It sounds like you're about to start singing a 'John Lennon' song.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

This sums it up for me. The outlook, whoever wins, is utterly ghastly so the only real choice is which particular brand of ghastliness you can more comfortably live with. This is a game I choose not to play.

I won't be voting. My conscience simply won't permit it.

I don't ever remember moaning about May being unelected. She is as elected as any party leader can be: she won the support of Tory party members, so fair play.

If you don't think May called this because she was certain of a landslide then I can't help you. Why else would she call it now, rather than 6 months ago? Her stock was high, and she thought she'd be coronated. Any loss would be penance for such hubris. Democracy shoudln't ever be taken for granted.

If punk ever happened I'd be preaching the law, instead of listenin to Lydon lecture BBC4

No she didn't Leadsom pulled out before the members had a say, so she was elected by coronation, the very same thing she wrote an open letter in 2013 criticising Gordon Brown for and trying to goad him into a snap election. She's much less elected as a party leader than all of the others.

She should have called it prior to article 50 then it would really have been a Brexit election. This is not a Brexit election. The majority have now accepted Brexit and want to get on with it. Calling this election now was about nothing other than wanting to give herself a bigger majority and wiping out the opposition as an electoral force. She's tried to make this a presidential election but has made quite a poor fist of it so far. She believed she was so untouchable that she could fill her manifesto with unpopular and unfair policies and say virtually nothing about Brexit strategy.

A week is a long time in politics though and she could easily still get her landslide despite her deceit and hubris. Corbyn could make a hash of tonight's debate. The information we all get is from our own networks and from news outlets (i.e. second/third hand) so it's very hard to truly say how this is all playing out in people's minds and decision making across the country.

It's interesting to look at the breakdown of polling demographics that suggest that the biggest predictor of voting intention is age, which is also the biggest indicator of how likely someone is to vote. It's a much bigger divide now than ever before and a much bigger divide than social class.

I've not read anything that satisfactorily explains why. It will be interesting to see how this evolves in 10-20 years time as those in 18-25 age brackets arrive into the middle aged brackets.

This would perhaps suggest that it's the low(er) of turnout in younger (and BME) voters that will get May her majority.

People vote if they are interested in politics.

The older someone gets and the more sh1t they acquire the more likely they are in wanting to keep hold of it...ie income and assets....hence why more older voters turn to Tories.....The interest in politics ...when seen over large populations is....primarily self interest.

It's not going to change.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)