Second Election Debate: My Thoughts.

Am I the only person who didn't think anyone did particularly well last night? I felt that all three candidates were on pretty even footing, apart from some concessions.

Gordon Brown seemed dominant and executive on two topics in particular, those of the war in Afghanistan and pensions. He talked confidently about the issues facing troops and measures that had to be taken in order to protect them. The pensions are a big issues since the baby boomers are retiring, and Brown spoke about them with more conviction than the other two politicians. Personally I think he did the best.

David Cameron, I think, was disappointing. Considering the fact that the Conservatives have always been strong on foreign affairs and defence, I feel that he has underperformed. He didn't really stand out to me at all, except when he ganged up on Nick Clegg. Speaking of ganging up, anyone can see that the accusations made by Cameron and the conservative papers are simply sleaze. The Conservatives are desperate to dampen "Cleggmania". Even the presenter had a go, bringing up one of the Newspaper headlines during the debate. I think this made Cameron look weaker, and thus I think he did the worst in this debate.

Nick Clegg did quite well, but he didn't do better than last week's debate. His policies on Europe and Trident were attacked, which I think he defended very well. The Lib Dem's love of Europe could have been an extremely negative thing to the electorate, as many people feel shortchanged, but Clegg fought his corner well. Instead of withdrawing from Europe, I think that people could really warm to becoming a leading force in Europe and being able to change policies in a way that benefits our citizens. I think that his performance may slightly dampen the Liberal Democrat poll performance; Clegg has proven that he's not Barack Obama. He still has two weeks to tweak his position, and another whole debate to go.

Anyway, those are my small thoughts. I think the split for this debate was 32/31/28 for Lab/Lib/Con, but most polls will disagree with me.