Debate chat #20
Wow Brown just seems petulant now. This was meant to be his gravitas loaded winning performance. He just seems ratty. Cameron’s presentation getting sharper.
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Debate chat #19
Feeble populist and very simplistic attack on Lib Dems by Cameron over the Euro.
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.
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
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.
A tweet from the Sun
A tweet from the Sun:
Sun_Election Tonight’s Sun/YouGov poll reveals that Nick Clegg has failed to repeat his poll surge after the second leaders debate…
The anti-Lib Dem campaigning by Murdoch is so blatant it is really not funny. Now when they release the figures for their daily poll, the LibDems are the only party who have increased their vote share on the day before.
Tory 34, LD 29 (up 1), New Labour 29
This was the first opinion poll taken after the hounds of hell of the entire Tory media were released on Nick Clegg yesterday. How Murdoch must be frustrated at the loss of his iron grip on British public opinion. Expect new heights of hysterical Tory attack in the week ahead.
I now have a source within YouGove who tells me that in fact the poll showed the LibDems in the lead and Con on 30, but that was before “adjustment”.
YouGove, you have some disgruntled employees. Again if you want to deny this, I will publish your denial. There have been visits to this site from the YouGove server all day.
A roundup of some brilliant dissections of media bias here.
http://enemiesofreason.co.uk/2010/04/23/friday-links-23410-the-arseoisie/#comments
I didn’t realise it was the great Justin who invented #nickcleggsfault.