Tuesday, May 11, 2010
22 Comments
- If you do not have an admin password leave the password field blank.
- If you would like to request a password allowing you to add comments and blog news articles without needing each one approved manually, send an e-mail to the webmaster.
- Your email address is required so we can verify that the comment is genuine. It will not be posted anywhere on the site, will be stored confidentially by us and never given out to any third party.
- Please note that any viewpoints published here as comments are user's views and not the views of HousePriceCrash.co.uk.
- Please adhere to the Guidelines
Main Blog |
Archive |
Add Article |
Blog Policies
1. jack c said...
What a pain Campbell is - Sky and the other broadcasters should now simply keep him off air
2. sosoon said...
Pure passion,and the masters of spin at work
3. tom101 said...
Wish he did a Prescott...
Are we going to see another unelected leader of this country i wonder....? Nick Clegg.... Milliband....
Clegg's got too many options on the menu, if he doesn't pull finger i think Lib Dems will be seen as the cause of this additional turmoil. A wonderful example of how a LD vote is a wasted vote.
This party politics is sickening.
4. letthemfall said...
Entertaining post doomwatch. Makes you appreciate the BBC and Nick Robinson.
tom101
Whether a Libdem vote is a wasted vote depends on your point of view; the current situation suggests otherwise. And all PMs are unelected by the voters. Party leaders are always elected by the parliamentary party.
5. voiceofreason said...
I agree, Alistair Cambell didn't let anyone else speak.
He really doesn't look like the best person to have on TV for a reasoned discussion.
6. rumble said...
"And all PMs are unelected by the voters. Party leaders are always elected by the parliamentary party."
-- The party being voted in by the voters, who have the knowledge of who will be pm. Technicalities vs practicalities.
7. montesquieu said...
Sky News is a red-top comic compared to (at a minimum) the middlebrown News24. Pleb tv heading rapidly toward the American, dumbed-down partisan model.
Boulton has always been a jumped-up right wing to*sser and nice to see Campbell on the wind-up. He's been missed. (Gordo won't be though).
8. str 2007 said...
tom101
There's obviously alot to sort out and in this situation there should already have been a 1 or 2 week consukltaion period set out, by the end of which a decision has to be made.
Without this pre-set period every hour the pressure mounts to make a quick decision.
No doubt the Conservatives are being awkward through negotiations only to relinquish the second labour announce the next piece of news/offer.
IMO it serves Lab/Con right for not allowing PR as now the underdog is in the driving seat.
It is however a hot seat and very careful wording and timing must be made to electorate otherwise PR won't help the lib Dems get in.
If it looks as though a decision has been agreed due to pressure rather than real agreement, the markets and electorate won't like it.
One thing I do hope for is for PR to come out of this then no-ones vote will ever be a wasted vote again.
Personally I want the pact to be with the Conservatives as I feel they'll sort out the deficit and national debt problems better and quicker than labour. But that's just my opinion.
Basically IU just want to get on with this recession so we can find the bottom and build again.
I can't stand this semi propped up bailout nonsense which seems to be postponing the inevitable but with the added disadvantage of even more debt to clear down and even bigger interest payments preventing it being cleared down.
All the more difficult as Brown let house prices and borrowing get totally out of control, to the point we can't even control inflation now due to the worry of rising interest rates on mortgages.
9. letthemfall said...
rumble
Whether or not voters know in advance, that is the constitution. These complaints AFAIR are a recent phenomenon: don't think they arose when Jim Callaghan or John Major became PM.
10. rumble said...
I hear you. I for one welcome the muddle in the hope of a new environment giving rise to some new ideas to improve the rutted status quo (ante).
11. phdinbubbles said...
Boulton's a mindless Murdoch stooge and his chairing of the leader's debate was inept in the extreme (the only other time I've seen him as I don't watch chav telly). I watched Campbell taking part in a proper debate (with David Steel, Lord Adonis, Nick Robinson) on the BBC five minutes before this 'debate' and it was a perfectly civilised, well-informed and interesting discussion. So Campbell's a bit of a bruiser - so what - interview him properly and behave professionally you cretin.
12. 51ck-6-51x said...
I would vote for PR over what we have - any election for a region should equally weight each voter's choice in that region. The (easily solvable) problem I see are that we carry out multiple elections with one vote (local and national); however there is no getting away from the problem that within each of these two we are still voting to decide upon things that do not fit a linear preference ordering (i.e. multiple agendas).
I studied AI as part of my degree in engineering and recall with great clarity testing the effects of weakening the criteria of "independence of irrelevant alternatives" in Arrow's impossibility theorem and also constructing the equivalent theorem when using a full fuzzy preference relation voting system (weighting your preference of A over B, B over C, etc... rather than a simple ordering of the choices, as in the original theorem). It turns out that there is little we can do to make democracy "fair" - note the quotes as the term is subjective, but Arrow's theorem attempts to define these criteria from a logical standpoint; we must weaken at least one of these criteria to allow for fair voting (e.g. the commonly cited "the only fair voting system is a benevolent dictatorship" - which is a little off the mark, but characterises the space well).
13. uncle tom said...
Why is Campbell getting air time now?
We all know he's a liar and a bully with a huge chip on his shoulder, but he's also a has-been - so why's he prancing around giving interviews all the time?
14. montesquieu said...
@uncle tom:
Don't know about has been, he just had fatty Boulton in a right state! Priceless.
It's the same both sides though, the real pols are doing closed door deals, it's the old guard that are doing all the talk shows - David Steel, John Redwood (I thought he was dead and gone), John Reid, David Blunkett - while those still in the game are off playing it.
15. tom101 said...
letthemfall said...@4 Fair point... but the perception is that you are voting for a party and a leader.
STR 2007@ 8 I agree, either we will default or we need to make cuts. Meanwhile we wait.....
16. luckyjim said...
Lol. I don't think labour have any intention of doing a deal. The Tories have fallen for it hook line and sinker. Nick Clegg is the new PM in all but name.
17. vacuouspolitician said...
@16 LJ
Don't be too sure. I'll put money on the Cons shafting the LibDems once they have their feet firmly in No 10. GE in 6 months time.
What an idiot Clegg is...the LibDems will pay a heavy price for this.
18. vacuouspolitician said...
Good to see that smug fat slug (Boulton) loosing it big time. Totally unprofessional and made himself look a complete idiot. Campbell is right - he is a Tory ...and Murdoch would not have it any other way...
19. This comment has been removed as it was found to be in breach of our Blog Policies.
20. little professor said...
Boulton is a paid Murdoch shill, singing the tune of his taskmaster. Sky have been completely unprofessional throughout the election campaign, breaking the strict rules on TV news neutrality. Murdoch wants to create a UK version of Fox News, a propaganda network to serve his financial interests.
21. amjidk said...
What irony, sky news loved Campbell a few years ago, when both were desperate to get us into a slaughter in Iraq..
22. Stu531 said...
I'm no Campbell fan, but Boulton has made a complete fool of himself; in fact, I wondered if he looked a little drunk.
Either way, there's no doubting that Boulton has been so pro-tory in all of this that I would go as far as saying he has damaged himself pretty badly (whether you're Tory or not, Sky aren't impartial). I imagine Sky News were under the same command from Murdoch as the Sun to get Cameron in.