who's gonna watch the leaders TV debate tonight then?

[mrsbaldwin]

Me!!!

UnquietDad - I just shouted "fewer!" at the TV too.

dinster - cutting now or later. It matters little. What I want is more honesty. None of tem are prepared to say the econmy is in a desperate state and the cuts are going to have to be massive.

This is a bad q for GB

i'm liking cleggy but i think gordy's doing well, he's speaking softly. camo very pink.

Oooo Brown just used the pity, praise, promise set piece for responding to troop question.

DC really has got a shiney pudgy little face hasn't he

I have been to Afghanistan - Cameron tick

This won't change anything in people's views....if you supported anyone's views then you'll still feel the same.

Afghanistan - 5 times mentioned by Mr Cameron....

they don't dare to be honest, voters SAY they want honestly about cuts, until they hear that the cuts might affect them

DC wasting time fawning over the 'brilliant' members of the armed forces

At least he's being himself, Kafka9. DC couldn't look more plastic and self-conscious if he tried.

McD - how does one dress up as Clegg?

would you marry gordon or dave?

Sheffield

also in response to immigration 'id cards for foreign nationals' so they can tell if they have he right to work, well, tht was verifiable before that, and no additional scheme was required....so still jsut a waste of money.

Clegg had a good point there about non-eu staff filling up the NHS - very true. Our local hospital will trian some 3k Phillipino nurses in the next few years...I am slightly ashamed that both men from the two main parties felt the need to pander to anti-immigration tendencies that please the more rascist elements in the Uk population.

Kafka9 - think you're the only one drinking tea. I don't think I could watch this sober.

I just muted it - to see if I could hear ds2 still partying - and it's v interesting to watch ody language without the words getting in the way. DC stressed and unhappy, GB weirdly enjoying himself, NC thinking a lot but coming across as sincere.

Yep puricity spotted that too, might be a full handlebar jobby by the end?

dinster

"Any economists here? Can someone tell me who is right out of dc and gb about cutting now or cutting later?"

It's kind of a matter of opinion, danger of cutting spending too early in recovery is you stop money going into the economy, run the risk of going back into recession. But no way to definitively say how early is too early AFAIK...

Has anyone slipped in "hard working families" yet?

I prefer it when they look at the audience -- Clegg looking at cameras is a bit stagey and weird, talking-head type thing.

Nettie - see new Radio Times. They are all "Spitting Imaged" there.

now 'who can throw most money at the armed forces'...

Oh -I'm not an economist though.

Peabody, no she's not, I have tea and a scone