Day of decision

This is it. No turning back. The campaign is over. All that is left is to now cast your vote and for the counting to begin.
We may have to go through it all over again sooner than we think. The polls suggest (according to the BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/election_2010/8609989.stm) the following;
Cons - 36% of the vote; 284 seats
Lab - 28% of the vote; 257 seats
Libs - 27% of the vote; 80 seats
Others - 9% of the vote; 29 seats
The magic figure is 326 - any party getting past that number of seats has a majority.

So who has had a good campaign? Here is my list (maybe one day I will produce some gongs like Kermode);
Best Media Personality Andrew Neil; humour and aggression in all the right places.
Most respected Politician Peter Mandelson, the dark lord has been at his menacing best. Watch Newsnight’s montage if you don’t believe me.
The disappeared No, not Percy Pig, but George Osbourne – is the economy the central issue or not? Then where is he?
Most Underused Politician Unlike boy George, Alistair Darling has not been in hiding, as by all accounts his judgement has been spot on, by the economic boffins that know about these things. Has been visible, but Labour may regret not using him more.
Numbers guy ‘Call me Dave’ Cameron, who apparently started yesterday “30 hours ago”. He clearly can’t count.
Best Speech Gordon Brown at the Citizens UK this week. And in fact every performance he has given since then.
Best Joke Simon Pegg on twitter; Gillian Duffy wanted to know about the immigrants and where all these Eastern Europeans are coming from....Pegg tweeted ‘Eastern Europe, maybe?’
Lacklutre Campaign tight one this, I defer to The Economist 31-05-2010 who said the Tories “have run a lacklustre campaign.” Can we blame ‘call me Dave’ for that too? Or maybe it is because the Tories have not been under as much scrutiny as the other parties?

Last thing to say is that, again to The Economist which has called this a ‘weird election’. Hmm – maybe, but what they could mean is that the result is uncertain. Tory minority government is still the most likely outcome (as predicted by this blog). Hold on to your hats and get the slippers and cocoa (other stimulants are available) ready. It could be a long night.