The FINAL Election Debate - 7 days to go!

[Hecktix]

With only 7 days to go until the General Election of the United Kingdom the three potential Prime Minister's are taking part in the third Leader's Debate this year.

Gordon Brown (Labour), David Cameron (Conservative) and Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) will face eachother in debate for the first time since last thursday's Sky News Debate in which Cameron won over Clegg & Brown.

Tonight's debate theme is: THE ECONOMY

Which should be an interesting topic for debate, along with hearing what all three leaders have to say about Gordon Brown's bigot comment and Nick Clegg's bilge comment.

BBC1 8:30PM

[Tintinnabulate]

The bigot comment has been blown out of proportion. Its becoming a joke now, but no doubt they will mention it to show everyone he is rude and arrogant, even though they all are.

[Hecktix]

The bigot comment has been blown out of proportion. Its becoming a joke now, but no doubt they will mention it to show everyone he is rude and arrogant, even though they all are.

I'm interested to know what they will say, as they will both know they have made similar comments, Clegg really can't say anything after he told a student he was talking aload of bilge.

[Tintinnabulate]

Just for people who haven't read up on Nick Clegg's comment:


GRUMPY Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg showed the strain yesterday when he accused a politics student who questioned his background of talking "bilge".

Chris Williams, 18, accused Mr Clegg of portraying himself as "a man of the people" when he was a private-schooled, Cambridge-educated banker's son.

He also said Mr Clegg had lobbied in the early 1990s for Colonel Gaddafi's Libya.

Rattled Mr Clegg, who was speaking at Cardiff University's Student Union, snapped: "This is just such bilge.




Mr Clegg was asked why he described lobbying as "bilge" when he had once been a partner in a European lobbying firm for nearly a year.

He said: "What I said was bilge, which it is of course, was the suggestion that I worked with or for Colonel Gaddafi, which is also deeply comical."

In 1992-93 he worked for GJW, who helped Colonel Gaddafi resist efforts to send the Lockerbie bomber to the UK for trial - but left it off his CV.

[Sharon]

David Cameron <3 Might watch this boring stuff - might just get me interested you know

[Swastika]

im watching now.
its out of labour and the tories for me, nick clegg doesn't know what day it is the clueless egg.

[alexxxxx]

i think labour is winning.

[Swastika]

be decent to look at ukip after this on the news like.

[Tintinnabulate]

I think its fair to say Gordon Brown won that debate. David Cameron was just there dodging questions and tonight showed flaws in his awful policies.

[jackass]

I think its fair to say Gordon Brown won that debate. David Cameron was just there dodging questions and tonight showed flaws in his awful policies.

I take it that's not biased in the slightest.

[Hecktix]

I take it that's not biased in the slightest.

I don't think it is, the other week he preferred Cameron to Brown I think.

I thought Gordon did well last week, but could see where David beat him. This week Gordon did very well for himself, although I don't know if it'll show in the results.

[Swastika]

brown defiantly won that for me.
cameron was dodging questions and im still not keen on clegg at all.
i think im starting to prefer labour.

[MattFr]

brown defiantly won that for me.
cameron was dodging questions and im still not keen on clegg at all.
i think im starting to prefer labour.

How can you prefer a party that have destroyed the country over the last 13 years?

[alexxxxx]

How can you prefer a party that have destroyed the country over the last 13 years?

because that is a normative statement.

[Neversoft]

I would agree that Brown won this debate and I think he also won the second debate and was better than Cameron in the first. I do not support him personally but thought he put across his points very passionately and of course very clearly. I don't think Clegg nor Cameron came across all that well in this debate - Clegg especially.

[Tintinnabulate]

YouGov is a load of ********. They pick people to do the survey.

[MrPinkPanther]

YouGov is a load of ********. They pick people to do the survey.

All of the polls show Cameron wins...

[Tintinnabulate]

All of the polls show Cameron wins...

And those who voted were clearly not watching the debate, and if they were, they need to go see a Doctor urgently.

[MrPinkPanther]

And those who voted were clearly not watching the debate, and if they were, they need to go see a Doctor urgently.
I'm no Cameron fan and I think Brown did well but in my opinion the only reason Brown was seen to do so well was because his past performances were so poor.

[Tintinnabulate]

I'm no Cameron fan and I think Brown did well but in my opinion the only reason Brown was seen to do so well was because his past performances were so poor.

Or it showed that Labour's policies are much better than Conservatives or Lib Dems. Also it showed David Cameron simply dodged questions.

[StefanWolves]

Or it showed that Labour's policies are much better than Conservatives or Lib Dems. Also it showed David Cameron simply dodged questions.

Tonight marks the end of Labour. Labour may have the best 'policies' but the fact is the country are sick and tired of the Labour party, and it is time for them to go.

Enter, David Cameron.

Good night.

[Tintinnabulate]

Tonight marks the end of Labour. Labour may have the best 'policies' but the fact is the country are sick and tired of the Labour party, and it is time for them to go.

Enter, David Cameron.

Good night.

Or people just like the idea of a new party as 13 years sounds too long. Doesn't always mean the new party is better...

[jam666]

And those who voted were clearly not watching the debate, and if they were, they need to go see a Doctor urgently.

And its rather obvious you were not watching the debate clearly either, as if you were you could see Brown repeating himself like a stuck record on continuous repeat. I got fed up of him mentioning tax credits as he said it so many times.

First debate i think Cameron did fairly well but Clegg did win it.
Second debate i thought Cameron won by a few points with Clegg a close second and Brown last.
The third and final debate Cameron was clearly the winner.

Therefore its clear Gordon Brown is trailing at the back of the pack.

[Jordy]

Cameron won it again I thought, not as impressive as last weeks performance in terms of getting policies across though. But he did come across the best which is presumably why the polls finally rated him. Clegg's best performance I thought, more substance than usual and Brown was abismal. He was lying about Tory policies the whole time and just getting very desperate with things such as child tax credits. His rudeness once again shone through tonight, waivering his head and laughing everytime he was criticised, but thankfully he didnt have a ridiculous one liner this week.

The inheritance tax cut will affect 4 MILLION I hear rather than the 3000 Gordon quoted. The corporate tax cut is not aimed at banks, it is aimed at all businesses. Alan Johnson himself has admitted that Labour cannot safeguard the police from cuts, yet Gordon tried to criticse Cameron for it. As for child benefits, as Cameron pointed out they're only being cut for people earning over £50k a year which is fair enough, funny that GB failed to mention this. My gran is quite well off and says she'd rather not get the winter fuel allowance, people on here have said they dont even need EMA yet the government gives it them. People who are well off do not need the tax payers money, especially in times like this when the poorer are better off with the money.

Gordon Brown is a dishonest and lying politician, tonight showed that and so does the fact Labour have broken 27 Manifesto promises since 2005.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why do most Labour supporters on here seem to think that when Gordon Brown is shown as doing terrible either on fair polling or by the media exposing his gaffes, they seem to think its some sort of fix where the media is destroying the Labour Party on purpose? - I mean, talk about not being able to take criticism/being completely paranoid.

As where the economy is concerned, would any Labour supporters like to tell me why taxing people more and expanding the public sector generates growth in the economy - because in all truth, it doesnt.

[Tintinnabulate]

Why do most Labour supporters on here seem to think that when Gordon Brown is shown as doing terrible either on fair polling or by the media exposing his gaffes, they seem to think its some sort of fix where the media is destroying the Labour Party on purpose? - I mean, talk about not being able to take criticism/being completely paranoid.

As where the economy is concerned, would any Labour supporters like to tell me why taxing people more and expanding the public sector generates growth in the economy - because in all truth, it doesnt.

Yet you seem to be under the illusion the country loves UKIP and their policies yet they have ZERO seats in the House of Commons.

[TehJoshy]

From watching the debate tonight on the iplayer, i did feel Brown was alot stronger than the previous debates, Cameron seemed over confident as usual, but i personally felt Clegg was the one with the answers. Still swayed to the Lib dems!

[-:Undertaker:-]

Yet you seem to be under the illusion the country loves UKIP and their policies yet they have ZERO seats in the House of Commons.

This has sod all to do with UKIP and its electoral results, although I would kindly remind you of the last proportional representative electon that was held in this country, UKIP came second - beating both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats and the results can be seen below which i've had to post because it just seems this goes on and on everytime we debate something, even when its got nothing to do with UKIP because you are always so eager on discussing UKIP which suggests to me that you actually consider them a uprising threat. So Saurav, instead of going off on a UKIP bandwagon, would you like to respond to my points for once (i'm sure you can give it a try) which can be seen at the bottom of the page.

http://www.iaza.com/work/100430C/ukipbeatlabour14545.bmp

Now back on the topic itself;

Why do you now think polls are rigged/media is tainted because it doesnt give you the result you want?
Would you like to explain to me where/why you have the faith in the absurd backwards economic idea that tax more = more growth?