I have booked tomorrow off work to spend several hours at my local polling station staring at a ballot sheet, searching for inspiration to place a cross in a box rather than just cross everyone's names out.
The penitent sinner has confessed and now seeks absolution.
After Gordon Brown's "bigot" remark yesterday, we can be sure that, in tonight's leaders' debate on TV - ostensibly about the economy - immigration will surface in a similarly incongruous way that home affairs did in last week's on foreign policy.
The unofficial pre-general election campaign got under way this week with both Labour and the Conservatives targeting specific groups, suggesting that social care could have a more visible presence over the months ahead.
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