Slump In Front of the Television

Well. I catch the Lib Dem broadcast. I feel that most of the people in the "vox pop" are card carrying "vox lib". One commenting on a Council gain and what's good about it looks like a leading councillor.

Charlie on the map looks like a right Charlie. And sorry, but the whole of Great Britain going custard coloured in the last sequence is just nauseating.

Are all the parties going for "yeuch!" in their Party Election Broadcasts?

I suppose I might add : "As usual".

Top story on Newsnight - which with BBC Radio 5 in the car is my main newsfeed just at the moment - is the trial and judgement on Kamel Bourgass.

This is the man who gave our Chief Constable his worst day in the job when he fatally stabbed DC Stephen Oake in 2003.

This secret Al Qaida trial was clear bobbling along in the background while Blunkett, Clarke and Blears were defending government proposals for internment and so on.

What will the media and the Great British Public make of this tomorrow? Will it swamp Labour's manifesto?

For the Labour left trying to hold our vote together well enough to keep Tories from power on the basis of a good few genuine and important Labour achievements would the manifesto being swamped - by a terror trial story - be a good thing or a bad thing?