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The 2017 General Election campaign

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Good to see how they react under pressure and don't have time to invent bullshit. I know it must be horribly pressurised, but, hey, if you want to be PM, that's life. And it gives the likes of Lucas to really shine, as she deserves.

But being able to debate well, or deliver a good speech isn't really the same as performing well when the world outside the bubble decides to really fuck you sideways.
 
he was a thatcher-idolising tory as a teenager - doesn't strike me that he can have been particularly aware of the destruction she was wreaking on the town he lived in in that case...
He also had a poster of Lenin and Gary Lineker. So make of that what you will. He's not a Tory and never has been though.
 
BBC News at 10 was actually reasonable and balanced, I haven't watched it in ages. What's going on?
 
Well, I guess she could have said 'Hey Amber, so sorry to hear your news - no need to do that shitshow on wednesday night, I'll do it instead', and Amber said 'No Teresa, I must soldier on. You must get on with the important work of planning Brexit.'

But I'm guessing it wouldn't have been quite like that.
A well known Irish columnist (was in the Examiner, now Irish Independent, also regular TV slots) tweeted that it was "cold" of May not to do the debate.

Frances Barber (actor, very odd politics) saw it and decided it was Anglophobia:

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A well known Irish columnist (was in the Examiner, now Irish Independent, also regular TV slots) tweeted that it was "cold" of May not to do the debate.

Frances Barber (actor, very odd politics) saw it and decided it was Anglophobia:

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Frances Barber doesn't really have odd politics so much as she is terminally wrong about everything.
 
Frances Barber doesn't really have odd politics so much as she is terminally wrong about everything.
I didn't want to be too rude. But fuck it, yes, she's a car crash.

I never deliberately look at her Twitter, but sometimes she pops up in my feed and I'm so embarrassed for her I want to plead with her to stop typing. But then I also, in a way, want her to say more.
 
it is entertainment. We get the circuses but they are tight with the bread...

thats why I can watch these things. I know the politics and policies here already, I know the soundbites and party lines waiting to be deployed. With the paxman one it was paxman himself who made me turn it off- not the pair of politicos or audience
you're looking at it like it's entertainment when it's about what their politics are.
 
it is entertainment. We get the circuses but they are tight with the bread...

thats why I can watch these things. I know the politics and policies here already, I know the soundbites and party lines waiting to be deployed.
ok, but that's precisely why I can't watch it
 
Anyone seen this?
In the wood panelled spin room of the Cambridge Union, the first drama of the night came when Labour’s Emily Thornberry burst into an interview with Tory cabinet minister Damian Green, live on BBC News.

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But Labour sources said Thornberry had been scheduled to be on Channel 4 News with Green, until Conservatives had told Labour they did not want a two-way debate. Stood down, Thornberry decided to take matters into her own hands and join Green’s post-debate interview live on air.
I mean the actual live news.
 
it is entertainment. We get the circuses but they are tight with the bread...

thats why I can watch these things. I know the politics and policies here already, I know the soundbites and party lines waiting to be deployed. With the paxman one it was paxman himself who made me turn it off- not the pair of politicos or audience
Needs more lions
 
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