tonight's tv debate

Reminds me of the Clegg hysteria, coalition followed by end of lib Dems , history repeats and repeats, there is always a loser in a coalition

Farron usually speaks well and is a competent TV performer. He's a not a posh southerner, so I think your criticisms of his language are misplaced.

I wonder what the viewing figures will be, anything political only gets a tiny audience of the population.

I agree daphnedill but I suspect it's mostly the politically engaged who watch these debates, and they won't decide the election result. Many voters may not even be aware that the PM couldn't be arsed didn't turn up to debate tonight.

There are millions of people outside your bubble who speak like that.

Sigh,iPad.....a tiny amount not audience.

I'm not a posh Southerner either,( not even a Southerner) and there is a difference between accent and being able to string a few sentences together smoothly.

As if we didn't know!!.

Answer to your question, NOT A LOT.

What a bunch of ??????

Unfortunately that's true Lazigirl.

My son thinks I'm a fascist, because I think there should be a "votership test". Why not? Xenophobes think there should be a "citizenship test".

I can't take democracy seriously wnen people fall for tabloid headlines and myths or vote on the basis of a potential PM's hat.

Was Andrew another typo, roses?
Angus Robertson.

Lazigirl, I think anyone who watches any news tonight or reads a paper tomorrow will know that May did not turn up.

@ rosesarered.

www.thenational.scot/news/15317999.Kevin_McKenna__Leaked_memo_from_BBC_HQ_____How_to_treat_Theresa_May_and_Jeremy_Corbyn/?ref=mrb&lp=2

Oh dear did I type the wrong name..........hysterically funny isn't it?
I must remember to pull others up in future on that ( but no, that would be bad manners really.)

Hope so dj. I am horrifies by the criticism of Fallon's grammar. Does this mean he should be discouraged from participation in public debate until he learns proper sentence construction?

I think that T May was well out of the shambles of this shouting match debate.

Posters get pulled up here for misspelling a word

Lazigirl .... you are easily horrified.
Any politician who takes part in public debates should really be able to speak well
( nothing to do with accent) it's hard to get your points across properly if you can't.

There are millions of people in the UK who have a restricted lexis and non-standard syntax. It doesn't mean that they are incapable of complex thought, but they haven't had the advantage of entitlement and presentational skills, as offered by places such as Eton.

The irony is that these people were given a vote in the EU referendum, even though people look down on them.

Make your mind up!

T M's heroine Margaret Thatcher only occasionaly slipped back into her local vernacular way of speaking, but I seem to remember her accusing someone of being "frit" because they had bottled out of a difficult challenge.

I wonder how "frit" her fan Theresa was tonight? Could she have done any better than her poor stand in?

Lazigirl, maybe all the ex-miners are also getting above their stations. There are a lot up north.

You should hear me, daphne! Roses wouldn't like it at all.

Maybe it was her face that May really didn't want to show, rather than her accent.

Oh, did the Welsh and Scots leaders and Nuttall go to places like Eton?
I hadn't heard Farron speak much before tonight ( not at length anyway) so I was surprised at how poor his speaking was.Not doubting his ( or anyone else's) genuineness or political principles, just what he said and how he said it.

Someone on here already made a big thing about TM beng 'frit' varian. Could have been you, I suppose...

You know full well durhamjen that I am as Northern as you are.Stop being silly.

David Cameron was incredibly articulate and look at the mess he's landed us all in [prior to doing a runner that is].....