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What do you think? Will it change who you vote for?
Personally I think TV Debates are good but don't really act as substitutes for checking the manifesto for the main parties. Still, it will certainly make a difference to those impressionable voters who don't like to read anything and would rather get their votes from a small slice of TV.
Clegg came off a lot better than expected from the debate, but then it's not hard to see why - considering most people haven't bothered to look at anything the Lib Dems have put out, he can sit there enjoying his hypothetical position, saying what people want to hear, as realistically he knows there isn't much change of the Lib Dems getting in
Who will I be voting for? The Lib Dems.
Simply because Labour has been an embarassment for some time, and Gordon Brown even worse still. Likewise, although the Conservatives are likely to get in, I'd like to at least say I tried to stop them coming in, when in four years time it comes as a huge shock to their supporters that oh, wait, Conservatives are going to do NOTHING different to Labour - they've just been able to criticise Labour's policies the entire time. The only change they might actually implement is closing the UK's borders to immigration. And I really don't see that as such a big issue as the Conservatives think it is
Yes, it's an attempt to win support from the working class electorate who work in unskilled or semi-skilled jobs and feel that people like Eastern Europeans coming in, who are prepared to work harder and can be paid less are "stealing their jobs". At the same time, a lot of that is bullsh, in my opinion at least. Some businesses can exploit those that aren't UK nationals by offering them a lower wage etc, but thanks to strict policing and employment laws it's the minority that do. So really that puts it down more to people relying on benefits and complaining about it being impossible to get a job because the benefits pay more than the job, they're lazy, and it's always nice to blame someone else, eh?
Ended up watching 'Inside Man' with Clive Owen, it wasn't a great film.
What do you think? Will it change who you vote for?
Personally I think TV Debates are good but don't really act as substitutes for checking the manifesto for the main parties. Still, it will certainly make a difference to those impressionable voters who don't like to read anything and would rather get their votes from a small slice of TV.