Did anyone see the first election debate last night? The first time we've ever had live televised debates between the main party leaders in this country. How did you think it went? What did you think of the agenda, and how the questions were answered? Who came off best? Does it matter? Will it affect how you're going to vote? Are you going to vote? You have a couple of days left to register on the electoral roll...
I watched the last half hour. Cameron comes across so fake and plastic, it annoys me immensely. The way he kept going on about how "i met this person yesterday..." sure you did! I don't believe for a minute even a quarter of what comes out of his mouth. Gordon Brown well ... there's just so much wrong with him. He looks as if he's given up before he even gets started. The only one that seemed to make any sense and appeared to be real (well, as real as a politician gets) was Nick Clegg. I think he did really well, though there were times it looked as if he wanted to knock out the other two. I'm baffled how the Labour and Conservatives want to pay for the programmes they want to start, while they claim they are going to lower taxes. It doesn't make any economic sense. Why are they considering putting more money into the Trident missles? There was so much that didn't make sense just in the half hour I saw, as far as what the two main parties want to accomplish and how they plan on paying for it (more national debt i'd imagine). I am afraid my brain would have imploded had I watched the entire thing. The BBC was saying that Nick Clegg has gone up in the polls, so maybe he's got a shot? Watching the half hour was a bit depressing, because I have to wonder if the only person that seemed to talk any sense at all, won't end up in office because people just stick to party lines or think that spoiling their ballots makes more sense. :-/ If I weren't so tired and suffering from mushy brain I'd try to go more in depth; but typing simple sentences at the moment is taking too much effort. ;-)
I missed the entire thing, but the guys at work filled me in on it. Apparently Nick Clegg was the only one actually stating ways to solve certain problems? The outlook for him seems positive anyway - everyone I spoke to about it said they're considering Lib Dem now. That comes from Conservative and Labour voters.
This is one of the things that gives me hope. People are so disenfranchised with the way the whole system works at the moment, that maybe, just maybe they will consider voting differerntly to the patterns that are familiar to them. We can only hope.
Cameron was full of inspirational words with no substance, Brown was trying to defend a dying government with no hope of re-election, Clegg tended to cut through the presentation (in a very slickly presented way) and actually talk about the issues. He was the only one with the courage to say that we actually can't do everything that everyone wants or make things better immediately... that's not inspirational enough to be a vote winner for the simple minded or cut and dried Tory or Labour supporters, and he's only able to be so honest because his party is the perpetual opposition. It would be different if they actually had any real power. But I'm prepared to vote for them as that, an opposition party, with a loud voice in the Commons. I'm sure he's won quite a few votes for the Lib Dems. Hmm, maybe it'll be their election; though people always say that... Unfortunately it will come down to a straight fight between people being bored of the government and wanting to hope for something different, and people who remember what the Conservatives are actually like when they're in power. The bored will win. It's all empty; the Conservatives are not something different, and Labour (or any government) doesn't have as much control as people think. Things aren't as bad as the Conservatives make out, and basically the next five years will be more of the same no matter who wins. All we can hope to do is affect the scenery around the sidelines...
Clegg is a very clever public speaker, I will give him that much. I thought he did a good job to be fair, though he wont get my vote. But kudos to him, the others were wooden.
I watched it all and thought that Clegg definitely came off the best. I can hardly stand to look at David Cameron, he's such a smarmy git! Not sure i agree with all of the LDs policies, but it's not very likely that i would. I would hope that voting has been swayed by his performance and would recommend people to vote for them, rather than see it as a wasted vote. It would be more of a waste to vote for a Con or Lab government if you don't agree with there stance but are only picking one of two you think are possible winners.
I watched bits of it from the kitchen while doing the washing up...so I saw more than I heard. What I saw was that Gordon Brown smiles in a scarey way ( just forces his mouth while the rest of his face has no idea what is going on) David Cameron was very nervous and I think had had a new hair cut which hadn't quite settled in yet. Nick Clegg looked confident and relaxed....so on the watching through the kitchen door vote, Nick Clegg wins..............
It was sort of funny that they popped Cameron dead center though. I think that was a bit of a finger up to our current Prime Minister, who was just shoved into the corner. Somebody had told David Cameron he isn't Prime Minster yet right?
