LANDIN'S LINE: Don't expect a 1997 moment for Cameron

LANDIN'S LINE.

VOTE 2010. POSTED BY CONRAD LANDIN

“And they're off!”, scream the headlines, although we know too well electioneering has been going on since the new year. However, only now will we see it in the open, with all three leaders trying to be different in their electoral tact. Was the team  show from Brown an attempt to depict the Tories as a one-man band?

Dave tells us he's fighting this election for “the great ignored”. Some might mis-hear this as “the great unwashed”, but he tells us this includes rich as well as poor. Who, you might ask, does this not include?

Meanwhile, Clegg chooses our very own Hampstead and Kilburn as the first destination for his battle bus. This is certainly one to watch, not only as far as the main parties are concerned, but also because we see two eco-warriors go head to head, in independent parliament-scaler Tamsin Omond and prolific writer Bea Campbell, who makes her pitch for the Greens. It's a bit like that scene in Monty Python's Life of Brian when the 'People's Front of Judea' declare that “the only people we hate more than the Romans are the f***ing Judean People's Front”.

And so it all began. But, to me at least, the outcome is still yet to be decided. But it doesn't look like this is a 1997 moment for Cameron...

6.49PM April 8, 2010

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LANDIN'S LINE is written by A-Level student CONRAD LANDIN during the General Election campaign. He is a former councillor on Camden's Youth Council and is the vice-chairman of the Labour Party's Highgate branch.