Jack Butler

Student, English and Creative Writing

It has to be said that a large proportion of Ukip candidates in these elections hold views that ordinary people in the UK find contemptible, particularly on social issues. As the party finds itself with a greater share of power, it moves further into the spotlight.

Gareth Milner

Writer who likes to speak his mind

Whether you're Labour, Liberal Democrat, Conservative, UKIP, Green Party or other, you will have good people in your party. It also goes to say that whatever your affiliation, you'll have bad people in your party too.

Will Black

Writer with a background in anthropology and mental health care

Mr Cameron's @Number10gov Twitter account follows more than 372,000 people. This means that each of those people is allowed to send him direct messages. To follow that many people and have their messages destroyed unopened seems rude, to say the least.

Peter Kellner

President of YouGov, political commentator and journalist

Starting in the early hours of tomorrow morning, we shall be bombarded with analyses of the local election results. Are the gains and losses for each party above, below or on a par with expectations? Is Ed Miliband on course to become Prime Minister? Has UKIP overtaken the Liberal Democrats?

Charli Radke

Freelance lifestyle, fashion and tech writer

It doesn't appear that the current scheme helps the existing home owner and it may make it even tougher for them to sell. What it does do is address the impending shortage of homes that this country is facing as well as facilitating the sale of those homes in a more affordable way.

Natalie Bennett

Green Party leader

I have found in many places traditional voters of different stripes, Labour and particularly Tory, who might not agree with every Green Party policy, but who will be voting Green on Thursday because they value their local Green Party's hard work and community knowledge, and have found their county or unitary council unresponsive, undemocratic, untransparent - and they want shed some Green light on its workings.

Jessica Rose

Award Winning Entrepreneur, Founder and Director of the London Jewellery School

As you may well know, last week Labour leader, Ed Miliband, announced that if Labour were to form the next government they would encourage businesses to pay employees the Living Wage (approximately £8.55) by cutting business rates or tax levels for those that do. As someone who employees 20-30 people (some on PAYE and others freelance) at the London Jewellery School, I whole-heartedly welcome these plans.

Nigel Farage

Nigel Farage MEP - Leader of UKIP

Whilst it is true that a handful of Ukip candidates have caused us embarrassment, others have been quite unfairly traduced. After the election I will go into details of false allegations and the downright intimidation that has happened to some of our good people.

Jonathan Lima-Matthews

Former policy intern at United States Congress in Washington, D.C. and political commentator

Let's get this straight: a vote is never wasted as long as you use it. And the people who say this are wrong.

Azeem Ibrahim

Executive Chairman, The Scotland Institute

Each successive government of course blames the last for the financial mess it inherited but the truth is that the blame game pales in respect to apportioning blame for the 2008 global financial disaster.

Jon Ashworth

Labour MP for Leicester South and an Opposition Whip

One of the most exciting things about representing Leicester is being part of city of so many faiths. We have our splendid churches, our mosques, hindu temples, synagogues, a Jain temple and of course our Gurdwaras. I'm proud that we are city that celebrates every major religious festival.

Robin Lustig

Journalist and broadcaster

I have a theory about why the anger has gone out of mainstream politics -- and it revolves around television. The telly-box is what the media studies people call a "cool medium" -- it is much kinder to soft-spoken, reasonable people with an ample store of pithy sound-bites than to tub-thumping ideologues who could make themselves heard in the far corners of Trafalgar Square without the aid of a microphone.

Gregg McClymont

Labour MP for Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East and Shadow Pensions Minister

Scots deserve answers on how their pensions will be protected if we leave the UK and the cost of doing so.

Peter Kellner

President of YouGov, political commentator and journalist

My, we are a gloomy lot. Last week, I discussed the possible impact of a triple-dip recession. Last Thursday's GDP figures suggest that Britain's economy has so far avoided this fate. However, it is also clear that the government's hopes of steady growth of 2 - 3% a year have yet to be realised. And YouGov research for the Resolution Foundation finds that five years of economic troubles have left a deep mark on public opinion.

Sir Christopher Meyer

Former British Ambassador to the United States and Germany, former Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission

The politicians' draft Royal Charter is supposed to be a wizard wheeze to entrench "voluntary independent self-regulation", Judge Leveson's Orwellian oxymoron, without crossing David Cameron's Rubicon into statutory regulation. Of course, it does nothing of the kind. It is state regulation by any other name.

Chris Leslie

Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury

An unprecedented triple-dip recession has been averted, but yesterday's lacklustre growth figures mean our economy is simply back to where it was six months ago. This continues the overall picture of a flatlining economy in Britain ever since George Osborne's last spending review. In fact, this is now the weakest recovery for over 100 years.