British TV Debates Or: Odious Crowd of Swine Ruined My Nap

[Futility Personified]

Did anyone waste their precious seconds of existence watching this? I caught bits and bobs, namely Cameron sticking it to Milliband about labour introducing NHS privatisation, degrees of lying about who had done what to the NHS, arguing what seem to be semantics over immigration and the EU, but didn't pay enough attention to it to really listen as the stench of horseshit here in the countryside belongs outside and not coming out of the TV after a whiskey nap.

It always feels like bourgeois politics is more like of a really dull hobby, like going birdwatching and staring at rocks, or talking about football games or the players stats. The more they want you to participate, the more disenfranchising it actually is.

[BITW434]

Unfortunately, we still have over a month to go until this shitty election, so it's only downhill from here. Nonetheless, I still find it amusing when you get Conservatives like Grant Shapps accusing Ed Miliband of being a Marxist. It makes you wonder what sort of alternative reality they must be living in.


The more they want you to participate, the more disenfranchising it actually is.
Tell me about it. My sixth form forced us to attend a two hour lecture about how glorious and infallible our political system is and why we should vote. It was painful.

[The Idler]

I thought the debate was pretty good. Nigel Farage seemed to do pretty badly.

[Rudolf]

Tell me about it. My sixth form forced us to attend a two hour lecture about how glorious and infallible our political system is and why we should vote. It was painful.


That'd have been hilarious. You should have been going on about the paedophile ring in westminister.


Anyway, i've not caught any of these debates listening to their smug voices makes me want to break my tv.

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

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Farage came across as a dick, I thought. Natalie Bennett came across as rather un-inspiring, though I guess if we are going to ignore the 'personality' aspect of bourgeois politics then some of what she said did make sense, save for agreeing with UKIP on holding a referendum.

Out of the rest, clearly Sturgeon won, which is somewhat positive because I think she broke up the 'old boys' club debating society a bit. Miliband did quite well. So did Leanne Wood. Cameron was shit. Clegg was embarassingly bad.

[The Idler]

SPGB candidate is scheduled to appear on BBC2 Daily Politics this Friday
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mjxb