Mainlining False Promises | The UK Debates

After missing the first ever live leader’s debate last week, I missed most of round two last night also.  I was working.  I did catch the repeat late on however.  Well, I didn’t watch all of it, Charlie Brookers new show clashed with it, and between the two there is no contest.  What I did see though, was Nick Clegg (lib dem) hold his own against two big hitters that were feeling the effects of being embarrassed last week.

The thing about live debates is that it is a direct platform for politicians to talk nonsense straight at you, rather than you reading it in the news or manifestos.  I was in the audience for the Scottish debates on Tuesday, sadly I never got to say anything, which was partly to do with not wanting to waste my time talking to people I hadn’t heard of.  But the show can be seen on www.stv.com, it is called Scotland Debates and I am right in the middle of the second row, the handsome guy in the dotted shirt.  We listened while the representatives of Labour, Tory, Lib Dem and SNP bored us half to death about the economy, the war, the expenses scandal and the prospect of a hung parliament.  The most interesting thing about the candidates was that the Labour MP looked like a bad guy from Die Hard, save for the accent.

Why the SNP (Scottish National Party) were involved in a debate regarding the UK general elections is a mystery to me, someone tried to explain it to me but I still don’t understand.  Aside from the nuclear policies, and a couple of other big picture policies their main policy is to complete the work of William Wallace and gain total independence from England.  They should note, however, that Wallace fought the English rulers for FREEDOM!, but today there is a Scot in office, albeit Gordon Brown, a Scot none the less.  I guess it comes down to my inability to be patriotic or a nationalist, that is to lump yourself in with people you haven’t met, which is just dumb.  Anyway, I hate Braveheart; it’s about as historically accurate as a creationist’s handbook.  I think the last thing we need in the UK or the world is more segregation.  I don’t want to have to take a passport when I travel by road to England.  Not only that but the more independence we have, the more people will set eyes on that despicable Scottish Parliament building we paid for.  The design of which appears to have been conceived by a massive group of maniacs who could neither draw, nor come to any sort of agreement as to which terrible idea was the best.  It looks like 20 bad ideas had an orgy and the result was the Holyrood Scottish Parliament Building, which is bang in the center of Edinburgh, a city that is full of awesome old buildings that could have been used…  But that would be easy, and cheap, and we can’t have that.

The leader’s debate on Sky News was a different ball game, in the respect that there is more at stake when they make promises they can’t possibly keep.  Or in Cameron’s case, make promises to help an 84 year old woman with her pension, in 2016.  That currently tops the list of things that David Cameron has said that proves he isn’t human, at least not completely.  More a human robot hybrid.  You can tell by the dead, vacuous eyes, the slightly robotic voice and lack of emotion of any sort.

The competition to decide who annoys us less continues.  Given that Labour is as bad as Tory, and the only thing that appears to be different is that I hate the Labour leader and current PM slightly less than I do David Cameron, and I kind of like most of Lib Dem policies…  I think I have less chance of being disappointed come the day the winner is announced…  Unlike a staunch conservative, whose head would probably explode if Nick Clegg or Gordon Brown won.  God forbid they shared the power in the event of a hung parliament…  I would shudder to think what they would do in that case.

An hour after the debates the polls showed Lib Dem taking a commanding lead, despite certain papers attempts to sully Nick Clegg by calling him a Nazi sympathiser and other such nonsense.  But as I always say, if you read papers like The Sun then you deserve to be misinformed.  It makes it easier to root out the idiots.

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