The Election

[Kieran76]

I thought it was a lot closer today. I thought Brown started very well and faded towards the end, Cameron still annoyed me by speaking a lot but not actually saying a great deal. Clegg did well, but not as well as last week. His closing bit at the end though was very impressive.
I think a lot of the problems of this weeks debate was the poor quality of the questions. Someone should have done a better job. The question about the pope's visit was a total waste of time.

[abigsmurf]

Missed this one. Think this was always going to be the weakest of the debates though, purely for being the middle one.

The BBC one should be good, especially given their experience in political debate shows.

[fuse]

Excellent work on the impartiality last night, Sky. You just needed to look at the backdrop to see plenty of red, blue, and... oh, wait.

[merf]

are people so stupid that their vote will be affected by the colour of a backdrop on a debate several weeks ahead of voting day ?

you could see how annoying sky found the rules meaning no scrolling text or news flashes allowed, only brightly coloured cards with the sky logo on for Adam Boulton and him mentioning the word sky as often as possible.

I see the polls having all parties neck and neck but its the distribution of the vote thats the issue, tories and labour have their homelands where they get a big % of the vote which skews their distribution but gives them seats, lib dems could end up getting as many actual votes as labour but a fraction of the seats.

[EJG1980]

I see the polls having all parties neck and neck but its the distribution of the vote thats the issue, tories and labour have their homelands where they get a big % of the vote which skews their distribution but gives them seats, lib dems could end up getting as many actual votes as labour but a fraction of the seats.

Democracy in action

I am interested in some sort of PR system of voting as I think it would give a fairer result that reflected how people had voted more accurately.

However I do wonder how it would work with our system of constituencies, which I'd want to keep, I think it's a good idea for each area to have a specific representative who (in theory at least) sticks up for that area's local concerns.

I.E. if the Lib Dems got a big share of the vote, and deserved more seats to reflect that, how would it be decided what seats they would be? Would we have to move away from local MPs representing specific constituencies if we moved to PR?

[abigsmurf]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/22/james-murdoch-independent-dodge-city

This is rather scary stuff. Murdoch Jr. seems to be 'paying visits' to all the papers.

It is however nice to see the Murdochs genuinely worried that his backing of the conservatives could make him look (more of) a tit.

[fuse]

are people so stupid that their vote will be affected by the colour of a backdrop on a debate several weeks ahead of voting day ?

Not sure if that's directed at me but I'm obviously not suggesting that - just find it a funny observation on the coverage.

[merf]

was more of a genral question on the observation than an aimed barb.

i wondered on a colour theme why clegg and brown wore a tie in party colours but cameron wore a purple one last night.

[Dirty Sanchez]

was more of a genral question on the observation than an aimed barb.

i wondered on a colour theme why clegg and brown wore a tie in party colours but cameron wore a purple one last night.

In the last one Brown wore a pink tie. Obviously a closet gayer. Cameron last night was just proclaiming his stake in that prime piece of political ass.

I would have thought what they said would be more important to wonder about.

[Anpanman]

Thought Brown did a lot better last night, his hair looked better too, haircut?

Clegg came across too assured and a bit smarmy and had to backtrack at least once, that said not a bad performance from him.

Cameron for me was a mixed bag, thought he had good points but for a PR man I personally think he can't get his message across well, also not keen on the fact that he had to keep mentioning the fact he's from the Conservatives. Can't think of once where Clegg or Brown mentioned their political parties.

[NW2013]

Thought Clegg was good again. I'm now pretty undecided about who to vote for. Was going to be Tories (always voted Lib Dem in the past) but might vote Lib Dem now their polling results are better. Not that keen on some Lib Dem policies though.

[Kieran76]

No party will ever have 100% policies that you back though. In my opinion you vote for who has the most policies you like and a general ideology you follow.

[dataDave]

I've changed my mind, I want to vote for whoever will bring the death penalty back for the f**king scum resposible for stuff like this: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100423...h-6323e80.html

When I mean death I mean a nasty, horrible death - like starvation, burning alive, or a public beating somewhere for over 25s.

I hate hearing about stuff like this, I know it goes on all the time but still... Beating disabled manz to death, wtf? How can these cocksuckers sleep at night? They probably found it funny.

[dataDave]

No party will ever have 100% policies that you back though. In my opinion you vote for who has the most policies you like and a general ideology you follow.

Unfortunately I don't like steaming, rancid, bull****. So I won't be voting for any of those three.

[fuse]

http://ow.ly/i/1g5M

teeheehee