Not long to the election now.
And I for one can’t wait – because the sooner it starts, the sooner it will be over.
Myself and colleagues up and down the land will be beavering away through the night to bring you the latest local and national picture in the vain hope of telling you who’s Prime Minister on Friday, May 8.
The honest answer is we probably won’t know if the polls are anything to go by.
We’ve seen the SNP become the darlings of the English media elite just months after being decried as the party who want to destroy the United Kingdom, the once all-conquering Ukip slow down to a crawl and the rise of the Greens despite the shaky performances of their leader.
So who will win?
The honest answer is no-one knows.
The rhetoric from the Tories has sought to split any centre-left vote between Labour and the SNP but that’s a dangerous game.
Surely if you’re the party in whose DNA the Union between England and Scotland is most historically fused then inviting the nationalist fox into the Westminister hen house just to try and ruffle a few feathers isn’t a wise move.
The latest polls put the Tories ahead and then the next one puts Labour ahead.
I don’t mind betting on politics so here’s my tip – no overall winner and Labour to form a government with help from the Lib Dems and Greens. The SNP will be there off to the side but not part of the coalition.
And now the good news – it won’t happen until the Monday after the election.
I get the feeling that next weekend could feel even longer than the campaign which went before it.
