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Is Cameron Trying To Rescue The Election Campaign For All Concerned?
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Standard predictable labelling from the hard of thinking of course but read Nick Robinson's analysis and it may reveal a deeper message from the PM, for example: "None of this will surprise the prime minister. He decided long ago - I first wrote about it in my book, which was published three years ago - that the debates at the last election had sucked the life out of the campaign and given a boost to his opponents. " - I have always thought these debates have no value especially for the main party leaders so why should the PM play along in this exercise in following the US? The whole green party ultimatum was a bit silly though, he should just not join in, end of.
Standard predictable labelling from the hard of thinking of course but read Nick Robinson's analysis and it may reveal a deeper message from the PM, for example: "None of this will surprise the prime minister. He decided long ago - I first wrote about it in my book, which was published three years ago - that the debates at the last election had sucked the life out of the campaign and given a boost to his opponents. " - I have always thought these debates have no value especially for the main party leaders so why should the PM play along in this exercise in following the US? The whole green party ultimatum was a bit silly though, he should just not join in, end of.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Mikey the Green Party thing is a hopeless excuse.
I agree that it may be a mistake though.
If there are sensible people involved in organising these things they will call Cameron's bluff. I predict that at that point the Tories will claim that OFCOM's ruling should stand. That will turn logic on its head, of course :-)
I agree that it may be a mistake though.
If there are sensible people involved in organising these things they will call Cameron's bluff. I predict that at that point the Tories will claim that OFCOM's ruling should stand. That will turn logic on its head, of course :-)
I think the best idea would be to have these debates in the format of “Strictly Come Dancing” or “Get me out of the Jungle” (or whatever other bilge they broadcast on a Saturday night). Hold them on Saturday evenings over a few weeks (scheduling them to allow time for the pizzas to be delivered). They could have a few “knock out” rounds with the also rans being eliminated and ejected via the back door of the studio under arc lights and filmed for all to see. The final could be on the Saturday before polling day. Voting could be done by internet, a mobile phone “App” or by old-fashioned text (texts to cost £1.50 plus your normal network charges with at least 35p of the profits going to a charity of the ultimate victor’s choice).
No need to mess about closing the schools on May 7th; no need to pay thousands of Town Hall wallahs loads of wonga to count up slips of paper; no messing about with a Hung Parliament (the also rans having been eliminated before the final).
This idea is about as sensible as the ridiculous TV debates. Anybody who needs such a spectacle to help them decide how to cast their vote (or who might be swayed by such a farce) deserves to be taken as seriously as those who vote for candidates in the X-Factor.
No need to mess about closing the schools on May 7th; no need to pay thousands of Town Hall wallahs loads of wonga to count up slips of paper; no messing about with a Hung Parliament (the also rans having been eliminated before the final).
This idea is about as sensible as the ridiculous TV debates. Anybody who needs such a spectacle to help them decide how to cast their vote (or who might be swayed by such a farce) deserves to be taken as seriously as those who vote for candidates in the X-Factor.
I have referred to JM as MMMMajor for some time now Blackadder. It is my perhaps, feeble, attempt to mock his bumbling indecision, rather in the way that Spitting Image did a few years ago. He was an awful choice for Leader after you-know-who was stabbed in the back, by her own Party, as indeed he was stabbed in a similar fashion a few years later. He first started to lose the 1997 Election, shortly after he became Leader.
But I quite like the man. He would have made a super Chair of your local PTA, and would probably have been an ideal Scout Leader. If he was your next door neighbour, you could have relied on him 100% to look after your pets and garden while you went on holiday. I fancy he would also have made a good Parish Priest, as long as Edwina was on the other side of the globe !
All in all, a Good Egg, but as a Leader of the Tory Party, and a Prime Minister, he was way above his pay grade. The only thing he had going for him in November 1990 was that he wasn't Michael Heseltine, the only thing that seemed to be important to the Tory Party at the time.
But I quite like the man. He would have made a super Chair of your local PTA, and would probably have been an ideal Scout Leader. If he was your next door neighbour, you could have relied on him 100% to look after your pets and garden while you went on holiday. I fancy he would also have made a good Parish Priest, as long as Edwina was on the other side of the globe !
All in all, a Good Egg, but as a Leader of the Tory Party, and a Prime Minister, he was way above his pay grade. The only thing he had going for him in November 1990 was that he wasn't Michael Heseltine, the only thing that seemed to be important to the Tory Party at the time.
"The only thing he had going for him in November 1990 was that he wasn't Michael Heseltine". I would not agree that it was the only thing going for him but he did preserve us from the nightmare of Heseltine, who is loathed by the Tory faithful to this day. If Heseltine had won I would have held my nose and voted Kinnock. At least he was transparent, not like that slimy snake Heseltine.
Cameron didn't seem to mind doing tv debates in 2010 !.
http:// www.the guardia n.com/p olitics /2010/a pr/16/t elevisi on-deba te-brow n-camer on-cleg g
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