Election 10 Bulletin Part I: So It Begins

The long awaited event has happened. Gordon Brown has gone to the Palace and the Queen has agreed to dissolve Parliament for a General Election on May 6th.
For many of us bloggers this will be the first time we have covered an election with a blog and we may well be a month away from seeing a different political landscape next month. Preferably with Labour starting a fourth term in office and the Conservatives suffering identity shock as a result.
But it will be a difficult and hard fought election and Labour has it's work cut out in persuading the electorate. Lets not forget that in the midst of mistakes and difficulties we brought forward New Deal, the National Minimum Wage, growth in International Development, paternity leave of two weeks, raising child benefit, and many more.
Lets not let the Tories even have the oppurtunity to take any of that away!