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IDS?

Abbott would have to be REALLY DESPERATE.

SSSSSHHHHUUUUUUSSSSHHHHHHH!

What did IDS say?

ORDAH ORDAH (#2)

Dunno - a Silverfish went past.

speak up speak up...Diane can't hear you...

IDS is a nice man. Diane Abbott is a nice lady. Nice!

Michael,

On a related note the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ reported this:

'And Ed Miliband, shadow energy secretary, said he would make an "uncompromising" Labour leader and promised to end the "stifling" culture which had limited debate during the party's 13 years in power'

Surely the reason there was a 'stifling culture' was entirely due to an "uncompromising" Labour leader ?

What, on Earth, is this man talking about. He sounds like a buffoon.

FOOLS AND KNAVES - BUFFOONS AND BAR STEWARDS (#6)

A nice point well made Paul.

As I have said over and over: this is the disaster that is 'Westminster'. Such an ethos will only ever draw fools and knaves, with all-too-often a side-order of delusion. Over the centuries, it has distilled its terrible essence to a suffocating consistency, unbreathable by all but the buffoons and bar stewards. And as Tony demonstrated WE CAN DO NOTHING. I had a very real fear that Blair (having had a 'practice run' with tanks, on the Heathrow lawn) would stage a UK 9/ll, declare Special Measures, and govern by diktat - WITH ALASTAIR CAMPBELL AS HIS ENFORCER. I am neither jesting nor fantasising. I still believe something similar could be enacted. Cameron is already 'growing into' his own magnificence - his claptrap expanding 'to fit the delusion available'. And, clearly, we are under increasing threat - Dave would not lie to us.

Oh - it's all going terribly well.

They dont understand immagration is one of the biggest problems we have ..thats why they lost the election..ask them what are they going to do about it ??Solve this and a lot of other problems will be solved ie hospitals,jobs and crime to mention just a few

Hi, this is the first time Ive done anything like this so apologies if this is in the wrong place but just wanted to say that the leadership debate tonight was just SO bad. I normally have a lot of respect for the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, Newsnight and Paxman but this debate was just really poor (especially when comparing it to the leaders debate in the run up to the election). Ed Miliband made an extemely inciteful point when he said that the debate should really be more focused on the FUTURE and not on the PAST. Every single question was on The Labour Partys HISTORY - the Iraq war, Labours stance on Europe, Labours economic policy, Gordon Browns leadership of the labour party in the run up to the election.. etc and not once was anyone asked "so, labour party leadership candidate, WHY should YOU be the leader of the Labour party? What WILL you bring to the party in the FUTURE?" This was really just an analysis of the PAST three terms of the labour party that happens to have been given by the five possible FUTURE leaders. Really annoying. And really does nothing to encourage younger people (l include myself) to get interested in politics. And really did the labour party no favours. Im sorry but I came away not feeling I learnt anything about the candidates and to be honest just MORE apathetic on the whole topic.

IDS would want to help Dirty Di since he knows that Labour would be unelectable under her leadership.

What was the point of having a studio audience if after 45mins they only got to ask one or two questions at the most - at the very start?