• BBC to host Tory leader TV debates
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48437124 Welcome to your one party state.
Sky News has announced it is also organising a live head-to-head debate between the final two candidates with a studio audience made up of Conservative voters. This really annoys me. If they're going to be having a debate to determine the next PM, Labour voters should be in the audience too, otherwise it's going to create an impression that many further right policies are more popular than they really are due to applause and booing.
What do you expect when it's being hosted by the company owned by that parasite Rupert Murdoch.
Personally I'm mixed on this. On one hand I'm interested in who'll leave and I'm sure that everyone will get a fair grilling, but I'm not fully comfortable with these debates on something so single sided, even if it's focused on an imploding ring of knivesl it'll be hard for the Conservatives to come out of it better unless Boris whips up a Trumpian rampage here. Emily Maitlis will chair a debate, Fiona Bruce will host a special Question Time and Andrew Neil will interview the final two candidates It'll be interesting to say the least. The special question times we've had in the runup to elections with party leaders have all been constant burning with nervous responses. And Andrew Neil is the most loose right wing figure in the Beeb but he's shown himself to be pretty non-partisan when it comes to cutting the bullshit in leadership interviews - miles better than modern Paxman. It's a shame that he'll only interview the final 2 candidates.
Can't wait to watch them stumble and embarrass themselves on TV for nothing as one of them is still guaranteed to become PM. This will be a debate with no winner and no bearing on the final outcome. We'll just get to taste the shit a little earlier than expected.
It's palatable if you see it as a circus of who can be the most slimiest and who can crash out the hardest. No matter what there's gonna be a pile of skeletons laid bare out of everyone's closets and it won't reflect well on them all.
I mean, it makes sense for the audience to be made up of people who can actually vote in the contest. It works the same in America with primary debates, the Dem primary debates will only have Dems in the audience (plus independents in some cases)
But the difference is that this vote is not just for the leader of the party, but the prime minister, as it's the same thing in this case. In America, they have debates later on attended by both parties' members when they vote for president.
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