Current Affairs 2017 General Election

[Seanjd]

Too many to mention really. Many of the backbenchers have more gravitas and character than the opposition front bench......

Any in the Tory cabinet? Johnson?

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

She's clearly avoiding them because she has more to lose than the other party leaders and isn't willing to take the risk. Quite cowardly.

Weather or not she's avoiding the debates out of cowardice isn't really my point. I simply fail to see what we the electorate gain from these tv car crash farces. It's an insult to our collective intelligence to seriously suppose we'd gain anything from them.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

How many Labour PM's submitted themselves to a TV beauty show before Brown.......

Hashtag- Blair-Coward......

Thatcher and Major shat out of it as well, seeing as we're talking balance

 

[peteblue]

Any in the Tory cabinet? Johnson?

Boris acts the clown but if he were the Labour Leader instead of Corbyn you'd be in with a chance......and you know it....

 

[peteblue]

Thatcher and Major shat out of it as well, seeing as we're talking balance

Exactly, it's only happened over the last few years, yet everyone is trying to make out it's part of the process, it isn't.........

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

The 'empty chair' debate will happen anyway imo

 

[peteblue]

OK, how many Labour supporting GOT members really believe that Corbyn would make a great PM and McDonnell a great Chancellor........come on lads, nail your colours to the flag........

 

[peteblue]

The 'empty chair' debate will happen anyway imo

Who cares.....a bunch of also rans arguing with each other.........

 

[Mrk]

David Cameron did it with Ed Milliband then we had a stage full - May should just take on Corbyn - why should Sturgeon get a stage she is not in the HP not an MP - she should sort the mess out in Scotland !
The other minor parties should butt out just the two potential new PMs debate on tv imo!

I thought the debates were a good idea in 2010 but quickly changed my mind. They exemplify everything that is wrong with modern politics. It's basically just a group of people reading out prewritten lines like robots over and over and over again.

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Exactly, it's only happened over the last few years, yet everyone is trying to make out it's part of the process, it isn't.........

Times have changed and her decision to wimp out of it, could backfire

 

[Foot Long Hot Dog]

Who cares.....a bunch of also rans arguing with each other.........

So you think it'll have a positive effect on her ratings and credibility?

10.3m voters watched the last ones.

 

[Sarnia Kevin]

I think it should be fairly clear by now that the Tories desperately want Scotland to be an independent country.

Which is obvious from the way the PM agreed to Sturgeon's request for a second independence referendum.
Oh, wait a minute, she didn't did she lollollol

 

[peteblue]

Times have changed and her decision to wimp out of it, could backfire

Not really. It's a media driven event. She has said she's not taking part. The media will really try to det something up, but as she has said, these opposition parties get to grill her every Wednesday. I don't believe she will give them the oxygen of a debate with her............

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

So you think it'll have a positive effect on her ratings and credibility?

10.3m voters watched the last ones.

Yes but I doubt a single viewer of the 10.3m changed their vote based on them.

 

[peteblue]

So you think it'll have a positive effect on her ratings and credibility?

10.3m voters watched the last ones.

And 2 million will watch the next ones because she won't be on it.......