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Conservative leader Boris Johnson refuses to commit to an interview with Andrew Neil before the general election https://t.co/cxnk4bMP2T pic.twitter.com/u1kYheea7r
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... but then you see Johnson making a huge mess of trying to defend it on BBC news today where he basically says "I'd love to do it but I'm not important enough to make these decisions and I need to wait to be told what to do" (by who?) - and that's a worse look than just doing the interview.
My conclusion is that the strategy is much smarter than 2017 but that Johnson just isn't good enough at politics to execute the strategy well.
I'm confused as to how these got made.
If only they hadn't used up a month's worth of dead cats in the first day of the campaign.
Anyway I have to walk the dog. Maybe there will be a poll out by the time I get back.
Laters.
But Boris is principle less.
How could we be in the position of such dreadful people leading us or trying to lead us?
Think of the miliband debates in 2015. When it was really everyone saying how shit Ed is.
Boris shouldn't do debates or interviews because he is useless at them.
We'll see.
Why the fuck should Boris dance to Channel 4 News' tune, any more than he should turn up for my quiz team? He has a schedule to run and being in the West Country then Wales has been set up in the diary.
Trying to make capital out of a declined invite (declined because Boris had other stuff already scheduled) is pretty thin gruel from Channel 4. I hope every constituency party invite Jon Snow to answer them about it - then writes and tells him he is a complete and utter c*** when he doesn't turn up....
It was all so much better because the debates actually focussed (and in a much more detailed way) on issues and solutions rather than slogans and one upman ship.
They can fuck right off.
Where have you heard it apart from Eggs posts on here? posters here who think scrapping MTA by labour is a big deal are wrong on the reason it raises much money or leaves many a lot worse off. Apart from Eggs postings have you heard the real story of labours scrapping MTA is the atheists attempting to turn the whole nation into atheists, pulling rug from those who believe to raise family’s under marriage is stronger, its retrograde social engineering and they are getting away with it.
The polls better be right because the polls have wrecked the campaign.
Greta Thunberg is just a joke meme ("How dare you!") and Extinction Rebellion are those people who finally got what was coming to them when they got dragged off the top of that tube carriage.
As others have pointed out it wasn't a debate tonight, it was a holier-than-thou smugfest and Boris made the right decision staying out of it.
Does anyone have a list of the biggest movers ?
Remind me, how did that work out?
Does the householder have to do the admin?
Who pays to redecorate?
How green is it to replace windows that are less efficient but might have twenty years of life left? Is there the capacity to make them?
More squillions to be paid for by debt.
It’s a con man’s charter. Govt sanctioned inspections and access to houses? How do you protect the vulnerable from those wishing to do harm by taking advantage?
What if I don’t want any of the arse ache this involves? Especially if I’m old and I’m going to get all the grief if having it done and precious few of the benefits?
It’s posturing and bonkers.
Rather less so if he slides away from the AN evisceration to which all leaders are expected to submit....
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/11/27/jeremy-corbyn-dodges-tv-debates-disastrous-bbc-interview/
I think if we read a story about another country where a national political leader threatened to pull a broadcaster’s licence because he didn’t like their coverage, we know what our reaction would be.
It's a fair question about the lifespan of less efficient windows. I looked at it when we insulated our house 5 years ago and i think it's a pretty quick net benefit taking into account manufacture and fitting, but can't quote figures.
In terms of getting old and missing out on benefits, it *should* increase value of your house I guess, so ignoring frivolities like environmental benefits for subsequent generations there's a financial gain.
Britain ain’t so bad. Life is sweet. Cheer up everyone.
I think it was a bit of a stunt from Channel 4, I got that impression in the first 30 seconds, and everything that followed confirmed it. Turn their news show into a full leader debate on just one topic? If it’s going to be one topic it has to be the spokesman for that topic from each of the parties, if you want less showy debate and treat your subject with the respectful depth without gratuitous point scoring.
They got it right last time with a show on mental health. Today’s pompous gimmick will quite rightly backfire on C4 in a big way, heads rolling.
Truth is we don’t know how much the chicken caused Mays disaster last time. It seems only a few seats lost, but it was 20+ leads at start of campaign. Tories like to spin it that it was all down to dementia tax policy that was hard sell on doorsteps, but no harder sell than poll tax that won a landslide. Or the u turn, but by then the dementia tax had gone.
Truth is May performed better in her campaign than Boris has had here.
Personally I think the terrorism played a part cost May her majority. But there is also no doubt “you want to do the most toughest important negotiations in British history, yet you can’t debate us or be interviewed by a broadcaster” is a damaging punch, especially used often.
I've been past the location and I was somewhat surprised gas was even an option for them.
It’s utopian bollocks. The sort of wind bag shit politicians come out with to con people they “care”, which falls apart under the slightest thought.
We can all alter behaviour to do our bit, be nudged a bit here and given an incentive there, but this proposal completely boils my piss I’m afraid.
C4 invited Stanley (a noted and early environmentalist) themselves
I think I saw it briefly touch 1.37 at one point a day or two ago. Lowest?
Life bowls beamers at you in this game!
Bob Marley played loud is fucking brilliant when you’re drunk in the hot evening sun. Oh to have seen him live in the Caribbean
Now our old poster Seant really knew how to live hard. By now he’d be taking a monkey off Bob at dominoes and smoking a hummingbird.
If we are to be stuck with them for future elections I think we need much tighter OFCOM regulation to bring the broadcasters in to line.
AHAHAHAHAHAHA You were saying about leaders sending substitutes to leaders debates? See whist grown up broadcasters do? They accept a substitute or they cancel.
Yet the yebbutthatsdifferents begin.
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If they are to become a staple of British elections, as now seems the case they need to be regulated in terms of quantity and format.
Unfortunately there is little political will to regulate them and I suspect we will see this charade for the foreseeable future.
How did the debates commission in the USA get founded? There must have been bipartisan support at some point, though hard to imagine nowadays. Perhaps in a more congenial and more fluid political atmosphere (note that from the start of the Second World War until about 1992 there were significant presidential landslides for both parties) there was just more of a fertile ground for such things.
No mention of Boris, nothing on ice block gate on C4.
IMHO, if Corbyn's policies were not such a mess, he could do interview after interview and empty-chair Boris every time
Doing a pajama shoot for IKEA
'Are you Tezzie in disguise?'