All the main political parties are telling us they want a fairer Britain.
Labour want it, despite presiding over an ever widening gap between the haves and the have-nots, engendering a large underclass who have made living on benefits a career, creating the most bloated public sector ever and encouraging shedloads of immigrants to enter the country to work at subsistence wages in order to support them.
The Conservatives want it but they are decidedly coy about the fact that to control public spending they are going to have to sack an awful lot of those burgeoning public employees and then continue to pay benefits to them until they find proper jobs.
The Lib Dems want it to but we are asked to trust a party that hasn't seen power since 1915, although it is possible they may hold the balance of power in a hung parliament.
As for me, I shall vote on local issues. The party that gives the best chance to stop the wholesale destruction of green belt around Bristol under the ill-conceived government housing programme will get my vote.
It will not be Labour.
So did anyone watch the debate last night?
What a pity Nick Clegg is head of the third most popular party. If he represented either of the other two it would be a runaway success.
I certainly think the debate did a fair bit of damage to Gordon Brown's chances. He was rude, frequently interrupting David Cameron, and shaking his head when Cameron gave his final summing up.
I made a point of not watching it but have seen the snippets.
And I agree with Merry that tea knives are more interesting.
It is easy to be clever and say smart things when you know for sure you will never be asked to deliver, so I am not surprised Nick Clegg did well.
David Cameron is saying that a hung parliament is bad while Gordon Brown is saying that Lib-Dem policies are bad. Since they normally both ignore Nick Clegg it's a sure sign that they are both panicking.
Personally I'm surprised that neither Nick nor David has pounced on the fact that the government's collossal deficit is responsible for the pound losing around 20% of its value. In other words everyone has taken an effective 20% pay cut to finance the overspend. He might just as well have added 5p on income tax.
Well you would say that being an OAP wouldn't you.
@ OAP.
There's not much of a choice there between them is there. I wish we had a voting system that ensured each vote meant something.
When I reach 65 I shall start paying income tax again. 
Well if they put the 5p on tax now, with a bit of luck (actually a lot of luck) it will all be sorted by the time you need to pay tax.