Made up my mind. Tories get my vote.

Style over substance - count me in.

Lib Dems for me.

If you're a Labour supporter you should be glad that one went away. I remember doing an exercise in uni about what would have happened if Labour had won in 1992. As Labour were committed to us staying in the ERM, they would have been the ones who suffered us falling out of the ERM, because the odds were that was always on the cards. The Tories would then have had a field day saying Labour couldn't manage the economy, and knives would have gone into Kinnock. Michael Hestletine would probably have been a formidable Leader of the Opposition and would have put a lot of pressure on Kinnock. Kinnock would have faced a lot of internal pressure as well as there were ambitious young figures in his Cabinet, eg Bryan Gould, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, all manoeuvring for their position.

In all likelihood, a Hestletine-led Conservative government would have been re-elected in 1997, probably with the other big offices of Foreign Secretary, Chancellor and Home Secretary, filled by John Major, Chris Patten and Ken Clarke, the figures closest politically to Hestletine. That would have meant the Tories came back into power just at the point of the global economy going through a decade of low inflation and sustained growth, and the Tories would have ridden off the back of it and possibly destroyed the Labour party which would have gone through a period of backbiting and in fighting and basically looked like they were permanently out of office. Blair and his chums could even have gone off and split the party and formed another SDP style alliance with the Lib Dems.

Big picture I know what you are saying. I meant the gut wrenching feeling as the results came in.

United kingdom independence party have my vote.

I remember that night well. They started the election night coverage talking about the key figures, something like 4.5% swing to Labour would give a hung parliament, 6.5% would give a Labour majority. Through the campaign everyone thought Labour would win a narrow majority. Then the BBC's exit poll produced the shock figures that Labour would be short of a majority and would only be the largest party in a hung parliament. The pundits spent half an hour or so talking about that, and whether Labour would be able to prove the polls wrong and get the 6.5% they needed to get over the line. Then the first seat came in (its always that Labour seat in Sunderland where they race to win the fastest count title every election). Lab hold, with a swing of about 1.6%.....

What the hell was that face pulled by Brown at the end of the debate? Never seen anything like it.

what about the face he pulls at the end of every other word.

How did you come to that conclusion from my post? I was lamenting the fact that the deal negotiated for GP's was terrible (from a patient/tax payer perspective).

PS - It's being not been.

Latest Opinion Poll - Labour 24% (!!), Tories 33%, Lib Dems 32%.

Guardian supports the Lib Dems
Times supports Tories.

Anyone hear Nick Griffthin on Jeremey Vine today

No, fortunately.

Yes...Nothing unexpected.

Griffin being cagey, Vine, quite unsubtlely, trying to catch him out, but failing miserably.

Instead of continually discussing the whole race thing with him, surely the better way to expose his obvious political ignorance, would be to talk about his policies on other matters, of which he knows little??

Brown is finished....He could discover the cure for cancer and still be unpopular....

The only hope now is that the Lib Dems can hang on in there and deny Cameron a majority.....Let's face it, before the election was called, if you said Cameron would be struggling for a majority you would have been laughed at....Whilst Brown has almost certainly lost the election, it isn't unexpected, Cameron struggling for an overall victory definitely is.

Looking back in hindsight, Labour must be wishing they had got rid of Brown when the knives were out not so long ago.....Brown's whole personality, or lack of it, has been his ultimate downfall. The public simply don't like him in the way they liked Tony Blair.

Sounds fair enough to me in there response.