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Celebrity Votes

In a world where celebrity is ever important, the 2010 General Election has seen political parties more desperate than ever to align...
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Stag-gering

He might have been seen as a family man, a devoted husband and father and a hard-working ‘man of the people’ during the Election...
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The 2010 Election in Quotes

April 6 - Lord Kinnock: ''If you want charisma, buy a ticket for the cinema. If you want someone to effectively manage the economy...
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The Battle for Fourth

No, it’s not the Champions League qualification struggle, but the fight to be the fourth biggest party at the General...
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A small minority

326.  It is the magic number of seats that a party needs to win if they’re going to boast an overall majority at the 2010...
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Bet ‘In Running’

So, at 7am this morning, the polling stations opened in what will be the closest General Election that many of us can remember.  Somewhere in...
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Next Prime Minister

They have faced hours of intensive grilling by the media, travelled thousands of miles and worked harder than they ever have done in their...
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Three Horse Race

UK General Election turnout has been in the doldrums for a while now.  Fifty years ago, over 80 per cent of us were turning out to vote in a...
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24 Hours from Power

So, with less than a day to go until polling day, there is little more that the thousands of candidates up and down the country can do to secure...
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Ballots in Sunderland

It’s a city that doesn’t often find itself at the centre of public interest, but for a glorious hour every four or five years the eyes...
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Own Goal

“Gordon Brown is the worst Prime Minister we have had in this country”.  Well, it’s a bold claim and we could argue for...
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Pier of the Realm

As random General Election tactics go, the launch of Labour’s bizarrely titled ‘Seaside Manifesto’ is right up there with the...
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Paddy Power pay out on Conservatives

The Election is over before a vote has been cast according to Paddy Power who are so sure that David Cameron’s...
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Bread mist

A month ago, if someone had told you that the 2010 General Election would be defined by a 65 year old lady from Rochdale, you’d have thought...
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Curtains

One of the worst things that politicians can do in the run up to a General Election campaign is to give the impression that they already think...
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Farage Against The Machine

They were the fourth party at the last General Election and a spokeswoman for UKIP has said this week that they are on target to more than double...
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Tweet in haste, repent at leisure

It’s got to be a pretty serious offence to face six months in prison or a £5,000 fine for a 140 character message on Twitter, but...
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No woman, no cry

He’s a man of fairness, promising fair...
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Green Dream

The Green Party have never had a Westminster MP and their prospects in 2010 are too close to call.  You can have 5/6 either way on whether...
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A personal message from David Cameron

Well, now I feel totally special.  I have had, through the post, a personal message from none other than Conservative leader, David...
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Step outside, posh boy

As their April Fool’s Day joke this year, the Guardian newspaper decided to feature an article which outlined Labour’s plan to embrace...
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An invisible parrot

It may end up being a little more than 15 minutes of fame, but the Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is clearly enjoying his time in the...
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Kin-nocked out

He’s a man who knows a little bit about failing to win a close General Election, and Lord Kinnock has this week boosted his party’s...
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The Big-ot Society

Whether he likes it or not, and whether he was justified in his startlingly non-private comments, Gordon Brown’s election campaign is going...
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The Rule of Three

Speechwriters will often tell you that a key method that you can employ to get your point across in an effective way is to repeat it three...
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Red Peppa

People say that politics is being dumbed down as ever increasingly media-friendly stunts are pulled by politicians all grubbing for votes. ...
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Bigoted woman

Ah, the perils of radio microphones.  They are so small, you see, that you just forget you are wearing one.  At least, that must have...
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Fourth Sector Pathfinders

If you need someone to cast a comical eye over the build up to the General Election, there aren’t many people better placed to do so...
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Deeply dippy

There’s been some atrocious TV coverage over recent weeks as news editors come up with ever increasingly bizarre stunts to make their...
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More Twit-less comments

In these days where everything that everybody does is posted directly onto the internet, it is impossible to say or do anything even vaguely...
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Egging them on

In one of the more bizarre General Election press conferences, Gordon Brown has accused journalists of ‘wanting someone to throw an egg at...
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Bad PR for PR

With a hung parliament the 4/7 odds-on favourite outcome for the General Election, the jockeying for position has been going on for some weeks...
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Shopping trip

After his surge in popularity immediately following the first televised leader’s debate, it has been no surprise to see Nick Clegg’s...
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It’s Now Or Never

Struggling in third place in the opinion polls and way behind the other two leaders in the televised debates, Gordon Brown has decided it is time...
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Fallout fallout

It may have taken the General Election campaign off the front pages for a few days, but the fallout from the Icelandic ash cloud might actually...
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OoooArrrrr You?

So, we have had the manifestos from all of the parties in Wales and Scotland, but there is another area of the United Kingdom that is also...
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Quite a Turnout

After two General Elections which have seen the lowest voter turnout since the Second World War, there are signs that the close-run nature of...
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Frightening Old People

Of all the possible General Election topics that you might have foreseen an argument about, which party is doing more to ‘frighten old...
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Red Faced Greens

They have never had a Westminster MP, but Green Party leader Caroline Lucas is hopeful that their duck will be broken in the forthcoming...
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Armageddon

The most recent economic figures released this week showed that the UK was tiptoeing, rather than sprinting, out of the recent...
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Blown away by our forces

Foreign Affairs was the subject of the second live TV Leader’s debate, with questions posed on Europe, Afghanistan and, oddly, climate...
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Doctor-ed Fox

All the political parties campaign on being tough on crime (and, occasionally, ‘tough on the causes of crime’) but this may well...
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Nutters

Let it never be said that Sky don’t understate their broadcasting, with the channel’s Leader’s TV debate being introduced as...
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Practical yolk

Over recent decades, flying eggs have become as much a staple part of a General Election campaign as kissing babies, corny poster campaigns and...
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The Man With The Golden Pun

For fans of the 007 movie franchise, the news yesterday that Bond 23 has been put on indefinite hold will have come as quite a...
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Notes in a scandal

I’m sure I have dropped some change down the back seat of a taxi, once, and I may have even left an umbrella or two in a cab when I...
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No Country For Old Men

The beauty of a General Election is that it pits people from all parts of the political spectrum, all ages, genders, backgrounds and...
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Change

If there is one single word that is defining the entire General Election campaign this time around, it is ‘change’.  Indeed,...
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Fudge

There are an awful lot of things that politicians promise during a General Election campaign.  Firstly, there are the prosaic political...
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Go Faster Trains

Now that all the major parties have launched their manifestos to the electorate, it’s now the turn of the lesser lights to share their...
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Soundbites

With so many television cameras, reporters and journalists following the General Election campaign, the search for a clever line or juicy...
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Big!

So, after Big Nick Clegg’s Big Performance at the Big TV debate last week, DaveCam has admitted that his Conservative party have a Big...
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The Scottish Conservative

Trying to find a Conservative MP in Scotland has long been like looking for a footballer who has managed to finish the Sun’s quick...
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Seat predictor

There’s no shortage of pundits, polls and predictions ahead of a General Election and the 2010 poll is no exception.  Barely a day goes...
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A Right Royal Mistake

We have already lost a Labour candidate over some unwise comments on the social networking site Twitter, and now we’ve lost a potential UKIP...
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Huge Lib Dem Election Gamble

With polling day edging ever closer, all the political talk continues to be about Nick Clegg’s game-changing TV performance in the first TV...
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Siralan

Under a year ago, SirAlan Sugar, the star of the popular BBC show ‘The Apprentice’, was picked to be Gordon Brown’s...
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Thirty odd calls....

It should have been a nice, relaxing General Election stroll for DaveCam in the company of his own people, in his own constituency.  However,...
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Scot free

In a week of TV political firsts, the live ITV leader’s debate wasn’t the only broadcast that made Election history.  Channel 4...
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General Eruption

We get a General Election once every four or five years.  It is pretty much our one chance as a democracy to grill politicians...
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Leopards and Spots

Politicians appeal to all sorts of different social groups in a General Election campaign in an attempt to gain ‘block’...
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Rantzen and Raving

The MP’s expenses scandal is one of the key issues in the forthcoming General Election, and nowhere is this truer than Luton South, the...
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Free Viagra to over 69s

It wouldn’t be a General Election without a wide array of amusing, minor political parties and after polling 6,311 votes at...
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I went to Hull once

Well, the poll that immediately followed the historic TV Election Debate made one thing quite clear; Ant and Dec would have done a better job...
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Our Brave Soldiers

So, history has been made and we’ve seen the three main party leaders slug it out for ninety minutes on live television.  Although...
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Sweaty Bet-ty

So, the TV debates are upon us and, as ever, the bookies have come up with a startling array of novelty bets to accompany the landmark TV...
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A lot (ment) of ideas

We all know that the main parties have launched their General Election manifestos this week, but spare a thought also for those smaller, regional...
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The Elephant Man

During a General Election campaign, one of the things that annoys the voters more than anything is the stupid name-calling that politicians seem...
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UK Gold

For weeks, politicians have been banging on about the ‘hole in the public finances’ and how they would cut the deficit if they came to...
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Fire up the power station

There’s an episode of the brilliant BBC drama ‘Doctor Who’ in which the Cybermen launch an attack on the world using...
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Two bit hooligans

In the true tradition of British politics, the Election campaign is being contested honourably, with all parties respectful of each other and...
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The great debate

It seems that Nick Clegg is being well backed to be the star of the first ever TV political debate in the UK with punters backing the Lib Dem...
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A future fair for all

It’s always one of the biggest photo opportunities that the political parties have during an Election campaign.  And,...
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Corrupt octopus

We all know that politicians are all searching for a great soundbite and a great headline in a General Election campaign, but a...
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I f****** hate Paolo Nutini

So, we have had our first casualty of the General Election campaign.

The Labour Party candidate in the Moray constituency,...
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Bored Balls-less

We’re less than a week into the General Election campaign and there are signs that everyone concerned is frankly fed up with the whole...
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It’s not easy being Green

They have never had a Westminster MP before but it is odds-on that the Green Party will be able to boast at least one member in the House of...
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Straw poll

He may be one of Labour’s most respected and recognised politicians, but it could be a very difficult few weeks for Jack Straw as he fights...
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Constitutional reforzzzzzzz........

There are many political issues which stir the public’s emotion.  Tax rises, cuts to the NHS, crime figures and ‘sending all the...
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Fajitas

A recent survey involved showing respondents a series of pictures of high profile figures and asking them to correctly identify the...
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Who Will Win The General Election?

So, the General Election campaign is under way.  What that means is, for the next few weeks, billboards up and down the...
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No tie to lose

And so, we’re up and running.  A month of fierce political debate in which we get to carefully consider which party is best to lead...
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Scrabble for power

This country is going to the dogs.  For 62 years, generations of us have clung to the same way of doing things and to standards and...
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All Bets Are On

It’s been the worst kept secret in politics (and in reality the campaign has been going on for months now) but the PM has been to see the...
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We All Stand Together

After the partial love-in between the three Chancellors on the telly recently, there are signs that, oddly, British politics is undergoing a...
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Clueless?

Have you any genuine idea where the main political parties stand on certain issues?  And, more’s the point, have you ever given...
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Prime Minister: Win or Lose

On the odd occasion that there’s a draw in a sporting event – the Calcutta Cup was a recent example – it’s the team that...
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The Three Brokens

I read a great piece this week by a betting specialist named Mike Holden who was explaining how Kevin Blackwell – the manager of...
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Vacuous Politics

When your secret Election weapon is a man who is about as popular as a 4am car alarm, you know that you have some big electoral issues...
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Tweetminster

With the growth of social media being a key factor in Barack Obama’s Presidential Election triumph, it’s clear that there is a part...
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Love It or Hate It?

It looks like the General Election is not the only campaign seeking our votes over the next six weeks or so. 

That embodiment of all...
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Ask the Chancellors

So, Channel Four effectively kicked off the General Election campaign last week by hosting the first televised debate of the 2010...
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Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell

It’s nice to see that lovely Nick Griffin man turning his British National Party from a racist, right wing bunch of thugs into a nice,...
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Green Dream?

It’s likely to be a strange General Election this one.  Rather than the vast majority of MP’s being from the three main...
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Budget Bounce

So, the Budget is over and the verdict seems to look fairly rosy for the Government. One of YouGov’s daily polls for The Sun gave David...
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The Hot Seat

Whilst there will be 650 odd seats decided at the General Election on May 6th, Labour deputy leader Harriet Harman is facing another...
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Cider-bullying

Quite what the polite, cider-drinking population have done to annoy Alistair Darling, we’re not quite sure.  The Chancellor...
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What’s brown and sticky?

If the bookies had offered markets on how many times DaveCam said the word ‘stuck’ in his response to the Budget this week, there...
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Master of the Web: Cameron

They’re a cunning bunch, this Conservative Party, I tell you.

If you head to Google and do a search for Gordon Brown, as...
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A perfect tool

With recent polls revealing more people are likely to recognise Kauto Star or Peter Jones from Dragon’s Den than Liberal Democrat leader...
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The Cable Guy

With more opinion polls pointing to the likelihood of the first hung Parliament since 1974, the Treasury have interviewed Liberal Democrat financial...
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BabyCam

Whatever the outcome of this May’s General Election, it appears that both DaveCam and SamCam will end up being in the public eye for the...
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The Blair Switch Project

With polls continuing to show them trailing the Conservatives by several percentage points, Labour strategists have decided that will be necessary...
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Less is more?

As election tactics go, withdrawing candidates and telling them not to stand is an interesting one.  And yet, that is what the UK...
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The Sofa Based Approach

Barack Obama conducted his election campaign via the internet, with web chats, YouTube videos and a concerted Twitter campaign to keep in touch...
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I should have become a watchmaker

According to a survey released this week, almost one in four politicians would not go into politics if they had their time again.  In a...
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More TV Debates! Woot!

Oh, Lord, please make it stop.

After announcing that the British public is to (have to endure) benefit from the chance to watch a trio of...
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Clegg-less

It would be fair to say that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has a bit of an issue in the small matter of ‘anyone recognising...
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Better The Devil You....Don’t Know

A new Guardian/ICM poll has predicted Election misery for Gordon Brown by revealing that 68% of people think Britain needs a new government and...
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Dog’s dinner

Sometimes, you have to wonder what politicians are thinking.  Several weeks before a General Election, Labour have been forced to...
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Brown: I’ll keep going

Gordon Brown has sent out a message to his young Labour Party colleagues by telling the BBC’s Woman’s Hour programme that he does...
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‘I’m posh’ says Cameron

‘I’m posh’ says Cameron. In other news: Pope is Catholic

In the least surprising news story since it was revealed that the sun...
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Dumbing Down

Is this what it has come to?

Our electoral system used to be about the cut and thrust of politics.  It used to be about...
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SNP call for mass debate

Whilst the proposed TV debates between the party leaders might be a ridiculous waste of time and be undermining the way our political system...
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Expenses mistake

Whether they like it or not, the expenses scandal is going to be the hot topic in this year’s General Election and the story is...
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A new Member?

MP’s bring with them a wealth of experience in business, law and other professions.  If the Liberal Democrat candidate in...
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Match of the Debacle

Downing Street has been trying to make Gordon Brown more loveable and cuddly over recent weeks.  His appearance on the Piers ...
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Heaving Bits Of Clothing

The Conservative party are 1/7 to win most seats at the forthcoming General Election, but do we really want a man running the country who...
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UK Voters to follow Iraq lead and stay at home?

Turnout in General Elections is always one of the factors the analysts are most interested in.  Although the turnout in UK elections remained...
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The ‘E’ Word

If there’s one word which the Conservative Party would like to ban ahead of the forthcoming General Election (and indeed, before any...
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Cameron tipped to win on camera

The Conservative party are 1/7 to win most seats at the forthcoming General Election, but do we really want a man running the country who...
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Date of Next UK General Election

When will Gordon Brown go to the polls? Not until 2015 if the PM had his way but unfortunately for Gordon UK law dictates a...
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