8pm to 10pm Thursday night: the TV Leaders Debate

[Kardan]

Every time Wales was mentioned it felt like they were the little kid in school who tries to impress the popular ones.

are you having a giggle.
@scottish; @Kyle; who stole my name.

OT: SNP performed the best.

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Casually browsing reddit to see what people thought, and I find a user called Chippiewall commentating...
@Chippiewill;

100% is, they posted in the coldplay subreddit. How freaky is that.

[Kyle]

snp called farage out and then he shut up for the rest of the debate that didnt involve immigration lol

ed milliband's casual turns to the camera to gaze into our souls and extract our deepest darkest thoughts had me a bit on edge and his constant clicking of the fingers was quite irritating but aside from that i feel that he and nick clegg performed rather well all despite ignoring the other parties and the greens to focus on bashing cameron.
@Kardan; it's skandair hahaha

[GommeInc]

Seemed a bit "meh". It was interesting seeing them all counter each other. Leanne Wood was great at shutting up Ed Milliband. Natalie Bennett was pretty decent at holding her own and bringing in a few statistics to shut them up in hat were equally dull moments. Not sure who really outperformed the others. Cameron made it all about Labour which was pointless - it's about the future, not the past and Labour has changed a lot.

At the end of the day, vote for the party with good potential ministers, not the leaders. Labour has some really good shadow ministers who put Milliband to shame charismatically and professionally. Ed Balls seems pretty decent minded - agreeing with the recent budget but being more sensible. Same for the shadow business, health and education secretaries.

[Chippiewill]

Don't people understand it all has to be paid back!?

Funnily enough, no it doesn't. As I've said in the past, because our debt is issued in our own currency any inflation will cause a corresponding decrease in our debt - we can run a deficit whilst simultaneously shrinking the debt in real terms.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Funnily enough, no it doesn't. As I've said in the past, because our debt is issued in our own currency any inflation will cause a corresponding decrease in our debt - we can run a deficit whilst simultaneously shrinking the debt in real terms.

And which then makes us all poorer as you devalue the currency which causes the inflation.

It has to be paid back and is paid back one way or another. The worst thing you can do is print money as a way to get out of debt - unless the situation is serious as in Greece which no longer has that option as it no longer has monetary independence - as that is what punishes savers and which then results in nobody in the future making and savings and thus you end up with an economy that is based on credit card insane spending.

[Chippiewill]

And which then makes us all poorer as you devalue the currency which causes the inflation.

Inflation is inevitable, you may as well use it whilst it's happening.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Inflation is inevitable, you may as well use it whilst it's happening.

It is inevitable with paper currency, yes.

But I don't support a fiat currency whereas the government does as it allows it to spend ridiculous amounts via the secret tax of printing money.

[Chippiewill]

Well considering there is no party which is not considering to stop printing money my point still stands that they don't have to pay it back.

[AgnesIO]

Nigel Farage managed to blame immigration for every single topic. One issue Politician.

[Zelda]

nichola sturgeon won it for me tbh, was kinda disappointed in natalie bennett but i kinda knew she wouldn't perform amazingly after what happened on the radio anyway, and i shall still be voting green either way no matter what happens in the debates tbh. Was particularly pleased with leanne wood picking out on nigel farage for the way he was talking about hiv during the nhs question though, someone really did need to slap him in the face during that question tbh.