I live in a constituency that has been held by the Conservatives (and the Unionists before them - unopposed in 1915!) for over 100 years.

It will be won by the Tories. It's the only time in my life that I will have an MP who I actually know as a nodding acquaintance oddly. There is not a way in the world that I would vote for him or the conservatives for the rest of my life (or UKIP).

I will still vote even though it might seem pointless historically. Though the current Conservative MP was elected on a turn out of 50% - so perhaps there is always a small forlorn hope.

To myself personally, it won't make a lot of difference whether the Conservatives or Labour win - unless either of them decides to totally abolish pensions which I haven't spotted on any of the literature but would make things harder for us. I am like quite a lot of over 60's approaching retirement. We are lucky to have no debt and some savings PURELY based on house price inflation. Our children have now left home and are independent and self sufficient. I am probably better off than at any time in my life as we have relatively small outgoings. I think we inherited a couple of thousand quid along the way when one of the parents died but have never relied on outside money. We decided when we had children that my wife would rather be at home and look after children and we decided that rather than bigger houses and holidays we'd like to help where we could with University fees etc not to land them with more debt than they needed to have.

I realise that others have not had the same chances or have not been as lucky. Most of our luck has been that we were able to afford a house. That house we bought when I earned £8000 and my wife £6000 cost £31,600 and we lived in it for only 6 months as I moved with a job. It was sold a year + ago for £560,000 and will be worth over £600,000 now. It's a 2 bed semi with no parking and a downstairs bathroom.

What gets to me is the chronic unfairness that exists and has grown over my lifetime. I earned reasonably under Thatcher (over average wage for a while but always less than 40k a year) but watched a world getting more unfair. When the labour party came in I thought they would create some sort of balancing act. They didn't. And it strikes me that they would now all sell their principles for power - most of them have over the last years.

Noone has knocked on the door or canvassed at all, perhaps it is pointless for them to waste their time and they are just going through the motions. We had a UKIP leaflet through today so I think we have a full set now. I think it is right to read what people put through not least to laugh at some of the lies and some of the misleading bits. Fracking is an issue round here and the phrasing of the Tory candidates leaflet is interesting - when he gets elected he'll I'm sure get told how to vote on the subject. My wife's experience through her work at the lying and cheating that people do routinely in their daily life to maximise their income at the expense of others is often there - the same people often bemoaning the scroungers and have nots.

Based on the 50% turnout last time - anyone could win if people bothered to vote. A quick check and mental arithmetic over the last century of a rock solid seat suggests that if any of the elections had 100% turnout they could have had pretty much any outcome.

My choices are Independent, Green, Lib Dem or Labour - all of which will not change anything here in the short term - apart from I will have indicated what this particular voter thinks is right and by vote will be counted. I'm still floating a bit as the Labour party have been a let down.

If I get one thing from this election so far it is about whether you want to do something towards a fairer world or not. And that's worth voting for as things do change.