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« Question 4: Does it make sense to set out tax policy four years before an election? | Main | Question 6: Given average Tory member's age is over 65 how would you win younger voters' support? »

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buxtehude

Cameron was left with the me-too position. Didn't do it well. Gordon Brown will dstroys the little lad.

Chris

Why critiscise DC for adopting the "me-too" position? I thought we were trying for consesus politics these days so we might achieve things. If we don't have consensus within the party what chance do we have of winning the support of the electorate? When we have consensus like this between two pivotal figures we should be celbrating not whining.

Besides had DC been allowed to answer the question first (Seeing as it was his turn but Dimbleby conveniently forgot) we'd have seen a reversal of roles here. Don't forget it was DC who started his campaign advocating tax breaks for married couples.

George

It's unfair to attack DC for sounding weak on this question. If he had had a question about women-only short lists or other minorities for candidates, for example, he would have scored far more heavily in this area. You really have to question the selection of the audience.

James Maskell

So they'll help out married couples...thats so discriminatory. Ugly people dont benefit at all!

Just kidding everyone. Everyones attractive in their own way...(God Im starting to talk like Cameron now!)

Daniel Vince-Archer

"You really have to question the selection of the audience."

That's right. It's the audience's fault that Cameron did badly. Or was it David Dimbleby's fault? I just don't know but Cameron himself certainly isn't the one to blame for his poor performance. How dare the BBC not have an audience full of Cameronites and have Gideon Osborne as chair of the debate? I'm so outraged at this blatant hatchet job that I think I'll rip up my television license in disgust.

James Hellyer

"You really have to question the selection of the audience."

Ahhh...Diddums

James and Daniel: Your comments on this issue strike of double-standards considering you were quite comfortable to suggest that it was entirely the media and particularly the BBC that had earlier manufactured the ascent of Cameron.

Are you now suggesting that the BBC is totally impartial on the selection of questions or is their agenda to enhance the appeal of their broadcast, reinvigorating the Conservative leadership battle (and interest in "Question Time") by helping Davis make up ground?

James Hellyer

"James and Daniel: Your comments on this issue strike of double-standards considering you were quite comfortable to suggest that it was entirely the media and particularly the BBC that had earlier manufactured the ascent of Cameron."

It's not double standards. Cameron's campaign is a media invention. Whay back in the summer Cornerstone members were dismissing him as a "creation of The Times"...

Recognising that did not change the fact that Davis had to do something himself to overcome that. Moaning about the media was not a solution, but it was an explanation. Now the Cameron campaign are using it as an excuse.

Oh, and anonymous commenting is cowardly.

Daniel Vince-Archer

Thanks for that James H. Have you noticed how we keep being lumped together these days? I got a rather amusing email the other day comparing our current entente cordiale to the Nazi-Soviet and Redwood-Clarke pacts (I'm not sure which one was intended as the bigger insult!). It made me long for those halcyon days of old featuring our many displays of seemingly endless hypercritical pedantic verbal jousting...

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