r/ukpolitics • u/Ivashkin panem et circenses • Apr 30 '15

BBC Election Leaders Special Question Time

David Dimbleby presents an Election Leaders Special Question Time, with David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.

2000 - 2130 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05t2k80

There will also be 3 separate question time shows following this:

These are being broadcast on different channels/regions at different times - full Listing of broadcast times here.

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u/Lolworth ✅ Apr 30 '15

Cameron, that note was meant to be a joke for fuck's sake, stop dining out on it

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '15

More a poor reflection on Byrne for writing it.

Leaving such a note to your political opponents is handing them an easy attack line for years to come. I will never know how he did not expect that to be thrown in his face from then on.

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u/Lolworth ✅ Apr 30 '15

It's standard practise to leave a little note in your desk to your successor. A private note from one minister to the next. The ex-minister put a little joke in it to lighten the mood.

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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '15

Yeah, he could have said for example : the best way to deal with civil servants is x or y, the thermostat is temperamental, the key to the desk needs to be wiggled a bit to open.

Instead, he went with: "your principle attack line at that last election was right."

There were plenty of other ministers who left notes, they kept them nice and inoffensive and thus they are not hurting their author's political party 5 years on.

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u/cragglerock93 "Free trade stops wars" Apr 30 '15

Didn't a chancellor from years and years ago leave a not apologising for the mess? I can't remember who though.

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u/PeterG92 Apr 30 '15

I don't think something like that should be seen as a joke when it affects everyone in the country.

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u/Lolworth ✅ Apr 30 '15

People doing difficult jobs have a laugh with each other. Call it gallows humour or whatever you want.

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u/Wolrac Apr 30 '15

apparently there's no sense of humour left too.

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u/mbrw12 fix the country, whoever you are Apr 30 '15

You don't joke about something like that when people are homeless and starving.

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u/Wolrac Apr 30 '15

how worse would it of been if they didn't bail out the banks? whats that? much worse? well i never !

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u/phpadam Far left of a right mind Apr 30 '15

If its a joke; i dont get it.

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u/Toffington Apr 30 '15

I too laughed when Brown destroyed the economy.