Thursday 15 April 2010

Leaders' Debate

What a shame the three debates clash with my local pub quiz night. I'll have to miss them.

But I suspect I won't miss much; I'll review them based on comments in the press and on blogs.

Some preliminary guesses:
- all three will be regretting they were bounced into it;
- none of them will make any glaring errors because they have been over-rehearsed;
- all three will show their hidden character flaws (Brown: wierd; Cameron: smug; Clegg: bland);
- Brown and Clegg will gang up on Cameron. Which suggests what'll happen if there's a hung Parliament.

Brown will do better than expected, Clegg will win as the "third way" and Cameron will not quite reach his potential.

2 comments:

Troy said...

If you want, you'll be able to catch up on the ITV equivalent of the iPlayer.

"Making the missable not necessarily missable".

Alternatively I could let you have my thoughts on them, although unlike you and Gordon, I may not know what I'm talking about.

Troy said...

Having described it as "missable" I did watch but with the intention of switching over to HIGNFY at9pm. Instead I was hooked and enjoyed the full 90 minutes.

Overall Clegg won narrowly from Cameron with Brown a distant third. Clegg and Cameron were "We, we, we". Brown was the usual "I, I, I". A classic from Brown was "there are 6 million carers and I've met many of them".

Mrs Troy's conclusion "Brown made an even bigger idiot of himself than usual".

Two more to go.