Predictions for the People

Here are my 2010 political predictions published today in the Sunday People. (Would link but haven't worked out how to do that yet on phone.) Missed Gordon on Marr today, Labour people on Twitter are telling me he did well, Tories that he did awfully. Just what I expected! Will have to watch when I get laptop back.

3 January 2010

THE PEOPLE looks into THE YEAR AHEAD
2010 is set to be a landmark year - and here The People's panel of experts give their predictions for the next 12 months. It will soon be General Election time and feisty political blogger Ellie Gellard gives her penetrating analysis of the political scene.

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Politics by Ellie Gellard

What a disastrous year that was for politics. I predict 2010 will be better (which wouldn't be hard). This general election year should see a clean fight between the three major parties tearing apart policies not personalities.

The public needs its faith in politicians restored, not further destroyed. And here's some breaking news: the Lib Dems may serve a purpose in 2010.

With opinion polls as tumultuous as ever, and the Tories failing to seal the deal with the electorate, the time has come for the Lib Dems to hop down from the comfortable fence they have been perched on for so long.

If a hung parliament is really on the cards, Clegg's crew will have to decide which party has priorities closest to the ones which they hold dear. It's exciting isn't it - 2010 may be the year we find out the answer to the age-old question of what the Lib Dems are actually for.

I predict that all three of the current leaders will head their parties at the election but two will be gone after it. Politics is a rough sport.

Speaking of which, if the Tories get in, the Tory speaker will go. If Labour hold on, he'll stay. The Opposition really don't like him, bless, he's one of their own. Meanies.

Mandy (left) will earn himself another three titles in 2010. He hasn't got nearly enough.

The internet will play a huge role this year with politicians and activists tweeting and blogging their way through the campaign.

Though Hazel "YouTube if you want to" Blears may be sceptical, Brown, Clegg and Cameron must use the internet to its full potential. Expect online campaigning, debates and MPs fully into "engage" mode.


(NB I'm not sure about "penetrating political analysis" but there you go... And FYI Mandy isn't on the left [no political jokes required] I couldn't find the picture)