The United Kingdom Elections 2010

[Furunculus]

funny, i thought it was a pretty even contest, with brown getting some good answers, cameron more, and clegg coming across as vacillating.

[Beskar]

funny, i thought it was a pretty even contest, with brown getting some good answers, cameron more, and clegg coming across as vacillating.

Haven't seen it yet, what do you think the main points were?

[Furunculus]

it'll take time, ninety minutes of debate takes time to walk ones mind through, at least mine does, i can only go off gut instinct at this point.

too much red wine.

brown was appealing to poor working class

cameron was appealing to southern aspiring middle class

clegg was appealing to hand-wringing professionals

[CountArach]

funny, i thought it was a pretty even contest, with brown getting some good answers, cameron more, and clegg coming across as vacillating.

Cameron won the debate according to every poll conducted with Clegg coming in second (with a tie for first in one poll).

[Myrddraal]

I thought the debate was good from all parties. I wouldn't agree that Cameron was the clear winner, his failure to even try to defend some of his policies when they were attacked was poor. It gave the impression that he wanted to hide those policies and pretend they weren't there. Clegg made a lot of sense sometimes, but I also thought he often relied too much on contradicting his opponents debating style rather than attacking their policies, describing the debate between Gordon and David as political point scoring. I was most surprised by Brown's performance in that I expected him to come across worse. There's no real attack on his policies which stuck in my mind as a particularly good one, other than perhaps the regional development agencies.

In terms of my expectations:

Cameron: Slightly worse
Clegg: About the same, if slightly worse
Brown: Much better

It's probably not the best reason to vote for a party I realise, but I don't want to vote conservative, and Labour don't feature in my constituency anyway, so it looks like I'm going to vote Lib Dem.

Looking at the policies of all three parties, there's a lot which I disagree with with all of them. The party I've been least impressed by has been the tory party. I've been impressed by some policies of the Labour Party, and some of the Lib Dem party. Those policies on which I disagree with them are also opposed by the other parties. Yet my constituency is a safe Tory seat, with virtually no Labour support. A stronger mandate for the Lib Dem party might see those views wich I share with them getting a greater voice in the commons. You never know...