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Not as much though. I think it's ok to go on the attack as long as it looks geniune rather than point-scoring.

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I too thought he looked ill when he first came on and did you or anyone else here notice he flustered his wordings during his open speech and didn't say 'Conservatives' properly?

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He was a mess, it took him a good 10 minutes to calm down after it started.

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Secret messaging?:

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/04/6.jpg

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

But they are on point scoring exercise anyway - that is what the debate is all about to try to show an audience who can out shine the other.

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BBC are better than Sky at this. Think ITV win on the debate coverage though.

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Just readjusting the merchandise?

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Clegg is doing very,very well,Cameron is getting better and Brown is being more and more pathetic by the sentence.He really can't differentiate between the state and the economy,can he?
Also,this whole tax credit thing he keeps banging on about.... how about simplifying the tax system?

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From Twitter:

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For my money Alastair Stewart has been the best Moderator. I suspected Dimbleby wouldn't be able to resist injecting his own voice into proceedings and I fear I was right. Boulton was just an amateur and at times seemed to forget he was meant to be moderator, not inquisitor.

For sheer quality of the presentation though, the BBC was always going to be light years ahead of both. They alone have actually thought about how to create an appropriate setting and atmosphere befitting the occasion rather than going for gaudy, plastic sets.

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Here come the final statements ...

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

It's fine. If the country wanted a seriously left wing party they'd vote for a minor party, we don't. Labour's flirtation with the authoritarian left-wing has done quite enough damage to our finances without continuing down that road, and the taxes required to support a left-wing agenda would devastate the economy, an economy which is dependent on multinational businesses that would very simply leave and withdraw their money from our economy if we started pursuing a left-wing tax and spend agenda.

Re: The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 4
 

And now for the last word from Gordon. Hopefully the last word ever.

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Why do the parties all go on about change? change, change, change, change. Is that really something that has resonance with the public?

Competence would have been a better word.

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Has Clegg shot himself in the foot with his summing up... Trust your instincts... Most people's instincts say, LibDem vote = wasted vote, never going to win. Therefore vote Conservative or Labour!

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Cripes, he's stumbling all over the place again!