Prime Ministerial Debates- Thread

The odd thing is, I think Clegg wins as a leader but his party isn't proven.

Gordo and Cam are just seen as the old guard, but at least have the background to form a workable government.
 
woooo!

William Hill have paid out on Cameron saying "efficiencies" first....

£2.50 winnings.

The Lambrini is on me!
 
uk_dave said:
The odd thing is, I think Clegg wins as a leader but his party isn't proven.

Gordo and Cam are just seen as the old guard, but at least have the background to form a workable government.
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But if they don't get the chance to prove themselves we will be stuck with either Labour or, god help us, the Tories.
 
uk_dave said:
The odd thing is, I think Clegg wins as a leader but his party isn't proven.

Gordo and Cam are just seen as the old guard, but at least have the background to form a workable government.
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Questionable with regards to Cameron. He's had to sideline a lot of the old guard to give the new tory image some credibility although he did drag out Ken Clarke to try give some cover to George Osborne.
 
geni said:
But did he trip over "cuts" or "C*nts"?
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Whichever

... do not like them for their cuts.

or

... do not like them for they're *****.

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No difference
 
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I love that BBC news replayed the "Yes or no?" bit.

I hope that gets replayed over, and over, and over....
 
MarkCorrigan said:
I love that BBC news replayed the "Yes or no?" bit.

I hope that gets replayed over, and over, and over....
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I'm surprised Dimbledorf allowed it - i would have thought "No Paxman-like heckling" would have been one of the rules....
 
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Undesired Walrus said:
Does anyone?
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I had to wonder that when I got a leaflet from the local independent candidate. One of his six points was that he was in favour of the death penalty "in some circumstances". I do wonder exactly how many people who received that leaflet realized just how relevant that opinion is, considering it would mean we would have to completely leave the EU. Mind you, his first point was "I am not a politician", which I thought might be a disadvantage for someone running for a job as a politician.
 
Having missed the previous debates, here is my take on this one.

Cameron was terrible, it was good some of the heinous policies were exposed by Brown and Clegg.

Brown looked tired and nervous and seem to be **** scared that the bigot gate thing was going to dominate the debate. If you turned off the picture and could only hear his voice and not his weird grimaces then he scored lots of points and came across well policy wise in my opinion.

Clegg came across very well, better than I expected as I am not impressed with his Commons performances normally. Not totally convinced his party know what the hell to do with the economy though but they would be a good bet to deal with Labour in a hung parliament.

Did Cameron really say someting along the lines of "I will never join the euro and will keep the pound, thats the real change you need" How did he get away with that?

Newsnight was interesting afterwards. Balls was terrible, Fox is snivelling creep, Janice was annoying as usual, Cable sat in the middile and seemed like a very very nice man and Salmond actally managed not to come across as too pompous.
 
The question of cutting inherintance tax was justified by Cameron in the following manner:

"I just want to make sure that when people work hard they can pass it on to their children. It's the most natural thing in the world."

Which raises the following question: What of the child who inherited all this? The one who hasn't worked hard for the entirety of her life because of her parents gift? What of when she passes it on to her child? And that child doesn't work for it?

Is that the most natural thing in the world? Or an obscene feudalistic reinvention?

The entire policy is comical when you consider a substantial section of the debate was taken up by Cameron hitting on those who don't work for a living?
 
funk de fino said:
Did Cameron really say someting along the lines of "I will never join the euro and will keep the pound, thats the real change you need"
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Indeed he did. We pointed and laughed. I was also not much impressed by his boast that he was going to turn Britain into a manufacturing hotbed again; neatly glossing over the fact that it was his lot who ripped it all up in the first place.

Glossing over the cracks is what Tories do best, of course. They're a bunch of glossers.
 
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