Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, on Mumsnet for a webchat

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Do post your advance questions here.

Sorry about the question marks.

I'm amazed that eulogies like that qualify as journalism. I mean, I wouldn't even want to see an article about Clegg written in quite such effusive terms, much as I agree with him.

OBM, yep, perfectly possible. Father Christmas does it too

LOL @ Bat

That is clever if the case. Flippin geeks

impressed at gordon brown being on here, think he answers alot clearer on here in text than in his interviews, shame really. I have horrible feelings about friday but I guess nothing is inevitable as he says

There's something very heavy-handed and Labour about that video. Much as I think the Big Society is a stupid policy.

DS1 just found my alias out tonight.........I have made him promise not to tell anyone, however I feel a namechange coming up !

Short of pictures showing David Cameron and Nick Clegg sacrificing virgins, it is inevitable that there's not going to be a labour government.

A recent stat was that 49% of people say they'd vote Lib Dem if it looked like they could form a government. Surely, the questions are:

• how many of those already vote Labour and are unlikely to do so this time.
• how many of those currently voting Lib Dem would be willing to vote labour.

With the rancour between the two parties they could be handing the country to the 30% core Conservative base.

Interesting FT article on Gordon Brown.

I really am skeptical of the polls

Well in truth, I hope they are not right - I find it so hard to believe that people think Dave will be a good PM

Crucially, though, MrJ: "if it looked like they could form a government"

It doesn't yet, I don't think. I think a surge in Tory stats could make plenty of till-now Labour voters reconsider their LibDem protest vote.

I don't think they necessarily do LadyBlaBlah - they just don't see another alternative to Gordon Brown. Nick Clegg's popularity is probably more being none-of-the-above than anything abouut him.

Wubblybubbly, unfortunately Uncle Rupert doesn't want us to know what his newspapers say.

Well I thought that was pretty impressive. Thanks for coming on.

Agreed onebat - and they don't (and probably shouldn't because they don't have the experience to do so).

The problem for me is that a lot of those Labour voters aren't Labour voters at all ... and we do need some coordination between the parties now.

roffle onebat- to be fair... your name is the kind I would use if I was looking for a Jane Doe for an article etc... sorry.

[outrage] at CaptainNancy!

I instinctively think the maj are erstwhile Labour voters, don't you MrJ?

There is a problem, though, in that I think that many habitual LibDem voters will scale up to Tory, rather than Labour, if push comes to tactical shove.

MrJustAbout - Two in five Tory voters are only voting Tory to keep out Labour, though, so it's very possible that a good chunk of that 49% could also be people who vote Tory with a clothespeg on their nose.

(can't remember which poll that was from, but it was one of the ones from the past week!)

I think the actual wording was "Two in five Conservative voters said their prime motive in voting Conservative was to keep out Labour, rather than any positive feeling for the party" or something along those lines.