How do we think tonight's debate will go?
Discussion
Will Clegg get hammered for wanting to scrap Trident and enter the Euro? Will Brown get a hard time over Iraq and Afganistan? Will Clegg and Brown gang up on Cameron?
It could be interesting, both Labour and the Lib Dems have dodgy track records or policies, but I am not clear where the Tories stand on their Foreign policy so it will be interesting to see what Cameron has to say.
It will be interesting to see how tonights debate affects the polls in the next week. But surely the most important debate is the one on the Economy next week.
It could be interesting, both Labour and the Lib Dems have dodgy track records or policies, but I am not clear where the Tories stand on their Foreign policy so it will be interesting to see what Cameron has to say.
It will be interesting to see how tonights debate affects the polls in the next week. But surely the most important debate is the one on the Economy next week.
Tonight's debate being on foreign affairs/defence, I'd expect Cameron to absolutely wipe the floor with the other two. If he doesn't there'll be hell to pay.
Three simple things for him to mention;
1) The Euro
2) The scrapping of Trident
3) Brown's constant cutting of the defence budget. (Its now smaller than our interest payments on the UK's debt FFS!)
Three simple things for him to mention;
1) The Euro
2) The scrapping of Trident
3) Brown's constant cutting of the defence budget. (Its now smaller than our interest payments on the UK's debt FFS!)
t perhaps) and Cameron's worried and probably out of the running so voting for him's almost like wasting your time.Silverbullet767 said:
Nick Clegg will be standing in the middle podium tonight, so expect him to get ganged up on, that only leaves winky for the final debate to be standing in the middle, just perfect timing for the polls.
Nope.Because he's Winky, he gets to stand at the end the whole time - otherwise he wouldn't be able to see them!
loltolhurst said:
they will all attack clegg like the newspapers this morning to finish him off as a real choice
Hope so, they both gang up on him.However Labour may see his popularity as taking Tory votes, not theirs. i.e. people are voting against Brown, so if they split their votes between 2 parties instead of 1, Labour could retain power - although heaven only knows why they would want to
JRM said:
loltolhurst said:
they will all attack clegg like the newspapers this morning to finish him off as a real choice
Hope so, they both gang up on him.However Labour may see his popularity as taking Tory votes, not theirs. i.e. people are voting against Brown, so if they split their votes between 2 parties instead of 1, Labour could retain power - although heaven only knows why they would want to
I do think Cameron will come out ontop this week.
I imagine it'll go better for Brown and Cameron this time around, they will have wised up to Clegg's style and will be ready to take a pop at him at any oportunity.
I think it's a chance to be more statesman-like and primisterial. I think there'll be less of Cameron's "I met so and so in the pub the other day and they told me...", and less of Brown's "tractor production up" figures, more squinting down the camera.
I think it's a chance to be more statesman-like and primisterial. I think there'll be less of Cameron's "I met so and so in the pub the other day and they told me...", and less of Brown's "tractor production up" figures, more squinting down the camera.
JCB123 said:
It's in Cameroooons best interest to keep chillaxed and let Brown and Clegg get all tongue tied in being pro-europe. A simple smile and not reacting to Browns attacks accompanied by the odd 'this is what we'll do' should see him safely through this, and the last debate.
That's what he did last week and it didn't work. Cameron is in a difficult position - attack Brown and it just looks like the same old problem of the old parties arguing with each other, attack Clegg and it looks like he's attacking the new golden wonderboy.I thought to myself yesterday the best thing the Tories can do right now is wheel out Ken Clarke and lo and behold that's what they did, but as for Cameron, I can't think of a clear strategy. All he can do is reinforce that he's not the same as Brown, reinforce that he's not like the old Tories of the 90s, and point out that he's a better bet for change than Clegg because he's not leading a party full of dreamers - which goes back to the wheeling out of Ken Clarke who I would hope many in the country will remember as being a capable chancellor.
Edited by king arthur on Thursday 22 April 13:50
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