It really is scary. You could tell he was shaken by the audience's reaction to him as well, I don't know if that came across on the camera, but he was flapping really badly at the economic questions.
The only thing he stuck his neck out about was the fact that he would rather not form a government than work with the SNP.
The rest of the time he was just dodging flak from genuinely angry people who could sense that he not only had no, to little understanding of how the last Labour government fu**ed the country, but had little to no remorse or understanding as to how difficult it has been for people up till recently.
I was glad that finally he was pulled up on his attack on big business and zero-hours contracts too.
An owner of a small tourism company told him that if he banned zero-hours contracts, he wouldn't be able to grow his business, as his business only does well over the summer and he can't afford to employ permanent staff.
Another lady attacked him over the economy who owned a local business. He came back to her with all the things he was going to do for small to medium sized businesses, but she pulled him up on big business attacks, saying that Tesco have had a hard time of it lately and are one of the region's biggest employers and that he needs big business to do well too.
Basically, the audience were very hostile to Ed and he had a hard time dealing with it, but he made them hostile by that one comment, very near the start. It did basically expose what would likely happen if he ends up as PM, basically in 5 years time we'd likely be f***ed again.
