I do apologise. I meant to do a 150th Post ‘stravaganza yesterday. I didn’t. I got caught up with my overlong critique of the BNP’s election broadcast. As it transpires, Unilever are pursuing legal action and a good job too! I was going to do the post today, go through the archives and pick out some of my favourite posts. I’m afraid that will have to wait until tomorrow. I wasn’t expecting to be sidetracked by the election debate, ’cause I don’t have Sky News, but they were livestreaming it online, so I watched it online. Then I got into an argument with my friend Alex. Again. The upshot is that I’m now very very tired, and sadly have no energy with which to write a half-decent half-length blog post.
Very quickly on the debates: Sky had a much much better studio than ITV. Someone pointed out the way that the Union Jack (yeah, union flag… shut up, I’m calling it the union jack) is fragmented could be a subconscious ‘broken Britain’ thing – especially considering the way the Murdoch media empire’s been backing the Tories. I thought Adam Boulton was a nicer moderator than Alistair Stewart -who, quite frankly, came across as a bit of a prick – but he did seem a little softer, and when he tried to cause shit by asking Clegg about the Telegraph’s front-page article regarding something he wrote in the Guardian eight years ago, Clegg just said it was nonsense, and moved on. If it was bullying, as some suggested, it was pretty pathetic. Speaking of Nick Clegg, his routine had changed very little from the last debate – why change a winning formula, right? However, he did seem more confidant as a result of his ‘winning’ the previous debate, which could be seen as arrogance. Clegg was always going to gain the most from these debates – the other two usually get all the press, but he always seems sidelined, but this gives him equal prominence. The fact that he can present himself as an ‘outsider’ as somehow above the petty squabbles of the two petulant children so used to having things all their own way is a definite bonus for him.
Brown did much better in this debate than the previous one – he seemed more confidant, more… if not aggressive then pro-active, at several junctures going after both Clegg and Cameron as to their policies. Cameron himself did just about the same – he looked into the camera more, seemed more composed, but slipped up a few times, and started to seem a little desperate toward the end. It’ll be interesting to see the next debate.
There, I somehow managed to wring 450 words out of that. Now let me sleep. I’m very tired.
