None of the above

We're now three weeks into this election campaign and it's clear what we want. Actually, it's clear what we don't want. We don't want Tories. We don't want Labour. We don't even really want Nick Clegg. But above all we don't want to give anyone the power to take us into illegal wars, to impose identity cards on us, to raise unfair taxes, to give inheritance tax breaks to the super-rich, to hand more power over to Eurocrats, or to bring in more ill-conceived legislation. We've had enough of them swilling at the trough while telling us to tighten our belts. In fact, we quite fancy a hung parliament, with no single party or clique exercising total control for another five years.

Most of the politicians hate this thought and the right wing press despise it even more and they will do everything in their power to stop it happening. The scare tactics have already begun and the warning voices will get more shrill as May 6th approaches.

My feeling is that we are going to give them exactly what they deserve - nothing. No mandate for any of them. All decisions will have to be made after great long debates and thrashing out deals. Compromise will be the only way forward and they will even have to work for their living. They deserve everything that's coming to them.

But will it be good for the country? My guess is that it won't make a blind bit of difference.