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UK Election Debate No. 3

  • 29-04-2010 08:20PM
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭


    The final debate is due, here are some of the polls so far:

    YouGov - Lab (28%), LibDem (30), Con (33), Other (9%)

    Mori - Lab (30), LibDem (23), Con (36), Other (11)

    ComRes - Lab (29), LibDem (26), Con (36), Other (9)

    So, will Clegg bottle it? Will Brown get past BigotGate? Will Cameron do anything of any interest whatsoever?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    Cameron keeping his promise to never adopt the Euro.

    Brown immediately refers to yesterdays bigot gaffe.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    It was good that Brown addressed that straight off. No doubt it will come back during the second 45 minutes, immigration is the topic du jour.

    Brown and Clegg have given good answers so far. Clegg gave actual examples of what would be cut. Brown stated cuts for the public service and their pensions.

    Cameron is still 75% hot air. Sorry, I can't make myself believe him.


    Ooooh, good idea from Clegg there about getting all the vice chancellors together with the chancellor and working it out together. It may not work in practice, but anyone that argues against him will make themselves stand out as elitist. It's like chess playing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    Clegg repeating himself about getting the chancellors together.

    He only mentioned it 5mins ago!

    Sweat dripping down Browns forehead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,745 ✭✭✭Eliot Rosewater




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Yeah, but his rating on the Guardian worm jumped massively when he first spoke of it.

    Wow, now I know why noone talks about the economy in an election. It's not out of fear, it's just out of pure boredom. Massive figures don't sit well with individuals. They only want to know how it's going to effect them.

    Interesting jibe at the LibDems there from Brown re: not entering a coalition with the Cons.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    Canera constantly cutting to Brown shaking his head.

    Not sure that will go down well with viewers.

    Remember the same think happened with Bush in 2004.

    Couldnt see Brown ever wanting a coalition with Cameron.

    Brown hammering Cameron on children tax credits but £50,000 is well-off you ask me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    A lot of tit for tat there in the second question, with Clegg remaining quiet. Brown my have won that one.

    Ok, Q3, banking question.

    Am I the only one that doesn't believe anything DC says?

    Clegg and Brown are going well so far.

    Tonights buzzword - Fairness


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    I think Cameron comes across terribly (I might be negatively biased towards him though) - he doesn't seem genuine at all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    Gordon Brown definitely winning this one, Clegg hasn't a clue about banking, and Cameron too 'posh' and patronising


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Dr. Baltar


    YES OR NO?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,346 ✭✭✭ionapaul


    Dr. Baltar wrote: »
    YES OR NO?
    Clegg was poor there I think...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    Brown was the clear winner on immigration.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    Think Clegg has been very good over the past 20mins. Good style, logical points and making a clear difference between him and the policies of the past.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    Browne just after saying that they have kept interest rates low over the past 10 years. Its a remarkable statement.

    Has Gordon Browne been inferring with the Bank of England? Or simply talking bollocks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,460 ✭✭✭Orizio


    Clegg has been waffling and stuttering all debate really.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Well, I missed Q4 to 6, so can't comment on those.

    However, listening in now, I think this might be Brown's night. The rags won't be happy, they'll more than likely say Cameron won. At the moment, I'd reckon on:

    1. Brown
    2. Clegg
    3. Cameron

    Education question, surprised people didn't mention giving power to manage classrooms back to the teachers. Maybe it would be in bad taste after todays verdict.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Thought Cameron had said that. Thought Clegg was poorer tonight.
    From what I saw it would be Cameron Brown Clegg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    1. Brown
    2. Clegg
    3. Cameron


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Finishing:
    Cameron
    Clegg
    Brown


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,435 ✭✭✭✭redout


    Thought Brown myself tbh.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    End of night speeches:

    Cameron - the usual vacuous nonsense (sorry, I really can not warm to him)
    Clegg - Good, strong, got his points across, fairer Britain, etc.
    Brown - The best closing of the three, until he smiled at the end. The man should never smile.

    I'm sticking with Brown, Clegg, Cameron.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    I thought Brown had a poor finish and Cameron and Clegg finished well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    First poll out - Sun/YouGov - Cameron wins at 41%!

    Hahahaha that's hillarious.

    Actually, to confound the idiocy of it, Adam the-swaying-polar-bear Boulton just attributed Cameron's win to the fact that he was standing to the right of the others.

    How is that guy still employed?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    Adam Boulton is useless but doesn't annoy me as much as Kay Burley!!!

    She screams anti-labour rhetoric at people at the post debate last week.

    Jill Dando wannabe, will neverbe


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,737 ✭✭✭BroomBurner


    Kay, Adam and that Random guy with the comic-sneery eyes are horrendous. I mean, I know Sky are pretty sh*t, but come on!

    Whoever does Osbourne's makeup is taking far too many tips from the Night of the Living Dead. I wonder was his disappearance during the week down to an illness? Certainly looks like it.

    Second poll has Cameron on 35%, Clegg on 33% and Brown some lower number.

    I really don't understand how people can think Cameron won. He focused a lot on negative and attacking the others, as opposed to being straight up with Tory policies.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    A ComRes poll suggests David Cameron did best, with 35% of respondents saying so, with Nick Clegg on 33% and Gordon Brown on 26%.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,957 ✭✭✭Euro_Kraut


    efb wrote: »
    A ComRes poll suggests David Cameron did best, with 35% of respondents saying so, with Nick Clegg on 33% and Gordon Brown on 26%.

    Like last week instant polls really. Very similar to the actual state of the parties (when you take the 'others' out). Not surprising the Tories think that their man won, Liberals think Clegg won and Labour think Browne won. Since they support their polices in the first place they are likely to agree with what they say in a debate.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭TheSpecialOne


    They are Completely Biased in the UK polls.The Sun Supports Cameron and all its polls they have published have shown there man in the lead..one that had Gordon in the lead was not Published.Sky is so biased towards the conservatives its ridiculous..all to do with Good oul Rupert wanting to destroy the BBC.Also Dave will give all at sky a nice little Tax Cut.The British people are being conned its Propaganda Mr Goebbels would of been proud of.The British Economy will be screwed by the Tories they have an inept clown in The Finance Portfolio in Osbourne and he will lead them into a double dip recession...The British should know you can never trust the Tories but if they vote them in they get what they deserve a bit Like The Fianna Fail Voters here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 535 ✭✭✭bob50


    Tought Cameron won the immigration debate tonight


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,778 ✭✭✭✭Inquitus


    lol Mr Bliar being rolled out by Labour tomorrow and for the rest of the campaign........a last, very ironic, roll of the dice perhaps....


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