It was a waste of bloody time to watch.Sturgeon says Labour voted for austerity.
Miliband says that is not what the vote on the charter for budget responsibility was about.
Sturgeon does not accept that.
Bennett says we’ve seen a choice between austerity heavy, and austerity lite. Many workers are not on a living wage. We do not have an economy with jobs that sustain a life.
Clegg goes back to his point about the Cameron planning involving too many cuts, and Labour wanting too much borrowing.
Cameron wants to cut because he wants to.
That is simply wrong, Cameron says.
Cameron says he is hearing more debt and more tax, more debt and more taxes, a lot more debt and a lot more taxes etc.
8.29pm BST15:29
Wood says Ed’s party represents many areas of Wales. Does he accept that Labour has failed them. Parts of Wales are some of the poorest areas of the EU.
Miliband says he does not accept that. But he then turns to Cameron, and attacks the Tories’ record, on issues like the bedroom tax.
Wood says Wales needs more from the Barnett formula. It should get another £1.2bn.
Farage says Wood is right. Wales got a bad deal. But people in England are fed up with sending money over Hadrian’s Wall so the Scots don’t have prescription charges.
Sturgeon says the Scots have paid more in tax per head than the English for 30-odd years.
8.26pm BST15:26
Cameron says Labour left a note saying, “Sorry, we’ve run out of money”. Under the government’s plans, the top 20% have paid more than the other 80%.
Farage intervenes on Cameron. He says the government has pushed the national debt up.
Cameron says borrowing has gone down every year.
There you go again, says Miliband (using a famous Ronald Reagan line). He says Cameron is talking about the past.
Farage asks how people can beleive Cameron’s promise.
Cameron says he will do it by cutting £1 from every £100 spent.
8.23pm BST15:23
Farage says half the panel are saying they have been prudent, and half are saying cuts have gone too far.
But national debt has doubled. At some point we have got to get real. We have a massive debt repayment problem. Let’s cut aid.
Clegg says making poor people abroad poorer is not the solution. He says Tory plans will not affect the rich.
Wood says the govenrment has been balancing the books on the back of the poor.
“The books aren’t balanced,” Farage says.
It is the first actual “hit” anyone has scored all evening.
Read more, if you are really bored:
http://report24.co.uk/article/145665/leaders-debate-live-miliband-cameron-and-other-parties-go-head-to-head
