May the fourth be with them...
So, we're nearly there. 2 days to go. My current election bumpf count stands at:
Lib Dem 14
SNP 5
Lab 2
Con 1
Green 1
TUSA 1
Lib 1
No prizes for guessing who is really going after my vote, in what should be a keenly contested Lab-LD marginal.
I guess I have to be careful what I say now, with only two days to go - apparently because I'm writing on a blog I have some kind of influence.
However, given that the only election literature that I have had my hands on has been in my flat, I haven't had any other dealings with anyone connected to any political party (other than pestering candidates electronically - I mean by email and twitter of course, but how about next time we fit them with electronic tags?!) and I haven't talked about, much less seen, anything to do with postal votes, I might be okay to indulge in a little educated (I'm a politics student and amateur psephologist) guesswork surrounding the constituencies.
So, disclaimer out of the way (ie - that this is guesswork based solely on my own logic and reading of the election, predominantly through the use of opinion polling) I'll try to put together a guess at the 59 seats in Scotland later today. I'll also pick a few that I intend to stick a fiver on - thereby putting my money where my mouth is.
As a general outcome - I suspect we may well be in the territory whereby the Conservatives may get the largest amount of votes... and possibly even seats, but due to the convention that the outgoing PM gets to try and form a government, we may well see a Lab-LD pact/ coalition... but perhaps with Nick Clegg as PM? Is that a really outside bet - I mean, have I been drinking too much Clegg-ade? Perhaps... but one thing I am pretty sure about: this won't be decided by Friday morning.
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