OT Politics - party political broadcasts.

The Lib Dems is on BBC2 at 6.25.

I'm interested in seeing how they're going to play this but some sense
of fair play says that if I watch this one then I 'ought' to watch the
others. But Michael Howard would give me nightmares. Mind you do
actual real politicians appear in them anymore or are they all shiny
pretty marketing tools? I can't remember the last time I actually
watched a PPB.

 

The Labour one that was on in the background last week only had
Michael Howard in it.

 

Each of the three main leaders get Paxman next week. Should be worth
seeing.

 

Really, cool. I wonder how Paxman vs. Howard will go, after that Prison
Service interview years back...

 

<g> We'll find out on Friday (7:30 p.m. BBC1). CK on Monday, AB on
Wednesday.

 

"Mr Howard you may recall a discussion we had from a few years ago. I'm
still waiting for you to answer the fucking question I asked you."

 

Not hexakerly a 3 way debate (it would've been but the Tory prospect figured
she's won the seat anyway so why bother to turn up) but I went to a two way
debate locally with the Labour and Lib Dem candidates last week.

Well the labour bloke wasn't doing too well already when the pair were asked
about 'Given 6 blokes just got gripped in Scotland for not keeping quiet
during the one minute's silence somecnut arbitrarily decided was right and
fitting for the Pope [1] to get at a football match (FFS why?) ... how smart
is it to introduce legislation which makes it a criminal act to say
someone's religious ideas are so much bollocks' - even when they're
demonstrably bollocks?

At that the labour candidate suddenly sort of broke cover and revealed his
true colours .... And honked on. And on.... Realised just about everyone
thought 'what a dickhead' and desperately honked further on to ensure he dug
himself deeper into a hole about how this was essential, right and proper
because "Muslims were feeling under attack" (sic/LOL) [2]

The Lib Dem bloke just said - "There's NO issue. Its incompatible with
freedom of speech. We oppose it".

And you could almost see the crowd say to themselves - Well that's clarified
things then.

On the other hand - If I vote for the one with the brain cell, his party
is - apparently - going to take more money off families with combined
incomes of £30K. They are also responsible locally for the proliferation of
speed limit extensions.

Green Chicken Alliance anyone?

[1] If he was the 'people's pope' how come we didn't get to vote for whether
we needed one?

[2] Clearly there was no question then of this being shorthand for 'Oh shit,
bombing their cousins seems to have upset our Muslim block support'


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Homer (Simpson).

 

Lady Nina brought next idea :

They used to put them on all channels (both) at the same time, so there
was no escape.

 

I don't recall anyone voting for a prople's princess...