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| This little owl didn't watch it either |
I'm not watching tonight's election debate on BBC One. I'm watching Springwatch instead, with one eye on Twitter.
The eye that's on Twitter is finding something of a consensus out there: namely that I made the right decision!
The eye that's on Twitter is finding something of a consensus out there: namely that I made the right decision!
The commonest view is that it's been a ghastly, tedious shambles with a terrible format (and even worse politicians). Its end couldn't come soon enough for most people. One tweet I read said, Twitter before a debate: "There must be a debate, leaders must face public scrutiny!" Twitter during a debate: "This is totally shit."
Another very common view is that the audience has been wildly biased, even by the standards of BBC studio audiences. Even George Eaton, the political editor of the New Statesman, noticed. His tweet provoked an immediate response from the BBC (who shifted the blame onto ComRes):
