Tuesday 6 April 2010

They're off!

Finally, finally, the general election has been called. Standing in Downing Street outside No. 10, flanked by his ministers, Gordon Brown has fired the starting pistol, and pleaded with middle-class voters not to desert him.

So where does that leave voters like me? I welcomed the election of Tony Blair in 1997, tired and disgusted after nearly two decades under the Conservatives, but started some weeks ago to notice the various Labour ministers not quite telling it like it is. (You'll wonder perhaps what took me so long.) As for the Liberal Democrats, they're always on the brink of that breakthrough into the corridors of power but they never quite make it -- same old story every election for the last three dozen years.

It is said this will be one of the closest elections in a generation...

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