The commentators                    24-04-15

...on the general election

It will seem odd to Conservative supporters that this election should be so tight. It feels like there ought to be a law of political gravity keeping David Cameron in power, purely by dint of his achivements. He is fighting an election with soaring employment, falling crime, a renaissance in schools, zero inflation and satisfaction with the NHS at the second-highest level ever. If he fails, he will be the most accomplished loser in British political history – a fact which will make defeat more painful still.
- Fraser Nelson, Daily Telegraph
Mary Dejevsky
It has emerged that the Conservatives may mobilise an army of US volunteers to “get the vote out” on the day. She cannot imagine anything more likely to keep the average British voter resolutely at home. By all means invite American students to observe and even help with our election. Such exchanges broaden minds. But keep them chained to their desks as voting looms. Super-keen young Americans chivvying the Tory vote could hand Labour every marginal in the land – and vice-versa.
- Mary Dejevsky, Independent
This is a terrible election campaign leading to a fascinating election with an array of possible governments, including none at all. Most of the results are not on the ballot paper and who knows what unintended outcome will be the cobbled-together upshot of all those solitary single-party votes. I am not expecting the union of the liberals and the social democrats, the mechanical with the moral, but there has never been an election I haven't thought it desirable. The more Labour struggles with the SNP the more true and more desirable it becomes.
- Philip Collins, The Times
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