tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post6748760124626454528..comments2023-08-31T15:14:58.287-07:00Comments on London Green Left Blog: Reflections on the Election TV Leaders DebateMike Shaughnessyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796480031110991460noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-3619824790142476262015-04-05T02:01:45.927-07:002015-04-05T02:01:45.927-07:00You wrote:
" The Prime Minister, David Came...You wrote:<br /> <br />" The Prime Minister, David Cameron, looked a bit uneasy with the multi leader format, and although he came out around the top in the polling afterwards, I thought he looked a bit distant, he probably didn’t want to be there and it showed.<br />"<br /> <br />The important thing is that he was invited and showed up! At a Learning Disability Alliance (England) 'Jury' event, Conservatives were invited but did not turnup and showed themselves to be the least popular of the parties invited. (Source: <a href="http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/election-2015-jury-backs-greens-as-tories-ignore-invite/" rel="nofollow">Election 2015: ‘Jury’ backs Greens, as Tories ignore invite</a>.) While they did not turn up, the Tories managed to get 18% of the vote on this occcasion. How would they have done had they decided to publish their plans for cutting 'welfare spending' before the Learning Disabilities Alliance (England) jury deliberated?<br /> <br />And how would Cameron have fared on the seven-leaders televised debate had those cuts been published before that seven-leaders debate? "Democracy presupposes knwoledge," as Thomas Jefferson noted, and adults with learning disabilities know how nasty the system already is against them. See <a href="http://www.katebelgrave.com/2015/03/when-exactly-did-it-start-being-okay-to-treat-people-with-learning-difficulties-like-trash/" rel="nofollow">When exactly did it start being okay to treat people with learning difficulties like trash?</a><br /> <br />Now, people on Facebook, Twitter, and/or Tumblr may wish to back a call for a ceasefire against harassment-as-usual in advance of the next 'Leaders Debate'. <a href="http://kilburnunemployed.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/call-for-welfare-reform-cease-fire.html" rel="nofollow">Call for 'welfare reform' ceasefire!</a>Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-30184211482840791922015-04-04T01:20:20.889-07:002015-04-04T01:20:20.889-07:00Not just Scotland and Wales, but if we DO vote to ...Not just Scotland and Wales, but if we DO vote to leave the EU, I will be doing my best to organise an independence campaign for London.ur.alcuin@googlemail.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01022240199948025118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-42349335314262798372015-04-03T23:47:27.366-07:002015-04-03T23:47:27.366-07:00Before any of us get too carried away with the mat...Before any of us get too carried away with the matter of EU membership and the '4 home nations' is worth bearing in mind there's not a substantive difference in attitudes to the EU between people wales an england, as these links make clear.<br /> <br />http://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/electionsinwales/2014/03/26/lord-ashcrofts-poll-attitudes-to-europe/<br /><br />http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/82643-welsh-attitudes-towards-eu-membership-revealed<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com