9.01 - Dave talks about "Fred the Shred" and it's 2008. Clegg's flying here. He's talking complete bollocks, of course, but he's doing so with style. He's just good at this, simple as that.
9.03 - Dave goes after Wonderboy for his support for joining the Euro. Clegg shrugs it off pretty well, but he's on dangerous ground in this country, with it's wide-spread Euroscepticism.
9.07 - The questioner wants us to go back to the 19th Century and "make things" again. "We can't all work in shops and offices." Why the hell not? Clegg is "proud of Sheffield's industrial heritage", somewhat nauseatingly.
9.09 - Dave manages to remember the questioner's name. Yet another play from the yellow handbook. Do him and Gordon even have their own tactics?
9.10 - There's been a surprising lack of sweating in these debates thus far, but Clegg is doing his level best to address that. Maybe it's the lights.
9.12 - Dave says that "Gordon doesn't seem to know the difference between the Government and the economy". He's said it twice now. I think there's something in that, but that's just me. They're all pointing to green jobs as the future of the British economy.
21.17 - We're off the economy and Dimbleby plugs everything the BBC plans to do over the next 40 years.
21.18 - We're on to immigration, though, sadly. Think I'll put the kettle on.
21.19 - Dave sounds unbelievably posh when he says "roll" (as in "we need to control immigration"). Really surprised his advisors haven't stamped that one out.
21.21 - Dimbleby repeats and refocuses the audience's questions, as per Adam Boulton last week. Good stuff.
21.23 - Dave brings up the Lib Dems' immigration amnesty, which is Clegg's single weakest point. He does good work, though, by pointing out the dishonesty in pretending that immigration is a simple, easily solved issue. Gordon "agrees with Cameron", unsurprisingly. He bashes Clegg from the other side and it's assassination. It's still going on. I want none of this.
21.30 - Mercifully, we're off immigration. Housing next. Who's going to promise me one? All of them. Terrific!
21.33 - The Beeb has a funky purple graphic behind the leaders, which riffs nicely off Gordon's tie. Policy is for other people.
21.36 - Benefit abuse. I live in the wrong country, I really do. Nick Clegg "believes in work", courageously.
21.38 - Brown's policy is "no life on the dole". Lovely stuff. He "believes in work too". Who the hell would'a thunk it?
21.46 - Education and opportunities for poor kids. Gordon answers strongly on social mobility. Dave praises teachers. Yuk. The Conservatives seem to have only noticed poverty in the last few weeks, but still have the audacity to lecture Labour on it. Ridiculous.
9.09 - Dave manages to remember the questioner's name. Yet another play from the yellow handbook. Do him and Gordon even have their own tactics?
ReplyDeleteI hardly think remembering someones name counts as "stealing" Nicks move. AND I SAY THIS AS SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO PUNCH CAMERON EVERYTIME HE IS ON MY TV.