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Hoof Hearted 31 Jan 15 11.36am

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

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7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.


You make me laugh........ the BBC are lefter than a left thing.

Milliband gets a bloody nose every Wednesday lunchtime at PMQ's, and can't even eat a bacon sarnie without looking a tw@t.

Anyone of the party leaders involved in this debate would relish taking on Milliband who lost a straight fight with Mylene Klass on TV recently..... FFS.

 

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Quote Hoof Hearted at 31 Jan 2015 11.36am

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.


You make me laugh........ the BBC are lefter than a left thing.

Milliband gets a bloody nose every Wednesday lunchtime at PMQ's, and can't even eat a bacon sarnie without looking a tw@t.

Anyone of the party leaders involved in this debate would relish taking on Milliband who lost a straight fight with Mylene Klass on TV recently..... FFS.

Gotta disagree, the BBC isn't left. Although Milliband is rubbish.

 

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Stuk Flag Top half 02 Feb 15 4.01pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.

The Greens always present themselves well too when out of the Tory Paper information monopoly too - so Bring it on.

Everything about that post is nonsense.

The Greens are a national party, why invite the yokels?

Miliband couldn't debate his way out of playground argument.

The Greens are bonkers and can never stand up to scrutiny by any political correspondant. She actually asked someone to Google their policies recently, when asked of them.

 


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npn Flag Crowborough 02 Feb 15 4.15pm Send a Private Message to npn Add npn as a friend

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.

The Greens always present themselves well too when out of the Tory Paper information monopoly too - so Bring it on.


Do you really think so?
I'm keen on the environmental policies of the Greens, and almost looking for an excuse to vote for them, but most of their people come across as just as clueless as most UKIP representatives.

 

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Quote Stuk at 02 Feb 2015 4.01pm

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.

The Greens always present themselves well too when out of the Tory Paper information monopoly too - so Bring it on.

Everything about that post is nonsense.

The Greens are a national party, why invite the yokels?

Miliband couldn't debate his way out of playground argument.

The Greens are bonkers and can never stand up to scrutiny by any political correspondant. She actually asked someone to Google their policies recently, when asked of them.

You only think it's nonsense because you're brainwashed by the media.

If only you had access to the truth (which only Bert the Head has access to because it is revealed to him in the desert.)

 


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Stuk Flag Top half 02 Feb 15 9.19pm Send a Private Message to Stuk Add Stuk as a friend

Quote Johnny Eagles at 02 Feb 2015 9.16pm

Quote Stuk at 02 Feb 2015 4.01pm

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.

The Greens always present themselves well too when out of the Tory Paper information monopoly too - so Bring it on.

Everything about that post is nonsense.

The Greens are a national party, why invite the yokels?

Miliband couldn't debate his way out of playground argument.

The Greens are bonkers and can never stand up to scrutiny by any political correspondant. She actually asked someone to Google their policies recently, when asked of them.

You only think it's nonsense because you're brainwashed by the media.

If only you had access to the truth (which only Bert the Head has access to because it is revealed to him in the desert.)


 


Optimistic as ever

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OknotOK Flag Cockfosters, London 03 Feb 15 10.34am Send a Private Message to OknotOK Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add OknotOK as a friend

Although I don't think he should be massively, David Cameron is clearly concerned with facing EdM in the debates. And to be fair I can see why.

Sometimes on PMQs Cameron tears him a new ar$ehole. Probably more often than not. But on a very significant minority of occasions at PMQs, Cameron ends up looking like a tool and EdM wipes the floor with him.

At the moment, Cameron looks more statemanlike and Ed looks like a joke. But it is a significant risk to him appearing in the debates that either a) he comes across as a bully which he has a tendancy to do or b) he does lose out genuinely to EdM if it is just one of those days. So he has a lot more to lose.

The BBC has moved further right than it used to be - because it relies on good relationships with the government of the day - but anyone that doesn't recognise it is primarily left of centre is deluding themselves. But that does contrast with the majority of the print media which is overwhelmingly right wing.

On top of that he has to face "man of the people" Nigel Farage in at least two debates. In all honesty Cameron would probably be a fool to agree under any circumstances.

Edited by OknotOK (03 Feb 2015 10.35am)

 


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Quote OknotOK at 03 Feb 2015 10.34am

Although I don't think he should be massively, David Cameron is clearly concerned with facing EdM in the debates. And to be fair I can see why.

Sometimes on PMQs Cameron tears him a new ar$ehole. Probably more often than not. But on a very significant minority of occasions at PMQs, Cameron ends up looking like a tool and EdM wipes the floor with him.

At the moment, Cameron looks more statemanlike and Ed looks like a joke. But it is a significant risk to him appearing in the debates that either a) he comes across as a bully which he has a tendancy to do or b) he does lose out genuinely to EdM if it is just one of those days. So he has a lot more to lose.

The BBC has moved further right than it used to be - because it relies on good relationships with the government of the day - but anyone that doesn't recognise it is primarily left of centre is deluding themselves. But that does contrast with the majority of the print media which is overwhelmingly right wing.

On top of that he has to face "man of the people" Nigel Farage in at least two debates. In all honesty Cameron would probably be a fool to agree under any circumstances.

Edited by OknotOK (03 Feb 2015 10.35am)

I'm not surprised. I bet he's rubbish at raving.

 


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Quote nickgusset at 22 Jan 2015 6.33pm

Quote The White Horse at 22 Jan 2015 6.26pm

If they were going to take the piss with the new proposals, why not get George Galloway involved? Opportunity missed.


Much as I think he can be a bit of a pillock at times, Galloway would wipe the floor with them all.


Angrily spouting populist bullsh*t is not winning a debate.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 03 Feb 15 11.46am

Quote npn at 02 Feb 2015 4.15pm

Quote Bert the Head at 31 Jan 2015 12.30am

Quote Stuk at 22 Jan 2015 4.40pm

I can't remember where all the rest was posted so started a new thread.

The BBC and ITV have now gone OTT and invited the Greens and the regional nutters too.

[Link]

7 people on stage will be a pointless exercise.

Well if the Greens weren't invited Dave was going to take his oval Rugga shaped ball away

...basically because the Tories have the BBC (which is actually right of centre and not left wing) the Sun, The Daily Mail, the Telegraph and the Daily Express, the Tories worry that a real live shot of posh boy will be hammered by Ed Miliband who while admittedly a geek can actually debate very well. The Tory papers can't control that so they don't want it to happen.

The Greens always present themselves well too when out of the Tory Paper information monopoly too - so Bring it on.


Do you really think so?
I'm keen on the environmental policies of the Greens, and almost looking for an excuse to vote for them, but most of their people come across as just as clueless as most UKIP representatives.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing though, we presume that there is a relationship between oratory, debate and sophistry and being a good politician, but its actually bollocks. Politicians have gotten away with this since Socrates; the idea that sounding and looking capable are the same as being capable.

Being right, is better than winning. Its easy to win an argument, its much harder to be right.


 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 03 Feb 15 11.50am

Quote We are goin up! at 03 Feb 2015 11.01am

Quote nickgusset at 22 Jan 2015 6.33pm

Quote The White Horse at 22 Jan 2015 6.26pm

If they were going to take the piss with the new proposals, why not get George Galloway involved? Opportunity missed.


Much as I think he can be a bit of a pillock at times, Galloway would wipe the floor with them all.


Angrily spouting populist bullsh*t is not winning a debate.

Actually that's exactly what debates in politics really are, winning buy echoing popularist nonsense and appealing to camera and crowd. Its as old as philosophy, the gulf between sophistry, oratory and philosophy.

Politics isn't about being right, its about being popular and 'giving the people' what they want, or selling them the idea. It doesn't generally involve being right, or accountable for being right.

Indeed, politics isn't about being right, its about sounding right.

 


"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Hoof Hearted 03 Feb 15 11.51am

Quote jamiemartin721 at 03 Feb 2015 11.50am

Quote We are goin up! at 03 Feb 2015 11.01am

Quote nickgusset at 22 Jan 2015 6.33pm

Quote The White Horse at 22 Jan 2015 6.26pm

If they were going to take the piss with the new proposals, why not get George Galloway involved? Opportunity missed.


Much as I think he can be a bit of a pillock at times, Galloway would wipe the floor with them all.


Angrily spouting populist bullsh*t is not winning a debate.

Actually that's exactly what debates in politics really are, winning buy echoing popularist nonsense and appealing to camera and crowd. Its as old as philosophy, the gulf between sophistry, oratory and philosophy.

Politics isn't about being right, its about being popular and 'giving the people' what they want, or selling them the idea. It doesn't generally involve being right, or accountable for being right.

Indeed, politics isn't about being right, its about sounding right.


Booooooooooooo..... get off......... you suck Jamie!

 

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