tonight's tv debate

Holyrood is still sitting, isn't it, paddyann?
I keep getting emails about their debates on the NHS.

Armando Iannucci has said that so far the only person May has debated with on TV is her husband.

Tim Farron eloquently set out his vision for a kind, caring, just society last night. If that brands him as an idiot it just shows that people on opposite sides of the political divide see things in a totally different way; I know what side I'm on....

Nigglynellie THIS is a Westminster election ,nota Scottish one,not that you'd know that by the fact that when Nicola IS on debates ALL the questions are about devolved matters ...thats all 17% of matters that ARE devolved !!

Niglynellie Nicola Sturgeon is not the leader of the Westminster Parliamentary party ...Angus Roberton,Deputy leader of the party IS ,thats why HE was there Thats HIS job Nicola is in charge of Holyrood and is leader of the party

so did our ONE labour MP ,well lets face it the labour party might as well have as abstaining is tantamount to the same thing

No- is that true?

Did anyone else notice Leanne Wood saying a few times that Welsh Labour had voted with the Tories every time Plaid tried to get a socialist policy through?

But you see annie the point is he DID take part.

Maybot chickened out and had the nerve send Rudd!! My god with friends like that.......

Why is it only Theresa May who has been singled out for derision for sending her side kick? Where was Nicola Sturgeon? She also sent her side kick, but curiously no sneers for her! Why aren't we surprised?!! It was, without doubt the most biased unpleasant debate ever witnessed, just horrible, and clearly for some continuing here this morning. Theresa May did offer to substitute Amber Rudd, and to imply differently is just not true, but who cares about that! Let's hope it backfires onto Labour big time exposing them in their true colours, and Tim Farron for the idiot he clearly is.

Possibly Smileless and a crafty, sly move too. His kinder type of politics ?

Anniebach I can't help but wonder if the reason Corbyn changed his mind was because he knew TM wouldn't be there and he felt less threatened by her absence.

Both May and Corbyn were not tsking part. Corbyn chsnged his mind lunch time, if she had then turned up you corbynites would have been crowing that he went because the mighty one had told her to .

Well I'm a southerner, not a posh one though, at least I don't think so. I had an ordinary primary school and secondary school education and I also sound like Johnathan Woss, well according to my brother who still takes the mickey out of me and still manages to make me.

Oh and that makes it better ot believable.

Clearly Maybot is not someone who is ready to stand up and be counted when the faced with a difficult task.

Great unwashed? Cambridge?

Wash your mouth out

Didn't you read the previous posts whitewave? May offered to put someone else in Rudd's place but Rudd wanted to go ahead.

And as I really am from Yorkshire, and did really have the free meals and clothes tokens, I think it exempts me from accusations of posh Southerner.

Rudd is in mourning - and yet the vanity of Maybot who was not prepared to face the great unwashed meant that she was prepared to see her collegue do her dirty work for her. Beggers belief

Shall I start off? 'Aye, I had the free meals and token's an all, but I had to walk five miles to school with bare feet and clogs'.........

We will be doing the Four Yorkshireman sketch next !

I didn't say it was a speech impediment. Everyone else did.
I just mentioned that she did not pronounce her 'r's properly.

It's actually called the Winchester 'r', after Winchester College.
No doubt all those people on here who have/ have had a child at Winchester College will jump on me and say that their child/gandchild doesn't speak like that.
They don't all have to.

Annie, you really ought not to transfer your dislike of Corbyn onto me, and say things that are not true.
I presume you are calling me an upperclass northerner?
Not many upperclass people have had free school meals and clothing vouchers to buy uniform.

Come off it Jen, you were nasty to mention her speech impediment so let's not have the understanding for death of her father. .

Not if you are an upper class northerner and political expert Ana , a speech impediment is a step too far . Best stick to * f*****g losers, that was acceptable

You would know about cheap shots durhamjen with your criticism of Rudd having a speech impediment.
I repeat, we cannot know the situation,it is likely, given Rudd's senior position in the Cabinet and with a GE a week away that she is taking little time off.
Some people are happier dealing with things by working.