It’s a shame that it took ninety minutes of airtime to let Clegg and the Lib Dems into the mindset of the Great British public but now that it’s happened I regret not placing that bet sooner. I mean for someone who’s been following the Lib Dems closely over the past few weeks, nothing that Clegg said was new or previously unknown but it didn’t need to be, tonight was purely about the moment in the spotlight.

I know the chances of the Lib Dems actually making it individually into power are slim but if you’re fed up with Labour and you used to vote Labour, who are you going to go for? Changing political stance rarely makes sense so the logical switch is to the newly invigorated Liberal Democrats.

In case you haven’t noticed those debates last night confirmed my instincts and pushed me fully to the yellow side of politics.

I’m not going to claim to know everything about politics because, quite frankly, I don’t. However, there’s something about the Election that’s sparked up an interest. It’s left me reading newspapers, watching the news and occasionally refreshing BBC’s excellent online coverage.

As someone who’s never voted before, I’m enjoying the whole floating around between parties while discovering their policies. Luckily thanks to the internet – you might have heard of it – I can take a couple of quizzes or browse through their websites to quickly find someone suitable to vote for.

With that said I’m still in two minds. I’ve always been told to vote Labour but a few things, like war and the economy, they’ve gotten wrong, while the Lib Dem views on those areas kind of line up with mine. However, then I’ve got to consider would a Lib Dem vote be a wasted one but I’m sure I’m not the only one thinking that. Maybe if all those floating Labour votes just bit the bullet and voted Lib Dem, we would have a surprise result on our hands. But maybe this is just me rooting for the underdog again.

I’ll probably make a clearer and more coherent post come Thursday. Hopefully with some actual thought and decision behind it.

I commented on the Digital Economy Bill (Not DeBill, I hate that name) a few days ago and the whole story has been spinning around in my head for a while now. The problem is that even though the punishments are overly severe, nobody has the right too illegally download content they haven’t paid for.

It’s been really interesting, however, hearing the ISP’s responses to the whole affair, with TalkTalk’s response being the most surprising. For a company that, from past experience, offered loads of downtime and horrible transfer speeds, they seem to be the most vocal when it’s the government that enforces it on their customers. I guess they want to be the ones to do it, losing control or something to that affect.

It’s all just apart of making their customers feel protected. If a BT customer hears TalkTalk spouting all this, well, talk, they’ll be more inclined to switch to them to avoid any wrongdoing. It’s all very clever, whether they’ll actually take copyright holders to court over anything is a different matter though. It’s kind of tough to get someone out of stealing when they’ve been caught three times, no matter how good your lawyers are.

Tomorrow it looks like the Digital Economy Bill will pass and we’ll soon get disconnected for downloading things we shouldn’t be. You know if this would have happened three or so years ago, I would have been outraged, claiming things like “this will only lead to more restrictions” and “it’s against our rights”.

The problem is that although people will and probably have made those arguments against the bill, nobody has the right to illegally download content – even though everyone does it. Naturally though there are parts of the bill that make no sense. However, the principle of stopping people from pirating content is in the right place, the way they’re going about it isn’t.