PompeyVillan

As in Corybn instead of Johnson? Crikey the difference would be night and day. It won't happen though, the Conservatives are set for a landslide victory. .

She got skewered last night. Her whole angle is "I am the better alternative to dysfunctional political establishment". Last night Sheffield batted that back to her. She is about as establishment as it gets. Her record in government speaks for itself and her illiterate policy on Brexit stinks. I just hope that Labour voters in Lib Dem/Con marginals are not too put off and lend them a vote to deny the Tories a majority.

As an aside, a much better format than the head to head debate. The only leader allowed to push their own agenda was Sturgeon, the others were forced to answer questions on the things that they are weaker on.

The way I saw it. In order of performance Sturgeon has an easy ride because English voters don't care much about holding her to account. She is a slick operator. Corbyn had some tough questions but was able to put across his philosophy for the country. He wasn't just on the defensive.... Johnson was asked tough questions, on the things he is weak on, he really struggled. He lied, deflected and attacked Corybn where he could. He got a few claps, as he would on Brexit. Swinson was slaughtered, she didn't seem to get any positive feedback on her points. Had angry questions from leavers and remainers. Was absolutely destroyed on her voting record, supporting austerity and malicious social welfare policies that she voted in favour of. She had a pained look on her face. Possibly a turning point.

It might do. Undecided voters in England this will be voting SNP based on this. I jest. Objectively Corbyn has done by far the best out of this particular format. It may swing a few undecided voters.

Johnson weak on everything apart from shouting about Corbyn so far.

Hostile audience all around then. Boris is getting in trouble now.

Holy crap, she's getting slaughtered. She's got a desperate look on her face. I think this is the first turning point in the election.

Jo Swinson is getting absolutely slaughtered here, very hostile audience. I agree with the audience.

Keep your fantasies to yourself please, especially of such a grotesque nature! (Yes, you're reading of my post was correct).

Can I just say, I really like Nicola Sturgeon as a leader. She's persuasive, natural and assured. I don't support her Scottish independence agenda. She's great in front of the cameras.

Agree, it adds nothing to have such partisan nonsense from the audience.

It's quite shallow. Anyone else have a nagging feeling that on the fence female voters will be quite put off by Johnson? Not just his personal life shenanigans, but his bully boy style in things like that debate. The format was cack to be honest, but Johnson repeatedly kept on talking over the host. He's got form, Momentum have a video on Twitter where he's doing the same thing to a female BBC interviewer. I have a hunch that woman will be put off by Johnson, and I know there will be a big push at female voters in the Labour manifesto.

It seems Johnson's only two arguements are Brexit and to criticise Corbyn.

England have the dubious ability to consistently smash teams they should beat in qualifying but look unconvincing in doing so. I'm not complaining, this is one of the best England teams I've seen. I like Southgate, and I like his approach and the teams he picks. I'm not sure England have the ability to be pragmatic, so when it comes to the Euros next year we need to invoke Kevin Keegan's Newcastle and keep scoring.

There is some controversy over polls on Twitter, apparently the big pollsters are using data suggesting that the age turnout of young voters is waaay down on 2017 figures and that turnout for older voters (65+) will actually be up. I'm not sure how accurate any of these claims or methodology are, however I do know that Labour (and to a lesser extent LibDems) are popular with younger voters. If they can convince them to vote, then they could potentially catch the pollsters out. I hope.

It's still early in the campaigns but according to the polls The Conservatives have a comfortable lead over Labour, that will be difficult to assail. However, the manifestos go out early next week and we'll have some TV debates coming up as well. Expect Labour to draw a bit closer, The Conservatives have gambled on having only one policy (Brexit) , which will stale a bit over the next few when particularly Labour come out with popular policy ideas again.

"It won't work" Isn't true, in my opinion. There are many examples of successful nationalised services, if you care to find them. South Korea is one the examples given by John McDonnell today regarding fibre services. He's saying it's nationalised and it's really good. Nationalisation of services needs to be done well, if it is, it can provide a better service to more people than a private enterprise could.

Haha, "The fact that we've willfully messed up the NHS is the reason you shouldn't vote for Labour." Do they really think people are that stupid? It's insulting. They've willfully messed up the NHS and they're looking to blame Labour for it.

Well, that's that then.

It's a disgrace, how about talking to Tory remainers that are ditching the Conservatives for the Lib Dems in their droves? It made me a bit angry to be honest, the presenter was saying things like "The North East are disgruntled with a political system that they feel has forgotten about them". And then they talk to two 2017 Labour voters in a pub that say that they're now going to vote Conservative. Basically, the narrative that they're trying to spin didn't make sense to me. I dunno, I can't understand what the BBC are up to, to be honest. All I ever see is this obsession with Labour leavers. It seems to me that they're not trying to represent an election narrative, but they're trying to create one.

Bit late, but last Saturday I saw The Tallest Man on Earth at the Town Hall. It's in my top 3 gigs I've ever been to, he was incredible. I've followed him for a decade and to see him play live was really special. His guitar technique and song writing is unparalleled, he is a genre in his own right. Anyone into the lively folk vibe, should definitely give him a listen.

This is the perfect allegory of how he and the Conservatives run the country. I laughed my tits off at this, the clueless, privileged twot has never mopped a floor in his life.

I think today there were signs that we're a newly promoted team, who are still forging our indentity and bedding new players into the team. We've perhaps been riding on the crest of a wave so far this season, with the novelty of being in the Premier League driving the players on and the elation of being promoted still fresh in the memories. We have been an unknown quantity, for ourselves and our opposition so we have probably been difficult to plan to play against. Three loses on the spin have done a bit to bring us back down to earth a bit. The Premier League is an unforgiving place and unless you take points off the top teams you will find yourselves having to beat everyone else to remain competitive in the league. Today we missed a few players through injury, and that slight sparkle that we've had in our play previously wasn't there at all. We showed worrying qualities, or lack of quality. We made so many unforced errors, or at least errors of our making. We gave the ball away so often. McGinn and Nakamba were particularly guilty and Douglas gave the ball away leading to a goal. We lacked Grealish's inspiration, and we so obviously lacked quality in the front three. We have no alternatives to what we have up front, so we will have to persevere and hope they improve. If not we're in for a long season. In the first half, Wolves set the tone for the game and in the second half they tired a bit, probably because of the amount of games they have had to play. They didn't blow us away, but we never looked like we could win that one. We are probably where we should be. Nobody expected an easy season, and this is definitely one of the 'downs' and we'll have a few more of them to go with the 'ups' that we have had. It isn't time to panic, but it is important that we improve. We're not particularly good away from home, which puts a lot of pressure on us at home now. It's going to be a slog of a season, but we've shown qualities in other games that show that we can stay up. And that is ultimately our aim for this season. We could do with the 'luck' side of the game going for us a bit more too. We've been shafted by VAR so far this season and now we're suffering an injury crisis that we don't need at all. Hopefully the international break gives us time to recover and recouperate after a bruising three games. Onto Newcastle, a team with their own problems, a cabbage of a manager and a run of good form. Not an easy game, but there aren't any easy games anymore.

We're definitely underdogs for this one, but I think this squad have guts, we've competed well in every game so far. Hopefully we can push Wolves and get a result, it'll be a tough game without Heaton, Grealish and Engels. On the plus Douglas and Wesley will be buzzing from their international call ups, we're probably more disciplined without Grealish in the team (so hopefully harder to catch in the break) and we've have some encouraging performances in recent weeks. Wolves line up looks strong. Not looking forward to seeing Traore again.