Elections have been predictable in the UK for decades. It is how they worked, the Conservatives in power then Labour then the same again. <br /><br /> The United Kingdom’s elected representatives have long raised comment that the posturing so often aimed at embarrassing the other side might not fairly reflect their responsibilities; 2015, however, might see a less clear-cut outcome, and take the wind out of some of those sails.<br /><br /> This year makes political history, the first to gather in the same studio seven party leaders for a televised debate, not just the usual suspects.<br /><br /> It did not look like the traditional big ones could carry this election on their own.<br /><br /> The smaller ones upset the apple cart, and they will insist on a say in how the apples are stacked after they are all counted.<br /><br /> They will have that say, in spite of a more than 100-year-old electoral system that has never worked in favour of smaller political formations but rather the large.<br /><br /> The UK is divided into 650 parliamentary co
