I know half a dozen Jewish labour members who are thoroughly disillusioned at the moment. Jackie Walker and her cronies, Ken and some of the Momentum stuff has hit them hard. For the moment they are not willing to leave but they have bought about it as they have had dogs abuse on social media.

As a fervent Tory what do you think about your glorious lying leader unwilling to take part in a leaders debate?

I have NO issue with this whatsoever.
There is no need to participate as the choice at this election is abundantly clear.
At the end of the day Mrs May has little to gain from debating with the political 'light-weights'.

If this is all the opposition parties can 'Throw' at Mrs May they are in a worse position than I imagined.

Edited by Willo (20 Apr 2017 11.30pm)

Hogwash! She's scared.

In terms of our defence, the Conservative government have committed to meet the NATO pledge of 2% of GDP being spent every year of this decade.The £36billion defence budget will rise to some £40billion by 2020 - the biggest in Europe and the second biggest in NATO.

It's fascinating how these "Leader's debates" have become a thing. I was originally quite enthusiastic for them,, but it became evident they were just an instrument of the media circus, and do little to move debate on. Another unwelcome Americanization (sic) of our political process.

As was made clear in the US election, there is no attempt at impartiality and clear precedent for "leaking" questions to the preferred media darling.

If you rely on a televised debate of polished soundbites to guide your way, then perhaps better not to vote. Read the manifestos, at the very least.

As for May not doing them: not sure I care. No doubt she'll be called chicken. Which is an ironic label for a PM that just called a snap election despite having office until 2020.