For those planning to watch the leadership debate...

tomterm8

ninky wrote: »

as an asthmatic me actually. volcanic emissions are pretty nasty for those of us weak of lung.:eek:

Erm, tis lucky they are 30,000 feet above our heads... won't come down for several months.

sjaypink

chucky wrote: »

it's good to see that people are judging the next government on how an individual comes across on TV instead of the policies and future policies of the their future governments.

it's tragic

So you would be happy for our great country to be under the rule of someone who clenches his fist when he says 'pledge' and who blinks three times at the mention of the word 'future'??? :eek:

Graham_Devon

chucky wrote: »

so these comments are political right?


this election isn't X-Factor and what song you choose or analysing body language - it's about addressing the issues in the UK

Chucky, one of those comments are mine.

Clegg won that TV debate in terms of how they put themselves across. That is all that was meant.

ninky_2

chucky wrote: »

so these comments are political right?


this election isn't X-Factor and what song you choose or analysing body language - it's about addressing the issues in the UK

agreed. leadership debates are the x factor element of election time. i don't think all will base their votes on them though.

maybe they should get simon cowell on to assess the performance...or alan sugar with his two sidekicks.

oooh ....it's getting very x factor now with the approval panel.

lostinrates

chucky wrote: »

so these comments are political right?


this election isn't X-Factor and what song you choose or analysing body language - it's about addressing the issues in the UK

No I agree, they are not, but they have got us talking. As we discuss policy so much its a nice change, innit. Its like the Location 3 threads were light relief, not serious indicators of the property market....

Raggs_2

A lot of people (elsewhere, checking polls) seem to think that LD will enjoy a brief surge, but then it will calm down. I wonder (drawing from my wasted vote thread) if perhaps if they get a big enough boost, they may become more viable, and thus draw even more votes?

samhuzz

lostinrates wrote: »

I think thats quite frustrating tbh. I would agree he has a very smug look, but then, so did Blair!

I think to vote on policies, whoever you agree with, is much better than voting on looks and smarm.

Oh no, not another smug !!!!!! like Blair! Really really couldn't stand him! Even prefer Brown to him and that's saying something! And his wife, OMG :eek:

chucky

sjaypink wrote: »

So you would be happy for our great country to be under the rule of someone who clenches his fist when he says 'pledge' and who blinks three times at the mention of the word 'future'??? :eek:

In a word No - i don't think Brown is the answer for the UK

but..... I'd rather not vote for a slimey guy who acted and performed his way right through 90 minutes of a tv debate

chewmylegoff

tomterm8 wrote: »

It would be easier to consider their future policies if we were psychic, but given that I think they (all three parties) are far from being honest about what they are going to do I don't think electing them based on their future actions is worthwhile.

Or in other words, they are lying bar stewards.

they can't do much else but lie - noone would vote for them if they were honest.

you've got brown just pretending that he will not cut funding for anything important, cameron pretending he won't put up taxes, and clegg pretending the liberals matter.

Graham_Devon

Jesus.

Just looked at the poll running on ITV.

Clegg and Brown neck and neck.

Now that's surprised me. Looks like Brown could come out top according to this poll.

Brown has managed to go from 29% and take over from Clegg at 48% in a matter of 10 mins.

He's now the overall winner.

http://www.itv.com/electiondebate?intcmp=780097_123_1