Cameron tries to chicken out of head-to-head debate with Miliband

This is plentiful proof of just how much Cameron is afraid of Miliband. As I said in my comment to Tom Pride’s last post, Miliband is an intellectual, from an intellectual family, and Cameron knows that he is massively outclassed.
And he also knows that his policies are colossal failures that are costing ordinary people billions, not to mention killing them. It’s why IDS’ DWP will not release the numbers of people, who have died since being assessed as fit and well by ATOS. It’s why the Tories have lied and besmirched the foodbanks and the churches and volunteers who help in them by ludicrously claiming that people aren’t going to them because they’re starving, but only ’cause they’re there.
He’s scared because the Tories have broken so many of their election promises that they’re actually erasing them from their websites in an Orwellian rewriting of history.
You could go on to talk about the way the Tories have wrecked the Health Service, the colossal assault on free education that constitutes their privatisation by the back door of our schools. And the welfare to work programme is so massively unpopular that Cameron won’t release the details of the firms taking part in case they’re boycotted and withdraw from the scheme. As has happened.
He’s scared because his chancellor doesn’t have any maths, and can’t tell a child what 7 times 8 is. Osbo’s got a good history degree, but his only paid job before this was folding towels in Harrods.

I like the idea of holding the debates anyway, as Jaynel in her comment has suggested, and leaving a chair for him, even if he doesn’t turn up. Instead of leaving it empty, I suggested they put a tub of lard in it, just as they did in Have I Got News For You all those years ago when Roy Hatterley didn’t turn up on the programme.

Pride's Purge

(not satire – it’s David Cameron!)

It’s looking more and more like David Cameron is chickening out of the head-to-head debate with Ed Miliband scheduled for 30th April.

Tory Party negotiators have missed two recent meetings about the debates with the broadcasters. And Cameron twice today failed to answer direct questions in the House of Commons about whether he will be taking part in the debate.

Channel 4 and Sky News however, have just released a statement saying they are even willing to change the date to any time suitable for Cameron:

“Sky News and Channel 4 are continuing to prepare for a head-to-head debate between the prime minister and the leader of the opposition on 30 April.

“However, in response to media inquiries following today’s PMQs, we would obviously be willing to host a debate on a different day the two main party leaders could agree on.”

So unfortunately for Cameron, looks…

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