Commence Operation "Month Of Soul-Grinding Stupidity"... NOW!

[T_i_B]

So it's confirmed that the election will be on 6 May

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8603591.stm

I will get out and vote come what may, but I'm not looking forward to what I expect to be a poor campaign from all sides. I'm not looking forward to the next government either. I'm also kind of expecting the next government to be a bad one whoever gets in, what with all the expected cuts. :-(

I think I may repeat some of the UK Parties threads and the Who's Your MP? thread from the last election though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. I've heard the first 'hard-working families' of the campaign already

I think it was Brown who committed it, but it really could have been any of them.

The good news is that there are so many possible end results of this one, we can all say whatever comes into our head, and it stands about as much chance of being correct as anything else. Whatever we have to do is keep inserting 'perhaps', 'might' etc. into anything anyone says.

[non sociopath skin]

2. Indeed. IMHO yesterday's batch of polls suggest a victory for the "Sod Them All" party ....

... whatever form that ultimately takes.

So long as Griffin's Nazis get hammered, I guess I can live with the outcome.

The Skin

[BolivarianHero]

3. We're going to play...

How many politically ignorant urban Scotsmen would rather die in Iraq or Afghanistan than vote for a nationalist party?

[Nihil]

5. Closely followed by ...

... How many gullible urban Scotsmen think that there is any difference
in political parties?

You know, I have this sneaking feeling that the results from both questions
will be frighteningly close ...

[BolivarianHero]

6. SNP and Labour?

One is pro-independence, less tolerant of social conservatism, and more opposed to Iraq and Afghanistan than the other.

That said, if SNP is really that bad, then how about the SSP, Greens, or Solidarity, all of which are irrefutably much further from Labour than Labour is from Thatcher.

[T_i_B]

4. And the first "election fail" of the campaign came from UKIP yesterday.

I used the 38 degrees website on Tuesday to e-mail the candidates in my constituency to ask them to pledge to protect the BBC from overly harsh cuts and saving BBC 6 music.

UKIP didn't let their candidate answer the e-mail, but instead sent out a bizarre Littlejohn-esqe rant from their central office, essentially arguing that the BBC should be more like a low-budget faux news.

It's not the loony views of UKIP that annoy me, so much as their insistance that central office deals with all queries rather then the people actually standing for election who would be supposed to represent constituents if they ever get elected!

[T_i_B]

7. And today's "election fail" came from Labour

I'm not referring to Stuart MacLennan, who's been deselected as Labour candidate for Moray after calling Cameron a twat, Clegg a bastard and Diane Abbot a fucking idiot on twitter.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/scotland/8610934.stm

No, what has annoyed my is the election bumph that I've had from Labour. This included a postal vote application which had a freepost address for Labour in Newcastle, not the electoral comission or the local council.

It doesn't take a genius to work out that postal applications might not be processed by Labour "by accident" if they think that the applicant might not be voting Labour.

Postal voting is far too open to dodgy practices if you ask me.