Clegg better on banks second time round. Brown still proposing to do bugger all about the banks, but promising bugger all very noisily now.

Cameron actually not bad on banks. Clegg good in a populist way. Brown proposing to do bugger all about the banks.

Debate getting really angry now – brilliant! Gordon showing some proper idignation at the Tories. Maybe he’s just remembered why he went into politics before his sole aim became to suck up to the City.

Clegg makes perfectly true point and very important point about poor people paying higher percentage as income tax than the righ pay on unearned capital gains income. Director cut to close up of Brown shaking his head as though this wasn’t true.

Gordon said “ordinary hard working families”. By which he means bigots.

Cameron doesn’t understand Keynsianism – which is not surprising really.

Cameron attacking benefit payments – like it was the unemployed who caused the financial crash.

Cameron quotes his supporters Corus – who just pocketed millions of pounds cash from carbon credits by reducing pollution in closing their Teeside plant and making thousands redundant.

Everyone dodging the question about where the cuts will fall. Brown talking about the cuts in investment – but we’ll be paying his PFI bills for decades already.

Cameron staring again into the camera manically as instructed

Brown sounding like manager of Murmansk tractor factory giving production statistics c. 1965

Brown simplistic but much better than Cameron

Clegg much better than Cameron

Cameron superbland – nothing anyone could disagree with, even me.

Switched over to HD. Improbably plucked eyebrows in the audience.

Over on BBC now for the debate proper

this morning arguing anything but a Tory government would be a disaster. They argue that only massive tax cuts for themselves will save the economy, by “trickledown”. Not one of them opposed the banking deregulation that actually was an economic disaster.