Tonight's TV debate Sunak v Starmer - any predictions?

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Anyone up for a watch thread? Maybe even debate bingo. I know I know, don't threaten me with a good time. (Bingo suggestions: natural party of business, Labour has no plan, end the chaos, Rayner will take over, assorted references to Starmer's time as DPP probably blaming for Jimmy Saville again, inflation is down etc etc.)

At this point I seriously doubt anything like this will remotely change the game Nick Clegg style. I read somewhere the only way Sunak could come out of this ahead in the polls is if Starmer pulled off a mask scooby-doo style to reveal he's Jeremy Corbyn, which admittedly would be great telly.

I'm so fed up with the endless rhetoric but will definitely watch later anyway.

Keir “I offer a practical, sensible plan that I’ve avoided explaining anything about. Don’t vote for these arseholes though. Flowery words flowery words.”

RS jusy shoring up some safe votes now

We all need to remember that most elections are lost by the incompetence of the incumbent Government NOT by a dazzling opposition.

The Tories are bastards and should be ashamed how they have fucked up this country. I hope they get eviscerated.

Rishi keeps dismissing the past. I decided four years ago I’d had a gut full, it’s not mine or starmers issue that his party couldn’t keep a leader in the role in that time.

This is the very recent past he’s sidestepping any responsibility of.

Rishi is really proud of furlough! I had forgotten about it until he mentioned it. 136429298 times in 60 minutes

’Choose five more years of shit, at least you’re used to it’ - Sunak

Rs closing statement is reasonable though because Keir has not explained one thing or answered one question even about the bloody football it’s mortifying

A method to make the rich richer.

That's two debates I've watched now. 6 participants and not a single woman amongst them. How depressing.

Yeah unlike the Tories who come up with promises and then back track!

Everyone was clamouring for furlough at the time! KS wanted MORE furlough’

Rishi would shit himself if anyone brought up reform right now.

Over to YouTube for the TRIP analysis I go, it should be starting any minute.

https://www.youtube.com/live/8SHLx7LOlRg?si=uPKUDnyPWVIVlp9v

Not sure everyone on this thread will actually have a vote...

Whether someone is insulated from the crisis of not we all have a vote and a right to an opinion.

I'd like KS to discuss womens rights and if he will support single sex provision.

DH just said to me it's a choice between no plan or shit plan.

That was awful, & neither man comes out of it well, but Sunak definitely won. I very much doubt it will change anything, though, so Starmer will just be relieved it’s over.

I wish at debates the host would just stand and repeat “answer the question answer the question answer the question” until, you know, they answer the question.

It will raise fuck all and create a chaos that has been very clearly predicted for some time. A vote for this policy alone is like a turkey voting for xmas. Let people with money do what they want. This is not the answer to fixing the issues in schools.

@Anxiousheartbeat true. But it's irrelevant to the future election. It was what was needed at the time.

Well the bit before he got into bed with the devil.

He tried to indirectly but directly bring that up in the closing statement though

Choose the certainty of more shit, chaos and broken public services rather than the uncertainty of Labour. 😂😂

“You know what you’re getting with the conservatives”. Really?!! 😂😂

He should though, it was a lifeline for so many people who would of been out of jobs, losing homes etc. The stress that would have caused, if that was tour business you had built up and to lose it all due to an unprecented event across the world. He did the right thing, it might have cost us but I am damn well okay about that.

He's right 😂😂