Or things might turn out rosier than you expected on Thursday night. Go to the Labour website to send a message. Hack of the day The Glasgow Herald's Debbie Summers, for pinning the PM to the floor with claims that the NIO had massaged hospital waiting list figures. Quite why the Northern Ireland Office would be doing this is a mystery. First minted in 1849, it survived decimalisation in 1970 to become an alternative to the 10p piece, and didn't disappear until 1993.
Interested readers can reminisce here .
According to a computerised graphic, which visited me in the night, there have been 15 promises made every minute during the last 24 hours. To be fair, Charles Kennedy doesn't have a problem making promises at the best of times. But today he's off on the state of the health service, promising free dentistry and eye tests for all, not to mention a prize draw to become a heart surgeon for a day. William Hague meanwhile has continued his attempts to embrace apathy by courting the student vote. He wouldn't ask students to pay back their loans until they were earning 20k a year, and even then he'd accept CD vouchers and second hand mobile accessories.