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I've no idea how a lot of people I know will be voting, my girlfriend included. In fact, my Grandma refused to ever tell my Granddad her voting allegiances and he died still never knowing who she supported.

I think you tend to find that art/media types (whether through occupation or general interest) are more left-leaning, so I'd be surprised if there were many Tories lurking on these boards.

I live in a very marginal constituency and as such, I'm quite excited - my vote could actually mean something.

as ever to vote Labour but it's a waste of time where I live so will go Lib Dems to try to keep the smug boy out of Downing Street.

As an ex pat of 10 years standing I don't have any interest in voting for the last place I voted in, I don't have any ties to that town and believe there should be a boundary change to add a constituency for ex pats.

I shall be voting labour.

... so am not permitted to vote. Completely disenfranchised. Rather sad, really.

Gordon Brown made the right decisions on saving the banks and made the right decisions on staving off depression. Unlike the Tory recessions of the 80s and 90s, inflation, interest rates and, crucially, unemployment are lower.

His policies on dealing with the global crisis have been followed or matched around the world - only the Tories disagree. If the Tories had been in power thousands would have lost their savings in Northern Rock and Bradford and Bingley.

As for personality, which seems to matter so much in this election, I like the fact that Brown can be awkward and miserable in certain situations. It makes him seem more down-to-earth. I don't want a supermarket meet-and-greeter as a prime minister and these are serious times.

Dave Cameron, who bats his puppy dog eyes and says he loves our country, can't resist talking it down - warning of Greek-style debt disasters and IMF interventions. His comments no doubt affect the markets and our country.

Let's not forget the NHS was set up at the end of World War 2 when the country's debts were bigger.

And what of Dave's Broken Britain? When crime has gone down by a third since 1997? Look at the new schools and hospitals built under Labour.

As for Nick Clegg and the Liberals, it makes you wonder what impact his predecessor Charlie Kennedy would have had in the TV debates as he is someone with real personality.

Go Fourth for Labour!

A little bit of politics, thank you and goodnight!

with a promise to get more involved in local politics/activism if they do get back in.

Although I was stirred by Gordon Brown's speech the other day. Anyway, it's all academic as I live in a strong Tory constituency and am reliably informed that I'm powerless against the little so and sos.

..

Oh wait a minute, Simon Cowell and Gary Barlow have told to go for Call Me Dave!!
That's that settled then!

Got nothing against the Lib Dems but I like Gordon. He generally gets the important things right and the trivial/PR stuff wrong. In time I've come to respect Darling too. God help us up here in the North of England if Dave wins.

Probably Lib Dem,although Green is tempting as I'm partial to a little Scritti Politti.

I've never ever voted but this time, after the BNP success at the last elections, I thought I would. However yet again I've managed to see a lot of the coverage of the hustings and have absolutely no idea what anyone's policies are. I think the only thing I now know that I didn't at the start of the campaign is who the Lib-Dem leader is. There's no time now to work out who is best and I hate the idea that my random vote for one of the main parties effectively counts against someone who actually cares who wins. If my vote could be used to exactly negate one BNP vote then I would do it but otherwise I probably won't vote again. There's no point in telling me that if I don't vote then I can't complain because I won't complain, I thought our local MP was a Tory until I saw a Labour poster a couple of weeks back with his name on it! I don't have any idea how different the country might be if we had had a Conservative (or Liberal) government for the last few years and I don't really know how I would know. It feels a bit wrong to be so ambivalent about it when so many people are so passionate but it similarly seems odd to spend 4 weeks caring about policies that I don't give a thought to for the rest of the time.

Labour - postal vote already in.

"no one in polite company of a certain age and social type would ever have admitted that in the past. "

Well I'm polite and have never had any issue with telling anyone who cares to listen that I vote Conservative.

Out of interest Five Centres what sort of place do you work that is so intolerant that people would find it awkward to admit voting for a mainstream national political party?.

I shall not be voting Conservative.

EDIT:- I followed Clegg's advice and followed my heart.
I voted Labour.

Anyone But Conservative

with a heavy heart, and the hope Alan Johnson will soon be named Prime Minister of a coalition government

...I didn't vote, having assumed the self-righteous and somewhat ignorant opinion that all politicians are corrupt, and therefore that my participation in the political process was a pointless act. One day it occurred to be me that if the only product of this militant idealism was my apathetic whining, then maybe it would be a good idea to make best use of the democracy we had while hoping for better in the future.

Since then I have always voted Liberal Democrat. Although I would like to think that I am above party politics the truth is that, having grown up and developed a social conscience during the Thatcher era, it be very difficult for me to vote Conservative, even though our family was ideally placed to benefit from their policies. I am sure there are people who grew up during the Blair era who have similar feelings about the Labour Party.

Rochford and Southend East has been a conservative safe seat for decades. It's currently held by the loathsome James Duddridge - a man whose only discernible talent, as far as I can see, is the ability to sniff out photo opportunities, position himself prominently in the frame and then bask in the reflected glory of other people's hard work and achievements. Come Friday he will still be our local MP, but I will be happy if he comes away with a dent in his majority.

Our MP, Mike Hancock, has come out in favour of homeopathy, signing an EDM to this effect. I had an exchange of emails with him and he still supports it.

That's my vote for him gone in the bin.

I might vote Tory, but the candidate's got an annoying name.

If you can't imagine what sort of place Five-Centres works in that might suggest that you move in different circles than some of us.Some of us remember what it was like to be on the receiving end of the Tories tender mercies and frankly the thought of being governed once again by that lot of snake oil salesmen fills me and I'm am sure others with a mounting sense of dread.Thanks though for helping me to finally make up my mind,ignore my previous post.Labour for all their failings will get my vote once again.Pip Pip Old Bean.

Not that it will make a blind bit of difference over here in "bigotland".

and that's from someone who was a member of the Labour Party not long ago. I just have lost all confidence in Brown. Under Blair he was a prudent Chancellor but as soon as he became close to being PM he started to splash the cash at completely the wrong moment.

I wouldn't mind but he didn't seem to know what he was spending the money on. He threw billions at the NHS only for a lot of the doctors and GPs to vote themselves huge pay rises on top of an already healthy salary. I'm tired of people in the public sector moaning about the level of their pay rise when many of us in the private sector haven't even had one for years.

...although I live in the safest of safe Tory seats.

I would never vote Conservative, but perhaps for fairly blinkered reasons. I just see the nasty party of the 80s and that's the way they will always be, to me. Maybe I need to accept that the world, and the Tories, have moved on since then. Clearly it's a different party now.

But then again, as the columnist Gary Younge said yesterday, the young David Cameron must have looked at the apartheid-supporting, Section 28-introducing, minority-demonising Tories and thought: "these are my people"...

And Labour won't be an option for me for some time. I took a vow never to vote Labour until everyone associated with the war had left office. That means not just Blair but anyone in government at the time. I feel certain there must have been Cabinet members who disagreed or at the very least felt uncomfortable with the decision to go to war but, for the sake of their own careers, kept schtum.

I live in a constituency were the current Labour MP has a slender majority over the Lib Dem candidate.

On local issues our Lib Dem candidate has been active in campaigns to save our local Post Office and some NHS facilities from closure- which gets a big thumbs up from me.

Also, the ever handy www.theyworkforyou.com, shows the Labour incumbent to have a voting record that manages to go against a lot of the things I believe (and things that I still struggle to believe that a Labour government would stand for). The edited highlights:

Voted strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards.
Voted moderately for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests.
Voted strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.

If my track record since 1980 holds true - never once voted for the winning candidate. I am clearly out of step with the places I live.
Around here the incumbent has a 442 vote majority, largely because the BNP and UKIP will not field a candidate against him. I am voting Labour as usual, but hope enough people will tactically do the same (even if holding their noses) to make a change.

that reminds me of how miserable it is to live under a Conservative government. I'm voting LibDem and hoping for a Labour/ Libdem coalition with a new PM. And a new electoral system by the time the next election comes around.

Not asking for much then.

(and yes, that is my real name down there)

but I'm not going to say who for.

Clue: It's not Labour or the Conservatives.

but I'll be voting Conservative - they will be handed a poisoned chalice.
I have voted Labour in the past but Gordon Brown is just a disaster - history won't even give him credit for being an able Chancellor when the true state of the economy is revealed.
It's going to be close and if the Labour government had any sense they would have replaced Brown some time ago. Alistair Darling or Alan Johnson may have just seen them home.
I'm just praying Ed Balls gets his "Portillo moment". Perhaps the only man in the Cabinet who is even more odious than Gordon Brown.

despite the fact with Theresa May as my MP it won't make much difference to her majority

I'm hoping that a hung parliament might shake things up a bit and that Dick, err I mean, Nick Griffin gets his arse handed to him in Billy Braggs old stamping ground

I live in an ultra-safe Tory seat so it's a vain attempt at a tactical vote to keep WebDave and his cronies out. By conscience I'd be Green but that would be a wasted vote. As a public sector worker a vote for Dave would mean giving my apparently gold-plated pension to Mr Osbourne and my kids education to Mr 'literally-chinless' Gove. And myself out of a job.

but it'll probably be Labour...

I've been a Labour man all my life, but am still finding it hard to forgive them for the war(s). Voting for the Lib Dems seems like the sensible thing to do, but my heart wouldn't really be in it. I can't imagine myself ever voting Tory, but that's just not an issue up here in Liverpool.

To add to the national flavour there are some interesting issues locally. I live in the constituency in which Luciana Berger is the Labour candidate (Liverpool Wavertree). She's the one who so upset Ricky Tomlinson by not knowing who Bill Shankly was... She is undoubtedly a career politican, but everything I've seen of her so far suggests that she'd do a good job. The Liberal on the other hand has made lots of grandiose claims in his literature (he helped to save the local paediatric burns unit, which he patently did not; he's saved "hundreds" of GP surgeries from closing in the constituency when there are only 104 in the whole of Liverpool; he helped play a part in the release of Michael Shields, which Shields' parents have denied; etc.)

I think I'll hold my nose and vote Labour again...

I'm there at 7 a.m. but I'm still technically a floating voter.
However, the litter-strewn five minute walk to the polling station will probably push me towards the Greens (it did last time).

Whilst always liking his music, I miss Screaming Lord Sutch more now than ever.
I don't think I appreciated him enough in this lifetime though.
Wish I could vote for him tomorrow.

probably. I'm in the 388th most marginal seat in the country, with the same sitting Tory incumbent who hasn't even bothered to get out on the stump. There again, he does have 12 other jobs (according to the register of interests), so I suppose he would find getting the time off difficult.

I'm ABC as well - I'd vote Labour if it would hellp but it will change nothing. I'm sick of this first past the post "democracy" - almost to the point of not voting. As one of the polling guru's pointed out last night, around 20,000 voters will determine who gets in, as this is what they think will tip the balance in the c120 marginal seats. Even worse, when asked, around 70% of voters in the marginals were unaware of just how critical their vote was.

Nobody wants a bad government; nobody wants the country to fail; but everyone tends to privilege their own interests. All well and good.

But sometimes you read something that makes you nod your head so vigorously that it’s in danger of falling off. Matthew Parris in The Times the other day did it for me.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/matthew_parris/artic...

David Hepworth wrote somewhere recently about the unforeseen factors, ‘events’, being what dominated the life of a government. Oddly, what will dominate the next isn’t unseen at all. It’s just been swept under the carpet. Listening to a vox pop on BBC breakfast news yesterday, I was spluttering in disbelief as a series of voters lined up to berate politicians of all stripes for ‘not telling the truth’ or ‘avoiding questions’. Well (and do the voice in your head here), we can’t handle the truth. If any of them came close to telling us the truth their poll numbers would have gone down the tubes.

Maybe I’ve got a Cassandra complex, but I’ve been telling everyone around me for a couple of years that there’s a bad moon rising. Far as I can see, there are two possible futures. Look at Greece, take a whole bunch of similar measures, make them as sensibly as you can, and hope that’s enough. That’ll be bad, by the way. The second is simply Greece redux.

I’m a teacher. I know pay freezes are on their way. I know redundancies are in the pipe. I’ll be okay (I think); others won’t. I’ll have sympathy for them, but I won’t strike. Because it won’t make a jot of difference.

Where will I put a cross? Genuinely don’t know, to be honest. (Safe Labour seat, anyway.) But I’m not kidding myself that a left-leaning government is going to stop any of the above happening. In fact, there’s a compelling argument to be made that, long-term, a Tory government may prove more palatable to the markets and assuage some of the more disastrous possibilities.

But that’s nothing more than guesswork. And so, frankly, is everything else.

you know it makes sense

... but ABC.

For all the PR spin I don't believe anything he says. The wife has a friend - old work colleague who is a Hang Em Flog them old school Tory MP. A recent local news item had the Ukip guy saying if you don't vote for me vote for him (x)cos he believes in coming out of the Euro. Cameron was asked to comment and said "Oh no (x) doesn't believe that he follows the Party line." - Oh no he doesn't and I'm sure many more don't.

so undecided between Lib Dem & Dave.
Erring towards Lib Dem (for example: intention for Electoral Reform, seemingly the only party with a thought-out environment policy .. and the local candidate is blonde)
24 hour to go - its make your mind up time

I've just spent the best part of an hour or so looking at the party priorities on the BBC website -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8515961.stm#subject...

On a personal level Labour will (hopefully) be the best for my family (2 NHS employees, 2 young children). More broadly, I'm a socialist. I just wish Labour still were too. Boom tish.

Oh - and I'll be going for our incumbent (Labour) cos' he does a decent job!

is the twunt formerly known as Gideon Osborne, heir to the posh wallpaper firm valued at over £1 billion with an estimated personal wealth of £4.3million (yet his only job has been an MP). He gained over 50% of the vote in the last General Election. Voting tactically is not an option here. I was going Lib Dem, but some of the above posts by Olthwaite and Sebastian Beach, among others, have persuaded me to vote Labour.

I live in one of the Glasgow constituencies.

I exaggerate only a little when I say that, if they filled a rusty bucket with horse manure and stuck a red rosette on it, it would be elected as a Labour MP. My vote, in effect, means nothing.

I won't be voting for any of the mainstream parties; they have all failed us and are clearly incapable of fixing what is wrong. My vote will be for the least-worst candidate on show. A feeble protest perhaps, but they don't give us a 'none of the above' option.

Having said all that, I'm amazed that anyone can look at Balls, Milliband, Harman and co. and think that they deserve another five years in government. Enough, already.

over the last 5 years. I couldn't care less what party he represents; it's the results he gets that interest me.

Blair was wrong about nearly everything, incompetent, economically illiterate, economic with la verite and the worst PM in my lifetime. In fact, since WW2.

Brown handled the banking crisis well but most other things badly and is the 2nd worst PM since WW2. (And considering I'm rating both Heath and Callaghan above this pair, that's a savage indictment.) He's also told too many lies: I refuse to believe they were honest mistakes he had to belatedly and half-heartedly apologise for later. Further, voting Brown means electing Mandelson - whose grandfather must be turning in his grave to see a man who has had to resign twice be made a life peer in order to serve as an unelected member of the government.

Clegg seems a top class individual and there are a few top class people around him. It's tempting but I'm not sure they would know how to govern.

Cameroon seems callow but still better than the alternatives.

is my MP.

And still will be on Friday morning. I live in a bullet-proof Conservative enclave and that's that.

However I shan't have voted for her. I've been Labour since I was 18 but I'm just not sure what the Left really represents anymore.

Whoever takes the reins needs to protect the NHS (lest we forget a unique jewel in our national crown) and social care. That's all I really ask.

Politics : anyone but Tories
Footy : anyone but Rangers (bloody Berwick!)

Always voted Labour despite living in Newbury, an even Lib Dem/Con split. However, with the Libs recent surge and the genuine chance of a hung parliment, I've already put my postal vote in for the Cleggmeister. Hopefully it'll be a Lib / Lab coalition that gets in, gets PR in, ditches the Trident replacement and ID cards, and also results in a Krystalnacht for the worst of Labour's MPs : Blears, Straw, Milliband Senior. Maybes get Alan Johnstone and Cruddus in as PM and Dep PM. Good times! (hopefully)

..... and then the Tories decide to ditch Cameron for his failure, hopefully all recorded and broadcast in full fat HD! I want that camera lense right in there reet up close in his moisturised face to capture his nonplussed, upset fizzog!

BR
FT

and hoping for a hung parliament and electoral reform. Coalition governments can work despite all the scaremongering. I've got my fingers crossed that the Tories don't get a working majority as I have an innate mistrust of them.

By the way, well done Spurs!

but my vote will be wasted as usual

in its own small way

if #toomanytweetsmakeatwat trended well today on Twitter?

I am voting Labour. The Tories scare me.... Phillipa Stroud - Tip of the iceberg!

in a marginal constituency ABC

I am reluctantly voting Labour to keep the Tories out. I've no real enthusiasm for Brown's lot but they're the only realistic option of preventing a Conservative win where I live.

I was slightly cheered about my decision by this line in a piece in today's Independent:

First, we have to remember that, as Noam Chomsky says: "Choosing the lesser of two evils isn't a bad thing. The cliché makes it sound bad, but it's a good thing. You get less evil."

I'd like to vote Green but there is no candidate in my constituency.

So it will be Lib Dem like it was in 2005.

and perhaps a good case study in why we ought to move to proportional representation.

Because there's no reason not to.

Any argument against them seem to focus on Cameron being posh and/or smug. Which is exceptionally childish and petulant. Even in the world of politics. That's like saying I won't buy Fairtrade "because the posh people do", rather than "it makes working conditions slightly better for people in extreme poverty".

Erm? Clegg is related to an old Danish king. And was the smuggest of the lot after winning the first TV debate.

Brown? The possibility is just too depressing for words of more bin taxes and covert undermining of the Christian faith.

And as to our involvement in the EU and (under Clegg) the euro? Erm... Greece? Has no one been paying attention.

I would love to be a liberal or a socialist. I really would. But the lib dems have some terrifying policies and socialism is a utopian ideal which is never fully achievable due to man's intrinsic selfishness.

So Conservative it must be for lack of any other alternative. (Even if only for 5 years)

Blimey. That's quite a statement. If so, why was he speaking in a church yesterday and what did his Dad do again?
You can accuse Gordon Brown of a lot of things. That is not one of them.

Forget it.
Not why I joined here.

Anyway, Steely Dan, arent they great eh?

man's intrinsic selfishness.

This is a get out clause. Actually it is projection, when people say that they usually mean "MY intrinsic selfishness." Intrinsically humanity is not selfish, just as it is not Happy or Sad. At a very basic level in neolithic times (and before) humane communities only survived through cooperation.

I've just come to the conclusion that I start to hate any party that's been in power for a long time. I hate Labour now, but I really hated the Tories in 97.

Unfortunately none of the politicians really resonate with me. For all their media training why do they all struggle to come across as human beings? Brown looks like he struggles to even get a sentence out of his mouth and whatever the circumstances Cameron always talks as though he's making a speech. Are there any of them that you could imagine having a pint with down your local?

Anyone see Gordon's phenomenal performance at Dumfries yesterday evening. Absolutely smoking...!

You get the impression from reading threads like this that hardly anyone voted Tory, ever. But the Conservatives won three elections prior to Tony Blair coming to power, two of them landslides, and I guess many of those here would have been eligible to vote in at least two. Now I'd expect a community like ours to have a liberal bias, but even so... it feels like there's some personal revisionism going on, given how popular the Tories once were amongst the general electorate. Anyone care to 'fess up?

since turned 18 in 1983....

Scotland is maybe a special case since a sliver of the electorate votes Tory and in various places Labour, LibDem and SNP votes are all meaningful, even in a firstpastthepost election. Being terminally pissed off with Labour (wars, authoritarianism, nest-feathering, the relaxed attitude to financial services that helped the 2008 banking crisis come about etc etc) the plain alternative in my constituency is LibDem. In a Scottish election with PR I have happily voted Green in the past (and helped elect MSPs to Holyrood) but under General Election rules a Green vote is a simple waste. Sad but true. I have my fingers crossed that the LibDem wins and Labour understands that it cannot carry on as it has.

Vote Tory? Georgie Boy as chancellor? Oh dear no ...

but let me fess up and say I voted Tory in my very first election back in 83.

It was a one-off. I knew no better. I soon learnt the error of my ways.

he say. "Help us, Obi Wan Right Dave Kenobi, you're

Reading this depresses me, because I would love to weigh in. But I can't, as an all but disenfranchised member of the UK.

Here in Northern Ireland (Hello! We're nuts!), you can vote for bigots, or losers. Its as simple as that.

The Tories have at least (probably for "fear of a hung parliament") tried to tie in with a Northern Ireland party, and introduce some realpolitik into the NI equation. It won't work, despite my vote, because people are set in their ways.

Generally (there are of course exceptions) if you're a Catholic, you vote nationalist or republican (SDLP or Sinn Fein), and if you're a Protestant you vote Unionist (DUP, Conservative & Unionist or, wait for it, Traditional Unionist Voice).

In the middle, are the Alliance Party, who I have voted for all my life, until now. They are a bit left leaning for me in reality, and probably a bit pro Europe. They also align themselves with the Lib Dems, though there is no formal link up.

So, I will vote Conservative and Unionist, and weep as the sectarian headcount begins, and pray for the day I can get involved in your conversations about the economy, health and education, rather than who blew up what, and who shot who, and why we hate Protestants/ Catholics.

Cheers!

feel a bit disenfranchised about the whole General Election vibe. Have lived in NI for 10 years and my MP refuses to take his seat in the Commons, so it's a bit hard to get worked up about.
Has been interesting watching slimy Dave courting the Unionists - watch him drop them like a stone when their votes don't help him.

I live two miles outside Nick Clegg's constituency in a Labour 'stronghold' (North East Derbyshire) and kind of wish I could have voted for Mr Clegg. Our sitting MP, Natascha Engel, seems to be genuinely hard working, so I don't have many qualms about having voted for her. The Lib Dems came a poor third place last time, with the Tories in second. I really just wanted to help make sure the Tories don't sneak it in our constituency, so it was a tactical vote.

In the past, I have voted Labour, but this time I fancied a change - if we had a different voting system, it would have been the Lib Dems who got my vote.

One final observation - for most of my career I have worked with conservatively minded people (and Conservative voters) who have foisted often quite unpleasant opinions on me - racism, homophobia, reactionary Little Englander shit, etc. Now that I run my own little company, I'm pleased to discover that most of my colleagues share many of my views. Even the ex Tory Councillor who works with me has professed dissatisfaction with the election and a lack of enthusiasm for Cameron and his ilk.

But I voted SNP.

I laugh in the face of David Cameron's bluster that a hung parliament is paralysed by indecision!

Also, if the Tories do win in Westminster, I will be down at the border with a shovel, doing my bit to make England an island. It's not that I have any issue with English folks (other than when the football's on; yes, you won the World Cup in 1966. No, our national team isn't very good. Can we talk about something else now? ...1966? Do we have to?) I just have that much of an issue with a Conservative government.

I'd emmigrate, but not being well-off (another reason I fear a Tory government - I'm close enough to destitute as it is, thank you) enough, I'm stuck here.

Why does that sound slightly sinister? Have voted Labour in every election since I became eligible to vote in '83. Saw no reason to change now and frankly never will. Could be a depressing 24 hours though. To paraphrase Derek & Clive, I would rather be a destitute than vote Tory. And let's face it, they'd hardly give me a helping hand if I did become homeless! Never heard a Liberal policy better than those offered by Labour, either.

I stood in the booth.

I actually seriously contemplated spoiling my ballot paper.

I have never agonised so much about where to put my "X". A lifelong Liberal, a big choice loomed. I no longer agree with their policies, I certainly don't agree with the views of my local Lib Dem MP.

I've voted for a spectacularly annoying Tory bint.

They'll hold a speculative emergency budget announcing a few changes to stiffen spines in The City. They'll wait until the City regains confidence. State-owned bank shares will rise in value considerably. The shares will be sold off at considerable profit to The State. By-bye budget deficit or, at least, a lot of it. No need for drastic cuts and taxes. Cameron et al will sit back and look smug.

Anyone else still waiting to see his face of utter despair?.

It's a bit late but I'm still here and looking forward to him trying to spin this as a good result.

Never hit a woman
Never cross a picket line
Never vote Tory
Always get your round in at the bar

the electorate got the result they wanted - its their bloody fault!

I'm guessing that 'Dave''s call to 'Nick' will go a little like this.

'Hello..Nick, you remember when we talked about the bomb? The bomb, Nick, The Trident bomb. Well, we've got this slightly ka-ka view that it would be good to keep it.....don't be like that Nick...I do like you, I've always liked you'

nail your colours to two masts?

Horse thieves would be easier to bargain with than that nice Mr Clegg now I suspect

Felt a little sick that Clegg publicly entertained the notion of siding with Cameron after polling closed and before the results were in. Roll on the next election. I'm voting Labour.

A fantastically disappointing result! I wanted to vote Lib Dem, but as they came a poor third in my area in 2005, I felt our sitting Labour MP deserved support and my hunch was right, because she only just scraped through in front of the Tories.

Meanwhile in Mr Clegg’s constituency, hundreds of people were denied the vote and were shut out of the Polling Station. Many who were inside the Polling Station were told they couldn’t vote – what a cock up. There was also a two tier system, as local residents were in one queue and all the students from the local halls of residence were in another. An acquaintance of mine is a local resident and she only just made it into the Polling Station just in time despite queuing from 8.30pm. The student queue was much slower moving and hundreds were left outside. Fortunately, Nick Clegg had a huge majority anyway, but in Sheffield Central the Lib Dems came second to Labour by only 165 votes.

To think how we scoff at elections in banana republics, or at the Yanks with their hanging chads! Christ, we need a new system and bloody quick.