On last nights debate they couldn’t even be bothered to turn up.
Obviously had something more important to do.

Clegg’s claiming he wasn’t invited…

Clegg wanted to be there, I think

Cameron, … meh

Tories claiming it was the challengers debate, they were not needed

We’ve discussed this at length before. It is never in the interests of the PM to do debates, Tony Blair’s advisors always blocked them. It was Gordon Brown who agreed and he did so as he was desperate after the economic collapse and he felt it was a risk worth taking.

As an aside these debates are a total waste of time IMO, I have watched neither and switched the news off when the coverage came on.

In Dave’s head, he’s like a Roman Emporer. Born to rule over the grateful subservient masses. And is quite disgruntled that he doesn’t get to throw people to the lions

Then his advisors have to remind him that, actually, he isn’t, so occasionally he must put on his terrible, unconvincing, matey smile, and make some concessions to the fact that it’s a democracy. A democracy that never actually gave him a majority in the first place.

But last night didn’t come under the remit of ‘the bare minimum’ so he stayed at home, practicing his thumbs down thing in the mirror…..

Like Jammy, I didn’t bother watching it last night, as the whole thing is completely pointless!

It was an opposition debate.

This was part of the deal that Cameron got for doing only one televised debate instead of the three that were done before the last election: There would be one full leaders debate ( shown on ITV) and then one opposition leaders debate (shown on BBC).

Anything other than a full leaders debate would be slightly pointless IMO unless you like watching a group of people insisting that they would never work together in a coalition government until such time as they actually do.

So it’s fine to say it’s a pointless waste of time unless you are David Cameron?

Not really. would you watch a premiership football match if only half the teams bothered to show up? If all parties are there, fair enough. If not, then there’s little point to the exercise

The last one didn’t get that good a write up. It’s mostly just pandering to the X factor generation.

Would be much more fun if it was an x-factor style affair. The leaders have to perform a bad cover of an 80s ballad, get slagged off by Simon Cowell, we see a few video clips of their ‘journey’, then vote.

Would probably be more illuminating than the debates we got, too.