Don, I've given you sensible arguments but you can't, or won't, acknowledge them, just the same old blind stuff about 'wasted votes'. I'm just glad that my vision isn't permanently hindered by the wearing of blue or red-tinted spectacles. Over the period in which I've been eligible to vote, both Labour and Conservative governments have repeatedly raped the electorate, but I have to say that the worst and most violent rape was that carried out by the Thatcher regime, worst because she inflicted her vicious, vindictive spite on the poorest and most defenceless sections of our society, laid waste to huge areas populated by those she despised most - the poor and lowly.

But, the only wasted votes are those:-

1) Made without any real thought, made in blind and rigid adherence to one party because 'that's who I always vote for', or 'my parents voted for them so I will', or 'because voting for them makes me look like I'm one of the upper-class', or whatever other daft reason.

2) Those not made at all (perhaps the greatest, and certainly the saddest, waste)

Accept that, or don't - you may regard my sensible and unbiased principles as 'high and mighty', but guess what, I don't really care, I'm content in the knowledge that I, at least, have a working brain, an imagination, free will, and a willingness to use them all.

And wasn't it wonderful last night, to see the new-boy underdog, Clegg, run rings around the Young Toff (all soundbytes, little substance, few answers), and the Miserable Scot (no personality, no real answers to anything!). He made them both look very weak indeed.

Debate #2? Bring it on! :-)