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Postby pcwells » Apr 15th, '10, 08:38



Tonight sees the UK's first ever televised debate in the run-up to a General Erection (come on - I rarely see the press get so excited about anything)

Will anyone else here watch it? And what can we expect in the head-to-head between a b@strard, a tw@t and a twonk?

Party slogans?

Lib Dem: Hey, We're Different!
New Labour: We're No Different!
Conservative: Ewww! They're DIFFERENT!!

And who else thinks it'll all just be hot air and empty promises? Will any of the proposed policies in their election manifestos see the light of day if they win next month?

I can see myself getting increasingly cynical over the coming weeks. Then waking up on May 7th to discover that - regardless of the outcome - nothing's changed.

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Postby Klangster1971 » Apr 15th, '10, 08:57

I'm looking forward to it... and I'm not quite sure why.

I enjoyed the 'Chancellors' debate a couple of weeks back but I think tonight's show will be the start of wall-to-wall hardline campaiging, ensuring that we're all thoroughly sick of the lot of them by the time the election rolls around....

and, pcwells is absolutely right, nothing will change. We'll all be worse off, they'll just take it from us in different ways.


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Postby daleshrimpton » Apr 15th, '10, 09:09

I am going to be doing one of 3 things. Watching a dvd, Watching the other side, or.. if luck and a following wind is on my side, Going down the club to watch Aldo Colombini Lecture. :)

Ill catch up with all teh mud slinging, bitching, and back bighting from tomorows newspaper. :)

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Postby dat8962 » Apr 15th, '10, 09:47

I'll also be watching but not sure for how long though. Time will tell.

Will anyone else here watch it? And what can we expect in the head-to-head between a b@strard, a tw@t and a twonk?


I'm intruiged as to which way around you link the titles with the party's as the leaders qualify for more than one of these titles and one could perhaps represent all three :shock: :lol:

I'd hazard a guess that the order is Labour, Conservative and Lib Dems?

Perhaps we should start a linked thread and ask the TM'ers what their top three manifesto pledges would/should be?

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Postby Lady of Mystery » Apr 15th, '10, 09:58

oh shame, I think I'm doing my nails then. :roll:

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Postby A J Irving » Apr 15th, '10, 10:07

There's a part of me that thinks it'll be really interesting to watch but another part of me thinks I'll be shouting at the tv. I'm still probably going to watch it though.

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Postby pcwells » Apr 15th, '10, 10:19

dat8962 wrote:I'll also be watching but not sure for how long though. Time will tell.

Will anyone else here watch it? And what can we expect in the head-to-head between a b@strard, a tw@t and a twonk?


I'm intruiged as to which way around you link the titles with the party's as the leaders qualify for more than one of these titles and one could perhaps represent all three :shock: :lol:

I'd hazard a guess that the order is Labour, Conservative and Lib Dems?

Perhaps we should start a linked thread and ask the TM'ers what their top three manifesto pledges would/should be?


Nah. Just apply them randomly. Just like stock phrases in cold reading. :)

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Postby Mandrake » Apr 15th, '10, 10:38

I have some paint to watch dry and those traffic lights outside can't be left unobserved....

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Postby gillows » Apr 15th, '10, 13:27

What! And miss DIY SOS on the other side. Never!!!! :wink:

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Postby daleshrimpton » Apr 15th, '10, 14:02

I watch the British museum thing on 2.
Tonight's show features Dinosaus, and creepy crawly insects.

Which is apt.

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Postby gillows » Apr 15th, '10, 17:29

Trouble is, we'll learn nothing new from this. If history from the US debates teaches us anything, a candidate scratching their nose with the camera on them, or not getting the prepared answer out at the right time will decide the outcome of the election. I can't see any classic one-liners emerging from this lot tonight.

If voters don't know what these three leaders stand for by now after the dawn to dusk coverage, god help us. :roll:

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Postby Grimshaw » Apr 15th, '10, 18:22

Believe me fellow TM'ers, i understand completely where the apathy towards politics and politicians comes from.

I completely tire of the 'Doesnt matter who you vote for, the government always win' line.

Of course A government will get in. Someone's got to run the country now haven't they?

I agree that politics these days is less to do with what each party will do, rather it concerns itself with ridiculing the promises of the other party.

Nevertheless, the fact is ONE of these people is going to run the country. To say nothing will change makes you as annoying and stoooopid as those who woke up in America the day after Obama was elected and wondered why their house wasn't bigger, their jobs better, and a big WORLD PEACE DECLARED slogan splattered over the front page of the daily rag.

Things don't change over night. Not in politics anyway. And whoever gets in has got one hell of a mess to clear up. A mess created by one party; New Labour. They look around but there's no-one else to blame right now.

I was made redundant in the recent recession.....recent, lol, we're still in it you know.....and i am currently undertaking a college course in order to gain access to university and better myself. The government gave me no help when i was made redundant, and no further financial help with my course. I have struggled, and continue to struggle. If i were to drop out, they'd give me loads of benefits.
A reward.
For doing nothing.
Thankfully I'm not about to become a future Jeremy Kyle guest. I want to make something of myself.
In almost the words of Billy Bragg, the system has failed me but i won't fail myself.

Get Labour out in May and you won't wake up to a better day, let's get real about that, but its a step in the right direction. To bury your head in the sand and just mock the political system is a pretty dumb thing to do. I mean, i bet you'd all be up in arms if the BNP stood a chance. You'd vote then right? Why care about that and not another? Because you don't like what the BNP want to do? Same applies. The three main parties are NOT the same. Look into it and you'll see.

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Postby Klangster1971 » Apr 15th, '10, 19:55

Grimshaw wrote:A mess created by one party; New Labour.


I'm not sure that's strictly true, Grimshaw - the collapse of the entire world's banking mecahnism can hardly be laid at Gordon Brown's door.... even if he was the chancellor when something could have been done about it.

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Postby dat8962 » Apr 15th, '10, 20:05

Id you don't use your entitlement to vote then don't complain about you you end up with :roll:

I vote Mandrake for PM! :lol:

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Postby pcwells » Apr 15th, '10, 20:56

On the subject of redundancies and unemployment, I vividly remember the mass unemployment that accompanied Thatcherism in the 80s. You'll never be represented by career politicians. Things only change when enough people pay attention, listen to their platitudes, and shout BULLSH!T!!

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