(28 Mar 2015, 12:21 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Yeah I got a bit sick of her constantly interrupting when Miliband was speaking while fawning in admiration when Cameron was taking questions.
I think Paxman's treatment of Miliband was fair. I don't think many have a problem with what Miliband says but rather how he comes across. He's not statesman-like which does draw concerns both from the public and within in his own party, but, then again, maybe people are sick of slickly-produced politicians who are immersed in the art of public relations.
Aye, the bias was certainly there!
Paxman is Paxman. Everyone knows what to expect. Even though he's a Tory, we've seen time and time again that he'll happily give everyone a hard time about anything. I thought Milliband tried to make the point too much at some points, but it was good to see him just admit that things were wrong in the past.
The general public hate non-answers, so I'm assuming they found it refreshing too.
(28 Mar 2015, 6:12 pm)mb134 wrote I felt Miliband gave better answers than Cameron did, but I think it would have been better to make it so that both faced Paxman before they faced the public, rather than the way Miliband did it.
Looking forward to the actual debates
It'd have been better to have them both debating at the same time, and both answering questions at the same time, but Cameron bottled it. It's not hard to see why though, when you look back to the 2010 debates.
The only thing back then that stopped him looking completely hopeless, was the fact that Gordon Brown looked stressed to death, and is perhaps the single reason for Labour failing in 2010.