Plato takes her hat off to Iain Martin of the Wall Street Journal for this succinct and perfectly formed summary...
"9:12 pm The three get 60 seconds to sum up. Here I've provided a translation.
Darling: You're worried about the future, I'm worried about the future. The future is in front of us, and it's worrying. But it's going to be alright, honestly. It is, really, no, please, come back.
Cable: Let's face it, I am brilliant [wild applause]. Labour are just rubbish and, I am saying this with a straight face, the Tories are in hock to rich men (unlike the LIb Dems who took £2m from a convicted fraudster now in jail and didn't give the money back). And, did I mention that I'm brilliant?
Osborne: I've got through this, it went quite well! I didn't fall over, I'm only seconds away from a beer in the green room, or maybe a glass of wine. The job of the others tonight was to gang up and land a killer blow. And they didn't. The future? It's Gordon Brown or David Cameron. Make your choice."
I think you've summed it up well - utterly uninspiring stuff.
ReplyDeleteI suspect the low turnout in this election will rival that in 2005 - which is especially concerning considering that was alleged to have been because of the country's distaste for "something of the night" Michael Howard.
Perhaps, just perhaps, it may be due to the hair-splitting difference on almost all policy issues between the major parties: will it make a great deal of difference to me who gets in? not really.
Lets play a game of spot the pro-Tory... oh wait, its effing obvious.
ReplyDeleteI think you've summed it up well - utterly uninspiring stuff. I suspect the low turnout in this election will rival that in 2005 - which is especially concerning considering that was alleged to have been because of the country's distaste for "something of the night" Michael Howard. Perhaps, just perhaps, it may be due to the hair-splitting difference on almost all policy issues between the major parties: will it make a great deal of difference to me who gets in? not really.
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