The Green party want to put Her Majesty in a council house.
She already effectively is in one (or more accurately, several national government houses). Putting her in a normal one and selling off the existing ones would just save the taxpayer huge amounts of money spent maintaining such places; all though in turn we might get less money from her paying the bedroom tax, presuming she actually pays it.
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Anyway, the polls have become fascinating recently. From what I'm seeing whether or not Sinn Féin actually bother to turn up for once and get involved in a coalition could ultimately prove to be the deciding factor, with neither the "left" (Labour, SNP, Greens, Plaid Cymru, SDLP) or the "right" (Conservatives, Lib Dems, UKIP, DUP, Alliance) quite getting enough votes to form a majority coalition. Of course, May is still a while off and one of the two sides may just manage to outrun the other, but either way, a coalition of one of the two groups looks likely.
Some are speculating on a grand coalition, which I personally find unlikely. Going into coalition with the Tories would be a far more suicidal act for Labour than it was for the Lib Dems, and would most likely leave the Greens and the SNP as the countries primary left wing parties post 2020 (assuming Scotland is still with us), with disenfranchised Labour supporters who were more interested in
keeping the Tories out rather than
getting Labour in leaving in droves.
Another possibility is a minority government. I feel that one of these would be unlikely to succeed in governing effectively, with the rate at which bills get passed into acts dipping to a crawl; and that such a divisive climate could leave just a few dissident MPs on either side capable of getting through a vote of no confidence, even with the now raised threshold for such votes.
In fact, a deliberate vote of no confidence following the introduction of reforms bringing in some sort of proportional representation may be the only sensible (note this is politics where such things rarely apply) option, particularly considering the almost certain backlash at the tiny number of seats UKIP and the Greens will likely get proportionate to their not inconsiderable support (15% UKIP and 9% Green, according to Ashcroft).
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As for how I intend to vote, I'm as yet undecided. My constituency is a Tory safe seat, and as someone who would only vote Tory if it were tactically necessary to help keep UKIP out, my vote effectively doesn't count.
Purely in terms of policies I'm most inclined to agree with the Lib Dems, but considering that in reality what they say and what they do don't seem to correspond I'm rather inclined not to vote for them.
The Greens, if anything, seem like a more likely option for me, presuming they bother to stand around here. I like their policies on the railways and some other areas, even if over all their extreme idealism and lack of pragmatism tilts me away from them. But the main thing with the Greens is simple, and that's that every extra vote for them and UKIP that doesn't translate into a proportionate number of seats only serves to create a slightly bigger scandal over the undemocratic nature of our government post election.
Of course, I wouldn't vote UKIP simply on the principle of not appearing to give more support to a bunch of xenophobic wingnuts; and a part of me is inclined to vote Labour just on the grounds of slightly improving their chances of getting the popular vote rather than the Tories.
As you can see, it's all extremely complicated and rather absurd, so you may ask "why bother voting at all, you stupid Horse?"
That's a great question, and one that makes me look rather foolish even if you don't word it in such a loaded manner.
Well, for me, it comes down to what I said earlier about emphasising the lack of democracy in our country. More votes for lost causes just serves to create more controversy when people don't get what they vote for.
I remember (I hope correctly)
@Famine once suggested that people should spoil their votes when presented with a representative democracy where nobody represents them. Of course, this only works if invalid votes are counted, and I'm not aware whether or not that will be the case in 2015; and the ultimate idea behind this was to represent the voice of the ambivalent, which I don't feel represents me. I'm not ambivalent to politics, and I feel that a valid vote wasted on a principle is worth more than an invalid vote wasted on a principle.
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TL;DR, The polls are fascinating; I like the Lib Dems in principle, but not in practise; I'm hoping for a lot of Green and UKIP votes that don't translate into many seats and for Labour, as unkeen as I am on them, to keep the Tories out of having another term in Government.
Just what Brick Lane needs - more leaflets.
Not that I really care where the Queens living, just I would have thought there'd be more important things to worry about. 
Anyone know when manifestos are likely to be released?
