Live Policital Debate (UK)

[Motorway to Roswell]

I think Clegg came out on top of that. Brown and Cameron just looked childish tbh.

Brown and Cameron are like kids fighting over sweets.

[hayze99]

are you all mad? It's the future of our country and who's going to run it.
It don't matter who you vote for but it's nice to know what each one is all about. It maybe slightly boring and long but i think it's well wort 1:30 of my life.

a. I don't think it makes much of a difference who wins in this country, or most of them, for that matter; they're all actors.
b. It's unbearable.

[WhosZena]

Nick Clegg gave the best performance in my opinion but the way the whole thing was done felt a bit too set up and I didnt really see any of them that differently... what happened to the punch up idea.

[Shae]

problem is i know so many people that don't even KNOW there is an election on not to mention are even gonna vote!

me

[magma]

The education stuff genuinely shocked me and it sounded like the Lib Dems have an actual plan with how to deal with it. I don't buy all this "efficiency savings" stuff for a minute, the Conservatives have no idea how they're going to balance their budget and Labour aren't thinking hard enough.

Clegg was the clear winner for me.. I didn't think there was much to choose in the performance from the other two, solid but dull, unimaginative and in Cameron's case, absolutely hollow... he at one point tried to suggest that scrapping the National Insurance rise would give him money to pump into the NHS - err, David, scrapping a tax rise leaves you with LESS MONEY.

WE CANNOT HAVE A PRIME MINISTER THAT CAN'T ADD UP AND TAKE AWAY.

[jigglypuff]

yes i was thinking that maybe cleggy did it for me... but in reality i just cant bare to see gordon browns face in the media anymore -_-

[mc wayne]

WE CANNOT HAVE A PRIME MINISTER THAT CAN'T ADD UP AND TAKE AWAY.

not aimed at you but what about a prime minister that can spell Political.

[firky]

this some staged bollocks.

Init, total joke. I stopped watching it as it was starting to get on my nerves. Load of cock.

"If voting changed anything they'd make it illegal" - Emma Goldman.

[seckle]

i think its funny that even in the UK in this day and age, party hardliners on either side, are always eclipsed by middle of the road, non compromising, "Britain, a place of tolerance and pluralism." politicians like Clegg. Its the sphere of Obama influencing your island.

[alien pimp]

muppet shows for the ruling class to persuade the ruled class of things that aren't real

[dreamizm]

in nearly every case "efficiency savings" means bringing in the private sector and carving up the welfare system for corporate interests

anyone on a Tory thing, im waiting for reasons that dont involve vacuous logos like 'change'

[uncle bill]

are you all mad? It's the future of our country and who's going to run it.
It don't matter who you vote for but it's nice to know what each one is all about. It maybe slightly boring and long but i think it's well wort 1:30 of my life.

a. I don't think it makes much of a difference who wins in this country, or most of them, for that matter; they're all actors.
b. It's unbearable.

Not true. The differences in economic policy between the three main parties could make a massive difference in terms of the number of jobs available, funding for public services etc. The wrong policies could send us into another recession before we’ve had time to recover from the last one.

It may be "unbearable" to some (not me – I’m a politics junkie) but it’s going to affect you whether you vote or not.

I thought it was a fairly good debate as it goes. Clegg did well. Brown looked awkward. Cameron is a bullshit merchant. He should be running a PR firm, not a political party. I can't stand him.

[Dead Rats]

Gordon Brown ran into the audience and away from the podium at the end, I fink he must have seen a crowd member eating a hot dog or summin'

[sonar]

i thought it was interesting, i was hoping it would be more like pmq's though, like more scrappy and countering each others arguments.

[hackman]

what's interesting about hearing the same recycled promises as we've been hearing for the last 20 years, then seeing nothing materialise when it comes to the crunch

[Dead Rats]

I don't really like Alastair Stewart at all, though. He's a bit of a pant sniffer.

They should put the MP's to a real test and have the debate hosted by a Freddy Krueger impersonater firing off the audience's questions, along with releasing a pack of Sabre-tooth tigers into the studio to wonder about. THEN we'll see who's the real deal composed.

[Motorway to Roswell]

Cameron is a bullshit merchant. He should be running a PR firm, not a political party. I can't stand him.

Agreed.

[nasty biznes]

[jazzamataz]

Clegg bossed it and came out on top in round 1. It will be interesting to see what happens in round 2 and 3, because
I have a sneaky feeling that Brown and Cameron are going to do all they can to slate the Dems after their 'handbags at dawn,'
bitch-fest between each other. The analogy I use is - Blue coat or Red coat, you're still going on a shit holiday.

It was brilliant the way Clegg didn't allow Brown to align himself with the Lib Dem party on all issues, because in all honesty,
that's the problem when the layperson thinks of Lib Dem - the layperson thinks "they're like a useless Labour," when they're clearly not.

I'm trying to get everyone I know to vote LibDem, whilst also trying to not sound like a patronising tnuc
whenever politics are mentioned - this guy seems sound - It's not a binary two-party system, and I wish the
average person could get that through their head. Of the big parties (after reading all of the manifestos,)
The Dems are the ones that look like they actually give a shit. They're the people you want to represent you!

[magma]

Clegg bossed it and came out on top in round 1. It will be interesting to see what happens in round 2 and 3, because
I have a sneaky feeling that Brown and Cameron are going to do all they can to slate the Dems after their 'handbags at dawn,'
bitch-fest between each other. The analogy I use is - Blue coat or Red coat, you're still going on a shit holiday.

It was brilliant the way Clegg didn't allow Brown to align himself with the Lib Dem party on all issues, because in all honesty,
that's the problem when the layperson thinks of Lib Dem - the layperson thinks "they're like a useless Labour," when they're clearly not.

I'm trying to get everyone I know to vote LibDem, whilst also trying to not sound like a patronising tnuc
whenever politics are mentioned - this guy seems sound - It's not a binary two-party system, and I wish the
average person could get that through their head. Of the big parties (after reading all of the manifestos,)
The Dems are the ones that look like they actually give a shit. They're the people you want to represent you!

All of this!

It's almost like the Yellows want Britain to be some sort of liberal democracy.