Rich, I’m a private individual, not a spokesperson for the party. I’m entitled to my opinion and I’m entitled to think realistically about where we’ll be on Friday morning.

If Labour have been thrown out of power, they do not deserve to buy our support with any offers, even electoral reform, because the public will not buy it if they beleive it has been brought in as a means to buy us off.

Secondly, if the Tories have more MPs and more votes than anyone else, they should be allowed to rule, as a minority government, as the SNP do in Scotland as and the Conservatives do in Canada. Conventions can be brokered to facilitate this because attempts to bring them down and cause a General Election will be unpopular with the electorate.

Finally, on timing, this is all too early. Let’s not give the opposition a stick to beat us with. Let’s let the electorate decide and then talk about it all on Friday.

I think some people vote Tory, because that is the party (overly) rich people vote for and in cargo-cult logic, if they vote Tory they must be rich. Like how some ill people won’t go to hospital, because hospitals are full of sick people, so if they don’t go to hospital they are not sick.