Ah, the perils of short titles! The finish line may not be in sight or even identified, but with the three chancellors last night and a Panorama on "How to win an election" studying election strategy over recent decades I think we can say that the race is on.

This is a very important election: it decides whether the UK will again be submitted to government of the rich, by the rich, for the rich and expected gratefully to tug its forelock, or whether we will have any chance of a government that makes at least a pretence of representing the cross-section of society.

There is no good choice in this election, but there are many possible bad choices (the old Etonians, the British Nazi party or either of its two shills (UKIP and English Democrats) at least). There are the wasted votes (Green, Lib-Dem), and there are no socialist candidates (yet, as far as I know - eg Respect, Socialist Worker, Socialist Labour, or anytype of communist).