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Caveat - I'm not saying it's done already, or a certainty etc. - go vote, whatever your proclivities...
But, since you turned of voting age...is this the most foregone conclusion election? Certainly is for me, in terms of polling and public expectation. 2010 was my first as I am 33 years young. Summaries below for the 3 major parties in England:
I missed be able to vote at the 1992 election by five weeks - so 1997 was my first election and I was by then 22 about to turn 23.
The last 2-3 years of the Tory government going into 1997 was abject with a string of pompous politicians caught having affairs and Blair had made Labour appealing to the masses - it was a forgone conclusion and Labour won in a landslide with 418 seats to 165 for the Tories. They followed up in 2001 only losing 6 seats and won comfortably again in 2005 even after the illegal Iraq War.
For a while in the late 90s/early 00s i reckon Blair was the most popular PM of my lifetime.
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Elections in your lifetime on 11:06 - Jun 30 with 2086 views
I think previously the most forgone conclusion election was 2001, in that Blair had shown himself to be a competent PM and outstanding communicator, the country had got used to a Labour government and they were solidly ahead in the polls and had been for years (apart from a blip with the fuel crisis).
Four years previously there was still a lot of uncertainty regarding what Labour would actually be like.
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Elections in your lifetime on 11:10 - Jun 30 with 2049 views
A lot of people thought that 1992 was in the bag for Labour. There was even a victory rally, a few days before election day, at which Kinnock failed miserably to look and sound like a rock star. If I'd had any intention of voting labour then that performance may well have put me off. I voted Libdem in that election. Major won it for the tories.
I was just a little too young to vote in '97, which seems the last time the result was this clear.
I remember being in a 6th form class during the '97 election period, and a teacher asked the class about how we would vote if we could. More than 50% said Conservative - and this in a state school in a year Labour were due a landslide. No doubt influenced by the knowledge Blair was planning to introduce tuition fees. Unthinkable now though.
This is the most foregone conclusion to an election I can remember. But also the least ideological change between an outgoing and incoming government of competing parties.
The older I get, the more cynical I get, and the more I realise that George Carlin was right.
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Elections in your lifetime on 07:08 - Jul 1 with 1668 views
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