It did seem that the results expressed the popular will, rather than merely individual actions. Almost like Destiny, hence my references to Rousseau.

When you come to promote the manifesto I promise not to bang on about electing the Lords and AV all the time.

Most do ignore the plights of their neighbours, Labour MPs far less than most others.

The screaming left and the raving right have a far poorer record than those, like Brown & Harman, who have achieved much particularly for women in the past 3 parliaments.

If he has sojourned in Zimbabwe he will find few similarities.

Clegg is a conservative opportunist. If Labour doesn’t offer AV he will defo back Chameleon IF he can.

They’re quite right to cite the complexities of various “hung” parliament scenarios imho. There is likely to be a third party squeeze and the Lib-Dems may well suffer in Scotland and England. labour runs way aheead of the Scot Nats, so Lab may well be able to govern with a few Welsh & Irish Nats plus a few of the 30 or so Lib-Dems, who may well feel Clegg has misled them to catastrophic defeat.

Clegg will not encourage his people to speculate in this fashion.

I don’t altogether agree that individual voters may not try to vote for a hung parliament. tactical voting can be employed to this end surely? If it is perceived that a cons MP may lose and Lab has a lead in the poll nationally, then a Lib Demish voter who want a hung parliament may switch to Tory as he otherwise might not.

This is a mechanism, Rousseau’s concept of The General Will might offer a sort of rationale for a general wish for a Hung parliament.

I think that they will be a minority, and that more folk will want a clear cut result with a majority for labour for a few years, and others who are as yet undecided will favour the Tories in a like fashion.

We may see.