The three stooges enter talent show tonight!

Tonight is the start of the auditions in reality TV show, it's tragic enough; to see the three of them standing there in their stupid red, blue and yellow ties!! We will feel like we're at a traffic light for the 90 minutes of this talent show and might end up wearing sunglasses.

The tie thing is a sartorial acknowledgement that, to most people, Brown, Cameron and Clegg are merely The Three Stooges, nothing left to chance and at least the stooges were very different men

Today sees this first public debate by indistinguishable suits and if it weren't for the differently coloured ties we will hardly know who pinched which manifesto.

Prepare for some boring stuff and if yoiu get bored simply try playing spot the most honest statement from the debate podium.

Yes we do all the Americans do and in this case we have waited 50 years for U.S style Presidential politics that arrive in Britain tonight as the three main party leaders put their personalities on the line for a television debate watched by millions of voters.

Do I really need to see this talent competition as this live debate takes place after hours of dress rehearsals that will continue up to the kick-off today, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg will take audition for a role of P.M. as we get into General Election spin and into the same realms as X-Factor or even The Apprentice

Hours of preparation with body language for all as a concern and Cameron has hired Anita Dunn, Barack Obama's ex-body language coach and I do hope she trains Mr Cameron not to waive his hands in that false Blair sincerity

Perhaps we should ask for a panel of judges including Simon Cowell and Sir Alan Sugar

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"If your lifeguard duties were as good as your ............., a lot of people would be drowning."
Simon Cowell British Entertainer

"You're Fired"
Sir Alan Sugar The pantomime villain from the Apprentice TV show

Amazing our most closely fought campaign for a generation goes into uncharted waters and looks more like Andrew Lloyd Webber's talent search for Dorothy and Toto in The Wizard Of Oz.

Aides spent last night, and will continue much of today, preparing and trying to relax their candidates for the primetime showdown in Manchester in which a slip or a smart soundbite could prove decisive.

Polls suggest that 20 million voters will tune in to ITV, putting the debate on a par with an England football international or an X Factor final. David Cameron will take the centre podium, Gordon Brown will stand to his left — at the Prime Minister’s request because of his impaired eyesight — and Nick Clegg to his right.

Perhaps we need some new judges or even very old panel members to make sense of all this

"Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires"
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS , was a philosopher , historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, and pacifist

What about the contestants?

Gordon Brown seems to struggle giving answers and will be no doubt seen wandering off into a maze of statistics. Brown of course is fighting to avoid getting his P45 and being told to clear his desk. I wonder how he will deal with being interrupted or cut short?

David Cameron is prone to being riled so has backed out of an interview (Gordon also keeping his distance from Paxo) with Jeremy Paxman for Panorama next Monday and although many will criticise this I see is it making him an unusually normal human being for a politician! How will he deal with being provoked after being described as a a posh person pretending not to be posh or is really that 'diamond geezer'?


Nick Clegg speaks withdouble fantasy involved - first of all that he will become our Prime Minister later this year under the first Liberal Government since Lloyd George around 90 years ago. And secondly that today's deabte means that a Clegg Government would have any credible basis for balancing the budget.

We could call the THE C FACTOR or The Chutzpah Factor

Maybe everyone will call Clegg "Vince Cable". Maybe someone will call Brown "Blair". Maybe someone will call Cameron "Blair". Maybe Brown will call Cameron "posh toff". Maybe he'll just punch him and perhaps Cameron will punch him back!.

Will any of them will answer a question

Can they tell the truth

How will they stop us borrowing over £400 million a day and start paying off the debt instead.

What do they actually trully believe.

If they simply went through the above it would be well worth listening to.

I'll end up watching the debate is so that I can go online and post sarcy cynical postings here afterwards.