Tips for foreigners watching the UK election.

[Tory]

http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/index.html

This is a great site for an overview of voting habit and opinion polls. It also has one of thest free online prediction tools, where you can now allow for tactical voting.

Watch out for the BBC website when the election is called. For the last two elections they have provided a prediction toll that generates maps. I can't wait!

That site only predicts the Tories with 176 seats. I certainly hope that isn't accurate.

[Tory]

that said the former leader of the Conservative Party Iian Duncan Smith is well liked by Bush but not as much as Blair who seems to really get along with Bush and vice-versa.   

Iian Duncan Smith was the best! Smith for Conservative leader! 

Yes IDS is a great guy, but we couldn't have gone to election with him. Howard was the smart move at the time.

The Conservative Party elite was for the war in Iraq, but a large portion of the Tory electorate was not.