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Readers of this blog are unlikely to be "floating voters" who have not yet made up their minds which way to vote in today's General Election.

Please vote, tactically if necessary, for any candidate who is likely to unseat a Labour MP or to deny a Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate victory in a marginal constituency.

Most of the decent Labour MPs (such as Andrew MacKinlay, Bob Marshall-Andrews, David Winnick etc. ), who have actually rebelled against their party leaders' authoritarian, pettifogging, nanny / police / surveillance state policies and the incompetent jobsworth bureaucracy ruled by a risk adverse / blame someone else, form filling tickbox culture they have created, are not standing for re-election today.

Hopefully some of the more odious former Labour Ministers such as Ed Balls, or those tainted by expenses scandals like Tony McNulty or Hazel Blears, or those in marginal constituencies like Jackie Smith (who ticks several boxes), will suffer electorally today.

If the Conservatives or the Liberal Democrats do gain power tonight, this blog will oppose them also, if they renege on their promises to undo the wretched Labour policies which have eroded our freedoms and liberties and livelihoods.

John Reid seems to be the new Home Secretary.

How many Cabinet posts has he had now, none of which he has shown any talent for ?

He is yet another authoritarian left winger, who was in the past,, a card carrying member of the Communist party, during the Cold War.

John Prescott seems to have survived as Deputy Prime Minister but losing the massive Department which he presided over so incompetently.

Margaret Beckett appears to be the "World" Foreign Secretary.

It seems that in the ongoing Cabinet re-shuffle, Charles Clarke is no longer Home Secretary, and he is returning to the back benches.

About time !

No sign yet of who his replacement as Home Secretaqry is, or if the Home Office is to be re-structured.

Why has Jack Straw been moved to be Leader of the Commons and the role of Foreign Secretary being split in two - a Europe Minister (Geoff Hoon the former Leader of the Commons) and a Rest of the World Minister.

According to the bookmakers Willam Hill the latest Odds:

To Leave Office Before The End Of May:

Charles Clarke: 2/5 Yes, 7/4 No
John Prescott: 1/2 Yes, 7/4 No
Patricia Hewitt: 1/7 Yes, 1/7 No

Already the victims and relatives of victims of criminals who should have been deported when they had served their prison sentences, are emerging in the tabloids e.g. in the Daily Mirror

Surely Charles Clarke and / or Tony McNulty and / or Hazel Blears should resign from the Home Office ?

Unfortunately the media and even other UK political blogs are easily distracted from all the other unresolved ongoing scandals, which also deserve political heads to roll:

• Tony Blair and Lords Levy and Adonis over the Loans for Peerages scandal,

• Ruth Kelly regarding sex offenders employed in schools

• Tessa Jowell and her husband's Italian financial dealings, and the massive cost overruns for the London 2012 Olympics which are already emerging.

• Gordon Brown is keeping a low profile again, presumably glad that the media are no longer questioning his appalling incompetence over £2 billion of Tax Credits, two years in a row now.

  Has nobody noticed the record fuel prices and the utter lack of any action over them by the Chancellor ?