‘Well that was dignified’: key takeaways of BBC general election debate

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1. Labour and Conservative squabbling like children, Green coming across well when they can promise anything, Lib Dems not wanting to run against the grain and Farage poking the bear at any given point.

   Politics suck at the minute.

2. >Farage’s views on the NHS, immigration and the climate crisis put him at odds with the rest of the six party representatives,

   The uniparty is definitely a conspiracy theory though

3. The interrupting and talking over reach other is so frustrating 

4. I think the “Well, that was terribly dignified, wasn’t it.” quote is going to be the moment that was remembered from this debate. Rayner and Mordant were squabbling like Starmer and Sunak in their last debate so it was nice to see someone call out the childish behaviour of the two parties.

   Everyone really laid into Sunak for abandoning the veterans in Normandy which was also pretty satisfying to see.

5. I think whoever holds the next big debate, be it ITV, BBC or Channel 4, needs to both have a decent format and a moderator who actually has the ability to moderate. Granted this one wasn’t as bad as the leadership debate, but Farrage talked over people a lot, Penny Mordaunt wasn’t much better and both she and Angela Rayner sounded like a pair of squabbling children more than once.

6. I thought his far-right fans always say Farage is a good debater.

   Trying to talk over people, and standing there with a face like a slapped arse when he wasn’t allowed to. And his take on the NHS quite rightly went down like a bucket of cold sick…

   Not as easy to peddle this stuff when you’re not in the GB News echo chamber is it, Nige?

7. I didn’t watch as had to do cleaning and am become low information voter. You can tell me anything happened. I will believe you.

8. It would have been funny if Raynor had said something about ‘be careful anyone who is doing a drinking game when Conservatives lie’, and simply mimed lifting and sipping everytime Mordaunt mentioned tax. Denial doesn’t stop a lie but turning it into ridicule… ?

9. “One snap poll suggests Farage was debate ‘winner’, ahead of Rayner
   Our colleagues on BBC Newsnight have been speaking to Luke Tryl, pollster for research group More in Common UK.

   He says: “We have in the past few minutes closed a poll of debate watchers, which has found the winner of the debate, according to viewers, was Nigel Farage with 25% followed by Angela Rayner with 19%, followed by none of the above on 14%.”

   https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-69098963

10. Absolutely nobody prepped to take on the SNP tonight, and it showed. Flynn had a completely free run just picking people off all evening.

    Really surprised that nobody (and Labour in particular?) brought up independence, ferries or camper vans.

11. I lasted about 15 minutes into the last one before I got too cross and switched. More of the same circus I assume?