...to be sick of this election - can we just vote, and get it over with?

[DameCatrionaSnidelyGoads]

It's all foreplay and no coitus at the moment!

Do we always have to have nearly six weeks of twatting about before we put an 'X' in box?

Not sure I can bear another THREE weeks of it....

Of course, unless your team is Labour, you won't mention it on Mumsnet!

Agreed.

It's worse than The X-Factor or that Ant and Dec insect eating program.

I can't take this media frenzy seriously.

I'm out. (Little Dragon's Den pun).

AndThus

AndThus "I think if you are still undecided then you are either a plonker or just indecisive generally in which case you'll just pick a team on the day."

...you do realise those are the actual people who will decide how this country is run for the next five years, right?!

I've just voted with my postal vote.
I'm covering my ears now.

It is now law that the election is held every 5 years, so if there are coalitions and vote by vote agreements, this will go on for 5 years, not one year! Unless the law is changed of course. First past the post works badly when more than 2 parties are involved but as a nation we have been utterly against any form of proportional representation in our voting system so have have, I believe, only 100 seats where voting really counts - the marginals. There will be differences this time if Labour lose heavily in Scotland. That means the Conservatives must do well in the English marginals to win but no-one is talking about this yet. It is all about Scotland. I, like the vast majority, cannot vote for the SNP, PC or for any Irish party. The debates are mostly involving minor parties who do not have candidates in all constituencies. They will not be the ruling party or coalition leader so all their populist and I costed policies are of no interest to me. Boring, boring, boring. No single party really represents me. Probably won't bother to vote as in a Tory safe seat!

No I was not being sarcastic, unlike you in your second paragraph. I have no idea of your political beliefs and was simply commenting on my own. As you probably know, a large majority of MNers are left wing so I try to balance it a bit by posting my support for the Conservatives.

Have no fear I shall not post on your thread again lest I be accused of even more heinous crimes

YANBU OP. In my case it was the twitting referendum - it's totally killed all my interest in politics and made me cynical and suspicious. All this guff about it turning people onto politics - well I'm not the only one I know who is fed up to the back teeth with it all.

I know I'll have to vote, but for whom and why I have no idea just now. I have to turn off telly debates/the news etc, as they really are all a bunch of self serving morons!

Millymollymama

"However, there are two provisions that trigger an election other than at five year intervals:

• a motion of no confidence is passed in Her Majesty's Government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed

• a motion for a general election is agreed by two thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats (currently 434 out of 650)"

Could be precarious for any government without a simple majority that depends on coalition partner[s] for survival.

The 2011 Act prevents a PM from calling an election at any moment of his/her choosing, which is how it happened before. The duration of UK parliaments was not enshrined in statute law until 2011.

silveroldie2

As you probably know, a large majority of MNers are left wing

The effrontery of them!

so I try to balance it a bit by posting my support for the Conservatives.

Must make you very popular, then.

Have no fear I shall not post on your thread

You can post wherever you like, I can't [and wouldn't] stop you

But if you want to storm off - feel free!

But I want to play "broken manifesto promises" bingo.

But to do you'd have to buy the manifestos.

And read them.

Which might put you in catatonic state. (Is it worth the risk?)

I tried to read the 1992 Labour Manifesto, once.

Christ on crutches, it was DULL

Buy them?, well bugger that for a game of soldiers.

i cannot wait, i have the 8th may off work so i can stay up all night....i have a mental list of people (realistically) i want to see lose their seat and i will piss myself laughing (literally) if they do then there is the odd MP that i have vowed to run about the street naked if they lose there seat
much fun to be had at an election, along the lines of 97 election of seat losing i hope

im in scotland so its safe to say most of the seat losers i hope are labour (but theres a few english mps that are on the list)

I have the 8th may off work so i can stay up all night.

I have as well, chips - glad it's not just me.

Think I've watched every night of election coverage since 1987 sad bastard that I am - which is why I want the voting to start and the twatting about to stop.

Scotland's what I'm looking forward to - be like the final scene of Reservoir Dogs in electoral terms (I hope)

well bugger that for a game of soldiers.

You can download them for nuffink as a .pdf Steam, but would you want that kind of material on your hard drive?

Oh chips - do tell!

Let's see your [s]hitlist chips

George Galloway is top of mine.

the South Thanet result might be worth staying up

Cameron, Boris and Ed Miliband are safe, so...

Just hoping that over the next few weeks, some more people will be persuaded that going to vote is worthwhile. Voter apathy bothers me more than posturing politicians.

Short answer is yes, you still have time to apply for a postal vote, fill it in and return, and go on holiday until 8 May.

Or maybe 15 May, in case of negotiations afterwards.

But as a total election geek, I am loving it!

heh lets see
jim murphy
margaret curran
alistair darling
gordon browns seat (i know its not him but his seat going to snp would be nice)
douglas alexander
danny alexander
cathy jamieson
david mundell

and the english

nick clegg
george galloway
ed balls
yvette cooper
michael gove
the 2 ukippers

i vaguely remember the 92 election but didnt pay that much attention to it, was 97 that really piqued my interest and stayed up all night whopping when all the tories lost their seats one by one

I am loving it. But then I am Scottish.

Very similar list to mine chips

I think Balls, Cooper and Gove might be safe

I had to google Jamieson and Mundell to find out who they were! Can't think either of them would be missed.

Be a shame if Charles Kennedy lost his seat, but suspect he will.

Without him the Lib Dems would not be as big as they currently are.

Postal vote is the way ahead - make the decision early then you can ignore all the posturing bollocks without feeling guilty that you you are Just.Not.Interested.

(And it's fun when the canvassers come round "sorry, too late, already voted, goodbye")

Hasn't Darling already stood down? I'd add the Northern Isles' own Ali Carmichael, the vanishing MP. And am totally hoping #creepyjim is given his cards.