Debate chat #18
Clegg better on banks second time round. Brown still proposing to do bugger all about the banks, but promising bugger all very noisily now.
Daily archives: April 29, 2010
Debate chat #17
Cameron actually not bad on banks. Clegg good in a populist way. Brown proposing to do bugger all about the banks.
Debate chat #16
Debate getting really angry now – brilliant! Gordon showing some proper idignation at the Tories. Maybe he’s just remembered why he went into politics before his sole aim became to suck up to the City.
Debate chat #15
Clegg makes perfectly true point and very important point about poor people paying higher percentage as income tax than the righ pay on unearned capital gains income. Director cut to close up of Brown shaking his head as though this wasn’t true.
Debate chat #14
Gordon said “ordinary hard working families”. By which he means bigots.
Debate chat #13
Cameron doesn’t understand Keynsianism – which is not surprising really.
Debate chat #12
Cameron attacking benefit payments – like it was the unemployed who caused the financial crash.
Debate chat #11
Cameron quotes his supporters Corus – who just pocketed millions of pounds cash from carbon credits by reducing pollution in closing their Teeside plant and making thousands redundant.
Debate chat #10
Everyone dodging the question about where the cuts will fall. Brown talking about the cuts in investment – but we’ll be paying his PFI bills for decades already.
Debate chat #9
Cameron staring again into the camera manically as instructed
Debate chat #8
Brown sounding like manager of Murmansk tractor factory giving production statistics c. 1965
Debate chat #7
Brown simplistic but much better than Cameron
Debate chat #6
Clegg much better than Cameron
Debate chat #3
Cameron superbland – nothing anyone could disagree with, even me.
Debate chat #2
Switched over to HD. Improbably plucked eyebrows in the audience.
Debate chat #1
Over on BBC now for the debate proper
If you put a large condom over William Hague’s head
he wouldn’t look any different.
The real bigots are the 51 “entrepreneurs” who wrote to the Times
this morning arguing anything but a Tory government would be a disaster. They argue that only massive tax cuts for themselves will save the economy, by “trickledown”. Not one of them opposed the banking deregulation that actually was an economic disaster.
Liveblogging starting with weird werid comment by Michael Thrasher
on Sky. He says Birmingham is a red/blue battleground with only Lib Dem interest in Solihull. Absolute bollocks. At least two Birmingham Lab constituencies are set to go Lib Dem