+joseph4861 Yeah, agreed I'm glad there's a public smoking ban. I think he doesn't enjoy the smoking ban, firstly because he's a smoker, and secondly because its the government interfering in daily lives too much

yep, that's correct. here in australia anyway i rarely go to the pub because prices are absurdly high compared to the big name bottle-shops. you're paying triple the price for beer and over 5 times the price for spirits at the pub, it's insane. (for example, you'd pay $23 for a double-shot vodka + redbull, you could make that same drink yourself for $4.)

And look how well that worked?

Rubbish!..People who won't buy drinks for other people whilst socialising are just tight bastards.Quite often I'll buy drinks & refuse drinks from those I've bought for because I've had enough.Or accept a soda & lime when I've reached my alcohol limit...It is possible to combine sensible drinking & generosity..

You're comment is rubbish. What's the problem with going Dutch. You don't owe anybody anything and they don't owe you anythng.

Probably cause alistair Campbell needed to be able to drink

best comment of day ha

Disposable mobile phone so the tories can't use GCHQ to observe the inside track, which would spoil all of their future campaign strategies before they've even thought of them......

Looks like he can.

Probably cos shit like that means nothing to a man who works and gives a shit about important things, not ringtones.

A comment that says more about you than anything.

Matt Moy I have never read anything so stupid

LOL what a comment!! Girls are encouraged to cry and get upset are they? News to me. I'd say that you've made a pretty big generalisation, i'm sure there are plenty of exceptions to your theory. Did you maybe think that he could be antagonistic and deliberately rile up the women that he speaks to, in order to belittle them? The man is a small minded idiot so it wouldn't shock me that he would dislike women.

I rest my case.

hahah, yeah alright then

You should have asked your dad you big girls blouse.Jim.Liverpool.

Which one are you talking to.

***** Alistair Campbell and Dick Cheney...dry drunks. Years of sick thinking and no measured, sane solution to their identity issues. Both took it out on the defenseless.

***** I'm in Toronto where the political class smokes crack openly and get away with it.

***** I'm in Toronto where the political class smokes crack openly and get away with it.

Farage 'extremely clever'? Do me a favour.

Oh he is...... I disagree with pretty much everything he's saying but politically he knows exactly what he's doing.

"Politically" he's riding a wave created by him by politicians who don't say what they mean because they - even Cameron - are cowered by the press & broadcast media (Labour an especial victim). Farage is also extraordinarily lucky in having a British media who are desperate for "the story", meaning they've given he and UKIP far, far more publicity, usually extremely flaccid, than they deserve. Why hasn't the Green Party with their 2million votes in the May elections achieved even a fraction of the coverage UKIP has? Because the media are self-serving instead of doing justice to democratic principles. I don't accept that Farage is "clever". There is no sign yet that he is a good tactician. And his diagnosis of what Britain's ills are, and what is causing them, is anything but clever; rather they are bloated by bias, prejudice and hatred and wholly unsupported by evidence. I'd like to see a political journalist who actually knows a lot about the EU and its work, simply test Farage's claim that EU is damaging Britain and British interests. And ask him how leaving it would solve its social and economic problems. make it more prosperous and better defended. For that matter, I'd like to see Redwood and the other mad Tory hyenas answer the same questions. If they were properly tested I have no doubt that they'd be revealed as Grand Patriots, obsessed with the simple and simplistic notion that Britain "alone" apparently "running its own affairs" (which you can't anyway in a globalised economy), would be nicer, better, more efficient, more profitable, more capable of safeguarding its interests (such as economic and in the realm of defence). There's nothing "clever" in taking a position: it's an emotional decision, based on a belief in British superiority. They can dress it up all they want, that's all they have. That and their belief that they can win a Tory majority that can protect the country from being infected by liberal ideas, let alone liberal or social democrat policies. Read British history in the 20s and 30s and realise that the right-wing of the Tory party and UKIP are as close to fascist ideas as makes very, very little difference. This contention may read as contentious but it is supported by far more evidence than that which purportedly supports the thesis that Britain is better off out of the EU.

H|e's perfect for the BBC then.

He is pro European but anti European Union, meaning he wants to deal with Europe in the same as the UK deals wit the rest of the world. You are the stereotypical UKIP voter come live in the real world, we need Europe just as we need Asia and North America, but we don't need a union with any other nation.

***** Stereotypical BNP voter perhaps, said it yourself, anti eu not the continent or the peoples therein.

cranebeg No I meant what I said. The average UKIP voter is a racist moron, and leaving the EU is not worth electing a party with one competent member.

***** You've convinced yourself at least, oh well. It'll be ThatFatPolishPlumber before you know itski.

***** Gold star.

curleyteeth Don't think you've understood the debate. It's about deterring binge drinking and alcoholism, not how easily you can get smashed.

No, education was his answer, changing cultural norms.

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dumbo

That wouldn't be how i would describe Nigel Farage...

Not really... but it was intelligent and civil debate on both sides.

I think they are both equally as wise. Possibly even Morecambe and Wise.

No you are!

Tank Driver No you are!

Pissed.