Why does everyone assume that more people going to university is the way forward?

Students don’t count on the unemployment figures. Get lots of people at uni and BAM! Instant drop in unemployment.

I hate to say it but Farage hit the nail on the head: improve education at the school level.

Painfully, Nick clegg seems quite good, however how he can ever say that cutting money on education is wrong is bloody unbelievable!

Did I just hear Nick Clegg correctly there about tuition fees? He smoking crack?

wanmankylung – Member

Did I just hear Nick Clegg correctly there about tuition fees? He smoking crack?

😆 He is sky high chasing the dragon … me think he is confused.

Going to university is important as it gives you the skills to get a higher value job. The problem we have is that we aren’t creating higher value jobs. Uk Productivity, a measure of higher value jobs, has been stagnant since 2007. It’s worse than many eu countries.

Can we have an SNP, Plaid Cymru, Green coalition please

when that Welsh bird speaks all I can hear is that she wants more funding for pot noodle mines!

And I get why clegg gets stick for tuition fees, its not like his was prime minister or his party had much say!

Why did Farage make that entirely discredited crack about England baling out Scotland in tax? That was put to bed in the IndyRef.

Nigel Farage; tough on Scots, tough on the causes of Scottishness.

nickc – Member

Can we have an SNP, Plaid Cymru, Green coalition please

How do you call them then? Scottish Plaid Green?

codybrennan – Member
Nigel Farage; tough on Scots, tough on the causes of Scottishness.

They are all tough on Scotland because Scotland is a colony they are not willing to give up. 🙄

A degree only helps getting a job if it is a useful subject, not the case for 80% of degrees

SPG?

That lady audience clam down dear you are on telly. 😀

As an aside – the females are wiping the floor with the males in this debate.

I think Farage has this wrapped up.
Milliband is as unconvincing as Clegg.

Cameron struggling.

And Sturgeon “none of us can afford more austerity”!! Oh dear!!

Only just got in so starting on recording. Nats was awful and Farrage straight into uncontrolled immigration and then a wet Cleggy start. Can I stay up to 23:45 to watch this???

Oh god sturgeon has the DOs mannerisms and LTEP in Dave’s first sentance.

Clegg lost all credibility when he demonstrated he didn’t understand the source of the global financial crisis.

wanmankylung – Member – Block User – Quote
As an aside – the females are wiping the floor with the males in this debate.

+1

mikertroid – Member – Block User – Quote
I think Farage has this wrapped up.

You coudn’t be more wrong.

As an aside – the females are wiping the floor with the males in this debate.

Yes they are doing a lot better.

I wouldn’t bother. Cleggs wants rid of the National debt 🙄

Impressed with Wood – sounds much more natural, no histrionics. Cameron, Miliband, Clegg just sound like pointless nerds 🙁

mikertroid – Member

I think Farage has this wrapped up.
Milliband is as unconvincing as Clegg.

Cameron struggling.

Cameron makes sense and Farage direct to the point.

The rest are in fairytale land …

The Greens think that the pandas and rhinos will pay our student loans?

If there’s any justice, that aussie woman would not get any votes at all. Boring, single policy claptrap.

wooobob – Member

The Greens think that the pandas and rhinos will pay our student loans?

Crikey they are going to abuse the pandas and rhinos then 😀

wrecker – Member

If there’s any justice, that aussie woman would not get any votes at all. Boring, single policy claptrap.

I think she is Kiwi? Yes? Because that’s how my mate sounds …

Bllx, drinks all round in the opening statements, I will be oissed in less than an hour.

Whole family wetting themselves with Ed trying to look natural.

It’s simple. The recession was caused by too much personal debt. Whereas this recovery is far more sustainable and has been driven by… Oh, hang on. Personal debt.

The women wiped floor with the men.

Farage committed political suicide.
Cameron did his best to hide.
Miliband spent too much looking into the camera.

Very interesting.

SNP, Greens and Plaid are irrelevant. Farage is a smug, bigoted prick who thinks everything can be blamed on immigrants. Miliband lacks sincerity, especially with his damn hand waving antics. Clegg looks at ease but doesn’t have a clue. Cameron is struggling and looks scared (but to be fair, he realised that this would be a farce at the start and never wanted to be there) but he’s the only one can actually support his proposals with facts based on performance over the last 5 years.

No one comes out of this looking good but Cameron looks less bad than the rest.

If there’s any justice, that aussie woman would not get any votes at all. Boring, single policy claptrap.

Unfortunate then that she represents the only real alternative to the neoliberal master plan.

the only real alternative to the neoliberal master plan.

SNP, Greens and Plaid are irrelevant

They had a lot less to lose.

Nicola Sturgeon won that then.

The Oscar goes to … (drum roll)

In order of winners.

1. Cameron – for being calmed and composed.
2. Farage – for being direct to the point.
3. Sturgeon – for being able to put others in their position.
4. Wood – for speaking nicely and clearly.
5. Milliband – for being ambitious.
6. Clegg – for his supporting role.
7. Bennet – for being there.

Cameron is struggling and looks scared (but to be fair, he realised that this would be a farce at the start and never wanted to be there) but he’s the only one can actually support his proposals with facts based on performance over the last 5 years.

Hang on. Cameron made this a ‘farce’ if you think that’s what it is by insisting on the world and his wife being there

Wanmankylung…..apart from her glaring lack of knowledge of the economy….

No one comes out of this looking good but Cameron looks less bad than the rest.

that’s hardly a resounding vote for the tories…

So in summary everyone thinks the person they already liked has won?

…..apart from her glaring lack of knowledge of the economy….

Hmm – were you watching the same debate that I was? The economy wasnt dealt with in great depth by anyone.

So in summary everyone thinks the person they already liked has won?

Nail/head.