Now’s the time

If there’s anything we don’t already know about today, then I’m struggling to find it.  The election will be declared for 6th May.  Brown will make a pitch which bears close resemblance to his interview in the Mirror today: “We have come so far. Do we want to throw this all away?”  Cameron will say that the Tories are fighting this election for the “Great Ignored”.  Clegg will claim that the Lib Dems represent “real fairness and real change”.  A hundred news helicopters will buzz around Westminster.  A thousand blog-posts (including this one) will have headlines to the effect of “And so it begins…”.  And we’ll all read the Guardian’s exclusive preview of the Labour manifesto: voting at 16, measures to help football supporters run football clubs, good police forces taking over bad ones, and so on.  But even most of that has been trailed heavily over the past few months.

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So let’s turn to something a little bit more unknown – the actual election result.