So, the Leaders Debate (II) is Over, who won

Mental Mickey

RetroBate wrote: »

Read the two last lines of my post.

I did. And that's the silliest thing I have ever read on here. Would you prefer your elected(like it or not)representatives to turn up to debates wearing ****ing shiny tracksuits, baseball caps, loads of bling, smoking a joint, and carrying a can of cider???

They wear suits because they are in the public eye. They are our representatives.

KELTICKNIGHTT

we see what the 3 way debate shows,the 5 way debate was ok but really most people didnt get much out of it,so maybe the 3 way be more for people too see,specialy gilmore and kenny

InigoMontoya

kunob wrote: »

Apart from Gerry Adams, none of the party leaders appear to care one iota. Someone who is distraught over seeing his children and grandchildren emigrate, over the taxation, over the job situation, the cuts in benefits: What does it for him if Enda tells him that FG have a five point plan? Have the party leaders no decency? What about telling that poor man that they are sorry to hear about his plight, that they sympathize with him? What about expressing some care and concern to another human being?

Frankly, if I was in such a situation I'd rather hear from someone with a plan than someone expressing empathy.

antomack wrote: »

Main thing to come out of the night was that you'd be wondering how any coalition could exist at all. We keep hearing that a coalition between FG and Labour is likely but from what was seen in the debate you'd wonder could it work at all since Enda and Eamon kept dissing each other's policies at every oppportunity, quite something considering there are quite a few similarities between those policies.

That's why most of the FG/Lab bickering seems like electoral tactics rather than anything that would be a stumbling block to the formation of a coalition. They see each other as the principal rivals when it comes to gaining seats so they attack their policies. There are genuine discrepancies too, but any more than in the pre-election positions of some parties that formed previous coalitions?

wee truck big driver

Sergeant wrote: »

By the sale of non-strategic state assets, and through further efficiencies in the public service. In their 87 page election manifesto that they published today, as well as in their NewEra policy paper.

was that a manifesto i thought it was the beano