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Head soccer 2015 unblocked3/15/2023 He’s now saying he’ll do one debate, but he’ll do it before the proper campaign starts so it’s not going to be a proper debate”. Party leader Nigel Farage, said: “He’s sabotaged the whole thing. It is less clear whether the prime minister’s credibility as a leader will be damaged from refusing what is only a relatively recent innovation in British electoral politics.Ĭameron said: “What I’ve done is unblock the logjam that I think I’m afraid the broadcasters helped to create, and said: ‘Right, let’s get on, let’s have the debate that matters the most, which is the one which gives everybody a say, and let’s get on with it before the campaign.’ So, hopefully by putting forward this proposal for a debate, we’ll actually see one take place,” he told reporters.Ī Ukip spokesman said Cameron was “acting chicken”. The public in polls overwhelmingly support the principle of TV debates, and have so far suggested it is the Conservative leader who is blocking them going ahead. Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the DUP, said the decision by the BBC trust was “wrong, immoral and unjust”.Ī DUP source accused the broadcasters of being obtuse and incompetent, adding: “As things stand, if we go to judicial review, there’s no realistic chance that that won’t take things past dissolution, thus triggering the Tories’ red line that the debates must not take place after the dissolution of parliament.” He’s saying he’ll do one debate, but he’ll do it before the proper campaign starts so it won't be a proper debate Nigel FarageĬameron and his team have clearly made the calculation that he risks more from attending the debates than he does from the temporary ridicule he faces for backing away from a confrontation with a man whom he has dismissed as unfit for government. He later wrote to Miliband to make the formal offer, but Labour is holding out for a head-to-head debate with Cameron in which they are convinced Miliband could shine and confound the public’s expectations.īut the scale of the mess was underlined when the DUP threatened a judicial challenge after the BBC Trust yesterday said it had rejected the Northern Ireland party’s appeal to be added to the seven-party-debate format alongside the Welsh and Scottish nationalist parties.Ī BBC panel said there was no evidence the corporation had made an “error in principle” or acted unfairly by refusing the party’s claim. I’ll do it instead, I am assuming the role of just about the only person who is willing to step up to the plate and defend the record of this government.” The deputy prime minister added: “If David Cameron is too busy or important to defend the record of this government then I offer myself. He accused Cameron of lofty pomposity and acting “as if they’re ordering a drink in the drawing room of Downton Abbey, telling everybody else what to do”. Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader and the stand-out beneficiary of the debates in 2010, suggested he was prepared to stand in for Cameron against Miliband and defend the government record. I am assuming the role of just about the only person who is willing to defend the record of this government Nick Clegg But this time the negotiations have been beset by the Conservatives and others raising objections, with Cameron insisting he would not participate if the Greens were not included before later insisting that the DUP from Northern Ireland should join. Televised elections debates, long part of the political scene in the United States and France, first appeared in the UK in 2010, when the then party leaders agreed to three three-way debates. The value to Miliband of a debate without an opponent is anyway limited. The issue is particularly pertinent for Channel 4 and Sky, who were due to air a head-to-head debate between Miliband and Cameron scheduled for 30 April.īut the broadcasters know any exclusion of the prime minister in the week before the election, even in the context of his refusal to attend, could fall foul of the tight broadcasting rules on impartiality. One source said the thinking among the broadcasters was that they could still hold the debates and if specific people did not want to turn up that would be their decision.
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