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...

Signing in too. I have a Labour poster in my front window and I seem to by the only one around. But, lots of my neighbours, some I haven't ever spoken to before, have told me how glad they were to see it. You never know ...

All the big houses in the neighbouring (very) wealthy area have Tory posters. Funny that

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Bumper, I spluttered on my coffee at your Dale Winton/Gloria Hunniford crack on the GB thread

So....have been thinking all day about tactical voting in my constituency, which in the last election was 51.8% Tory, 21.9% Lib Dem and 21% Labour.

It really goes against the grain for me to vote LibDem, having voted Labour all my life and still being a supporter, would it really be worth voting LibDem given the last set of results?

I have only seen one Tory poster!

it was in Penge. It looked defiant, yet a little pathetic, amidst all the LAbour ones

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SHJ, I've only seen one tory poster too. In fact, that's the only poster I've seen in my area at all. Very little evidence of election activity around here (few leaflets, no canvassers)

I have been doorstepped by our local Tory MP!!!

She asked brightly if she could count on my vote at the forthcoming election.

I brightly replied "No".

She looked stunned

It's been no stop around here, lots of canvassing, leafletting etc... even though it's a safe LibDem seat. Not sure why any of the parties have put money here this time. There is someone in the next suburb with not one, not two, not three, but four Tory posters. The house next door is festooned in LibDem stuff, but no Labour posters in the same league.

Signing in, but tbh if we get electoral reform out of this situation I'll be over the fucking moon. So I'm broadly with Sophable and Len I think. (The rest of you are splitters )

And also, there are worse things than watching the Tories try to run a minority administration (if that's what it will be) - remember how much fun we had between 1992 and 1997? Happy days.

Taffetacat: it's a tough one and I know it would kill me not to vote Labour, especially this time. BUT, I'm with Polly Toynbee on this one despite all the letters in the G today. It's too important this time not to vote against the Tories I think, especially in seats like yours. Mine's a safe LibDem seat so I'll vote Labour, just to make sure the very nice local candidate gets some votes. I actually think a Labour LibDem cooaltion could be very interesting.

What have lefties got to be worried about? No one on the left votes Labour apart from tactically.

The Labour cabinet should be in the Hague, on war crimes trials.

Two illegal wars, 1.5mn dead in Iraq, another 1mn or so in Afghanistan, deaths in custody with the ringleaders promoted, terrorism laws used against ordinary people (on the left), torture, support of torturers, allowing foreign powers to render people without trial using British airspace, allowing military juntas to be bribed by arms manufacturers and then refusing to allow the prosecution...let alone their full support of monetarism and its disastrous effects in the UK.

Lefties? Don't joke. Imagine if the above could be laid at the doors of Iran, the place would be radioactive...the Labour party are a party of the right.

I am so hoping to run into our local Tory candidate before Thursday. There are many things I'd like to ask him. There's been no sign of him around and about though, so I'm thinking DC may have locked him in the holding pen with George Osborne and Jacob Rees-Mogg.

My dad lives in Richmond Park constituency and is becoming apoplectic about the number of Zac Goldsmith posters. Pa reckons that Goldsmith's teeth follow you around the room

I grew up believing in them too I'm not so sure that the Tories will have a workable majority though.

If they do have a majority greater than, say, 15 - which is still not a prediction borne out by most of the polls - then it will still be fun watching them scrape around for votes every time they try to pass a bit of legislation.

jenny60 - I am being really thick here. Of course I will vote, ideally Labour. The question is should I tactically opt for Lib Dem given last election's results in my consituency ( 21 pc each vs Tory 51% ).

Have re read Polly T's piece from Sat and its clear what she recommends in constituencies where Lib Dems are the main Anti Tory contender, but this isn't the case in mine. Its a 50/50 split.

taffeta, try the Vote for a Change site - it analyses your vote choice by postcode.

Policywonk, my Mum's analysis is that it will be the reverse of past Labour govts with small majorities - where they had to get everything past the left wing. Her feeling is that we will get a Cons govt with a small majority pandering to the worst of the old school right wing MPs to get things through.

I hope she is wrong

If find it more depressing that people think Labour are left wing (and themselves by association) than the prospect of a Tory administration.

They are more left wing than the Tories, though, Coolfonz.

The graph at the bottom of this page is depressing though . . .

Srsly takver, if they do that then they will Never Form A Government Again. I honestly don't think the UK electorate would stand for a government held hostage by people like Philippa Stroud.