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Gordon Brown calls 6 May general election Prime Minister Gordon Brown has confirmed that the UK general election will be held on 6 May.

Flanked by his entire cabinet, Mr Brown said it was the "least well-kept secret of recent years".

He said Britain was on the "road to recovery" and urged voters not to put it "at risk".

But David Cameron said the Conservative Party offered a "fresh start", while Lib Dem Nick Clegg said only his party offered "real change".

Mr Brown made the announcement outside Downing Street, after a 20-minute meeting with the Queen at Buckingham Palace to seek the dissolution of Parliament.

Yay! Lets talk politics!

I'm still very undecided on who I'm gonna vote for this time round. I've got a nasty feeling that it's going to be Labour.

For the Americans reading this, my take on our political equivalency (is that even a word?) is this:

The Tories (a.k.a. the Conservative Party) are our nearest equivalent to your Republicans, only without the gun and religious nuts. They all have public school educations and speak with plummy accents. Cameron, their party leader is famous for his airbrushed face.

Labour always used to be very left wing, socialist and Union focussed. Nowadays, they're not particularly distinct from the Tories other than their lack of public school education. Gordon Brown, the current PM is famous neither for his face or for the way his suits fit him perfectly.

Liberal Democrats. What it says on the tin really. A bit wishy washy, in my opinion and seem to exist soley to moan about the right wing politics of every other party. their party leader, Nick Clegg, looks about 14.

There are a bunch of other minor parties that tend to be single policy jobs: British National Party, Green Party, UKIP and so-on. None of them are serious contenders.

Feel free to correct me if you think I've misrepresented them in any way.

In summation, I think that the two leading party's politics, there is little to choose from other then which mug irritates me less. Today that's Gordon. Tomorrow it may (but is unlikley to) be Cameron.