We'll keep the orange flag fying here....

So the Liberals may be in with a bigger chance than many gave them credit before this week's leadership debate. What some have overlooked is that was the first of three televised debates and that star performer, Nick Clegg, may not find life in the spot light so easy for the next two as Cameron and Brown learn from their experience. Will this make a likely overturn of Sir John Stanley's large majority in Tonbridge and Malling any more likely? I'd guess not but it'll be exciting to find out. Cameron's call for real change may yet not have the outcome he was intending; as we move into a people power-inspired phase of politics it may be the Lib Dems who hold the balance of power and then they can drive through electoral reform; and with proportional representation we really will see real change as the political map is dramatically altered possibly forever. As a politics student in 1980 I never thought that I'd see that as a real possibility now I think it could be on the cards within the next five to ten years....