Is Cameron Trying To Rescue The Election Campaign For All Concerned?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-30810957
Standard predictable labelling from the hard of thinking of course but read Nick Robinson's analysis and it may reveal a deeper message from the PM, for example: "None of this will surprise the prime minister. He decided long ago - I first wrote about it in my book, which was published three years ago - that the debates at the last election had sucked the life out of the campaign and given a boost to his opponents. " - I have always thought these debates have no value especially for the main party leaders so why should the PM play along in this exercise in following the US? The whole green party ultimatum was a bit silly though, he should just not join in, end of.

[jim360]

As Daniel Finkelstein pointed out... the Tories tried the "Blair's a chicken" thing in 1997. It was so successful that the guy they got to dress up as a chicken and follow Blair around had to be stopped from joining the Labour Party.

There is fundamentally nothing that is gained from a TV debate between Cameron, who has a four-and-a-half year record to defend, and in particular Farage, who has no such record and can just attack, attack, attack and win the crowd over without much effort. There's no hope in hell for Cameron to win these debates.