what jenny palmer suffered.hink out, arguably too soon. you think so? i really do. i think both as a matter of common courtesy, and he is a courteous man, and as a matter of judgement, it was not the day to do it. there were those bad scenes of you asking and pushing, properly, of asking these flummoxed guys as to whether they were ready to pick up the mantle and they barely knew that the mantle and they barely knew that the mantle and they barely knew that the mantle had been cast. that's no way to leave the party. but there was a sense that it wasn'tjust the election results that through mike nesbitt. i think a lot of us watching the leader's debate were struck by how nervous he seemed, how shaky his voice was. you know as a presenter, and i do, that if you are in front of a microphone your voice gives you away quite quickly. you're tyred and switched off, whatever. his voice was shaking in that debate. i think he was already shaken, whether because he got such bad feedback from within the party and cause he w