Preparations for the General Election are moving along nicely:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sorry Mr Cameron but I really think we have heard it all before. So you've decided that the way forward, the way to win the next election, is to promise 200,000 new homes which will be sold at a discount for first time buyers.

Eavesdropping on a conversation between two ladies of advancing years on the station platform the other day, I heard the following exchange:

Zero inflation. Wow.

Wolseley UK has re-joined the BMF. Which is nice.

My first reaction was: hey, haven't we heard this before? My second reaction, on realising that yes, we have had something very similar before, was: what the actual (insert expletive of choice here)?

There appears to be some sort of election next week. So, in the interests of impartiality (which my regular readers will know is not something that comes easily to me), I've had a look through some of the manifestos to see what, if anything, the construction industry might be able to expect.

E-Day minus 1. Fewer than 24 hours to go until the polling booths open, the retired civil servants and constituency party faithful sharpen their pencils and get their rulers ready.

Blimey. I didn't expect that. There I was last Thursday night, idly contemplating whether to go to bed at 10 and get up at 4am when the count usually starts to get interesting when David Dimbleby announced the results of THAT exit poll and had me spluttering into my cocoa.

There is, according to the open letter in today's Telegraph, a "remarkable degree of consensus on the business case for tackling emissions.