2 years. However I do worry about the economic forcast, most of which the tories will stick to Gordy. To me it looks like he could not make up his mind (again) and appears, as we say in Scotland like a "wee feartie". I assume that we must have sometime had a modern General Election held in the cold/the rain/the snow? Does anyone know if there was any real analysis on the effect on the turnout and the way the vote went? Or is the 'do not hold an election in the cold and wet' simply a bit of received wisdom? By the way, up here in metro Glasgow we have had a smashing sunny afternoon and now a cold but not unpleasant dry evening:) Quite apart from the fact that I think we'll beat the Tories by more in 18 months time than we'd have beaten them by this time, if we want to build trust between voters and politicians again we need to reverse declining turnout, and the way to do that is not to hold the election in the cold and in the dark, nor without a drive to get people on the register beforehand. Yes - The Canterbury Labour Party tried some controlled experiments on these lines in the 1980's.Paper throwing v knocking. In the Herne Bay -West Bay by election a sitting tory Concillor resigned as a personal protest about (if I remember corectly) the Tory Controlled Canterbury allocating council houses to N*****r's - Ah