I’m still trying to keep politics out of my blog, but have found the Nick Clegg Liberal Democrat dimension really interesting. Brown and Blair resisted live Election debates for a long time because they would have had to allow the Liberals to compete on a level playing field. So what’s happened has come as no surprise.

Murdoch is clearly getting very twitchy at the idea that a party might gain some power that he isnt actually supporting…

“It’s quite something to behold, the Tory press in full blood. Not since 1992, and its concerted assault on Neil Kinnock, have the rightwing newspapers joined together in such a sustained and undisguised attempt to destroy a figure in British public life. If anything the sight is more breathtaking this time, with the front pages of today’s Mail, Telegraph, Sun and Express all training their firepower on Nick Clegg. While the 1992 operation to destroy Kinnock was the culmination of nearly a decade of warfare against the then Labour leader, the “Get Clegg” offensive has been assembled in a matter of days.”

Full article here.

Ex Sun Editor David Yelland was the first to point this out.

“Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election – or held the balance of power – it would be the first time in decades that Murdoch was locked out of British politics. In so many ways, a vote for the Lib Dems is a vote against Murdoch and the media elite.

Full article here.