The Election Blog, The Run In

More eaststrikewest blog action as the 2010 Election looms.

Posted Tuesday, 4 May 2010 by eaststrikewest in

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So we bet you're thinking to yourself - where was the blog to sum up the third live debate? Have eaststrikewest forsaken us? Well, to be brutally honest, after watching the third debate twice now we can't decide who won. It was very very close, so close in fact (with every leader succeeding in not making themselves look and sound like total cocks) that it's above critical debate. It's more of a case of who do you trust, and what policy is important to you!

Since our last posting Gordon Brown gaffed and called an old lady from Rochdale a bigot, when really he should have called her an idiot - where do all these Eastern Europeans come from indeed?! David Cameron is currently embarking on a mammoth 36 hour non-stop tour of the UK - what a wimp - we did a 30 day one in March! Who is he expecting to see at 4.00am other than the odd milkman (a key demographic we're sure!)? I think it'd make great TV if he dozed off mid-sentence whilst speaking to a group of floating voters at Westfield tomorrow night. Nick Clegg is clearly relishing his role as official party pooper, most newspapers are so desperate to smear him that now they're using old Liberal literature from 1992 about what they would look for if there was a hung Parliament.

And looking at opinion polls today, it's seeming increasingly likely that we will have a hung Parliament for the first time since the early 70's. Yikes!

Tomorrow we'll be putting together a viewing guide for Thursday and we'll also attempt to make a bluffer's guide to hung parliaments, so you can hoodwink anybody into believing you're a political behemoth. Stay tuned as they say.