From our Cornwall correspondent

[nice_guy_but]

Message begins.

First day with my new employer today. As I'm on secondment this has made no difference to me other than the company name changing on my email signature. Meh.

Bored with the General Election already. Can it be 6th May already so I can vote and get it over with please? The brouhaha over the Digital Economy Bill (now the Digital Economy

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[k_sui]

Election query from an mildly interested, but totally uninformed, observed:

There's really no way Labour is going to pull this out, is there?

[nice_guy_but]

I sincerely hope not. I believe that Labour have dine themselves no favours over the economy and their reckless legislating, the Conservatives don't seem to have thought their manifesto through properly (and have revealed a worrying homophobic streak recently), and the Liberal Democrats don't have enough support to command a majority.

My bet is on a hung parliament and a low turnout. Hopefully that will shake the politicos awake and realise that the world outside Westminster does actually matter.

British Civics, Part II

[k_sui]

What's a hung parliament?

Re: British Civics, Part II

[nice_guy_but]

Basically where no one party holds an outright majority, so the leading party either have to tough it out as a minority government, form a coalition government with a smaller party (most likely the Lib Dems), or dissolve parliament again and have another election.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_parliament

[moonhot97]

Happy birthday! Hope all's well with you.