Foreign Policy Debate chat #18
Gordon right about Tory extreme right wing alliances – but not well put in debating terms. Then Clegg comes in and hammers it.
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Foreign Policy Debate chat #17
Bit too vicious Nick. It may be true the Tories voted against cooperative powers that led to break-up of paedophile ring, but very emotive debating.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #16
Sky lead on Europe to give Cameron his big populist boost at the start. What a shock. Cameron banging on about referendum. A Tory government has never held a referendum on anything.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #15
Europe – Clegg better than Cameron, Brown very good. Both take on Europhobia head on, brave.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #14
Sky typically start with anti-EU question. Cameron “bring powers back from Europe.” He hasn’t ever voted against any of the treaties.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #13
Nick Clegg – fantastic start. No complicity in torture. No war in Iraq. Legality and human rights. Sounds like me.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #12
Cameron staring manically into camera, going for world fast-blinking record
Foreign Policy Debate chat #11
Gordon – Brave troops, terrorism blah blah resolute.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #10
International affairs – oo err missus, that’s Nick’s strong point
Foreign Policy Debate chat #9
Leaders are in a building paid for with profits of slavery. Very appropriate.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #8
Haward’s foreign policy suggestion. Deport all BNP supporters to the Falklands, replace them with hard working immigrants.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #7
Advert for transit on now. Tribute to Brown? Sic transit gloria mundi.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #6
They could put a nuclear weapon on that police rubber dinghy. That would be a cheaper option.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #5
ludicrous police patrolmen searching for Islamic frogmen in shot now. Maybe Buster Crabbe is about to make a comeback.
Foreign Policy Debate chat #4
random political party people with very large noses now, and too much makeup foundation. Who they?
Foreign Policy Debate chat #3
Fat vicious Australian bigot talking now about how good Cameron is
Foreign Policy Debate chat #2
7.42 Alistair Campbell giving us his “Gordon will win” spin. Unemployed war criminal predicts…
Foreign Policy Debate chat #1
Cameron says we need Trident to nuke benefit scroungers, immigrants and the Chinese. Sorry, practising liveblogging.
Liveblogging The Foreign Policy Debate
For an irreverent liveblog of the great SkyNews foreign policy debate, from a man who has forgotten more about foreign policy than they will ever know, I will be liveblogging here with my mate Haward.
Opening observation. The bookies including SkyBet, PaddyPower and Ladbrokes, are offering odds on words which will be used. Here are some of the odds from Ladbrokes:
Trident 1/20
Obama 1/5
Helicopters 1/5
Hung Parliament 1/4
Volcanic Ash 4/7
Ahmadinejad evens
Chilcot 5/4
http://sports.ladbrokes.com/en-gb/Politics-c110000037
There are dozens of these keywords you can bet on between the various bookies. Nowhere in the betting is the word “Palestine” being even considered. Says it all, really.
Mike Whellans – A Really Stylish Protest
There are few recent protest songs that you would listen to for the sheer musical pleasure of it. But here is one from bluesman Mike Whellans – and that’s the great piper Mike Katz on guitar.
For more of both Mikes: