So we have had the leaders debate, for what it was worth, and now we will continue with the non stop nonsense for the next four weeks.  Yesterday one of the funniest stories made the lead in The Times.   Apparently the currency markets have just woken up to the fact that Britain is about to have an election and no one is sure what will happen then.   This lead to ‘panic’ in the markets as, well, who will pay the bills?  I think that was what they were saying as if the British economy will collapse on the 8th May without a strong government in place.  The implication of this not too subtle scaremongering was that  should anyone other than the Conservatives be elected to run the country we might as well pack our bags.

This was utter nonsense but will be no doubt be typical of what we will get on the run up to the election and a Labour led government starts to become more of a possibility.   I am sure that the tabloids have lined up a number of even more lurid scare stories for the last week when panic will really set in amongst the tories as all their papering over the cracks of the ‘long term economic plan’ start to fall away.   Of course Labour will not help themselves as they try and twist and turn about the cuts they will implement or pay for some outlandish pledge they have made.

In truth no one knows what the complexion of the next government will be.  The one thing that did come out of yesterday’s debate was that Britain is no longer a two party state which in turn means that a very plural approach to forming a sustainable government will have to be adopted.  Will David Cameron head that government or Ed Miliband ?  I haven’t got the first idea but I think what I wrote the other day will be vital and we could find that the only truly UK wide party will be the Lib Dems and who they wish to make deals with will be at the very centre of the politics to come.