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Join me for Live Election Coverage on Leith FM this Thursday night

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Yes there may be other options on Election Night (even if they have been neutered), and Channel 4’s promise of alternative coverage is intriguing. But there is another option! I’ll be hosting Leith FM’s overnight coverage, starting at 10pm. Those of you in Edinburgh can tune in on 98.8 FM, while everyone else in the world can access the stream at www.leithfm.co.uk. We have a team of studio pundits lined up, as well as reporters attending a number of the counts to report back. While we will be looking at the local candidates, there will be lots of time so

Lib Dem candidate calls “Two Horse Race” tenuous and regards national vote as more important than seats in a hung parliament.

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Who plays Lib Dem Two Horse Race bingo? Whenever you get a leaflet from the Liberal Democrats during the current UK General Election campaign, you can be guaranteed two things – a rather interesting bar graph, and the declaration that “It’s a two horse race” and “only the Lib Dems can win here. The first person to spot it when reading a leaflet should shout “Lib Dem Bingo!!!” At least in our house. Anyway… Yesterday I conducted a two hour debate on Leith FM with four candidates from Edinburgh North and Leith and Edinburgh East, with Mark Lazarowicz (Labour), Iain