Leadership Debate

i’m biased BM being a past lib voter but i have considered UKip but i have to say after listening to Nick Clegg and their policies i think its time for a change so rather than not voting for them “cos they wont get in” do we spend the next 65 years going back and forth between lab and con or make the stand now and if we feel he is the best option with the best policies to just vote for him. Unless Ukip convince me to sway away from libs i think i may well stick to them, this part of the country is virtually all libs anyway and we have always had fantastic mp’s who do a fantastic job so i think i’ll stick to them.
Time for change !! at the minimum a coalition which may not be a bad thing either.

@quiet_man wrote:

As a fully paid up politics junkie, DIY SOS was a far better bet.

The whole farce was a snapshot of how the politicians and hacks treat us.

The Audience were compelled to sit there in stony silence listening to how these three idiots were going to spend their money, Dear God, they were also wired up to some machine to allow MORI to gauge their reaction.

I did not look at the ‘Leaders’ I looked at the faces of the audience, how many did you count chewing their lips in suppressed rage.

The questiontime format is far better, where if an ego driven politician is talking
bilge, the audience erupts into a cacophony of rage and groans.

This was a beauty contest without the beauties, a complete and utter waste of time.

We the people should be partaking in our democracy, not sitting in a stony silence wired up to a machine. We get just one chance to vote in a rigged system and we are told to collectively told shut up and be quiet. No wit,No style,No flair – sanitised to death.

You know i luvs ya QM but nah ur wrong lol
as a self confessed political junkie that debate may have seen a farce to you but for those less in the know atleast they attempted though in atleast one if not two cases failed to answer questions and give real answers in laymens terms to selected questions which for those of us who havent read all their manifesto’s at great length was interesting, and at the end of the day its the normal man on the street with little political knowledge that will be putting a cross in the box as well as the better informed, anything that brings politics into the home of the layman is agood thing. As for the audience i know what u mean but this had to be managed like that to get real responses from them and allow them to trip over themselves rather than be shouted down before they could make total idiots of themselves so in a way they were laid bare without being shut up when they cud have tripped up but allowed to do just that, full flat on their faces.and to allow people to actually hear what they had to say without major interruption, i like question time but as pretty much a laymen it can get confusing if you dont know who a certain person is or if they change direction atleast this way it was easy for anyone to understand.

@pete wrote:

The one constant is their promises are empty but it’ll get one party at least 5 yrs in power

To be fair Pete for most of our lifetimes its only ever been Cons or Lab to have fed us empty promises ALL the other parties are yet to let us down so fingers crossed we” be sensible make a new choice and be able to spread the blame 3 ways next time round :)

I actually enjoyed the debate, I liked the style of the programme and enjoyed listening to what they had to say without the audience’s boo’s, jeers and clapping….I did think they’d go into a little more detail but what they did do was spark questions in my mind that I have today acted on and found out the answers to…it had the effect it needed to on the target audience and everyone is talking about it. When was the last time you heard politics talked about quite so much?

Of course to those who take their politics more seriously, it may have seemed lame, tame and a little cliched but I feel it served a purpose.

Why shouldnt they get in though if prospective lib dem voters didnt try and vote clever “because they wont get in” and vote else where they might start getting a chance, like i said b4 we are a stronghold for lib dems down here and they have always been amazingly good mp’s not a grumble from me on them, so why not lets have a change we aint going very far under the last few decades change is as goos a s arest and all that :D