I don't quite get tactical voting.

I mean, I understand it, it's when some voters try to be as conniving and duplicitous as some politicians.

What I don't fully understand is why vote for someone you don't want as your MP just to stop other people's choice being elected.

It all seems a bit undemocratic or anti democratic.

Somewhere down the line it may even come back to haunt you.

I've heard it many times "to think I voted for him/her". When asked why the answer is often "because I didn't want that ( ... insert name)to get in."

The idea that you ignore the person or party you would really want in order to back someone with a better chance of defeating a rival does your cause or preferred party no good.

If we all did it, it would mean two horse races in every constituency and smaller parties would never be able to grow.

All these pictures of Alex Salmond with Ed Miliband in his pocket or Nigel Farage with David Cameron in his don't help. They are not intended to help you as a voter, but to confuse you.

They are designed to put doubt in the minds of voters.

So I suppose my plea to the party leaders is just tell us what you are going to do if you are the government or part of a government and we, the people, will make our own minds up.

It is similar with protest votes. How many people voted LibDem in 2010 because they didn't like Labour, didn't want the Tories and didn't think the SNP mattered at Westminster.

A case of careful what you wish for right there.

Given the 2015 General Election is going to be close it is expected that tactical voting will be rife.

To me it smacks of people trying to be too clever by half. Just vote for who and what you believe in. You never know you might just get it.

NOT including the Greens in a TV leaders' debate in Scotland seems a strange decision.

The party has had representation at Holyrood since 2003 and has many councillors up and down the country.

The argument might be they have no Scottish MPs, but that's only one less than the Tories.

It might be they won't form a UK Government, but neither will the SNP so that doesn't add up either.

It is another example of the fankle the TV stations are getting into over election debates.

In a multi-party system it doesn't work like it does in the USA.

Let's just include them all from Nicola Sturgeon to the Monster Raving Loony Party line them all up in a Weakest Link style and knock them out one by one.