And Lo The Vicar Did Call an Election...

So the circus begins, with the apathetic general public subject to the blandishments of focus group thinkers masquerading as the height of political debate, idiot pollsters and zombie like party activists will stalk the landscape turning every stone and stomach for that elusive marginal tilting vote. However we are only to be subject to thirty days of shameless political whoring so there are some small mercies. But the general election does have a bad side as well, to paraphrase the good doctor shamelessly.

The poor benighted Lib Dems are of course ignored to a large extent with the BBC plugging its infamous 'swingometer' predicated on the stale assumptions of two party politics, and business as usual. There is an odd mood in the country at the moment people tire of Blair and 'New' Labour yet seem resigned to voting for four more years. Given the quirks of the UK electoral system and the inequities of First Past the Post there is no real hope(thank God) of the Tories winning. The voters know this, as do the politicians and this in combination with the odd mood of the country will be the cause of odd results and unexpected swings.

My prediction? well for what it's worth I think the Labour majority will be slashed to around fifty, the Lib Dems will hit eighty to ninety seats and the Tories will probably hit the high two hundreds. A hung parliament is also a distinct possibilty...