What’s happening on P-35, Thursday 2nd April?

Five weeks to go! And one week (with two bank holidays) to get nomination papers in.

Today is Debate Day, of course. And it’s also the first anniversary of Nick Clegg’s second debate with Nigel Farage last year.

Nick will be preparing ahead of the debate which takes place in Salford. His visit for the day is in nearby Cheadle, visiting a charity set up by parents after their 9 month old baby, Millie, died after choking at nursery. Cheadle Lib Dem Mark Hunter, as MP for the area, helped Millie’s parents campaign for a change in the law to ensure that every nursery has someone available who is trained in paediatric first aid. Millie’s Trust  aims to provide first aid training to everyone who needs it and Nick and Mark will be attending a paediatric first aid lesson.

In Scotland, Willie Rennie will be at a farm shop near Edinburgh to highlight what the Liberal Democrats have done to help business. I’ve been there, and it’s very nice. I spent a small fortune on some very delicious food.

Don’t forget to get in the beer and the popcorn for the big Debate. It’s on between 8pm and 10pm on ITV.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings

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    Big Debate?

    Well if Cameron doesn’t win it’ll show just how useless he really is….After all, he picked the time, the venue, the format and the players….

    With that advantage a monkey in a blue rosette would be favourite…

  • Don’t forget to get in the beer and the popcorn for the big Debate… …

    I do not drink beer. I would sooner eat the cardboard box than the popcorn inside.

    There will be an old episode of ‘New Tricks’ on a cable channel (there always is). The temptation to watch a repeat of James Bolam and Dennis Waterman breeze through an improbable plot with the skills of seasoned professionals is somehow more appealing than 2 hours of the 7 aside freak show that wll be the Leaders’ Debate. I cannot think why.

    Curiosity may get the better of me and I may watch the seven-ring circus. But it will be coffee and Bourbon Biscuits not beer and popcorn.

    It will not make any difference to who is the next PM — that has already been worked out by The Cabinet Secretary.

  • I watched the magnificent seven last night. Within minutes of the exchange ending the pundits were producing their surveys of who had ‘won’, who had ‘lost’. I would very appreciate someone explaining what criteria are used to determine such a result? Clearly it’s not a first past the post situation, nor is it one where the winner has the most points. So what parameters do those who are asked the question, “Who do you think won the debate?”, use?
    Maybe the pundits ought to be asking, “Who on a scale of 0 to 10, seemed the most thoughtful, credible, sensible, balanced, perceptive, rational, genuine … “

  • Michael Cole 3rd Apr '15 - 4:20pm

    Well said Peter.

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