sky news debate

[davepoth]

el stovey said:

Sky media centre all saying Ed did well.

We're they expecting worse? I thought he was awful.

The way the Grauniad is spinning it is that although Miliband was nearly 10% behind in the snap poll, that's a lot better than his usual polling. Ok then.

[Snozzwangler]

el stovey said:

Sky media centre all saying Ed did well.

We're they expecting worse? I thought he was awful.

It's the same way you tell a disabled kid they're doing well at something when really you're just humouring them.

[covmutley]

Mirror saying that ed performed confidently whilst Cameron stuttered. Are they for real?

[RichB]

covmutley said:

Mirror saying that ed performed confidently whilst Cameron stuttered. Are they for real?

One doesn't believe anything the Mirror writes any more than one would the Sun.

[Halb]

I forgot about it. Only caught the last bit of Ed's. It wasn't so bad. SOme questions about him personally that seem like a waste of time.

The bloke in the QT audience said he did better than expected, DD followed up with what did you expect, and audience man was, 'well not much.'

[Northern Munkee]

Guam said:

Dear lord were these folk in the spin room actually watching it
They are pronuncing that milliband came out of it well

I guess there must have been lots of free booze around earlier

It's called denial. If you repeat the lie long enough, etc, etc. eventually they'll believe it. and enough of the sheeple who will read it, see it in sound bites filtered through people who form their opinions for them, will also.

[jonah35]

mcelliott said:

I didn't agree with Paxman's efforts to humiliate Milliband on a personal level. No need.

It's a good test. If he can't handle that then how can he handle going to war, other prime ministers, people shouting in his face, tough decisions etc

[wolves_wanderer]

mcelliott said:

I didn't agree with Paxman's efforts to humiliate Milliband on a personal level. No need.

And pointless. FFS there is enough in his policies to have a go at, I felt Paxo should have gone further with the line of questioning about Miliband's failures of prediction and previous in government. The personal stuff is easy to get out of.

[anonymous-user]

Halb said:

I forgot about it. Only caught the last bit of Ed's. It wasn't so bad. SOme questions about him personally that seem like a waste of time.

The bloke in the QT audience said he did better than expected, DD followed up with what did you expect, and audience man was, 'well not much.'

I missed too, luckily the Paxman ambush is about to start on 4+1...

[Snozzwangler]

Jimboka said:

I missed too, luckily the Paxman ambush is about to start on 4+1...

And he's going in...



Dry....

[anonymous-user]

mcelliott said:

I didn't agree with Paxman's efforts to humiliate Milliband on a personal level. No need.

Is it any worse than Miliband's repeated efforts to make political capital out of Cameron being an Etonian toff?

[SpeedMattersNot]

It's still amazing how many PH members can't spell the name of the person they make such an effort to hate.

I guess it would be like the 'lefties' saying 'Fatcher'.

[Chlamydia]

My brother, who is slightly left of Joseph Stalin when it comes to politics, had just posted on his Facebook page; "Someone get that wker a tissue. FFS, Ed, it takes real skill to look more useless than fking Tory Boy, but you managed it"

[egor110]

covmutley said:

Mirror saying that ed performed confidently whilst Cameron stuttered. Are they for real?

Am i tough enough, am i tough enough?

Hell yeah i'm tough enough.

Who's been advising him wrestler stone cold steve austin?

[SpeedMattersNot]

Chlamydia said:

My brother, who is slightly left of Joseph Stalin when it comes to politics, had just posted on his Facebook page; "Someone get that wker a tissue. FFS, Ed, it takes real skill to look more useless than fking Tory Boy, but you managed it"

Sounds like a charming family your parent/s have raised.

[Northern Munkee]

Greg66 said:

mcelliott said:

I didn't agree with Paxman's efforts to humiliate Milliband on a personal level. No need.

Is it any worse than Miliband's repeated efforts to make political capital out of Cameron being an Etonian toff?

It's also a symptom of the celebrity/personality media age were living in. Plus neither of these guys have anything approaching a conviction. These people are "managers" so devoid of principles and not a lot difference between them policy we're left with the "personal".

[Chlamydia]

SpeedMattersNot said:

Chlamydia said:

My brother, who is slightly left of Joseph Stalin when it comes to politics, had just posted on his Facebook page; "Someone get that wker a tissue. FFS, Ed, it takes real skill to look more useless than fking Tory Boy, but you managed it"

Sounds like a charming family your parent/s have raised.

Oh dry your eyes, he was making a JOKE. Christ you're a bundle of laughs aren't you?

[MiniMan64]

Northern Munkee said:

Getting spun...

I think it's rather getting spun the other way a bit on here. Sure he wasn't great but I think the personal nature of some of the questions and how he responded might do him fairly well.

That said I wish

They'd both stop having a wander
They'd both stop always asking people's name.
That Ed would learn how answer a question without repeating the same first word 4 times over.

[Patrick Bateman]

Miliband spotted earlier today.

Edited by Patrick Bateman on Friday 27th March 00:01

[SpeedMattersNot]

Patrick Bateman said:

Milliband spotted earlier today.

Who?