Category Archives: Prime Ministerial debate
The customer is always right
There is a common phrase in business ‘the customer is always right’. It should be applied to the electorate as well. The general election showed us that to win over, or to get a ‘winning’ number of seats to govern … Continue reading
Workhorse, show pony or the outsider?
The debate started like last week with an admission from Gordon Brown. At least he was honest. It would have been foolish for him to let someone else, either on the stand or in the crowd mention it first – … Continue reading
Can Ocean Finance Solve the debt crisis?
Treasury representatives from each party have tried to defend their fiscal policies before the third and final debate on the economy. It emerged on Newsnight on Tuesday 27th that whilst outright honesty is never high on a politician’s agenda (if … Continue reading
Let’s Put ‘Fears and Smears’ in the rear
Arguably the prominent theme of this campaign so far has been a media backed agenda on personality with the occasional political sortie into attacking one another in some brutal ding donging and tit for tat. Like the expenses scandal – … Continue reading
Gordon too late to get out of the Brown stuff?
Last week our reaction was dictated by what the leaders had done compared to our expectations. Clegg had appeared to come from nowhere – thus ‘Cleggmania’ has dominated the last week. It seems unlike last time each party is … Continue reading
Daily Mail wins Smear of the Year
Well done to the Daily Mail – they have just won the award for utterly absurd smear of year. With incredible coincidental timing being that the second TV debate being this evening – they are essentially trying to accuse Nick … Continue reading
Filed under British Politics, Cleggmania, Daily Mail, Liberal Democrats, Politics, Prime Ministerial debate, Smear
Lab/Lib far from a fib – it can prevent a Con
A small rift from within the Tory Party has exposed Cameron & Letwin’s manifesto for what it is – a con. A shadow minister told the Guardian “Oliver Letwin had this great ‘big society’ idea, though it might have been … Continue reading
Is Nick Clegg God?
The media fostered reaction to Nick Clegg is quite exceptional. You would think that Nick Clegg is a new messiah, a god like figure or some other supernatural phenomenon. When all he’s really done is prove that he exists. Some commentators speculated … Continue reading
Eddie Izzard – “Britain is bloody brilliant”
Eddie Izzard talks about the Brilliant Britain he’s seen as he ran across the country – and how the Conservatives would put it at risk. He “takes great offence that the Tories are slagging off Britain saying it’s broken…” Conservatives – Unassailable … Continue reading
Toff Scoffs at porky pie and expects to lose weight – not credibility
It’s well known that pork pies are a rich source of calories, so why would one scoff one in an attempt to trim down? A rich source of calories goes against trying to decrease one’s body fat – just like … Continue reading
