Adam Boulton of Sky News who moderated the debate unintentionally damned it with this faint praise. He wrote afterwards, .... For me personally this really was fantastic and two moments stand out in particular...
First, talking to the audience before the debate and realising there were people from all walks of life who were pleased to be there.
Then there was the moment when the three leaders came on and took their places behind the podiums. You could hear the countdown and you realised this really was going to happen.
Oh dear. The two stand out moments both happened without any of the three of them opening their mouths!
This offered me some consolation this weekend when, beset by a stomach bug, I failed to finish a service for the first time in many hundreds of starts. Disappearing from the platform in haste I ended up in a crumpled vomiting humiliation in the room behind the platform, the message largely as undelivered as the lunch was undigested.
The singular experience was not so bad for the congregants whom the wall spared from knowing any more than my disappearance. They were able to continue their celebration largely undiminished, aided by my ever-competent wife who finished the service element in my absence. Whatever the stand out part of the day was for those attending, I can be 100% sure it was not my message. On another day I, like those party leaders, might have been fooled into believing it could have been!
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