-:Undertaker:-
04-04-2014, 10:20 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2596470/Tories-Labour-scared-taking-says-Farage-Miliband-calls-UKIP-leader-banned-leaders-debates.html
Tories and Labour are scared of taking us on, says Farage after Miliband calls for UKIP leader to be banned from leaders' debates
- Mr Farage says the two main parties are 'running scared' of Ukip
- Opinion polls show he trounced Nick Clegg in Wednesday's debate
- Ukip appears to be drawing support from Labour and Lib Dem voters
Ed Miliband last night demanded that Nigel Farage is barred from the leaders’ debates at next year’s General Election.
His call came the day after Ukip leader Mr Farage trounced Nick Clegg in a second debate on Europe.
A senior Tory source indicated that the Conservatives would also seek to block Mr Farage – even though the anti-EU party has been ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the opinion polls for almost two years
Mr Farage last night accused the two main parties of ‘running scared’.
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Ed Miliband last night demanded that Nigel Farage is barred from the leaders' debates at next year's General Election. In response, Farage accused the main political parties of 'running scared'
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‘I am not the least bit surprised they want to exclude me,’ he said. ‘The establishment parties are frightened of our arguments, which they know have deep resonance with their own voters.’
Opinion polls suggest Mr Farage demolished the Deputy Prime Minister in Wednesday night’s debate broadcast on the BBC.
A YouGov poll for the Sun found Mr Farage triumphed by a margin of 68 to 27, and boosted support for the idea of Britain leaving the EU, with a six-point pro-EU lead in the polls transforming into a three-point lead for quitting in the immediate aftermath of the debate.
The poll also revealed that Ukip was drawing significant support from Labour and even the Lib Dems.
Some 57 per cent of Labour voters thought Mr Farage won the debate, as did 33 per cent of Lib Dems. Mr Miliband said yesterday he was ‘not that interested in Nigel Farage’.
He said his main concern was to debate with David Cameron, but said he would be happy to repeat the format from the 2010 election, which also included Mr Clegg.
One Tory said there was ‘zero interest’ in debating with Mr Farage. The Tories are also thought to be open to the idea of a straight debate with Labour, if it could be agreed with the main broadcasters.
Yesterday Mr Cameron said the debate had revealed that both Mr Clegg and Mr Farage held ‘extreme’ views on Europe.
The Prime Minister said: ‘Nick thinks there’s nothing wrong with Europe and we shouldn’t have a referendum; Nigel thinks there’s nothing right with Europe and we should just get out and leave.
'They’re both wrong. The right answer is to be tough for Britain, renegotiate, get a better deal and then give people the choice in an In/Out referendum.’
One Lib Dem MP yesterday said the debate had been so painful he had been reduced to watching it ‘from behind the sofa – with my hands in front of my face’.
But Mr Clegg yesterday insisted he had ‘enjoyed’ the debate and denied he was feeling ‘bruised’.
He said he had expected to lose in the opinion polls but said it was vital to start making the pro-European case.
Lib Dem aides believe that participation in the debate will boost Mr Clegg’s profile and could prevent the party suffering a meltdown in next month’s European Parliament elections.
Considering Clegg is the best debater out of the main three, it's no wonder that Cameron and especially the hopeless Miliband don't want Farage included. Can you imagine Farage against Miliband for example? To be fair to Cameron, he's always been against Farage taking part - but for Miliband this is a sudden U-turn as he was only saying a few months that he'd be open to the Ukip leader taking part. Why is that? Well it's because Ukip are now hoovering up more of the working class vote since 2010 now than Labour is:
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The broadcasters should be the ones issuing the invites - there should be four podiums and whether the leaders decide to turn up is their decision, but an empty stand will be left in their place.
Also worth saying that it's clear that the main three parties want the Leaders Debates to be only between their cosy cartel where no real debate on policy takes place, only soundbytes are issued: it could just have easily been Cameron or Miliband in place of Clegg the other night making exactly the same arguments: and you can apply that to education, foreign policy, immigration, foreign aid and so on. All exactly the same on fundemental policy issues.
Do you think Miliband and Cameron are running scared? Would you like to see Farage included?
Tories and Labour are scared of taking us on, says Farage after Miliband calls for UKIP leader to be banned from leaders' debates
- Mr Farage says the two main parties are 'running scared' of Ukip
- Opinion polls show he trounced Nick Clegg in Wednesday's debate
- Ukip appears to be drawing support from Labour and Lib Dem voters
Ed Miliband last night demanded that Nigel Farage is barred from the leaders’ debates at next year’s General Election.
His call came the day after Ukip leader Mr Farage trounced Nick Clegg in a second debate on Europe.
A senior Tory source indicated that the Conservatives would also seek to block Mr Farage – even though the anti-EU party has been ahead of the Liberal Democrats in the opinion polls for almost two years
Mr Farage last night accused the two main parties of ‘running scared’.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/03/article-2596470-1CAAFD1200000578-881_306x423.jpg http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/03/article-2596470-1CC5507500000578-570_306x423.jpg
Ed Miliband last night demanded that Nigel Farage is barred from the leaders' debates at next year's General Election. In response, Farage accused the main political parties of 'running scared'
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/03/article-2596470-1CCF845000000578-141_634x254.jpg
‘I am not the least bit surprised they want to exclude me,’ he said. ‘The establishment parties are frightened of our arguments, which they know have deep resonance with their own voters.’
Opinion polls suggest Mr Farage demolished the Deputy Prime Minister in Wednesday night’s debate broadcast on the BBC.
A YouGov poll for the Sun found Mr Farage triumphed by a margin of 68 to 27, and boosted support for the idea of Britain leaving the EU, with a six-point pro-EU lead in the polls transforming into a three-point lead for quitting in the immediate aftermath of the debate.
The poll also revealed that Ukip was drawing significant support from Labour and even the Lib Dems.
Some 57 per cent of Labour voters thought Mr Farage won the debate, as did 33 per cent of Lib Dems. Mr Miliband said yesterday he was ‘not that interested in Nigel Farage’.
He said his main concern was to debate with David Cameron, but said he would be happy to repeat the format from the 2010 election, which also included Mr Clegg.
One Tory said there was ‘zero interest’ in debating with Mr Farage. The Tories are also thought to be open to the idea of a straight debate with Labour, if it could be agreed with the main broadcasters.
Yesterday Mr Cameron said the debate had revealed that both Mr Clegg and Mr Farage held ‘extreme’ views on Europe.
The Prime Minister said: ‘Nick thinks there’s nothing wrong with Europe and we shouldn’t have a referendum; Nigel thinks there’s nothing right with Europe and we should just get out and leave.
'They’re both wrong. The right answer is to be tough for Britain, renegotiate, get a better deal and then give people the choice in an In/Out referendum.’
One Lib Dem MP yesterday said the debate had been so painful he had been reduced to watching it ‘from behind the sofa – with my hands in front of my face’.
But Mr Clegg yesterday insisted he had ‘enjoyed’ the debate and denied he was feeling ‘bruised’.
He said he had expected to lose in the opinion polls but said it was vital to start making the pro-European case.
Lib Dem aides believe that participation in the debate will boost Mr Clegg’s profile and could prevent the party suffering a meltdown in next month’s European Parliament elections.
Considering Clegg is the best debater out of the main three, it's no wonder that Cameron and especially the hopeless Miliband don't want Farage included. Can you imagine Farage against Miliband for example? To be fair to Cameron, he's always been against Farage taking part - but for Miliband this is a sudden U-turn as he was only saying a few months that he'd be open to the Ukip leader taking part. Why is that? Well it's because Ukip are now hoovering up more of the working class vote since 2010 now than Labour is:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BkTfrYUCcAEJKBm.png
The broadcasters should be the ones issuing the invites - there should be four podiums and whether the leaders decide to turn up is their decision, but an empty stand will be left in their place.
Also worth saying that it's clear that the main three parties want the Leaders Debates to be only between their cosy cartel where no real debate on policy takes place, only soundbytes are issued: it could just have easily been Cameron or Miliband in place of Clegg the other night making exactly the same arguments: and you can apply that to education, foreign policy, immigration, foreign aid and so on. All exactly the same on fundemental policy issues.
Do you think Miliband and Cameron are running scared? Would you like to see Farage included?