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

[mrsbaldwin]

Me!!!

Dh is watching all the bloody after debate coverage so Outnumbered will have to wait. I can't go downstairs without attending an anger management course first because the telly will go through the window.

TDiddy - here you go . 34,000 members in about 3 days.

Would be good if the se debates shake up the political order. Go Cleggie Go

the video is best

I think DC was by far the best.
Clegg was supremely irritating - that bit at the end when he did his sixth form prefect bit of remembering all the christian names of people who'd asked the questions was vomit worthy, Jackie.
Brown - bless him. It was of course hardest for him as he had to both defend his past policies and propose ideas. He should never have agreed to do it.

swedes you are Off Your Head.

In which bits was he best Sweeedes? Policing? Er - no. Education? (Tries to make noise like the Family Fortunes buzzer). Budget? God no. Yet Brown, who as the internal candidate had the hardest job and had all the media odds stacked against him, came across as both confident and competent.

tha nks vesela- hav e to rejoin FB to b e part of the Cleggie wave.

Do you thgink Clegg will actually do Britain's got talent? ANd Twitter, Big Brother an d the rest?

He's got more chance on getting on BGT than he has of being Foreign Sec, TDiddy. "OK Nick, you can be Minister for Tea and Biscuits. Two sugars and a Hobnob please."

Clegg as serious contender is a gift to the Tories as it will split the left of centre vote, possibly?

yes, i would have thought so.

Positioning was v important tonight too. Being in the middle is the hardest.

Sweedes - yes the splititng of the left of centre vote is a distinct possibility and frankly after tonight I am begining to think that is the Tory hope strategy to win by default.

Actually I thought Cameron got the best spot. It made him look like the one to beat - the central character. I thought he'd picked the letter closest to "A", like in Scrabble, and got to choose where he stood.

monkeysavingexpert - It seems more people agree with my assessment than yours.

FGS we are all just feeding our own prejudice and entrenched opinions. I would be terrified if people actually changed their minds based on 90 mins JFK pastiche.

I KNOW I find Clegg too irritating to form a sensible conclusion as to how he did, really.

monkeysavingexpertdotcom-

I think Cameron just needs to get in touch with his rough side a bit and stop looking like he has escaped from Madame Tussaunds. Ruffle his hair Sam Cam

You and Kafka, Sweedes, isn't it?

Next debate they should put them in novel situation...like on an exercise bike or in cycle shorts or at a bar drinking a pint.... Ideas welcome.

BeenBeta - Tories are already in the lead even before tonight according to the bookies and leaders of polling companies, they were expected to form a majority government. No such strategy. But feel sure they'll welcome the gift of voters' shift from Labour to Lib Dem.

Lib Dems are properly left wing at least.

actually no, my prejudices would have had it that brown would have arsed it up and camo would have slicked all over him most convincingly. hadn't given much thought to clegg, who i think now came out the winner.

At the end of the day, Uncle Rupert (Murdoch) gets to decide

I thought I was quite good at empathy.......seems I was wrong. I genuinely can't get why people think DC did well

i genuinely can't get why people like to read 'a child called it' but they do, in their millions. like i said, democracy a bad idea.

Aitch - Brown did arse it up. Cameron was convincing. He was brilliant on government waste.