Really? I thought Corbyn came out best out of the 2 of them, May didn't have any decent answers for explaining her countless U-turns and memorably got called a blowhard.

Paxman is done though, he couldn't get much to stick on her even with an open goal.

If there can be a winner when they don't actually debate head to head, it was clearly Corbyn; as many commentators noted, he had the audience laughing with him, whilst May had them laughing at her.

I have to agree about Paxman though - his sole focus with Corbyn was things that *weren't* in the manifesto; and his constant interruptions and sneering just came across as boorish.

It makes me wonder if Jezza is missing a trick by avoiding the impending Brexit or if he is being cute and not going down the line of a strong economy which failed for the Remainers on Brexit.

The 30% rise (7% real terms) on CT (and removing Zero hours contracts and raising minimum wage) wont help Labour given how many people are employed by SME.

From the Labour manifesto:

"We will protect small businesses by reintroducing the lower small profits rate of corporation tax. We will also exclude small businesses from costly plans to introduce quarterly reporting."

Shes cleverly avoided them. Don't shoot yourself in the foot.

Well boohoo for him, under labour plans, he'd still be paying less than 7 years ago. He'd also be paying less than vast majority of Europe or any other advanced economy.

The 0hrs thing is easily avoided by awarding a contract guaranteeing minimum amounts of work and overtime available.

As for the £10 minimum wage, it's only £1 an hour more than what the Tories were originally promising (yet another U-Turn) We need to move away from this economy that is propped up by private debt. That's the reason interest rates are so low and have been for so long, because any increase would push many, many people over the edge. Higher wages protects us from that and stimulates economy.

Yes, of course he was on Sky news...

Did they also feature the midwife who trashed Mrs May's stuff and nonsense about the NHS, or the man who turned to his friend on camera during one of her droning non-answers and said, "that's bollox?"

Do you think that she looked "strong and stable". really ?

As I've said before, I'm no fan of Corbyn but, of the two of them, he looked far more assured than Mrs May, who was flapping like a fish out of water when pressed on the social care "cap".

She has made more U turns in her short time in power than any leader in the last 40 years and has no political beliefs.

She called an election at short notice, despite saying several times that there would be no snap election on the basis for needing a "strong and stable" government to aid the Brexit negotiations, which will be done and dusted well before the next election was due.

Devoid of morals and with zero political conviction, Mrs May is not fit to lead her own party, never mind the country and she says that Labour and the SNP would be the coalition of chaos.


Btw, please explain where I shot myself in the foot

Lets hope for Labours sake he is a one off!!

The breaking down of doors would only have stopped if there was a Police officer stationed outside the actual door - having policemen on the streets isn't going to stop a targeted attack of that nature - as well you know

Do you think more officers would enable a quicker response to an incident such as this or, would increased numbers of officers slow down the response ?

They (the police) dont even come out to break in's anymore, unless someone has been injured/assaulted.
This may be why reported crime is falling in some areas, as there is little point in reporting it !

10 days after a break in at my place I'm still waiting for the police to come and take a statement. The night CID came round and SOCO came to examine the next morning, but nothing since. I've been given the name of the officer, but haven't had any contact, not even "sorry, we're all on duty in the city centre because of the terror alert". Just silence.

I'd happily pay a bit more tax to get numbers back up to deal with stuff like this properly. The scrotes know they'll never get caught and will just carry on doing what they're doing. Whatever happened to the party of law and order?

Not wishing to defend the lack of police numbers but, in the circumstances, you would expect priority to be given to the terrorist incident.
Getting broken into is not pleasant but, the reality is that they dont often catch the thieves, unless they are particularly stupid and I think even you would want them to deal with the terror threat first ?

Absolutely, and I wasn't meaning I should take priority. However, if there were more police around I could give my statement, let the insurance deal with it all and move on. The lack of contact is the thing that's bugging me most, even though I understand why.

We had two cars taken as well as other stuff, but haven't been updated on whether they've been seen on the ANPR cameras so we're completely in the dark.

Generally the lack of contact isn't acceptable but I fully accept priorities are elsewhere. If thousands of coppers hadn't been made redundant, maybe I wouldn't be "complaining"