Sky News: Highlights from Chancellor's Debate

Highlights from the Chancellor's Debate aired in the UK on Channel 4 prior to the 2010 General Election campaign. The most striking aspect of the debate was the obvious conclusion that a vote for the Liberal Democrats may as well be a vote for Labour.

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[zzzoe11]

Vince Cable could beat those two idiots with his hands tied behind his back.

Darling is dull, but boy George is the real risk to our economy.

IF boy George get's into number 11 then heaven help us.

[UnitedBritannia]

@zzzoe11 I wouldn't be quite so eager to buy into the media-sponsored propaganda about Vince Cable. What, I ask, was so magnificent about him in this debate? All he did was spout some populist, crowd-pleasing lines which played to widely held misconceptions about bankers, the Tories and economics in general.

It's easy to be a popular Liberal Democrat, you can make as many promises to as many people as you like because you'll never have to deliver on them. Lib Dems are a waste of space.

[tomives1985]

@UnitedBritannia Oh yeah the media are really pro lib dem....I always see Vote Lib Dem on the front of the sun, the mail, the times, the telegraph, the daily express, the sport and the mirror.

[UnitedBritannia]

@tomives1985 I didn't actually say "Pro-Lib Dem" (although much of the media were only too happy to help inflate the Clegg bubble) - I was referring to the way in which much of the media has been totally deferential to Vince Cable and treated him as some economic czar. He's not. Andrew Neil did a fantastic hatched job on him because he's an outstanding forensic interviewer; it's a pity there aren't more like him to truly hold opportunist politicians like Vince to account.

[tomives1985]

@UnitedBritannia Andrew Neil is about as right wing as they come he used to be Rupert Murdoch's bitch for a number of years. I suppose you would say that David Cameron wasn't opporunistic?

[UnitedBritannia]

@tomives1985 So by your reckoning, Andrew Neil should be disregarded because he doesn't subscribe to the hegemonic left-wing views of our political elite? An enlightening interview is an enlightening interview, no matter who conducts it - he exposed the inadequacies of Lib Dem economic policy - the fact that he has some conservative views is neither here nor there.

[UnitedBritannia]

@tomives1985 And no, I would never say that Cameron has never been opportunistic - he is an opposition politician after all. All politicians behave as opportunists at one time or another - it's inevitable. But the ways in which Clegg has cynically abused the breakdown of trust between the people and politicians by portraying his party as above the frey (they're not), and styling himself as the protest vote candidate to mop up disillusioned voters, strikes me as being particularly poor form.

[boldertits]

Time for plan b George. 

[orango123]

Team George Osborne

[tensixtysix1]

Not accepting Video submissions I see. Shame NO TRAGIC i think. SO HERE FOR YOU THAT LOOK DEEPER ~ ' UK Politics; A Tragedy ' Check it out

[aceflashheart]

@UnitedBritannia Well... comparativly they are above the fray. They were the only major party that didn't have an MP suspended after the expenses scandel. They were the only party major party that wasn't caught in the Dispatches lobbying sting. They are the only major party that doesn't have a major nom-dom doner, or dodgy union links.

They may not be perfect, but in terms of being a party of change, Cameron is far too married at the hip to the status quo to qualify.

[tomives1985]

@UnitedBritannia urgghh