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[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I'm sorry governor but I think you might have taken a bump to the head.

 

I wasn't going to vote this time Mr E because local MP (Tory) is a tit, I'd have gone and spoilt the paper, but I wouldn't have endorsed her.

 

There is no doubt that I will be obliged to now. We only have LibDems, Labour and Tory to choose from.

 

It certainly seems like there is a final push getting behind Labour (to my complete and absolute bafflement) so I will be obliged to use a blocking vote! Genuinely, if I didn't and, by some devastatingly perverse act of masochism, the Great British public actually DO elect Chairman Mao and his muppet show, I will be obliged to shut up shop and move to Oz.

 

All those clowns at that debate taking cheap shots at the absence of the PM simply exposed their own lack of dignity. I've seen better organised chimps' tea parties!

[felixthelogchopper]

There is a third Felix, and it's absolutely apparent whilst the program is running....

 

It's a distasteful, disorganised, pointless and shambolic pantomime. Personally, I absolutely agree and support the decision for a "grown up" politician to not have engaged in such a disaster.

 

That said, and it absolutely baffles me, the audience response has been quite a surprise.

 

 

 

I didn't miss that Mark, I asked a question, you answered - job done.

 

Temerity...? Like it

 

Have to say that I disagree, Kevin. The only element that you describe was for me plainly created by May's non-attendance provoking the references to such.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Have to say that I disagree, Kevin. The only element that you describe was for me plainly created by May's non-attendance provoking the references to such.

 

Fair do's Felix, but it was just a shouting match where they were all over talking each other? I can't see that it actually achieved anything?

 

PM's absence certainly gifted the chimps a cheap dig but would her attendance have resulted in anything tangibly different in terms of output other than allowing the Prime Minister to be dragged down to the level of the rest?

 

I genuinely don't think so and I think it would have demeaned the office of PM.

[Mark J]

Theresa May demeans the office of PM everytime she wakes up.

[felixthelogchopper]

Fair do's Felix, but it was just a shouting match where they were all over talking each other? I can't see that it actually achieved anything?

 

PM's absence certainly gifted the chimps a cheap dig but would her attendance have resulted in anything tangibly different in terms of output other than allowing the Prime Minister to be dragged down to the level of the rest?

 

I genuinely don't think so and I think it would have demeaned the office of PM.

 

I think you are cheapening things yourself a bit by referring to all the attendees as 'chimps'. What I saw was standard fare and no different to the last televised debate I watched in 2015 with regards to the talking over. It spoke volumes to me that May did not attend as did her nervous laughing response earlier that she was far too busy with important things like Brexit (paraphrased but the gist of it). Too busy to put her party's views and manifesto, albeit vague and uncosted, in front of the public who she expects to hand her a mandate to govern? I still say too arrogant or too scared to debate unscripted.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I think you are cheapening things yourself a bit by referring to all the attendees as 'chimps'. What I saw was standard fare and no different to the last televised debate I watched in 2015 with regards to the talking over. It spoke volumes to me that May did not attend as did her nervous laughing response earlier that she was far too busy with important things like Brexit (paraphrased but the gist of it). Too busy to put her party's views and manifesto, albeit vague and uncosted, in front of the public who she expects to hand her a mandate to govern? I still say too arrogant or too scared to debate unscripted.

 

Alright! That's a fair point! I shouldn't have given the impression that I was referring to the attendees as chimps, but their behaviour was pretty appalling.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree.

[felixthelogchopper]

Alright! That's a fair point! I shouldn't have given the impression that I was referring to the attendees as chimps, but their behaviour was pretty appalling.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree.

 

Fair one.

[Mark J]

[Mark J]

Alright! That's a fair point! I shouldn't have given the impression that I was referring to the attendees as chimps, but their behaviour was pretty appalling.

 

We'll have to agree to disagree.

 

Well you envisaged that the viewers would be retards earlier. Are chimps better than retards?

[Mull]

I think May took the damage limitation route, which will be damaging for her anyway.

Obviously her supporters will go down the "she doesn't want lower herself" route![emoji849]