Who should be Britain's next Prime Minister? And how do you decide? And if they were a biscuit, which biscuit would they be?
During a series of election focus groups, right-wing peer Lord Ashcroft visited Cardiff South and Penarth, Alyn and Deeside, and Newport West.
In it, he asked a whole host of serious questions - what had stood out from the debate and what people thought of the party policies.
But, there were some slightly more "peculiar" questions thrown into the mix.
He asked voters what sort of biscuits and drinks the leaders of the county's leading parties would be.
Here are some of the answers:
"If Jeremy Corbyn were a biscuit, what kind of biscuit would he be?"
“A Jammie Dodger. He dodges all the important questions.”
“A Custard Cream. It’s not something you’d go, ‘ooh, I want a Custard Cream’. I’d take it if it was given to me, I wouldn’t choose it off the shelf.”
"Bourbon. The kind that nobody really wants but it’s often the only one left.”
“Hard tack army rations. They taste horrible, they don’t fill you up, they’re not much use for anything.”
“A Digestive. You can dunk him and he tastes nicer.” What? “He’s a nice and comforting Digestive.”
And what about Theresa May?
“A Marks & Spencer selection”.
“A Viennese Whirl, or something like that.”
“A chocolate Hobnob. That’s a pretty fancy biscuit. Well, she’s up herself, isn’t she, and so are chocolate Hobnobs.”
“A Jaffa Cake. She’s nice on the outside, but I don’t like the middle of a Jaffa Cake.”
“A cookie. They’re tough, and they crumble.”
“One of them hard ones at the bottom of the tin that have been there six months. It looks quite nice but you bite it and break all your teeth.”
And what if Mr Corbyn were a drink?
“A smoothie or something, made out of something organic and foul.”
“Ale. A down-to-earth pint. Something your dad would drink, your Grampy.”
“Bitter lemon. Because he’s bitter, and a lemon.”
And Theresa May?
“Bailey’s or prosecco. Because she’s sophisticated, she’s classy.”
“Strong builder’s tea that you forgot to drink and it’s gone cold.”
“A glass of water. You need it to survive, but there’s nothing to it.”
“A double vodka. Comes with a kick.”
What about the other questions...
The TV debates
“There was a lot about her not going to the debate yesterday. And that tends to overshadow the actual debate.”
Does that matter? “Yes!” “She called the snap election, and can’t be bothered turning up to it.”
Most people in the Thursday night groups had not watched the Channel 4/Sky debate, and only one had managed to put up with more than fifteen minutes of it.
What could they remember? about the others?
“Tim Farron was going on about Brexit. I thought, that’s done now, stop going on about it.”
“I liked the Green lady. She spoke really well.” Do you remember who she was? “I did Google her afterwards but I’ve forgotten her name now. Was it Helen? Helen Archer?”
Who can fight for Britain?
“At the moment I believe in more of Labour’s policies, but if it’s about Brexit, Theresa May”; “I would prefer Theresa May to fight for Brexit. I don’t think Corbyn has got it in him to fight for anything”.
“I want to vote for UKIP. But because of Brexit, there’s so much at stake, I feel that quite possibly, if I put that UKIP vote down, that is a vote that is going to go against Theresa May and in the favour of Jeremy Corbyn.
"I’m considering voting Tory just to make sure she’s the one negotiating Brexit”;
“Jeremy doesn’t want to upset anybody, so he wants to go out holding hands with everybody, and I don’t think that’s going to be the best deal for our country. I think she’ll dig her heels in a bit more.”
What they know about Jeremy Corbyn?
- “I know he got arrested.”
- “He’s been divorced twice.”
- “He lives in a normal terraced house.”
- “He lives in a house worth several million.”
- “He wears terrible clothes.”
- “He doesn’t claim a lot in parliamentary expenses.”
- “He wants to privatise the railways.” “No, nationalise them.” “Oh, yeah.”
- “What did he say he wouldn’t do when he was elected? He wasn’t going to curtsey, or bow, or he wasn’t going to do something.” “Am I right in thinking Corbyn has never had a real job? As in real, you know, working in business, for instance.”
- “He had links with the IRA. I didn’t like that at all.”
And Theresa May?
- “She likes shoes.”
- “She wants to bring back fox hunting.”
- “She spent a thousand pounds on a pair of trousers, didn’t she?.”
- “Never had children.”
- “She goes to the gym on a Saturday and she goes to church on a Sunday.”
- “She’s upper class, I guess.”
