Well, here it is, the day we've been waiting for...the chance to exercise our democratic right to elect the Government

Cheltenham is the sixth most marginal seat in the UK and one of the top ten LibDem/Tory battlegrounds in the country with only 0.7% separating the two at the 2005 general election. Correspondingly we've been bombarded with doorstep canvassing and oodles of flyers and pamphlets from these two parties for the past four weeks. Disappointingly but understandable given the above, the Labour Party have been conspicuous by its complete absence from the hustings here - yes, there's the odd 'Vote Labour' sticker in a window to be seen across town but they seem to be token gestures at best.

But it's all good fun of course - it's SO satisfying to flummox a party brown-nose by just resolutely refusing to see their PoV and to keep asking them for the figures and sums which explain how their party will get the UK out of the current debt :o) Ooooo, I am awful :o))

Ultimately, like most things however, the election itself will soon be forgotten and all its paraphernalia will be flushed down the drain like so much other disposable-ness. Forgive me for sounding like a political cynic - I'm not (the scandal over MPs' expenses aside, and the seemingly unbridled and rabid right-wing print and broadcast media bias which has been much in evidence this spring) but I do wonder at the seemingly vast financial resources the main political parties can afford to mobilise in the chase for No. 10

Ah well, good luck to whoever it is...they'll certainly need it!