What a shambles, on the plus side just making it even more likely we'll get labour across the line next time around. I wonder what next weeks polls will be saying, first PM ever not to get any kind of honeymoon period?
Most political scientists seem to agree that these kind of events make extremely little difference to the outcomes of elections because the only people who watch them already know who they are going to vote for. Probably most likely to influence journalists if anything. Don't think anything...
I wonder whether it will be of any benefit to Corbyn going first in that people will have watched his half of the show, liked what they had seen but then got bored and switched over? Truth is nobody who is genuinely undecided watches these things, it is just for the politically engaged ones who...
I'm really no fan of Corbyn but I thought he came across well there, calm & relaxed, clearly believes what he says and had answers to the questions asked. He won't ever win the IRA argument but will people be able to look past that?
Then they were idiots, we were never going to be able to opt out of freedom of movement and keep everything else. That much really should have been obvioous and explained to people, then we might not have found ourselves in this mess.
I don't know what country you live in but it surely cannot be this one. Benefits stopped being any kind of a lifestyle choice a long, long time ago. Anyone who seriously believes they still are has absolutely zero awareness of the welfare system beyond what they read in the daily mail. Fact.