JohnBM:Liberal

Only missed the beginning of the Ask the Chancellors debate last night but it was truely a night for Vince Cable.

He knocked Mssrs. Darling and Osborne out of the water on the deficit, the banks and taxation.

This isn’t just my opinion, the interweb is full of commentators declaring King Vince as the winner. Take for instance this of Channel4’s Factcheck:

Cathy Newman’s verdict
Vince Cable reinforced his reputation – telling the truth for example on the income gap being worse than when the Tories left office.

Alistair Darling, on the other hand, boobed on the death tax. And George Osborne remains confusing on child tax credits.

And here’s the lesson for all three political parties as the campaign gets underway: the public likes honesty.

Our online voters made Cable the winner. And FactCheck’s provisional analysis is that he has been rewarded for speaking truer than his two opponents

Unfortunately I’m at a meeting this evening and will only be able to watch “chancellors” debate on-line later.

What I can’t wait to see is George Osborne’s probably futile attempts to justify making a national insurance cut after weeks and months of calling for action to be taken on the £70bn deficit.

I trust Vince ‘the brain’ Cable will demonstrate the intellectual and arithmetic failings of the wannabe Tory chancellor.

After a panicky couple of weeks it looks like the Tories are returning to their core vote after failing to make any headway on the middleground.

Chancellor Alistair Darling refused to appear on the Today programme this morning to discuss the budget.

After hearing the appalling  duck and weave by the Tory shadow chancellor, George Osborne I don’t think he should have turned up either.

Compare and contrast with Vince ‘The Brain’ Cable.

The spat/war between the Calder Valley Labour Party and the Calder Valley Labour Party over their parliamentary candidate has yet again gone public.

Steph Booth,the wicked stepmother, of Tony Blair won the candidacy after the previous candidate for deselected by Labour’s high command for failing to disclose being cautioned for criminal damage.

Steph Booth is accused by some members of the local Labour party of being instrumental in the removal of her predecessor.

For full background and the latest unedifying bout have a sneaky peek at http://www.hebdenbridge.co.uk/forum/index.html

It leaves me asking one question:

SHOULDN’T YOU LOT BE FIGHTING AN ELECTION!!!

Our Hilary Myers and the Tory’s Craig Whittaker certainly are.