Not enough meat

Having slept on last night's Leaders' Debate (not literally) I just don't think it cut the mustard. After the spectacle of the first debate - the first in British history, we were so blown away that these men could stand, speak and make jokes all on their own, we thought it was marvellous. The second debate brought with it the very challenge of having to watch such an event happen on Sky - Sky for God's sake!

But last night? Last night we wanted something a little different - we wanted a little meat. Leaders repeated party lines which although are important, need not repeating 5 times in one evening. We are not stupid, thank you Mr Leader. We heard you the first time, 3 weeks ago.



Brown thinks Lib Dems and Conservatives are going to cut child tax credits. They are. They are they are they are. And you can't take £6bn out of the economy when it's already on its knees. Did you hear that everyone? £6bn. That’s 6 times £1 bn. 12 times £.5bn. £6 bloody billion.

Clegg is going to be fair. That's fair everyone. Fairness. He wants to be fair. Did you get that?

And Cameron? Well he can't believe the Reds are going to increase NI. Can't believe it.

Labour's economic recovery plans are being pushed as the main string to their bow. That Cameron's a threat to the economy and Clegg is a threat to security. But Brown fails repeatedly to pin point exactly what they're going to do apart from put NI up.

Cameron fails repeatedly to tell us where he's going to make savings being that he's still protecting millionaires and their inheritance tax.

Clegg just plays the peace-maker between the two, without really giving us much more substance.

As Publishing Director, Robert Hardie pointed out to me this morning, the winner of the night was surely Dimbleby himself…