Brave decision by David Cameron to rule out the debate without the Greens but politically astute as the controversy caused will result in a lot of publicity for the Greens that they may not otherwise have had and puts Ed Miliband on the spot to declare whether he agrees or not that the Greens should be included as if he is against it could be very negative for labour
A Kipper will be along to tell you that it is imperative in the fight against Islam and the EU there must be free speech compelling Cameron to appear before this interrogation.
Oh, a four way debate with an independent moderator is now an "interrogation" for Cameron. God you Tories do like to play the victim, don't you? David can run frit if he likes, but the rest of us will judge accordingly.
"According to the United States Government, it was the deadliest act of terrorism within the United States prior to the 9/11 attacks"
I think he was mentioning the notorious Today front page after the Oklahoma bombing which had the headline "In the name of Allah" with a photo of the attack
Then in the next few days when the facts emerged they called it the work of "American survivalists"
As Muslims are responsible for 80% of terrorist attacks and 90% of terrorists deaths wasn't this a safe (albeit incorrect) assumption for Today to make?
Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick 27s27 seconds ago Cameron tells @tombradby he all but rules out joining TV debates, but broadcasters might well proceed with just Miliband, Clegg & Farage
Cameron correctly realises he has more to lose by taking part in the debates.
Cam right to avoid a rigged game.
Ukip have 2 MPs - only one more than the Greens.
Cluck cluck cluck.
Cowardice is not the same thing as stupidity.
Yet Cameron has plenty of both. He is running scared from Farage because he knows Farage will show up his stupid arguments about repatriation. Ironically, those arguments had to be created because of his cowardice in standing up to the EU.
Your anger shows Cameron's position of strength. You want your bar room barracker to throw rocks at Cam ? Then let the lentil munchers in to do the same to Ed...
He defends free speech one day. Runs scared from an open debate the next. Sounds like David the coward Cameron, alright.
How is it open debate to deny a party which won an MP fair and square last time and is polling better than the LDs? Its censorship. In any event name the last time before 2010 when we had any of these debates? Never. How is travelling up and down the country in an election denying free speech. Your arguments are as ever totally bogus.
Right. The only shared policy between France and the UK in this area is that we've both allowed mass immigration from poor Muslim countries. That was the common mistake.
Judging by arrest numbers, about 1 in every 5000 Muslims in the UK is involved in terrorist activity.
0.02% ??
BTW the total jail pop is at a guess about 0.12% of population. Happy for a more accurate figure.
Cameron trying to use Ofcom decision to run cowardly from the debates:
Patrick Wintour @patrickwintour 51s51 seconds ago Big on TV debates @tombradby "are you saying you are not going to go in as it stands unless at least Greens are in?' Cameron:"Correct".
TBF to Cameron, the debates will be lopsided with UKIP in, but the Greens out.
The Greens won an MP in the 2010 GE, they didn't need by-elections (which often throw up strange results) to get in.
The whole ''Opposition leader demands debate... PM refuses ''knockabout is a long standing part of the pantomime tradition of British Politics.
"Paris shooting ‘product of West’s conflict with ISIS’" – Foreign Sec Hammond
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1) Russia Today have spun Hammond's words because they are a biased organisation and they don't like Hammond in the past calling out Putin for the thug he is
2) You haven't been looking very hard have you. Take Nick Clegg today
Correct and in Cameron's case he said - (Mail report) ''Defending the right to free speech David Cameron said: 'We should be very clear this day that these values that we have are not sources of weakness for us, they are sources of strength. 'Of course there are all sorts of economic things we have to get right but, as we do that, the countries that succeed in the future I think will be those that stick to the values of freedom, of democracy, of the rule of law. 'Those are part of the things that make our economies and our societies and our political systems strong and powerful and good and we must not give those up.' ''
Note the first words - 'defending the right to free speech'. Personally I quite like the right to free speech it enables me to point out that invariably the anti Cameron nutjobs are a bunch of liars. FWIW I think Cameron is right to emphasise that 'the countries that succeed in the future I think will be those that stick to the values of freedom, of democracy, of the rule of law.' In every way it is to our benefit to ensure the spread of democracy and to support those who fight totalitarianism, especially that based on bigotry from wherever it comes.
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Cameron the Cowardly.
Its censorship.
In any event name the last time before 2010 when we had any of these debates? Never.
How is travelling up and down the country in an election denying free speech. Your arguments are as ever totally bogus.
BTW the total jail pop is at a guess about 0.12% of population. Happy for a more accurate figure.
''Defending the right to free speech David Cameron said: 'We should be very clear this day that these values that we have are not sources of weakness for us, they are sources of strength.
'Of course there are all sorts of economic things we have to get right but, as we do that, the countries that succeed in the future I think will be those that stick to the values of freedom, of democracy, of the rule of law.
'Those are part of the things that make our economies and our societies and our political systems strong and powerful and good and we must not give those up.' ''
Note the first words - 'defending the right to free speech'. Personally I quite like the right to free speech it enables me to point out that invariably the anti Cameron nutjobs are a bunch of liars.
FWIW I think Cameron is right to emphasise that 'the countries that succeed in the future I think will be those that stick to the values of freedom, of democracy, of the rule of law.'
In every way it is to our benefit to ensure the spread of democracy and to support those who fight totalitarianism, especially that based on bigotry from wherever it comes.