Debating is everything. If fact I will go as far as saying its better than campaigning.Because in campaigning you are talking to people that already believe in you but debate you will have to explain on your lies.

All politicians are lying cants anyway.

Do your lot lie as much as ours?

comment by Whyalwaysme (U9900)
posted 16 minutes ago
People under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to vote. Lets face it, most people are planks in their teens and 20's.
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Same should be said for over 65's. Stuck in ways, unable to adapt.

comment by Better Call Ander - Football taught by Matt Busby (U11781)
posted 3 hours, 23 minutes ago
The Tories will win, but hopefully not a majority. So they can kick out their inept leader for leading a farcical campaign.
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Nice thought, but genuinely think May is the best candidate they have for PM, and that's saying something. I can see a lot of Tory internal conflict with her in charge, I must say

comment by Irishred (U2539)
posted 3 minutes ago
All politicians are lying cants anyway.

Do your lot lie as much as ours?
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There is outright lie and there is stretching the fact.

comment by Baz tard- too big 4 stormzy's boodt. Ya get me fam? (U19119)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Whyalwaysme (U9900)
posted 16 minutes ago
People under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to vote. Lets face it, most people are planks in their teens and 20's.
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Same should be said for over 65's. Stuck in ways, unable to adapt.
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When you say under 30s shouldn't vote because from your view they are not capable of making inform decisions same can be said about old people that they should not be involved in a debate that is about the future since they will not be here.

comment by Schrödinger's cat (U13839)
posted about an hour ago
comment by Baz tard- too big 4 stormzy's boodt. Ya get me fam? (U19119)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Whyalwaysme (U9900)
posted 16 minutes ago
People under the age of 30 shouldn't be allowed to vote. Lets face it, most people are planks in their teens and 20's.
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Same should be said for over 65's. Stuck in ways, unable to adapt.
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When you say under 30s shouldn't vote because from your view they are not capable of making inform decisions same can be said about old people that they should not be involved in a debate that is about the future since they will not be here.

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Funny thing is high information voters tend to vote Labour.

65+ year olds have seen it, done it, lived it. Imo those that are 65+ know more about life and politics than I do at 28. Those 65+ people also have grandchildren coming into the world and they will want a bright future for them.

TV Debates in this country is too much a popularity contest and a shouting match to have anything with detailed information.

The Q&As are much better and you learn a lot more.

And if you want to be in a UK wide debate then be a UK wide party which means having candidates standing in each of the 4 UK countries. Also have a min amount of seats in parliament to attend the main debate

7 leaders is too much and everyone just interrupts each other. what do you actually learn then? That our politicians are just bickering children wanting to be the cool child.

Those 65+ people also have grandchildren coming into the world and they will want a bright future for them.
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Naïve thought.

comment by Shaun M - Gaetano Berardi's Barmy Army (U9955)
posted 5 minutes ago
65+ year olds have seen it, done it, lived it. Imo those that are 65+ know more about life and politics than I do at 28. Those 65+ people also have grandchildren coming into the world and they will want a bright future for them.
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Those over 65 are typically less engaged with the world than you will be at 28. Their viewpoint and understanding will be increasingly dictated to them by their television sets and newspapers. Those over 65 are far less likely to meet a broad range of people in their daily lives or interact with the real world consequences of political decisions. The value of their political experience is but a memory, an exceptionally poor device when held up to the use of scrutifiable data.

I don't give any weight to your argument, really.

comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Shaun M - Gaetano Berardi's Barmy Army (U9955)
posted 5 minutes ago
65+ year olds have seen it, done it, lived it. Imo those that are 65+ know more about life and politics than I do at 28. Those 65+ people also have grandchildren coming into the world and they will want a bright future for them.
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Those over 65 are typically less engaged with the world than you will be at 28. Their viewpoint and understanding will be increasingly dictated to them by their television sets and newspapers. Those over 65 are far less likely to meet a broad range of people in their daily lives or interact with the real world consequences of political decisions. The value of their political experience is but a memory, an exceptionally poor device when held up to the use of scrutifiable data.

I don't give any weight to your argument, really.
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Exactly. And they vote en mass and screw of up for everyone else.

Voting is for the next 4 years and each party has plans that will effect the older people so of course they should have a say, the same with how plans will affect younger people.

Saying a set age shouldn't vote is just stupid and kinda dictatorship.

Yeah basically. The real challenge is informing everyone and reducing the power of people like Murdoch and Dacre.

comment by The Hybrid Doos (U10416)
posted 2 minutes ago
Voting is for the next 4 years and each party has plans that will effect the older people so of course they should have a say, the same with how plans will affect younger people.

Saying a set age shouldn't vote is just stupid and kinda dictatorship.
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5 years even

Would you remove the lower limit too then?

comment by Giröulski Alt-153 and Alt-160 forever (U14971)
posted 3 minutes ago
Yeah basically. The real challenge is informing everyone and reducing the power of people like Murdoch and Dacre.
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Sadly Murdoch looks to become even more powerful when he buys sky back. He needs stopped.

I am over 65 and I certainly am slightly ashamed of some of my age group, who have become very, very selfish. I think their parents, and their grandparents would be turning in their graves if they saw the way that the so called Baby Boomers are behaving towards the essential services that their generation fought so hard for like the NHS and decent Public Services.

Official exit poll in

Spoilt Papers 52%
Conservatives 20%
Labour 18%
Lib Dems 3%
SNP 2%
Other 5%

Spoilt Papers will Now lead this country

comment by sandy (U20567)
posted 7 minutes ago
I am over 65 and I certainly am slightly ashamed of some of my age group, who have become very, very selfish. I think their parents, and their grandparents would be turning in their graves if they saw the way that the so called Baby Boomers are behaving towards the essential services that their generation fought so hard for like the NHS and decent Public Services.
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Don't you know that greed is good and corporate greed is an unstoppable force of nature? We must worship at the altar of making the rich richer.

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Well, eight year olds at least won't have developed the levels of partisanship and sweeping generalisation that some on here seem to...

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Nate Silver feels a hung Parliament is as likely as either a solid tory victory or a tory landslide.

All depends on youth turnout.