Even Alistair Darling would have trouble spinning these numbers: Fewer than two million viewers tuned in to watch him debate with Chancellor-in-waiting George Osborne and the Lib Dem's Vince Cable last night. Nine million opted for EastEnders.
Frankly I was tempted to turn over and watch Man City against Wigan or even Newcastle against Forest. For most of the debate was about as riveting as watching Bolton v Stoke. It took all three of the so-called three wise men a good 20 minutes or half an hour to warm up, and it took the audience about the same time to applaud what any of them said. The Lib Dem's Vince Cable got the applause, but was that out of sympathy as he is the one who doesn't have a realistic chance of being the new man in Number 11? It might have been, but it was more because he injected a bit of humour into w...
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