Looking forward to the first ever, USA styled, political party leaders debating in a televised, UK election special? Me neither! Is it a case of turning up in the studio and arguing the toss? Hell, no! It has taken months of behind the scenes negotiating by the spin doctors and the telly companies to get them to agree as to how the debates will be structured. Clapping will not be allowed by the invited studio audience, in case it influences the viewing voters. Invited? For ‘balance,’ the members have been hand picked and will only be allowed to ask questions which have been cleared. I guess my gilt edged invitation was lost in the post. When you see them shaking hands at the end of the debates, even that is stage managed; they have agreed to it beforehand.
Here’s a question I might ‘wunt’ to ask ‘Shrek.’ How is it Gordon, that during your Government’s destruction of once Great Britain, things have got so bad that a line of cocaine is cheaper than a cup of coffee on the streets, at two quid? Not my figure, snorted out of thin air through a cut down straw; it is the price quoted in a Government report. Try sticking that on your expenses, lads. The report highlighted the fact that celebrities, who by some miracle have survived the experience of snorting enough cocaine to fell a rhinoceros, make drug taking look ’cool’ and encourage teenagers to give it a go.