With any election winner I can't help but get the depressing feeling that I will be worse off next year than I am now.

im voting for the icelandic volcano party.
its done more to stop immigration in the last 5 days than labour has done in the last 10 years

Well said Harvey. Although beware Lefty will pick out something in that sentance to be along the lines of or bordering rasicm.

Grow up.

I dont understand this either. I dont know why we need to countenance a "swing" which indicates historic voting.

Who knows what will happen after this week's debate. To be honest, I thought the debates would be damp squibs, but if the next two have the same impact as the first one, we could end up anywhere by 6th May.

Why are the T.V. only affording the big three a voice out of interest.

Why are the other party leaders not given a chance ?

The Broadcasting rules say that they must give equal amount of time to each party yet where is everyone else ?

It's based on parliamentary seats.

I am now beginning to think that the Conservatives have blown it. Cameron's "wooly" big society vision manifesto then Clegg's superb performance in the debate.

I can see that sinister, dour, jock grinning at us again, with Clegg as his puppet. Spunking NHS money hand over fist whilst the benefit culture grows and grows.

Self perpetuating? Of course. I made the mistake of thinking we had a modern, fair, democratic system.

I predicted a 20-30 Tory majority. That'll take a mighty turn around in three weeks.

Doesn't George Galloway have a seat ?

I didn't say it was right.

So do you think Super League should be decided by the team with the best points difference, or the team who wins most matches?

I didn't say you did.

And have passed a certain threshold (threshhold?). Was discussed on PM last Friday.

Not the same, and you know it isn't.

Well as we all know, it is not necessarily either. Perfectly possible to win the SL and not win the most matches. Anyway, that said, I'm not not sure your analogy stretches either.

German system of PR is good.

Problem for Cameron is I really don't think he can pull this around now, he is in a situation which Neil Kinnock got into in 1992, ie the public and even now a substantial part of the media is taking the mick out of him and in todays internet generation there is no escape.

Michael Gove was on Question Time straight after the debate and gave a far more assured performance than Cameron did. Yes he might not be in the mould of Blair for great speech making but he deals in facts and straight argument, and if he'd have been up against Brown and Clegg it would have been Clegg winning on style, Gove on argument, which would have been enough to keep the Tories ahead of Brown.

The sally cinnamon politico-predictometer foresees Gove v Jeremy Hunt running off for the role of Leader of the Opposition to the Blair-Clegg coalition government.

Blair????

Well this is the election of surprises. Labour needs something big to counter Clegg, someone who can stop the traffic IMO.

And remember what his mate Mandleson told the Labour conference...."If I can come back...."

More chance of John Prescott.

Clegg's star can only fall from it's current zenith. As mentioned once their EU policy gets air time the XFactor electorate will slowly fade away. Trouble is, he totally ed on Camerons chips as the voice of "change". Whatever that is.

Apostrophes, please!

Is it foreign affairs this week? If so, then Europe will come up as will Iraq and Afghanistan. And defence/Trident. Hmmm.