Hung Parliament

With practically half the UK population on the Labour Government’s payroll, including six million of working age on welfare and a million extra state employees over the last decade, the result of this year’s election cannot be gauged by opinion polls.
Whilst Britain needs a Government with a clear mandate, at this stage a closer result is more likely.
I would argue that a hung parliament is preferable to a narrow majority -- such as the one John Major had to contend with.
If Britain's third party were to support a minority government it would expose them as immature and priggish, and marginalize them as just the protest party that they are.
They would be ridiculed for propping up a discredited Labour Government, and one false move in any coalition with the Conservatives would earn them the blame for a crisis snap election.