I don't know nothing about politics, but I've watched this for shits and giggles.

My views:

Nick = Seems more genuine than the other two, but keeps repeating himself and he's boring me. He's too weak!

David = Utter dick. Really don't like him. I hate his face and I hate the way he argues. He's a smug shit and he has too much make-up on.

Gordon = Pretty awesome. He has cheeky little smiles and he doesn't come across as a cock. Girlfriend (who's a teacher) says that he's done a reet good job with education, and she's usually right about things.

Listening to bits of it on the radio, taping the show to watch later :$

Answer my facebook message, cunt :@

Stole this off Twitter:

The election as a relationship: Labour, the abusive partner that you know you should leave but just can't bring yourself to do it. The Torries, the ex that's hurt you in the past. The Lib Dems, the friend that you really like, but just don't fancy.

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Not very good at this

Clegg 'won'. Does he get a prize?

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Politics/Sky-News-Instant-Leaders-Debate-Poll-With-Fizzback-Panel-Texts-Feedback-For-Faster-Results/Article/201004315603598?f=rss

Q: Who will be Chancellor of the Exchequer if Labour win the election?
A: Vince Cable

(fail)

I dunno about a prize but he'll almost certainly get more votes. Whether they count for anything is still unknown.
From what I've heard, the first few percentage swing points towards the Lib Dems will actually help Labour, as they'll be from Tory seats. As the swing becomes more pronounced, the model says that Labour will start worrying, places like Liverpool which are historic Labour safe seats are suddenly under threat.
Even with that though, unless its some monumental shift, the 'best' result for the Lib Dems will be a hung parliament. In that case, Brown stays on as Prime Minister and is given the chance to try and construct a government, likely by forming agreements with other parties. You saw that last night with the obvious difference in Brown's stance between Cameron and Clegg, he was effectively wooing Clegg in comparison.

I already know that my vote won't count though. I'm voting Lib Dem, but in a Tory majority of over 10k, that would have to be some serious swing to cause a change.

My life is hard, I suffer lots

Clegg did come across very well I thought. One of the biggest reasons was that he seemed to be able to back up his claims with a bit more substance than the other 2.

Brown came across surprisingly well, although this may just have been because I had such low expectations for him. Unfortunately, any chance Labour had of getting my vote disappeared when they forced the Mandybill through the wash-up period of parliament instead of properly debating it.

Cameron came across fairly poorly. He kept on blabbering on about "waste", but was only able to quote a couple of fairly tame examples of this. Sure canning the 7% pay rise for NHS managers is a good idea, but it's not going to magically result in billions of pounds of savings. Waste is only waste once you've identified it and explained exactly how you'd save the money. Until then, it's just an empty and substance-less word.

I was leaning in favour of Lib Dem before seeing this debate (I've explained my anti-Labour stance, and our Tory candidate lives over 50 miles away from my town for a start!). This debate has just enhanced that lean.

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You've just reminded me about the most annoying thing about Cameron from last night.
The only real concrete example of waste that he identified was the 7% payrise for NHS managers, but then he went on to say that the only public service he was protecting was the NHS, and that he'd actually be increasing the contributions in real-term over the life of the parliament.

My life is hard, I suffer lots