General Election 2010

Greece - The economic joke Europe for the past fuck knows how long, and Iceland, a pissant hole of 300,000 people, with Kerry Katona as it's PM.

Great basis of comparison for a country that used to be compared with the US, Germany, France and Japan.

It's as if Man U were playing on Hackney Marshes.

I find that baffling in so many ways; we're a declining nation in a declining area of the world. We've had our time and we did very well out of painting the rest of the world pink on maps. When did we last hold strong international political influence? Surely that all went with our "special relationship" status and then the iraq farce?

Anyway, from the last Tory conference, the party elders apparently seemed quite happy with the narrowing margins - it will prompt their activitists into panic stations that some of the previous lead has been lost and will drum up more votes.

The swinging New Labour voters are more likely to be apathetic, and the danger for Labour is that these people will simply not vote, causing a '97 type landslide.

I think Nick Clegg is probably grinning like a Cheshire Cat until some day in May, when he'll go back to whatever he was doing before his 15 minutes arrived.