All bets are on!

Yes, the Gordon Brown episode is considered to be the turning point, sadly what it has meant is rather sanitised electioneering with all the candidates speaking to a selected audience, with no opportunity for challenge by member of the public i.e. the voters. I really dont need to see any of them being applauded by the party faithful at yet another 'hustings'. Last night, the audience did try very hard to get them ( all 3 of them) to answer the questions asked, but with little success. I am also getting sick and tired of Nicola Sturgeon, she is not a candidate for The House of Commons.

I've really enjoyed the campaign this time. And I would be staying up most of next Thursday night if I hadn't booked a couple of nights away without checking the date. I don't think it'll be the same perched on the edge of a hotel bed watching the TV with the volume down!

Whitwave

I don't think such a major statement as Miliband has made was aimed at the Scottish vote only to be honest. How can it be, he has declared a promise to the whole of the UK.

We get a tad immersed in our own countries but Miliband made a declaration that was sent to the voter in all 4 countries of the UK .

This could well be his Nick Clegg on Tuition Fees moment if he does not do as he stated and I don't think he will try and run a Minority Government so I am of the opinion he will do a deal with the SNP and show a very thick skin.

For what it's worth I dislike supply and confidence tactics, it is nothing more than blackmail , you scratch my back I will scratch yours.

I think you are right soontobe I think the funny awful Gordon Brown/Gillian Duffy "thing" was a wakeup call to all of them.

I think that the campaign has been boring. Very boring.
I think that they are going the way of the US, and keeping away from the random general public as much as possible.

By the way, DH has just come back from Scotland and 'word on the street' seems to be that many who voted No in the referendum are now voting SNP.

Again, just saying! x

GillT57 you certainly aren't offending me!

POGS. I dont either.
Even if he means it now, doesnt mean that he isnt go to feel differently afterwards.
A lot of people do not not thier own mind until the situation actually arises.

Todays polls showing a Tory lead, could of course backfire, by Labour voters turning out to vote and Tories becoming complacent.

Not taking sides, just saying!! My vote is secret! x

Many of the official political pundits such as Jeremy Paxman have described this as a boring election campaign, and I suppose from the point of no real clangers being dropped or skeletons popping out of closets, it is. But, I think the interesting bit will be as the result unfolds and the horse trading starts and all the party faithful (of all parties) start frantically backtracking and pretending to be pleased by the result. Terrific stuff. At the risk of offending some people on GN, I am hoping to see disappointed faces from Salmond and Farage.

I only hope that SNP don't do nearly as well as they think they will. They certainly don't speak for all of Scotland as was evidenced by the result of the referendum. Its so irritating to hear them talk (however guardedly) of there being another referendum. If they had won they certainly wouldn't countenance a rerun. Grrr!
We were just talking this morning about a potential Lab/Con govt! That would be entertaining if the running of our country wasn't so important. A hung parliament and/or rerunning the election will only cause more economic decline due to the uncertainty. Poor old GB. Sigh. My Dad used to wear a black tie after an election that didn't go the way he had hoped. He said he was in mourning for his country. I'm looking out a black arm band myself right now!

Well if he does he will have a large majority - bigger than the Tories can muster! But I am not sure.

I do think however that he was talking to the Scottish vote. It would appear that the SNP will almost certainly get all Scottish seats and I think what he was trying to argue is that "Don't assume that by voting SNP the Labour party will form a coalition with them" which implies that if they vote SNP there will almost certainly be a Tory government which is something the Scots abhore.

Well , I am wondering whether Miliband saying he will categorically not do any deals with the SNP was brave or foolish..

He has stated Labour will not go into any formal coalition with the SNP , will not enter into a supply and confidence deal with the SNP, he would rather not take the keys to No 10 than do deal with the SNP.

I don't believe a word of it .

I am guessing, that if deals are done, it matters quite a bit on the personality of who got a particular seat in a minor party, as well as which party.

I certainly won't be staying up to watch any of it. Can't see the point.

Same as, same as, same as.

Any Irish Grans? Could they tell us who is who in Northern Ireland please and who they are likely to support?

Well I am not really sure so perhaps someone will tell us but there are some Irish bods like the DUP and others also presumably Welsh bods plus not sure.

I may stay until the swing one way or the other is established and if it is to the Tories which seems possible then totter off to bed but if to the Labour - unlikely - then stay up and get pleased!!!

Who are the others made up of?
For purposes of coalition, they become important. I didnt realise there were so many others.

I plan to go to bed after the exit polls, as after that, they spend the next 2 or 3 hours ruminating over the same 6 results. Then get up and have a look.

Oh I am going to stay up and watch it unfold, I love to see the crestfallen faces when seats are lost! Also all the speculation about who will go into coalition with who is quite interesting think. I shall write a note to my employer (myself) asking for the morning of Friday off. For what it is worth, of the 3 party leaders being interviewed by the QT audience in Leeds last night, I thought that Nick Clegg came out as the most genuine. Hmm

Good isn't it? Not sure if I will stay up though as I will be voting Labour and don't think that I will have anything to celebrate Don't see any point in spending the night feeling glum.

Sorry. I don't know my arse from my elbow grumppa from my pompa

Yes that would be great wouldn't it pompa ? Can you imagine an Ed n' Dave "love in"?

"after you Dave"........ "no, after you Ed" "no Dave I insist"..........

I have found this the most interesting election in years. As you have pointed out Whitewave, the end result could be something this country's parliament has never seen.

Maybe it will herald a different voting system? x

Roll on the Con/Lab coalition.