Brian Paddick's election diary has been edited and published by the Hate on Sunday. Typically for the Hate there are a couple of errors - the most important one being all over his Facebook profile:

Yesterday
Brian was campaigning in Crewe on Saturday - never give up, never surrender! (11:51am)
May 11
Brian was campaigning in Crewe on Saturday - who said I was giving up politics?! (5:21pm)

However, it has prompted an interesting thread on LDV. Some Lib Dems are offended by the fact that Brian hasn't exactly heaped praise on the party (he's given ammunition to the Evil Dale, you see - and no, I'm not linking to that tosser). I found the article quite endearing. Brian shows himself to have a sense of humour, and also shows up many of the flaws in how the party does things. Hopefully we can learn from them.

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My lovely fiancé has an update on the Johnny Vegas situation. Whether or not he wins this libel action, the main result of this will be that everybody will get to hear about his horrid, unfunny, sexist "performance", and unless (perhaps even if) the girl comes out in unmitigated support of him, it will be a disaster for his career. I really think he's shot himself in the foot here, especially given that the Grauniad's lawyers are no stranger to the odd libel case.

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Speaking of my lovely fiancé: I showed him this link, and he picked lots and lots of holes in it. I'd quite like him to do it publicly, though.

See this? This is a gauntlet. See me throw it down... ;)

They don't seem to think so over at Lib Dem Voice (see their sidebar), so who am I to argue?

Poll #1186464 Predicted Election Results
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: None

What do you think the result will be at the next UK General Election?

How screwed do you think we all are if your predicted result occurs?

My personal, rather pessimistic view (fed by entries like this on PB)? Labour have completely alienated their core vote, whilst at the same time being incompetent enough to also alienate the swing voters who usually hold the decisive power. Core Labour voters won't be able to bring themselves to vote Tory due to tribal loyalty, so they just won't turn out to vote at all. Meanwhile, the swing voters will have no qualms about voting Tory to give Labour a kicking, and won't vote Lib Dem because Liberals all just sit on the fence and I would vote for them because they're cute and fluffy, but it's a wasted vote, innit.

Unless there is a seismic change in the Labour party, I think the next election will be the Tories' 1997. I think we'll see a Tory landslide in terms of vote share, and a small majority in the commons. And I think we're all utterly fucked. Even if there is a seismic change, I think people think the Labour have been in power long enough... I hope for a hung parliament; but I don't think we'll get one.