On Thursday (22nd April) we see the second of three Live TV debates for the three main parties leaders:
Gordon Brown : Labour
David Cameron : Conservative
Nick Clegg : Liberal Democrat
The second live TV debate is hosted by SKY with Adam Boulton as the moderator and will be shown on SKY News at 8:00pm on Thursday evening.
The location is Bristol in the South West of England and the debate subjects will be International relations, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Middle East, UK defence, International terrorism, Europe, United States, Climate change, China, International Development.
The 1st live TV leaders debate was hosted by ITV with Alastair Stewart as the moderator on ITV1 and was viewed by almost 10 million and almost all credible sources agree the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg won on the night by a mile!
General election polls, including our very own weekly general election poll on this website are showing a massive jump in the polls for the Lib Dems with some polls now showing the Lib Dems in the lead for the first time.
The 1st live TV debate has thrown the general election wide open, there’s even a possibility of the Lib Dems being the main party in government after May 6th!
2nd General Election Live TV Leaders Debate Poll
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Poll will be open at 8:15pm during the live TV debate.
Below is the poll from the 1st Live TV debate.
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I’m absolutely amazed at what I have been reading and hearing on the TV. The Nu Liebour party and Lib Dems have and always will be this country’s biggest enemy. Nu Liebour have cultivated a culture of fear which they try to use to justify any argument, and this method was introduced by Teflon Bliar when he had help from Bill Clinton’s advisors during his campaign. Between the pair of them we’ll be skint, have no strategic deterrent against the middle eastern and north korean nuclear threat, and continue to be flooded with illegal immigrants.
Unfortunately they’ll still get votes because most of the voting general public clearly haven’t even read their manifestos, and don’t have the aptitude to read between the lines. Fuckwits
Personally i’m sick of working hard, only for my money to be used to house asylum seekers, pay lazy benefit scroungers who’ll never work, and for the rest to go to the European gravy train or to aids ridden Africans(whom I could care less about)
YOU CANNOT CREATE A PROSPEROUS SOCIETY BY DIVIDING THE WEALTH
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During the live TV debate I took a snapshot of the general election poll on the site:
* Labour Party (21.19%, 15,726 Votes)
* Conservative Party (25.9%, 19,227 Votes)
* Liberal Democrats Party (28.1%, 20,860 Votes)
* UK Independence Party (UKIP) (5.31%, 3,939 Votes)
* Green Party (3.74%, 2,773 Votes)
* British National Party (BNP) (4.9%, 3,634 Votes)
* Plaid Cymru Party (0.7%, 517 Votes)
* Other Political Party (3.43%, 2,546 Votes)
* NONE OF THE ABOVE (2.06%, 1,527 Votes)
* Don’t Know : Floating Voter (4.68%, 3,476 Votes)
Total Voters: 74,225
I took the snapshot at around 8:45pm, so it was half way through the debate, but no where near enough time for the actual debate to have a major impact on the election poll results.
We can now take these numbers as the starting point for how the nation are voting after the second TV debate.
For example right now (just gone 1am, so 4 or so hours later), there’s been a total of 75,799 which is an extra 1,574 votes.
Labour votes 284 – 18.04%
Conservative votes 315 – 20.01%
Lib Dems votes 701 – 44.54%
UKIP votes 34 – 2.16%
Green votes 22 – 1.40%
BNP votes 143 – 9.09%
Rest around – 5%
Looks like the BNP are in force on my site again. Since adding the BNP back on the poll on Saturday (5 days ago) the sites received over 1,000 visitors directly from right-wing websites (most from the BNP official site). Before re-adding the BNP to the poll I barely got any traffic from right-wing sites during early April (they stopped linking to the site :-)).
The only domain to send more traffic for the entire month is Facebook with around 4,000 visitors (that’s over 23 days, not 5 though).
Means probably half the BNP votes are not from organic traffic, but due to campaigning by BNP supporters: I have to admit they are good at it, they link from the BNP websites comments randomly telling BNP supporters to come here and vote BNP.
Anyway, Lib Dems are doing really well again, will be interesting to see how they do by this time next week.
David
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it’s rather sad that so many can be deceived by visual presentation and style-(Clegg) his policy is just the same as it ever was??????????
You can use the same argument for David Cameron, if he wasn’t so good at PR he’d not be the Tory leader today. He went from no where in the Tory leader vote to winning after ONE great speech to the Conservative Party Conference!
David Cameron has no substance, if you are right about Nick Clegg the only LEADER we should vote for is Gordon Brown who has no charisma and is where he is today through hard work.
David
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Why is it only the 3 partys in the debate??????
During WW2 we had a coalition gov. the best people from all parties got the jops in gov. they were best at. And boy did it work!. And we won.
labour have caused all these problems now they are trying to blame conservatives. I don,t believe anything they say they are out to line there own pockets.
I can’t comment on this debate as I cannot watch it – with a family of six, a part-time job and a full time family business, time is a rare commodity and this is the first opportunity I have had to watch it – no tell a lie, Saturday was but I couldn’t find it then either so watched the third debate on the BBC iplayer before its 7 days were up. (I only managed to see the first one online because ITV allowed longer).
I have been googling now for over half an hour to find a link to watch the second debate to no avail.
If this is the way forward with general elections, the output should be generally available – but it is not – at least not on any free playback tv or you tube and the like…. it should be! If you want all voters to be able to consider the content when choosing who to vote for.
Surely this needs to be redressed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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