weeks away from the next UK General Election, prediction is for a hung Parliament

In the UK the average of opinion polls asking people which way they intend to vote in the General Election shows: Conservative 38%, Labour 30% and Liberal Democrat 20%.

The pollsters' conclusion based on this is that the Conservatives will fall short of an absolute majority in the House of Commons by 21 seats.

This should be an interesting prediction in this country for the Shirtcliffe gang who think that the First Past the Post (FPP) electoral system produces a government of only one party.

No-one is surprised by the Conservatives being in the lead given that Labour has now governed there for 13 years, although the responsible promises that the three parties can make are very much constrained by the country's whopping debt, the third largest per capita in the world after Iceland and Greece (a reason for the big slide in the value of the £).

Full analysis here.