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Post by Nickyboi on Mar 30, 2010 6:15:05 GMT -5
Did anyone else watch this?
To be honest, it wasn't a particularly good programme. Far too many empty soundbites, and the nature of the show meant that questions had to come relatively fast within the hour, so it was really more about presentation than content. That said, Osborne showed himself up to be a right cunt and even Darling, who we're all bored to tears with by now, outdid him.
Vince Cable is the man, though. He didn't push his £10,000 threshold enough for me but came across as a realist, the voice of reason and more importantly, an economist rather than a politician.
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Post by Billy on Mar 30, 2010 6:43:57 GMT -5
I'd like to have seen this, but I was asleep.
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Post by Evilluke on Mar 30, 2010 9:52:35 GMT -5
I didn;t but I'm unsurprised that Cable, who was formerly Chief Economist at Shell and has a PhD in Economics from Glasgow, came across best. Annoying then that he won't ever be chancellor.
The other two are career politicians and I'm pretty sure both are from pretty well off backgrounds (George Osbourne is the son of a Baronet). I believe neither have any credentials to run a country's economy, but thats hardly new.
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Post by Nickyboi on Mar 30, 2010 11:03:22 GMT -5
I don't think Darling's from the landed gentry - he's the son of an engineer, I think - but yeah. Cable could well be Chancellor, although oddly it would only be in coalition with the Conservatives in a hung parliament I suspect. I don't think he and Brown would see eye to eye on a number of policies and I don't think the Lib Dems will side with Labour if the public don't.
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Post by Evilluke on Mar 30, 2010 11:35:03 GMT -5
I don't think Darling is from the landed gentry, no - fair point.
I know thats technically true about Cable, but I'd be mega-surprised if, in the case of a hung parliament, a post as important as chancellor went to a Lib Dem...
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Post by Billy on Mar 31, 2010 2:28:16 GMT -5
I could actually see that as fairly likely. If we have a hung parliament, as looks increasingly likely, then (as Nick says) a Conservative/Lib Dem coalition is the most plausible outcome. Nick Clegg has definitely been hedging himself that way. And although Osborne is a bit of a slimy Cameronite, it's also recognised within the party that he's not strong in his position, so the job could plausibly go to Cable. Having said that however, Cable is as pretty un-Tory as the Libs get. Is it also wrong of me to have quite a bit of mistrust in a politician who worked for a major petrol company?
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Post by ed on Mar 31, 2010 2:43:45 GMT -5
s it also wrong of me to have quite a bit of mistrust in a politician who worked for a major petrol company? No. s it also wrong of me to have quite a bit of mistrust in a politician. No. |
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Post by Wayne on Mar 31, 2010 7:41:15 GMT -5
I'd like to have watched this but I didn't want to. They're all a bunch of cunts anyway. Not one of these arseholes is ever, or will ever, be trying to get a position in Parliament for anything other than personal gain. Fuck them.
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Post by Evilluke on Mar 31, 2010 8:29:45 GMT -5
I'd like to have watched this but I didn't want to ?? |
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Post by Wayne on Mar 31, 2010 8:32:11 GMT -5
I've just read that back to myself and realised it made no sense whatsoever. Lack of sleep, mate!
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Post by Nickyboi on Apr 1, 2010 7:25:56 GMT -5
Keynesian economics is a far superior school to Friedman's, that's for sure. Keynesian economics is usually diluted in practice, whereas Friedman's ideas are usually followed to the letter - with disasterous consequences.
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Post by Beatende on Apr 2, 2010 15:24:34 GMT -5
what annoys me about this whole election is the amount of smoke and mirror tactics being used by the tory rags to try to dupe the floating voters into believing that the conservatives are the only choice to get things working again. Its pretty clear how theyre going to go about business- and who's going to get fucked over in order to achieve it.
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Post by Beatende on Apr 14, 2010 18:05:27 GMT -5
This is hilarious, but I'm willing to predict tomorrow's broadcast will make Brown look stupid as Cameron has enlisted a bunch of american electioneering consultants to help him with his poise and body language. I like the way the TV stations are at utter pains to make us believe that the debate will influence the outcome of the election, as though we're incapable of looking past such things and making our own minds up. They've been repeating the phrase over and over. If it isn't the parties PR'ing the events, it's the TV stations trying to make themselves important putting further PR slant on things. Annoying much. |
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Post by Beatende on Apr 17, 2010 19:33:01 GMT -5
Well, looks like I got that prediction wrong! Thank fuck for that!!
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