The 2010 General Election Thread: Week 2 - Page 29

danielf · 22-04-2010, 19:42

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

BNP facing Marmite legal injunction - BBC

Allegedly, the BNP plan to rerun the ad replacing the jar of marmite with a tub of lard.

**Damien** · 22-04-2010, 19:45

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Originally Posted by danielf

Allegedly, the BNP plan to rerun the ad replacing the jar of marmite with a tub of lard.

Good. Party Election Broadcasts should feature their leaders anyway.

Ignitionnet · 22-04-2010, 20:51

Someone really should tell Nick Clegg the phrase 'old parties' is getting, well, old.

Sirius · 22-04-2010, 20:52

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Someone really should tell Nick Clegg the phrase 'old parties' is getting, well, old.

Clegg is not as polished tonight and Brown is still sucking up to clegg

**Hugh** · 22-04-2010, 20:55

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Someone really should tell Nick Clegg the phrase 'old parties' is getting, well, old.

Especially since the Liberal Party was founded in 1858, before the Labour Party

(yes, I know the Libs merged with the SDP in 1988).

**Damien** · 22-04-2010, 20:58

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Originally Posted by Sirius

Clegg is not as polished tonight and Brown is still sucking up to clegg

Brown is doing much better though. Cameron better but not enough I don't think. Clegg not as great. Draw so far i reakon, or Brown edging it...

Sirius · 22-04-2010, 21:01

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Originally Posted by Damien

Brown is doing much better though. Cameron better but not enough I don't think. Clegg not as great. Draw so far i reakon, or Brown edging it...

Agreed

Ignitionnet · 22-04-2010, 21:02

Brown's opportunism, sound bites even if they're nothing to do with the question and taking pot shots is irritating. Cameron is much more impressive and aggressive this time.

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Originally Posted by Damien

Brown is doing much better though. Cameron better but not enough I don't think. Clegg not as great. Draw so far i reakon, or Brown edging it...

I actually find Brown's pot shots quite irritating points scoring.

**Damien** · 22-04-2010, 21:07

Cameron did well to smash Brown's leaflets and calling them lairs, and Brown couldn't counter. Tried to weakly suggest that he didn't authorise them, well of course not, they give that responsibility to someone else so they seem clean. Cameron didn't tell The Sun to go smash the Liberal Democrates but he knew they would on their behalf.

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Channel 4 poll as Clegg ahead, he has done ok. Cameron did really well on Europe, Clegg as got better. Brown is up and down but I thought he was ahead. Guardian poll tracker (much more informal though) has Lib Dems ahead but then we expect that from the Guardian don't we

Osem · 22-04-2010, 21:10

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Originally Posted by danielf

Allegedly, the BNP plan to rerun the ad replacing the jar of marmite with a tub of lard.

What, John Prescott??.....

Re the debates, Brown has one massive disadvantage to overcome that doesn't apply to the other leaders. Those of us who aren't fully paid up members of the selective amnesia, "it's all Thatcher's fault", rose tinted specs brigade know that what he and his miserable party have said, done, promised and actually delivered over more than a decade have all too often been entirely different things!

**Damien** · 22-04-2010, 21:17

We had this question last week!!? What idiot decided three, one and a half hour debates was a good idea?

Ignitionnet · 22-04-2010, 21:19

Cameron is such a wuss. Gordon Brown banging on about taking 6 billion out of the economy there are two really simple responses:

1) Gordon, reducing VAT by 2.5% at the cost of over 20bn was considered stimulating, why would increasing taxes be considered stimulating?
2) Gordon, taxation is taking money out of the economy. The state is not the economy, the private sector is.

Repeating myself, and in the words of Barack Obama, what a lightweight.

22-04-2010, 21:23

at least with a imigration amnesty you would have a better idea how many illegals are in the country ,the other 2 dismiss the idea that there are any illegals

Ignitionnet · 22-04-2010, 21:25

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Originally Posted by martyh

at least with a imigration amnesty you would have a better idea how many illegals are in the country ,the other 2 dismiss the idea that there are any illegals

Think longer term. Family class immigration applications based on amnestied relatives, more illegals turning up in hope of getting amnesty. Sound good?

**Damien** · 22-04-2010, 21:27

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Think longer term. Family class immigration applications based on amnestied relatives, more illegals turning up in hope of getting amnesty. Sound good?

You would need to secure the borders better as well, we're obviously already a desired destination so I think the issue of people being encouraged to come here has already been lost.

Cleggs rebuttal to Brown's 'deport them' answer with 'You can't deport them, you don't know where the live" was good.