Wednesday 26th March: Clegg v Farage TV Debate (Round One)

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://tvnewsroom.co.uk/news/sky-new...debates-65926/

EU: In or Out? Nick Clegg v Nigel Farage

Sky News has confirmed it will broadcast live coverage of LBC’s ‘Clegg vs Farage In Or Out Of The EU?’ debate on Wednesday 26th March.

Kay Burley will present live coverage before and after the debate, where Liberal Democrats leader, Nick Clegg, goes head-to-head at 7pm with UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, over Britain’s future in Europe.

Kay will present live from the debate’s central London location with Political Editor Adam Boulton and a panel of guests in Sky News’ Westminster studio. Analysis will be provided from Deputy Political Editor, Joey Jones.

Sky News will also carry the BBC’s debate between the two leaders the following week on Wednesday 2nd April.

John Ryley, Head of Sky News, said: “Sky News believes strongly that leaders’ debates should be seen by the widest possible audience. We commend LBC and the BBC for making their debates freely available to all other broadcasters.”

A few places you'll be able to watch it seems, either on the LBC website or Youtube (see above) or on Sky News.

Looking forward to it. There's going to be another in early April on BBC One or Two aswell.

[lemons]

fight fight fight fight fight

[GommeInc]

I just want to watch Clegg squirm. I would be very amazed he manages to argue any points against such an argumentative man such as Farage. Plus Clegg deserves no sympathy and having him be belittled by Farage is as close as the British public who voted for the Lib Dems will get to seeing him beaten up for wasting their votes.

[Ardemax]

I feel bad for Clegg. It's just like the Tories have pushed a small child in front of an oncoming train.

[GommeInc]

I feel bad for Clegg. It's just like the Tories have pushed a small child in front of an oncoming train.

Except the child wants to see if he can take on a train

[Chippiewill]

People shouldn't count Clegg out, he did extremely well in the Prime Minister debates during the last General Election. And as much as Dan likes to make everyone here think otherwise there are actually two sides to the argument. Although I'm sure he'll post some pro-UKIP blog declaring Farage the winner I suspect it'll actually be pretty evenly divided, which is good actually because getting the facts out into the open is great for everyone.

[Inseriousity.]

Is there a focus for each debate or is it just the same debate twice? If it's the latter I'll probably just wait for the BBC debate. Should be interesting anyway.

[dbgtz]

People shouldn't count Clegg out, he did extremely well in the Prime Minister debates during the last General Election. And as much as Dan likes to make everyone here think otherwise there are actually two sides to the argument. Although I'm sure he'll post some pro-UKIP blog declaring Farage the winner I suspect it'll actually be pretty evenly divided, which is good actually because getting the facts out into the open is great for everyone.

Clegg is clearly trying to replicate that in order to gain support next year considering he still needs to make up for all the people he pissed off in 2010/2011 (despite the fact the Lib Dems didn't win the election which some people fail to realise).

[Chippiewill]

Clegg is clearly trying to replicate that in order to gain support next year considering he still needs to make up for all the people he pissed off in 2010/2011 (despite the fact the Lib Dems didn't win the election which some people fail to realise).

NEWS ALERT - PARTY LEADER IS TRYING TO mattGARNER SUPPORT IN A WAY THAT WAS REALLY SUCCESSFUL LAST TIME THEY DID IT!

[GommeInc]

People shouldn't count Clegg out, he did extremely well in the Prime Minister debates during the last General Election. And as much as Dan likes to make everyone here think otherwise there are actually two sides to the argument. Although I'm sure he'll post some pro-UKIP blog declaring Farage the winner I suspect it'll actually be pretty evenly divided, which is good actually because getting the facts out into the open is great for everyone.

Indeed he was good at those debates, but everyone now knows that what he does is spout rubbish and doesn't stand by his convictions - he hasn't stood by any of his policies from those debates. Not forgetting he was probably given a speech to read. Those debates were so constructed it was painful to watch - no ad libbing was seen and the debate seemed to be "Here is my point. I disagree with this" and then move onto the next point followed by the odd "I agree with Nick". No one will or should take him seriously.

As far as the general public see him, he's a written off politician that should just give up. Also the Liberal Democrats are the worst party to have post the facts as they're not really a real party anyway and change their policies far too often - they're a glorified think tank that sits in between Labour and the Conservatives. From reading their manifesto they do not need seem to support their claims over why being in the EU is beneficial. At least UKIP can conjure up something. They probably think stating no information over the EU is justified on the grounds that we're currently part of it and it is up for the other side to prove why the EU is a bad thing.

Furthermore, the Liberal Democrats have even stated that if they were to win they would consider clawing back more powers from Brussels and/or re-thinking our relationship with the EU, while Labour have said they have no future intentions unless more power is asked from Brussels. As far as differences go, the Lib Dems are even reconsidering our relationship with the EU - more so than Labour. Therefore the debates should be between Labour and UKIP, not some jumped up failed politician who talks the talk but cannot walk the walk whose party is even thinking the EU may not be as good as it should be. They're not that different to UKIP or the Conservatives as far as stance goes. A polar opposite would be Labour.