No sweat
James Forsyth 11:55am
The leaders will be allowed to use their own make-up artists tonight. This might sound
like a trivial detail but how the leaders look is, sadly, going to be an important factor in who gets the most benefit from the debate.
I expect that the big beneficiary from being allowed to use his own make-up team will be Cameron. As his Newsnight interview during the 2005 leadership contest - when Cameron used his own not Newsnight's make-up artists and as a result looked far better than David Davis had the week before - showed, the Cameron Team appreciate the importance of these details.



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General Zod
April 15th, 2010 12:13pm Report this commentAnyone know the heights of the three?
Rhoda Klapp
April 15th, 2010 12:14pm Report this commentThis is not trivial is it? Sure? How i'd like to see all three kidnapped on the way to the circus and made to face an audience of angry voters picked at random, not selected by TV gatekeepers, with no bubble to protect them, and probably in electric chairs controlled by me to be shocked every time they fail to answer satisfactorily. A girl can dream.
Billy Blofeld
April 15th, 2010 12:15pm Report this comment"The leaders will be allowed to use their own make-up artists"
Jesus wept.
One of these men will have his finger on the nuclear button at the end of all this - yet someone somewhere deems it necessary to allow them to make their own choice about make-up.
Any leader worth their salt would do what the hell they liked.
Publius
April 15th, 2010 12:16pm Report this comment"The leaders will be allowed to use their own make-up artists tonight." etc.
-- Yes, quite. Says it all really.
General Zod
April 15th, 2010 12:16pm Report this commentApparently, Cameron is 6'0" and Brown is 5'10".
Google has failed me on the question of Nick Clegg's height. Presumably nobody cares.
Any Colour but Brown
April 15th, 2010 12:26pm Report this commentWhere does Brown get his from? Hammer films?
Tom Pride
April 15th, 2010 12:53pm Report this commentWill Brown be allowed to wear his corset?
Roger Daley
April 15th, 2010 12:53pm Report this commentI doubt if Brown is 5'10 - That's probably a "Hollywood" tape measure.
Mind you if he had a neck he might be six foot.
DavidDP
April 15th, 2010 12:55pm Report this comment"i'd like to see all three kidnapped on the way to the circus and made to face an audience of angry voters picked at random,"
All that would happen is that you'd end up with an extremely partisan audience, cheering their guy, and jeering the others.
Austin Barry
April 15th, 2010 1:01pm Report this commentOne of the issues for Brown may be pharmaceutical.
Do his caring professionals administer equine-size doses of what Private Eye calls his “bonkerzoid” tablets to avoid a florid outbreak of mania and hideous sequential ‘smiling’ or do they keep him clean and catatonic?
I’d be inclined to spike his water with viagra and senna pods: he won’t know whether he’s coming or going.
Neil
April 15th, 2010 1:02pm Report this commentWho is Nick Clegg?
Anan
April 15th, 2010 1:06pm Report this commentAnd unlike other Tory leaders, the fact that he actually has some HAIR helps a lot too.
Ian C
April 15th, 2010 1:07pm Report this commentAs I have said below on Daniels' 'don't be Angry' blog, he should take advantage and put some grey in his temples - and I would add some 5 o'clock shadow on his chin would help!
Vulture
April 15th, 2010 1:11pm Report this commentSorry, Fats, you are on a loser with this one.
Whatever our political differences I think we can all agree that in the looks stakes, Bruin looks a cross between a corpse that has started to change from grey to green and the sweepings from Dr Frankenstein's lab floor after a failed attempt to stitch a human being together. He's a weird freak.
Nicholas
April 15th, 2010 1:37pm Report this commentLooking forward to seeing which of his two Chapel of Rest suits Granpa Munster wears.
Nicholas
April 15th, 2010 1:38pm Report this commentVulture - don't feed the trolls, especially fat, useless, socialist ones.
oldtimer
April 15th, 2010 1:43pm Report this commentBrown was once photographed with a great orange patch on his forehead. I am sure he will not want to repeat that mistake.
JohnAnt
April 15th, 2010 1:56pm Report this commentGeneral Zod - I assume that, like Clegg's policies, his height is whatever the focus groups want it to be.
AndyinBrum
April 15th, 2010 1:57pm Report this commentDid anyone see Bruin commentating on the libdem manifesto last night? A reanimated corpse would have looked healthier, he looked grey and I'll. Doesn't bode well for the next Few weeks
echo34
April 15th, 2010 1:58pm Report this commentOldtimer,
what was blair doing sitting on browns' head?
Publius
April 15th, 2010 1:59pm Report this comment@Nicolas
"Looking forward to seeing which of his two Chapel of Rest suits Granpa Munster wears."
-- He's going to dress as Grayson Perry's alter ego "Claire".
Coeur de Lion
April 15th, 2010 2:21pm Report this commentWas Clegg christened 'Nick'? If not, why the touchy-feely diminutive? 'Cos he's lovely Lib Dem?
JONNY
April 15th, 2010 2:28pm Report this commentNot too many hostages to fortune
Fatbloke on Tour
Boyo could we go to town on your lovely Brown Man
But Tact and Taste demands we resist
Verity
April 15th, 2010 2:42pm Report this commentAny Colour But Brown - Funny! If he loses the election, he can always go to Hollywood to see if they want to revive The Adams Family with himself as Lurch.
Senor Frizby
April 15th, 2010 2:46pm Report this commentGordon's obviously feeling the heat on this spring day, here he is talking babble starting with misplaced, "I'm just getting on with the job.." : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8621119.stm
Andy Carpark
April 15th, 2010 2:46pm Report this commentFatloke on Tour - Your posts have all the coherence of a speech by John Prescott. My advice, young man, to you is to load your ample paunch into a wheelbarrow and exit stage left. And tiptoe over the floorboards: they are creaking beneath your elephantine bulk. Now begone.
General Zod
April 15th, 2010 2:54pm Report this commentBrown hasn't a hope. He is incapable of looking like a normal, living human being on TV. His only natural facial expressions are grimaces and he has no idea what to do with his hands. If he doesn't wear the corset, then he looks like a full black bin bag.
The tractor statistics and desperate repetition of "Ashcroft" will not help.
Victor Southern
April 15th, 2010 2:56pm Report this commentI really can't imagine why the vulgar and fairly stupid Fatbloke is permitted to post here. He brings nothing to debate except his teenager concept of wit, a poor vocabulary and a prurient mind.
Tom Pride
April 15th, 2010 3:29pm Report this commentWhat chance now that Brown yaps on about “Ashcloud”. The rumour round here is that the Icelanders waited for a Northerly and donated a device in one of their volcanoes in revenge against Brown and his use of anti-terror laws against their banks.
Lofty
April 15th, 2010 3:32pm Report this comment/ sigh /
You couldn't make it up
Surely sound bytes are more important than looks.
I want to HEAR clear policies which is why I'm listening on the radio.
malone
April 15th, 2010 3:49pm Report this commentGordon has chosen to stand with the other two on his right due to his blind left eye and thus Cameron is in the middle. This is a winning position whether people are aware of it or not. Own goal by Brown. Idiot.
Holly ......
April 15th, 2010 4:52pm Report this commentWhy,are all who can,spouting on about how 'bad' Brown is expected to be tonight,
yet at the same time tell us how
'experienced' Brown is?
Is he rubbish or good?
Fergus Pickering
April 15th, 2010 5:36pm Report this commenthe's old rubbish but experienced old rubbish.
General Zod
April 15th, 2010 5:39pm Report this commentBrown is experienced, but only at running the Treasury and the government badly and at never answering questions.
Marcher Baron
April 15th, 2010 7:25pm Report this commentAustin Barry, I nearly split my sides laughing at your concoction to slip into Brown's drink. I shan't dare watch the debate now, or I'll be in fits of laughter!
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