From the BBC
Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have agreed to take part in a live TV debate on Brexit before MPs vote on the deal.
The prime minister said she was the only one with a plan for the UK's future - Labour said Mr Corbyn would "relish" the chance to challenge that.
The prime minister said she was the only one with a plan for the UK's future - Labour said Mr Corbyn would "relish" the chance to challenge that.
I don't suppose Mr Corbyn's minders relish it. Maybe Mrs May is assuming that Mr Corbyn hasn't read the Brexit document and wouldn't understand much of it anyway. Maybe she's right and he'll flounder, but she isn't a star performer either. Meanwhile Boris calls it a false choice.
But former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said Mrs May should be holding a debate with "someone who believes in Brexit", saying there was "no point" in the head-to-head with the Labour leader and that it offered a "false choice".
Of course it isn't really a false choice - Boris knows that. A Corbyn government brought about by Conservative disarray may well be worse than anything Mrs May can bungle. She may as well push that angle as hard as she can because she doesn't have many others
6 comments:
I think you're right. Getting Corbyn on the telly, especially on an important and technical subject, is virtually guaranteed to rally support for May.
Remember one of these charades, when someone called Clegg came out on top - according to the Russian figures, gleaned from outer space...
These are just useless, there's no debate, just haggling for cliches and a waste of electricity.
Sam - it should but may not be enough - I can't see her demolishing him.
Scrobs - yes that's about it - haggling for cliches. Pitiful but this is what we have come to.
We should in a sane world be beyond debating for a reason different to that promoted, but again it is all about survival personal and party, two and a half years on and they can't think beyond that as the result of the referendum becomes a side show, may they all rot slowly.
The debate will be essentially two past it OAP's wittering on about being in a Europe that has gone and committing the future generations to a world without democracy,any reliable currency and becoming branch of the Middle East and Africa.
Wiggia - I don't mind if they rot quickly - gets it over with.
Demetrius - and that may be the optimistic outcome.
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