[Politics] The Official Match Day Thread - The TV Debate, 7.30

[TomandJerry]

At 19:30 BST all five remaining candidates will take part in the first leadership debate, broadcast on Channel 4. But what is the format?

They will be answering questions from an "audience of floating voters" which have been chosen and vetted by polling firm Survation, Channel 4 has confirmed.

Each candidate will be first to answer a question at least once, with around seven to nine minutes scheduled for each segment.

The host will be the broadcaster's lead presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy, who will follow up and clarify the candidates' answers as needed.

Once the questions have wrapped up, they will be given around 45 seconds for a closing statement - with the order allotted randomly ahead of the broadcast."

Time to grab the popcorn...

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[Bry Nylon]

Brilliant! This will really help me to decide how best to cast my vote!


Oh….

 

[Bodian]

Time to grab the popcorn...

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Time to go out for a walk you mean - and then settle down to watch the women's football.

 

[sully]

Perfectly timed for when we’re getting ready for the football. [emoji849]

Not that I was interested anyway [emoji1787]

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Tom appears to be adopting a May Osbourne wide stance


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[Bry Nylon]

She didn't mention opening up new pork markets in Beijing.

 

[jcdenton08]

I’d open up her pork market.

 

[nicko31]

Well that’s TT done

An honest man calling out a liar

This is the Tory party remember

 

[Bry Nylon]

I’d open up her pork market.

Get out. I mean it.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

I’d open up her pork market.

I will not have her pork market paraded around this office Willy nilly


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[beorhthelm]

lad said it looks like a game show. missus turned over when Truss started speaking.

due to lack of other options we've gone back. Truss is trying to channel both Thatcther and Blair which is an interesting trick.

 

[Bry Nylon]

lad said it looks like a game show. missus turned over when Truss started speaking.

due to lack of other options we've gone back. Truss is trying to channel both Thatcther and Blair which is an interesting trick.

She does look like she’s popped down to Madame Tussaud’s and asked if she could borrow Margaret Thatchers outfit from circa 1987. Plus she seems to be trying to borrow her voice and delivery too

 

[Ethelwulf]

God help us all if Truss gets the gig.

 

[doogie004]

Never heard of him before but the most truthful is Tom and likeable , trouble is that’s exactly what any politician don’t want


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[nicko31]

Cut the green levies, yeah like the warm home discount. That will help the poor.

TT mentions insulation, finally …

 

[Steve in Japan]

Y,Y,N,N,N.

As good a criteria as any.

 

[Simster]

Pisses me off that this is even on telly. We don't get to vote do we?

Let then have their squabble and just tell us which moron they've decided is going to run the country FFS

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Pisses me off that this is even on telly. We don't get to vote do we?

Let then have their squabble and just tell us which moron they've decided is going to run the country FFS

This "electorate" are 50% pensioners and 80% relatively wealthy by class.

As you say, let them get on with selecting their moron of choice.

 

[Machiavelli]

Only saw the end, but closing statements from ready4 and liz4 embarrassingly bad, other 3 were well delivered

 

[birthofanorange]

It amused me, right at the end, when Sunak said "The one thing all of us agree on is to reduce tax", yet spent most of the programme deriding the others for advocating the same.

It was all a load of shite, mostly, but the only one who came out (for me) with any credibilty was TT, who at least admitted that he didn't think Johnson was an honest man.