this because it's now a story about the media (as is a lot of the reporting these days about politics).
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As has happened at every PMQ's since the dawn of time.
 
Question Time is on BBC1 now discussing some of the debate points. The Daily Mail woman is a bit er touched.
 
Delscottio said:
Question Time is on BBC1 now discussing some of the debate points. The Daily Mail woman is a bit er touched.
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You mean she's a far right lunatic with absolutley no idea how anything works?

Representative of the Daily Fail really.
 
Delscottio said:
Question Time is on BBC1 now discussing some of the debate points. The Daily Mail woman is a bit er touched.
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Why did you think that, particularly? I thought she was making remarkably good sense, considering her affiliation.

Rolfe.
 
That is an independence campaign I would support to my last dying breath - independence for Daily Mail readers - clear out the Isle of Wight and let them have their own country. Wouldn't inconvenience the Isle of Wight residents too much - be like an extended holiday as the Daily Mail readers would soon tear themselves apart if they had no one else to hate.



(Please note this is not serious. I am sure there are some readers of the Daily Mail who have to read it for their work - archivists, historians and the like they wouldn't be repatriated.)
 
I know it was late, but was I really hallucinating? I thought she was saying some sensible things, and only realised gradually she was Daily Fail.

Rolfe.
 
I've only listened to some highlights, so it may be she made some sense, after all as they say a broken clock is right twice a day.*








*Note - apparently required clarification statement: That saying does not necessarily apply to all clocks, not even all clocks that have hands and a standard mechanism for displaying the time.
 
Yougov scandal!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...that-showed-support-for-lib-dems-1951940.html
The Sun newspaper failed to publish a YouGov poll showing that voters fear a Liberal Democrat government less than a Conservative or Labour one.

YouGov also found that if people thought Mr Clegg's party had a significant chance of winning the election, it would win 49 per cent of the votes, with the Tories winning 25 per cent and Labour just 19 per cent. One in four people Labour and one in six Tory supporters say they would switch to the Liberal Democrats in these circumstances. The party would be ahead among both men and women, in every age and social group, and in every region. On a uniform swing across Britain, that would give the Liberal Democrats 548 MPs, Labour 41 and the Tories 25.
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Of course we must remember that like every pre-election poll in the history of the world, it might as well be performed by rolling dice.

But it does sound like YouGov is not exactly coming across as impartial.

That The Sun is not impartial is hardly shocking news.
 
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