One interesting feature about the timing of the election is that we get paid this weekend, and the higher earners amongst us (essentially, anyone earning above £100,000, and especially those earning above £150,000) are about to receive what may in many cases be a nasty shock. The Telegraph announced cheerfully/tearfully this morning that those on £175,000 a year will be £18,000 a year worse off. Given that that £18,000 is off post-tax income - a 16% reduction in take-home pay - that's a mighty steep drop to absorb quickly.
Now few voters will have much direct sympathy, perhaps, with those on such high salaries. But some of those people have friends, some of them may have time available to go canvassing this weekend, and quite a few of them will be journalists. I suspect there may be a few notably unsympathetic articles about Brown and Darling in the press this coming Sunday and Monday...
