2015 Leader Debate

[AB Editor]

 

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Who do you think will "win" tonight's debate?

• Nigel Farage - 13 votes
• 41%
• David Cameron - 9 votes
• 28%
• Nick Clegg - 3 votes
• 9%
• Ed Miliband - 3 votes
• 9%
• Nicola Sturgeon - 3 votes
• 9%
• Natalie Bennett - 1 vote
• 3%
• Leanne Wood - 0 vote
• 0%

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[dannyk13]

David Cameron

[Svejk]

I don't just think Nigel will win. I know he will. It's the surest bet since Ali beat Richard Dunn.

[youngmafbog]

Anyone but Cameron or Milliband. They are the only two to have anything to loose so the rest can 'go for it'

[AB Editor]

True.

And Farage is good at the pulpit. Will he have a pint of bitter under his lecturn instead of water?

I suppose a "win" for the nationalist parties is to improve in one slice of the country, so their message will seem very different to that of Labour/Tories.

Clegg was quite good last time - time for a comeback? Or a little too late?

[Gromit]

I don't think it will be much of a debate. The format is wrong, too many participants.

The Government parties do not have a good record to defend, so for Clegg and Cameron it is more about damage limitation. Miliband is not good in these situations, so I doubt he will come out as winner. Someone from one of the minor parties might surprise us.

[douglas9401]

I agree with Nick.....

[mikey4444]

What does it matter who wins tonight, if it isn't dave or Ed ?

I seem to recall that Cleggie was supposed to have won a previous TV debate, in 2010. But as he entered the Election with 62 MPs, and ended it with only 57, what good did it do him ? He may or may not have won the debate but he lost the war !

Even more pointedly....what happens if Farage wins ? He still won't be PM and he still won't have enough MPs in Westminster to make any difference either way.

These debates, especially with such a ludicrously large amount of candidates taking part, over such a short time, will just look like some risible game of "Celebrity Squares in Suits"

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// I seem to recall that Cleggie was supposed to have won a previous TV debate, in 2010. But as he entered the Election with 62 MPs, and ended it with only 57, what good did it do him ? He may or may not have won the debate but he lost the war ! ///

He did in fact become the Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, so all was not lost.

[mikey4444]

Due to the mathematics perhaps AOG, but not due to the telly debate !

[anneasquith]

may be a circus. far too many candidates all at once.

[ichkeria]

Last time round the debate was 'won' by the outsider. Someone who was able to appear sensible and slog from the usual suspects: fresh faced Cleggy. If history repeats itself then maybe Natalie Bennett. And what is certain is that as in 2010 that will mean nothing
Anyway I won't be watching but I will be interested to see what happens. I agree it's a ridiculous format. PC and the SNP have no place there

[ichkeria]

Slog? Should be 'aloof' (!)

[flump1]

It is a staged event, there will be no winner as such. Maybe independent television channels for r coverage.

[theshedman]

I wonder which one of them if any will actually answer a question they have been asked and not try to twist it to something else or change it altogether.

[TTG]

I'd prefer one candidate at a time...give them 15 mins each in front of a studio audience for q/a.

[mikey4444]

TTG....but where would be the fun in that !

[Gromit]

// Someone from one of the minor parties might surprise us. //

Sturgeon seems to have won with Farage a close second.

Cameron and Miliband were neck and neck, as they are in the poles.

Another Coalition looks certai.

[Gromit]

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