Election Debates

So the concept of the election debates is new, here at least. Mainly because we don't live in a presidential system, where the leader of the country is actually the one who commands a majority of constituencies, nothing else.

It was horribly vaccuous. Everyone was competing for space, and noone sounded authorative. Lack of straight answers, predictably. The fun game was to spot the cliche, to me it was as follows:

Clegg: "Straight" "honest" "open"
Cameron: "13 years"
Brown: "ringfencing spending on education, police and health"

The only one big blow seemed to go unnoticed by anyone. Brown challenged Cameron to say that he would protect spending on health, education and the police, which was constantly met by responses starting anew and ignoring the point (quite sensibly, but also quite blatantly). However, at a later point Cameron said they were making an exception for health spending and securing that. Surely that means they're going to fail to protect the spending on police and education?

Interesting that more wasn't made of that.