Debate chat #25
Cameron says new EU countries should have transitional controls on immigration. Err, they do, David. That’s why Bulgaria and Romania are in the EU but their citizens don’t have the right to come here.
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Debate chat #24
Almost halfway through, Dimbleby says. Feels like half my life. Well done the SNP and Plaid who at least forced Dimbleby to acknowledge their existence.
Debate chat #23
Someone commenting I am sad doing this – several thousand people following the website tonight must be still sadder!
Debate chat #22
Clegg makes very strong point about RBS funding Kraft takeover of Cadbury. Stumbles a bit, but somehow made it more convincing.
Debate chat #21
Brown giving a really unconvincing list as to which economic sectors will provide which number of jobs in future. “Bio-engineering 100,000 jobs, renewable energy 300,000 jobs, information technology 200,000 jobs” – those aren’t actually the exact quotes, but it sounded just like nonsense so the exact numbers and sectors don’t matter. This time he was the regional economic planner for Murmansk in 1965 – oh God, he’s started with another list again just now…
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.
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