Historic lead and very old scare tactics.

11.03.00pm BST (GMT +0100) Sun 18th Apr 2010

As I expected after the debate, tabloids are using the Lib Dem surge to try & scare voters back to the tribal parties. The Mail on Sunday's historic front page "Historic MoS poll puts Liberals in General Election lead for first time in 104 years" is followed by rabid jingoistic attack on Nick Clegg inside: "His wife is Spanish, his mother Dutch, his father half-Russian and his spin doctor German. Is there ANYTHING British about Lib Dem leader?" p. 8. That's it for intelligent political debate then.

(That apparently from Glen Owen). Hopefully the voters will see through self-interested class-obsessed tribalism.