(28 Mar 2015, 6:38 pm)aureolin wrote 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.
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.
We discussed the programme heavily in school on Friday, and most people agreed that Miliband faired a bit better than Cameron did. However, what surprised me, was that even where I live and go to school, people were happy with what the Conservatives have done in the past five years (for us), and they are seemingly oblivious to the fact that for my age group, Labour would probably be the best choice (Uni Fees etc).
I know that Labour did play a big part in the financial problems last time, and credit to Miliband for admitting that, but lets not forget that it happened in most countries and I doubt the Conservatives would have done much better.