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For those planning to watch the leadership debate...

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  • sammyjammy
    sammyjammy Posts: 7,999 Forumite
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    samhuzz wrote: »
    Don't like the presenter much, he seems a bit rude

    That's John Suchet you are talking about!! (isn't it? :D), I think he is just trying to keep things calm and stop them having a brawl.
    "You've been reading SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05 "
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    ninky wrote: »
    or quick witted.....don't think the tories are worried about being rude, they've got gordon plastered over posters all over the country and have now posted a picture of him with aides holding the door open calling him 'supreme leader'. nice to your face rude behind your back.

    I think they are all quick witted, they've all shown that IMO. Supreme leader is what he's called n this week...innit?
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    hubby is getting annoyed btw. i keep shushing him when he comes in and asks what i want with my meal. election widower......
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
  • Kohoutek
    Kohoutek Posts: 2,861 Forumite
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    sammyjammy wrote: »
    If we had a different voting system maybe they wouldn't be thought of as the third party.

    Well, in 1997 Labour though they needed the Lib Dems and electoral reform was a pre-condition from Ashdown of a Lib/Lab coalition. Obviously in the end Labour won a landslide and they abandoned the Lib Dems. Could be different this year. You can be sure that if a party needs the LDs to form a govt, electoral reform will be a pre-condition again.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    samhuzz wrote: »
    Is there any chance of Nick Clegg getting in as I really like him? Don't know much at all about politics. I think that's really good what he said about the MPs, and the other two jumped on the bandwagon.


    There is as much of a chance as there ever has been IMO. Depends on ''you'' really. :)
  • samhuzz
    samhuzz Posts: 721 Forumite
    sammyjammy wrote: »
    That's John Suchet you are talking about!! (isn't it? :D), I think he is just trying to keep things calm and stop them having a brawl.

    I don't know who he is, you're prob right about him trying to stop them brawling though, imagine if they had someone less abrupt!
    Everyone I know wants to be a millionaire.
    Not me, I want to be a billionaire.
  • Graham_Devon
    Graham_Devon Posts: 58,560 Forumite
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    ninky wrote: »
    cameron is looking really bad at the moment.

    voting against removing hereditary peers and saying things like "who in their family life hasn't had to make savings and try to get more for less".....well not you and your aristo wife mate. can the tories stop making a comparison between government spending and personal spending. osborne is just as bad.

    It really is amazing how we all see things so differently.

    You see Cameron doing really badly.

    I keep thinking "phew, he didn't retaliate to Brown's attack, he's doing well".

    Think Nick is doing better than both of them, but this is probably because he normally doesn't get the same level of speech.
  • sammyjammy
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    Whoops its Alistair Stewart :o
    "You've been reading SOS when it's just your clock reading 5:05 "
  • REDMADCURLS
    REDMADCURLS Posts: 3,766 Forumite
    NIck Clegg definately coming out the 'best' so far!
    LBM Feb 2010 £62,700 Total Debt Jan 11 [STRIKE]£49,403.84[/STRIKE] £47,530.32.
    (CC/LOAN = [STRIKE]36,378.98[/STRIKE] 35668.47. O/D = [STRIKE]1255.32[/STRIKE] 1212.35/[STRIKE]1999.78[/STRIKE] 1934.52, BUS = [STRIKE]9769.76[/STRIKE] 8714.98)
    Challenge = Debt at 31/01/12 = £25k. 2011 Payments = £1,944.19/£24,403.84

    There is no point in negative thought, it takes up time and energy which could be used in a positive, happy way!
  • REDMADCURLS
    REDMADCURLS Posts: 3,766 Forumite
    Poor Dave just comes across as such a toff!
    LBM Feb 2010 £62,700 Total Debt Jan 11 [STRIKE]£49,403.84[/STRIKE] £47,530.32.
    (CC/LOAN = [STRIKE]36,378.98[/STRIKE] 35668.47. O/D = [STRIKE]1255.32[/STRIKE] 1212.35/[STRIKE]1999.78[/STRIKE] 1934.52, BUS = [STRIKE]9769.76[/STRIKE] 8714.98)
    Challenge = Debt at 31/01/12 = £25k. 2011 Payments = £1,944.19/£24,403.84

    There is no point in negative thought, it takes up time and energy which could be used in a positive, happy way!
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