Motherwell & Hibernian Draw

The final day of the election campaign and to celebrate Motherwell & Hibernian fought a 6 - 6 orgy of a draw to score the most ever goals in a Scottish Premier League match. Nick Clegg went down to Eastbourne for his final attempt to stimulate the voters; David Cameron rushed off to the oil terminal on Sullom Voe - or somewhere equally remote - as he continued to seek the obscure vote; and Gordon Brown headed home to Fife. Latest polls show the Tories in the lead but short of an overall majority and still more than a third of those declaring that they will vote have yet to make up their minds. I know the problem. It is impossible to vote for that which many of us want - a hung parliament that forces political parties to work together to solve our desperate problems. We will have to decide on the day via a hunch or calculated tactical vote where we place our cross. I have said over and over that I regard the Blair/Brown government as the worst in my life time. Gordon Brown is a decent man, grumpy and curmudgeonly perhaps, but he has men like Balls, Mandleson and Campbell around him - and that's depressing. Should we vote for Labour or suggest "in the name of God, Go?" Do we feel that like democracy that is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time, that we should stick with the devil we know - and all his experience? Or do we rid ourselves of Brown to replace him with something worse? If Cameron achieves an overall majority it will be with the support of less than 27% of the total electorate and then, like Mrs Thatcher, he will be free to run riot with anti-social legislation that benefits only the rich. He will also do everything in his power to scupper yet again the Liberal revival. The last thing he wants is any form of proportional representation. The only way that we can curb the excesses of right wing dogma is with an anti-Tory coalition government of Labour and the Lib-Dems. Coalition governments in Britain do have a good record in tackling serious problems in war and in peace times. At the moment no one can call the result. Tomorrow we will know the make-up of parliament even if we do not know the make-up of the government.

We live in hope that this election proves to be more than a triumph of hope over expectation.

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