Brief Debrief

I’m off to the northeast today because apparently we have ‘friends’ or some such that need visiting. Harrumph. Mrs Slug needs to do work stuff en route so I am sporting the ‘ubiquitous tit with the netbook in an equally ubiquitous coffee shop franchise’ look today while I wait. 

So, a bit of drive-by blogging is in order.
I watched the first half hour of the ‘Historic’ leader’s debate before switching over to something less depressing, periodically flicking back over when I felt my sprits were being raised too much by imported yank TV drama and Charlie Brooker.  I have been back over the bits I missed, but it didn’t seem to get much better. I’m definitely not sure what Toenails was watching, but Obo has remarked on that already.

For my money, Stuart Sharpe has the whole thing nailed. 
But I shall comment before the staff at Costa kick me out:

Gordon – looked uncomfortable in his own skin and, rather than coming across like an active debate participant, sounded more like he was reading from an old PMQ script that someone had stolen the front page from.  Also, I have to say that watching how disgustingly pleased he was with himself after regurgitating his tired and incredibly rehearsed one-line quips quite turned my stomach.  So no change in my estimation then.

iDave – On for a hiding no matter what and the one with the most to lose, but the endless “I’m in touch with the common man” anecdotes became tiresome very quickly and came across as so artificial it was cringeworthy.  Mediocre but not as bad as it could have gone.

The other chap, you know, Whatsisname – Yeah he did OK, but in this company he would’ve won by staying silent.  Fair play though, he came across as a contender and was far more savvy in his engagement with the audience.  Everyone there wanted to be his friend, which was nice.

All in all, if this and the fictional manifestos are as good as this election season is going to get, I’m going to seek distraction elsewhere until after the main event, I think.  I’ve plenty of draft post ideas to catch up on anyway and there’s plenty of LPUK-related discussions to have.