Damien

Cameron isn't a coward. He is a politician and we're coming up to an election. The debates are not a constitutional requirement of supreme importance to the democratic process. They're a electioneering tool for the parties and cheap TV for broadcasters that we imported from the United States complete with 'spin-rooms' and snap polls declaring a winner.

Miliband wants them because it helps him. Cameron doesn't want it because it won't help him and could help Miliband. It's a political calculation in an election. They're playing politics. It's a winner for Labour because either way Cameron probably doesn't look good from it.

Personally I want the debates because I think Miliband is a better person then he gets given credit for filtered by the press but also because it would be fun to watch the debate.

The politics and the tactics of it are debatable but the moralising over it winds me up.