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The Guardian: BBC scoops party leaders for live TV first

This is the nearest British voters will get to a US-style debate with each leader appearing consecutively in the 90-minute special to be hosted by Question Time regular David Dimbleby.

“We did talk about a live debate but it became perfectly clear that particularly Labour had no interest,” said Helen Boaden, the head of BBC news.

Hilarious.

You really do have to wonder about a man with the moral certitude enough that he can order other people to bomb women and children to raw and bloody shreds but doesn’t have the strength of conviction to front up and stand by his party’s policies against his opponents on live television.

And the way the BBC have bigged this up is almost as funny. You could film these goons taking questions a week apart from each other, edit the footage together and still achieve the same effect.

Treating the public like dickheads has quite clearly started early this election.

(Link via Honourable Fiend.)