Based on recent polls and allowing for a bit of slippage here and there, here’s the worst that could happen.
From an American perspective, the manifestos make it blindingly obvious that only one party has any faith in the British people.
How long will the laughter last?
The election result could be so finely balanced as to make the likely outcome of a confidence vote unclear until actually held.
What does the current leadership of the Party think? It has placed no strong reaffirmation of the Union in the election manifesto.
Also: Welsh Conservative leader disowns the national manifesto; and Villiers defends the party’s choice of candidates in Northern Ireland.
Having left England out of the devolution deal, they then tried to break up the country. And that was just the start.
“The Welsh nationalists, the Greens, and the Scottish National Party are willing to support Labour – at a price, and I think there is no doubt what that price will be.”
Nicola Sturgeon launches a document designed to open the route to sharing power with Labour – for a price.
The Deputy First Minister believes the Fixed Term Parliaments Act would boost the separatists’ power.
The Prime Minister stresses the threat that a Labour and SNP combination would pose to the rest of the country.
Gove’s declaration that the Conservatives won’t have discussions with UKIP if the Commons is hung is tactically understandable but strategically wrong.
It doesn’t matter how you cut it: the seat I’m contesting is very much the flashpoint of all of the ideological battles we face with Labour during this election campaign.
It is like a Monty Python sketch, with an Englishman manning the barricades and shouting at the Scots as they advance: “Watch out! That man is wearing a skirt.”