Thursday, 27 March 2014

Farage put Clegg in his place last night


Last night's LBC leaders' debate between Nigel Farage and Nick Clegg went brilliantly for Nigel with every opinion poll showing that he won the debate hands down.

The media were desperately spinning for Clegg last night but even the Guardian and Huffington Post - both avowedly anti-UKIP publications - had to agree that Farage put Clegg in his place and emerged as the most credible of the two.

If you didn't get a chance to listen to the debate last night then the good news is you can watch the whole thing on YouTube and we heartily recommend that you do because it'll show you why Cowardly Cameron and and Meek Miliband were too scared to debate Nigel Farage.

The Lib Dem press office have been trying to spin the results of the YouGov snap poll by cherry picking comments by YouGov's boss Peter Kellner about the audience for their poll having a disproportionate number of UKIP supporters to suggest that the odds were stacked against Nick Clegg. Guido points out that what they forgot to pick out of Kellner's comments was the bit where he said that if they hadn't adjusted the figures to take into account the UKIP bias then instead of 57% of respondents saying that Nigel Farage won the debate against Nick Clegg's 36%, it would have instead been 65% to 25% in Farage's favour.

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Mike Spilligan · 572 weeks ago

Everyone knew that the "result" would be subject to "spinning", depending on who or which of the media was reporting. It was clear that the some of the early media reports were written beforehand on the premise that Clegg would be the winner. As a UKIP member I have to say that Nigel missed a couple of open goals - though that's not a criticism as I don't know how I would have performed in the spotlight. The question I would have put (and one my MP has failed to answer after two tries) is: What problem is it that membership of the EU solves for us - that is for citizens of the UK?

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