Debate? Hardly. As Tim Montgomerie has said in a tweet, Clegg enjoyed his time in the sun (but remains an airhead irrelevance), Brown survived (just) and Cameron - well, very simply, he must be a hell of a lot harder on Brown in the next two.
I agree with those sentiments, but I would add that Brown looked pretty small in this thing. Perhaps, in addition to hitting Brown as he deserves in the next runs, Cameron has the presence and the plan to rise above that low Labour level and really move on up. He should be the statesman that his future office will demand he is - and that Brown never could be.
Overall conclusion? Clegg is lost without Cable, and is squeezed when in the presence of the serious contenders. Brown, however well he 'survives' these exposes, looks like a burnt out politician and a tired old man haunted by his record and ready for retirement.
Cameron, by contrast, took one step closer to Downing Street. I'm more convinced than ever after this that whatever my disagreement with him, he's a winner and in these desperate times, right now, that's more than enough for me - and exactly what Britain needs.
Big win for the Tories.
I disagree, but then my friend, you expected me to, didn't you?
ReplyDeleteI think they were all losers. We don't vote for presidents in this country and they have diminished parliament even more than was done by their members when they stole from us like a herd of neds or the rampage.
OK Nick would be fine but he was only there to make up the numbers. Brown is old and dried up and mad and tired and a mess and mad again.
Cameron should be 20 points ahead of that numpty, but he isn't because he lacks any kind of real gravitas. He is where he is because the Queen's private secretary got involved, because his mother is some second cousin of the Queen.
He wouldn't even be an MP but for that. He has the kind of presence that an expensive education brings, but he's not his own man. He belongs to whoever he is talking to.
Charming compared with Brown, no doubt, but then the rubber tree in my front room is more charming that Brown. He has style, but then so would I if I were sitting on his fortune. He doesn't know much about much though. He is an airhead.
That said. I didn't watch the debate, I'm judgeing them all on past performances. The documentary on BBC 2 was very interesting.
To be honest, tris, I hardly care. I think you might have spotted that. These debate things are totally ridiculous - and my cynical desire to see Brown removed at all costs might have coloured my judgment somewhat ;) (You think?!)
ReplyDeleteHowever, there's one thing I do stand by in this post: everything I said about Gordon.
I'll tell you something else, if I were Scottish, I'd absolutely be on your side. As it is I'm a Plaid man - simply because the Tories don't exist in this part of the world either.
As you know, though, deep down I'm still a half-Welsh, true blue Englishman, so any bias on this blog is purely genetic :)
Oh, and better a Tory airhead than a Libdum one. And better either than the wrecker Brown!
LOL @ Denverthen....
ReplyDeletePlaid are good. No doubt about that. Indeed the whole Welsh nation seems a bit more adept at politics than some.
I watched the decent courteous way that your parliament conducts itself, and in two languages, and I compare that with the London rabble and even sometime my own parliament (well, not mine personally you understand).
I think I'd not mind Daqvid Cameron for a neighbour. He seems a nice bloke (well, I woudn't mind him for a neighbour even if he was a pig because it would mean I was rich rich rich.... but you get my meaning...) but I think that he will agree with whomever he's talking to. He will say "yes" to this now, because it's the right thing to say at that moment, and then he will change his mind 10 minutes later because the next bloke had another argument. There's no intellectual substance to the guy. Money bought his impressive education.
I don't mind Nick at all. He's a fine dude in my view, but he's not going to be president, erm I mean prime minister. I join you in your wish to have Brown removed.
I have a complete and utter hatred for the man, as much as I have for his great friend the Baroness Thatcher, old cow.
Lol. Excellent.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad about the weighty common political ground we share but, both being opinionated folk as we are, I'd enjoy arguing about our differences far more. Over a pint (naturally). My round.
Failing that, there's always the Six Nations. See you in Cardiff, 2011, old boy. Where you shall be beat.
'I think I'd not mind Daqvid Cameron for a neighbour. He seems a nice bloke (well, I woudn't mind him for a neighbour even if he was a pig because it would mean I was rich rich rich.... but you get my meaning...) but I think that he will agree with whomever he's talking to. He will say "yes" to this now, because it's the right thing to say at that moment, and then he will change his mind 10 minutes later because the next bloke had another argument. There's no intellectual substance to the guy. Money bought his impressive education. '
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you there tris. I've seen quite a few of these Camerondirect things on the interweb and watched him disagree with people on many occasions and he'll always explain why.
I agree with D's statement though, he should take the gloves off in the next two debates and actively refute Browns lies in the rebuttal stages. Somehow I get the impression he was keeping his powder dry on this one yet comfortably bested Brown and skewered Clegg's hypocrisy a few times too.
Pints are on you? I'm there mate.
ReplyDeleteUncle Bob. I still say he's an intellectual lightweight. He can argue simple points but his expensive education gave him class, and style (if he was my neighbour perhaps I'd learn some).
He will be beaten by the class of politician he will have to do business with abroad, like Merkel for example. In my opinion.