Notes On What Passes For Debate

Posted on April 25, 2010

As expected, the first two of the three ‘historic’ party leaders’ television ‘debates’ have be completely apolitical tosh. Instead the Labour, Tory and Liberal Democrat leaders have indulged in a round robin of sound bites, each vying with the other to appear more presidential and to sound more hardcore on a number of ‘dog whistle’ populist topics — ‘immigration’, ‘law and order’ and so on. They have promised points systems, more people incarcerated under the antiquated and brutal prison regime and services slashed and burned, instead of setting out how they would deal with the cause(s) of crime and poverty.

Cameron’s Tories show their contempt for people with the totally risible slogan

VOTE FOR CHANGE
VOTE CONSERVATIVE

LibDem leader Nick Clegg is ‘channelling’ former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s vocal mannerisms and hand gestures in a quite disconcerting fashion. Clegg also repeatedly refers to Labour and the Conservatives as the ‘old’ parties, cheap sleight of hand from the current leader of a party which traces its ancestry back to 1678.

But which one is Obama? It’s Clegg … it’s Cameron … no it’s Clegg. It definitely is not Brown.

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