Election tonight on tv. Dont envy Julie Etchingham trying to keep 7 leaders in order.

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It should make good TV. But Fararge and Cameron will try to dominate.
Are you watching?

probably. not sure it will be very productive.

they'll all end up trying to talk over each other I expect.

I'm going to watch it but hope they will explain their policies, and not just attack each other.

If they get too pushy Julie could fade in the song ......
"Some enchanted ......egoes"

Phew - thought for a moment that there wasn't a fred. IS this the fred?

Anyone watching?

Just going to keep posting until this becomes THE thread.

Grit and resilience Nick? Reslience? Tuition fees ringing any bells?

Really? No-one else watching? BBC News 24. They've got a worm and everything.

Watching

"Liberal Democrat plan is a very simple one" says Clegg.

No surprise there then.

There's another thread...

Faage hits them with real spending cuts. The others have no answer, just waffle.

Nigel is making me laugh to be fair hes like wtf is going on

Nigel farage is the strongest sadly the green lady is sruggling

'Nigel farage is the strongest '

Yep, no doubt.

This is a huge strategic mistake by Cameron. he is now a mere bit player, just one of seven. the combined voices of teh other six drown him out and he seems irrelevant.

His advisers thought his was his best choice, but this is a disaster for him because all the other 6 are on an equal footing and of course Farage is tearing a strip off of him.

Julie Etchingham doing a very good job. Handling them well.

John Rentoul, a Labour type as far as I know, is spot on in a tweet

"John Rentoul
@JohnRentoul
Farage very clear and making what a lot of TV audience will think are good points. Conspired against by wiffly wafflies."

twitter.com/johnrentoul

I need a wee now it's all getting yawn
Labour brought in tuition fees 3k I think

Yep, Labour started it.

They are "all in it together" apart from UKIP, which is why they all dislike and fear UKIP and the truth.

Nothing at all on foreign policy. Amazing. Dumbed down.

Farage would have wiped the floor with the lot of them on foreign policy. Shame it wasn't on the agenda.

Fantastic Farage closing speech. Lambasts the "politically correct political class" and spells out that UKIP will shake the whole lot of them up.

ITV/Comres poll results of the debate

Farage %21
Cameron %21
Miliband %21

Farage off for a pint to celebrate, luvvies leaving with heads hung low for a two kitchenette cocoa.

The people celebrate, knees-ups in hostelries, people bashing out the old tunes on pianners, the people's revolution continues!

Been deliberating, cogitating, listening to everything, reading and now sat thro the big tv debate. Still don't know for sure! The only thing I am sure is that the NHS is in a far worse state than five years ago. Before that the likelihood of getting an op was a far better proposition
and there were more A & Es. So less chaos........still thinking. When in that ballot booth I reckon I will go with my gut feeling in the hope that my sub conscience will have a done a job sorting out and collating all my thoughts.

After debate

30% more likely to vote Labour
29% more likely to vote Conservative
22% more likely to vote UKIP

UKIP hot on their tails. Panic in their spin rooms.

there were more A & Es

Our local A&E was closed and mothballed under the previous Labour government. Our GP is now also offering one late weekday surgery and a Saturday morning which is handy as we work during the day.

Dont care to hear about all this talk of coalitions. In order to be effective a Government needs a majority. I am old enough to remember the chaotic state of French Government when their governments changed on a weekly basis. I remember Harold Wilson receiving a small majority, forming a government but then returning to the country for a mandate to do the job properly. He got it.