Depressed lefties sign in here...

[WilfSell]

...on the grounds that if we assume there will be a Tory govt, then the crowing triumphalism of all the Chinless Wonders and Thrusting Monetarists and Nasty Racists who'll poke in here to crow and gloat, will somehow force a cosmic rift in the time-space continuum. And it will be like 1992 all over again but the other way round.

I fear the best we can hope for is a hung parliament.

I've suggested hemlock for the Election Night supper thread...

no no just checked wikipedia the original blonde bombshell is still alive thank God I can insult him in good faith

Canneverdecide - with your "learning English as a second language" comment, could you please do me a favour, and vote with your heart not your head. The BNP needs your vote.

ahhhh, 1992...

I booked the next day off work telling my boss I was going to be busy "celebrating a new dawn for socialism"

...wrong on both counts. In the first place, I don't think that was quite Neil Kinnock's aim , and in the second...

spent the whole day bawling

Buck up everyone!

Latest You Gov poll has Cons on 32 (same) Labour on 30 (up 2) and LDs on 28.

it's all to play for!

Cons are supposed - if you remember eight months ago - to be running home with this one, with a massive majority.

not yet. . .

If I wanted to live in America, I would.

I'd never, ever have to worry about a 19% VAT/sales tax. That would never happen there.

I'd go knowing that 'big society' = big religion. And all that goes with it.

You want to pay nothing, then you will get nothing.

But there's no 'non dom'-running-for-public-office there because that is tax dodging, and even the founding fathers, big racists most of them were, legislated against that.

I'd expect more for people who had every opportunity to become cultured and wordly-wise.

Guess I was wrong.

I don't know what to do anymore, tbh.

I have to sit next to a hard line tory voter (who today proudly announced that she lives in Liam Foxes constituency) so if the tories get in I will be arrested for attempted murder on Friday morning.

The YouGov was Con: 35 Lab: 30 Lib: 24

ComRed has an 8 point Tory lead though.

Getorf - at least you don't have to share a bed with them

DH is, was, and always will be true blue. There's lots we don't discuss.

But there's still a +/- percentage error in polls, isn't there? Usually 2-3%? Which means the 'actual' result could just as well be Con 38 Lab 28. Or Con 33 Lab 32...

I'm gunning for the latter, obv.

Oh no Ewe! I read it wrong?

I'm not even sure I qualify as a proper lefty, but the thought of DC, I just. . . have to resort to ellipses really . . .

theyoungvisiter - yes keep turning them one at a time. Can someone who is good a Maths work out the growth rate required if we could all infect one waiverer each who then infected another and so on..creating exponential virus like growth. Is it too late? What do we need to whisper in their ear to pass on the infection?

WilfSell - what good is a poll that could be Con 38 Lab 28. Or Con 33 Lab 32...

I could predict within that margin without be a pollster

Oh Taffeta. There are no words.

Did anyone hear David Cameron on radio 4 today, when he was asked 'Do you support gay relationships and/or gay marriage?'

There was a very long pause and he did not say yes.

And people think I'm unfair to think the tories are homophobic!

Liking it TDiddy. Is there time to get an "I Recruit" T-shirt and stand outside local Sainsbury's?

Was momentarily allured by idea of volunteering for ferrying on Thursday. Then remembered involved in car accident the other day (not my fault!!!) and car written off.

I'm listening hard to you, 100x

Talks of giving lifts made me smile in 1997 my Nan arranged for her and 5 neighbours to be taken to the polling station by the local Tories - all of them voted Labour. Nan thought it would mean they'd have less time to pick up the real Tory voters and was her way of doing an extra bit to get a Labour Govt!

Could you TDiddy? How?

Hurrah for your nan, MD!

Magentadreamer - I love your gran!

I am slightly cheered this evening after realising we live in a labour stronghold with nearly 50% of voters choosing labour. May not have an impact nationwide but at least we are trying here

OBM - I appear to be getting the facts wrong though, so don't listen too hard. Mind you, this isn't the walk-in everyone said it would be, is it? We should take hope from that. And fight to the last.

omg, Nick Robinson on 10 o'clock news. I must, once again, focuse my ire on him.

It's really not that bad. We could win or form a lib-lab pact and if we don't the nobs will get it so wrong so fast that we'll be back much sooner than we think. To be honest, while the idea of a Tory gov. makes me feel ill and I have always voted Labour and belonged to the Party, they did take us to war (I left the Party over that) and the socialist nirvana so many of us hoped for didn't happen. I will vote labour because it's the best we lefties have, but I'm still very pissed off with the Party and won't forget the war and the wasted opportunities three labour governments which huge majorities had.

with huge majorities

WellSelf- I would just guess the polls to start off with and then the public would fall in line! The power of the media and pollster. Do you not think that there is a lot of "feedback" of the polls into the minds of the public. Time to get paranoid leftie out of the cupboard now that power is slipping!

Let's beat them at their own game: sign up attractive lefties to go out there on a charm offensive and whisper sweet promises to swing voters....

jenny60 - you are right about the war but I think the Labour govt is not good at selling there achievements in the public sector for example. Think about it...they are leaving Britain a much nicer place than they found it....