09-03-2015, 20:38
The whole thing's a load of Americanised nonsense that shows nothing but who can sling mud most effectively from the hip. Alex Salmond is streets ahead of anyone else in the UK in that sort of environment, but his claims during the independence campaign were still balderdash. Parties have months and years ahead of elections to construct and present their policies in every media, and televised debates reduce politics to the level of Big Brother. By all means there should be public forums for putting questions across to the the party leadership, but there are plenty of those already.