The election debates - some points

Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson have pulled their last legal/moral card out of the pack by agreeing to a series of three live televised debates, desperate times entail desperate measures. Of course the BBC are doing their best to spin this story to Gordon Brown's advantage; as an example the headline on the BBC website for this story is currently "Brown to face three televised election debates", so it's just Brown facing the debate? What about David Cameron and Nick Clegg, do they not count?

The three debates will be shown live; the first on ITV, the second on Sky and the last one on the BBC. As I feared when the prospect of such a debate was mooted some months ago, David Dimbleby will be the BBC's moderator. Here's a reminder of why I consider David Dimbleby is not fit to be the impartial moderator of the debate...Any potential moderator who allows himself to be controlled so easily by Labour's Harriet Harman has no place being the impartial moderator of such an important debate where his impartiality may be key.