Whatever your political inclination I'm sure you'll agree that the forthcoming General Election will be the most significant in decades. I've had a couple of weeks with the family to recharge my batteries and will be throwing myself into the campaign to come.
All the best for 2010.
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Actually, a General Election is not a certainty, as Gordon Brown could call a State of Emergency (for which Labour has introduced legislation suited to their aims) and suspend Parliament and elections indefinitely.
It is known that a number of moves toward this situation have already been engineered by Labour, though interestingly the MPs' expenses scandal had the side-effect of making it far less easy to put into action for the time being.
That is the silver lining of that particular cloud.
However we have to campaign and work on the assumption that there will be that election, whenever it is called (almost certainly March or May if it happens).
I doubt this general election will be more significant that 1997.
The election of Labour marked a dramatic change in British politics with devolution to Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and even London. At the same time our relationship with Europe has apparently changed fundimentally in the last year. The British army have been busier than in any other decade since we had conscription. And the economy has been through the longest period of growth and the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s.
Whoever wins the election in 2010 I don't think it will be as historically significant as you might think. It will be a parliament of tax increases and spending cuts whoever is in power. The winners of this election will have difficulty making more than a negligable difference and I expect it will be a very negative campaign by the newspapers, the blogs, and the parties.
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