Society & Culture1 min ago
Leaders debate
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.
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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. //
//. 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. //
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
