Even though Gordon Brown has nothing to lose, I still think that he won't have the courage to enter into a debate with David Cameron; as the PM is, above all else, a monumental coward.
What interests me is who will chair/moderate the debate, because that role will have a large part to play in shaping the debate. The BBC would be the natural home of such a debate and David Dimbleby the obvious choice as chairman. If David Dimbleby is put forward then David Cameron's team must veto the choice. The video of Harriet Harman controlling David Dimbleby was one of the most eloquent insights into the relationship between Labour ministers and senior BBC journalists/presenters that I have ever seen. The video shows Harriet Harman silently but firmly using touch to instruct an obedient David Dimbleby to try and stop Ian Duncan Smith from embarrassing the government. Absolutely disgusting and I know that I have seen that sort of thing before on Question Time, if only I could remember when; I think it was Harriet Harman that time as well.
Here's the video again, it deserves wider playing... Maybe someone could ask David Dimbleby about it at the next Question Time...
Saturday 7-Up
9 hours ago
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Sign this petition and see if we can force Brown's hand:
http://www.petition.co.uk/petition_the_bbc_to_televise_a_debate_between_the_party_leaders
Arrived here purely by chance (via a Google search for "flowery twats" image), but I have to ask...
do you still hold the same views about any imagined BBC "pro-NuLab bias", given the jaw-droppingly easy ride we now hear them giving the current regime, for example over their policy of vicious spending cuts directed against the working people when the multi-national capitalist leeches, whose (deregulated) naked greed inexorably led us to this present mess, are allowed to get off scot-free and even continue to prosper at our expense?
Regards.
Blogg Dogg: Yes I do. 'Easy ride'; do you actually watch or listen to the BBC? 'vicious spending cuts'; taking us back to 2004 levels of spending is 'vicious' is it? Do you lay any blame at all at the feet of the Labour leaders who created a boom so as to fund a massive unsustainable expansion of the public sector? Do you think that running a deficit during that 'boom' was prudent?
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