To remind you to watch channel 4 now

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Q and A corbyn and may

Corbyn was shit.

He waffled & obfuscated & got tetchy with Paxman.

Theresa was better than I thought she'd be, but was still shit.

Paxman however was monumentally shit.
Didn't push Corbyn hard enough to stick to & actually answer the questions rather than wax lyrical about something different; didn't push Theresa anywhere near hard enough on her difficult areas of policy - in fact, didn't really address them at all.

I wondered why she went for red. Other colours would have stood out against the background, so why red?

I mean in Scotland. I have absolutely no idea who to vote for.

Cold day in hell before I vote SNP.

Agree with Lass' comments re Corbyn and Indyref2

Surprised Paxman didn't ask either of them about IFS report saying that both manifestos seem to have dodgy numbers in.

I wondered the same Nett, why red? To tell lots of lies in Labour colours perhaps?

Kezia presumably could see him far enough. She did very creditably in the Scottish leaders' debates and he's just undone her work.

They both did ok although Paxman was a hectoring twat. . Corbyn lied about the IRA "honouring their dead" though.

He could have promised roses and unicorns but after today's news about him getting in bed with the SNP it will be a cold day in hell before I vote for him. Apparently Kezia Dugdale is raging about being undermined by him again.

They're all actors but she sounds like a really crap one IMO

Yes me too Bejazzled.

Mind you he has form for undermining female Labour politicians eg his treatment of Angela Eagle and appointing Ken Livingstone to a key defence role without even telling her.

whereas that great Tory leader Thatcher promoted women at every turn.....

how you can seriously dislike Corbyn after listening to him tonight is beyond me...the way he answered the small business owner who was complaining about his kids private school fees going up...was exemplary

I thought Theresa May did very well to keep her composure with Paxman's tongue so far up her backside.

Perhaps they could use a neutral interviewer next time...

heaven forbid Cherry!

but I think it was an own goal.....

He waffled & obfuscated & got tetchy

He is brilliant at being tetchy.

I'll take someone talking sense in a tetchy voice as opposed to someone lying in a home counties voice

Corbyn has really stepped up to the mark while May sees to be unravelling.

I thought Paxman was a disgrace - so he obviously biased towards May. He bullied Corbyn on his alleged terrorist links, while his questions to May concerned actual policies, not very well disguised as questions about her u-turns.

I was going to vote Labour despite Corbyn (and Abbott), but was very impressed with him.

I thought Theresa May did very well to keep her composure with Paxman's tongue so far up her backside.

Paxman is a Tory

www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jeremy-paxman-im-a-one-nation-tory-and-newsnight-is-made-by-13-year-olds-9566874.html

Placemark

I found that watchable , I can't stand the debates which are actually just shouting matches. This format means each politician talks about their policies rather than screaming about the others.

Both were asked unanswerable questions and should have said so, bad case of management make-it-up. We don't have control over the EU (we never did) so no one knows what kind of deal we can get.

But who to vote for? Corbyn with his unashamed stop the war student support the terrorist fantasy renationalisation politics, or may with the continuing of things that don't work and the presidential attitude?

Put up the taxes, increase inheritance tax so you pay for care whether you need it or not ( same as we accept we do for schools and NHS), guarantee rights for EU nationals, ( even if the EU don't do the same), stop consulting and advising contracts , stop hs2, stop airport building, all the common sense stuff.

Corbyn came across much better than I expected him to while May did not come over terribly well, in my opinion. I found this interesting because Corbyn has almost zero experience in this sort of thing and being front bench, while May has been front bench and shadow home bench for a good number of years and so I would have expected her to be far better at this sort of thing than Corbyn.

It makes no difference to how I am likely to vote, however, as I am in one of the UK's safest Tory seats and there is simply no way Labour or anyone else will unseat them.

shatnerswig, but it's worth a try.

Corbyn was surprisingly good, and May was rattled. She got heckled by the audience and they openly laughed at her during the Paxman section.

On the other hand, I live in Scotland so I'm not sure Labour is the best anti-Tory option.