Leaders debate

[R1Geezer]

Well I'm watching it and I have to say, Cleggy is kicking ar5e, as a Tory I know regulars will consider that high praise indeed.

[Gromit]

I agree. Let me remind you of my post to you earlier today...

//. Clegg could be the dark horse.

Both Brown and Cameron are the same. Clegg did very well with Paxman, and is relatively unknown to the general public. Given equal time, he will seem rather refreshing compared to dowdy Brown and Posh boy. //

[NoMercy]

Posh boy?

Why are some so fundamentally averse to those who have been privileged enough to received an expensive education?

[R1Geezer]

yes you did gromit, have BGB! Getting toward the end now I'm scroing this: Clegg, Cameron, Brown. I have to say that this doesn't look good for Gordon, especially when Cameron roughed him up about the helicopters and forces generally.

[Gromit]

NoMercy.

I saId he was Posh, I made no mention of his education. If I were to do so, it would not be criticial that he went to Eton, I would be critical that he is a career politician who has never had a proper job in the real world. I used 'Dowdy' and 'Posh boy' because that is the labels by which these two are known.

[rov1200]

What a switch off. What's new?

[NoMercy]

Gromit... I stand corrected !

Btw.... does his poshness annoy you?

[Gromit]

OK, now it is finished my honest judgemnt it Clegg was the better of the three, though he did fade toward the end. I would score Brown and Cameron last equal. Both probably did well with their own supporters, but they were both unlikely to have swayed a floating voter, or converted anyone from the other side to theirs.

[AB Editor]

Blimey R1, feeling okay?

Spare

[dothawkes31]

Told you you should have watched outnumbered, it's just as easy to laugh at and the characters are also deluded and confused

[Gromit]

NoMercy,

His poshness does not annoy me, it is his act of being a man of the people I find unconvincing. I was going out if his way to state his children go to state school and how wonderful the NHS is.

Likewise, the fact that Brown is perceved as being Dowdy does not detract from his abilities.

[Kromovaracun]

I thought Clegg came out of the Paxman interview very badly (he was very evasive) but he did seem fine in this. None of the three came across especially well but of the three he did do best, I thought.

[R1Geezer]

AB ed, credit where its due, looks like many agreed the itv poll scored in 43/26/20 in Clegg/Cameron/Brown

[Gromit]

SKY's poll after the debate seems to agree with my assessment.

Clegg 37%
Cameron 32%
Brown 31%

[Kromovaracun]

ITV website viewers have rated it even more starkly:

http://www.itv.com/el...e?intcmp=780097_123_1

[OrcadianOil]

What's all this twaddle about Cameron being the only one of the 3 being labelled "posh boy"? Nick Clegg was born into a privileged background and has Russian nobility in his lineage, went to Cambridge etc etc.

Clegg no more stole the show than either of the other two - he had to be more combative than Brown or Cameron simply because he knows, as anyone else with half a brain, that the best his party can hope for is to hold the balance of power in a hung parliament, and in the public eye he's not as recognisable as the other two.

The Lib Dems can promise us the earth because they know fine well that they will never be in a position to have to deliver, that's the long and short of it. For example, he used the word "discipline" when referring to schooling. I almost laughed because that is a word, sadly, which no school teacher has in his/her armoury. Brown also used the word and was even less convincing about it than Clegg, if that was possible.

All 3 were so well primed that it was inevitable that a disaster for any was neither really on the cards, and it left me as I'd started when watching it - still confused and very undecided.

[Gromit]

SKY have amended their final poll. They now rate the leaders:

Clegg 37%
Brown 32%
Cameron 31%

[Gromit]

Geezer,

//. It seems the backroom boys reckon Gordon'll take a beating. //

Have a BGB for being completely wrong (see SKY poll above).

[R1Geezer]

Gromit, stop squirming, your Noo Labour buddies are on the way out, accept it!