Polls and Searches

Two new features have been added to the blog today. We now have the ability to have polls so please get voting! They will usually be up for a week and then the results will be published. If you have any ideas for future polls, please make a comment below.

We also now have a Google search box - this does a couple of useful things. It will initially search through all the blog articles for specific words or phrases. However, it then gives you an option to search through all of the sites we are linked to or recommend - ie the specialist history or politics sites on the right hand side. This may give you a more useful result than using a regular search engine. Let us know how you get on with this.

Are the Tories wobbling?

This article from the Guardian suggests that the Tories electoral campaign may have hit trouble. Criticisms of David Cameron's background and political inconsistency appear to have hit home with some voters, and a recent opinion poll cut the Conservative lead to six points. If voting behaviour remained like this on election day it could quite likely lead to a hung parliament. What's your opinion of the current state of play between the main parties?