The Gooner's Abridged Guide to the UK General Election

As at least two of your Hipster Gooners have been spending the past 12-plus hours glued to various televisions, computer screens, and hand-held devices due to the UK general election, we thought we'd bring you some disconnected thoughts on football and politics. The more you know! Unfortunately, though we looked everywhere for some Arsenal-related election news, the dearth of party leaders from North London meant that the best we can do is point you back to John's exhortation to "vote Eboue." Oh, and Labour do have some very snazzy red rosettes that we think could be a brilliant edition to any Gooner's match day wardrobe. Anyway, we think you'll want to be forewarned about some relevant findings.

WHO DO THE LEADERS SUPPORT?

(*cue evil laughter here*)
Remember all those times you thought Villa weren't so bad, that they were sorta endearing for a team that wasn't Arsenal? Take it back. David Cameron, Conservative "fish in a condom," supports Aston Villa. He's even got an uncle who was a former Villa chairman. Oh, and in '07 Frank Lampard admitted to being a Tory and "really liking" David Cameron. Add that to the list of reasons to hate Chelsea.

Maybe we can buy Gordon Brown this summer.
Gordon Brown (Labour) supports his local team, Raith Rovers, who are Division 2 in Scotland. Not much to say there.

Not very sporty, are you Nick?
Nick Clegg (Lib Dem) has never publicly admitted to supporting a team. He has pointed out that it's "fashionable" for politicians to admit to supporting a football team, and the closest he's gotten has been to say that in his dream political football team, Gordon Brown would be in the reserves and David Cameron wouldn't be on the team. However, his "battle bus" was previously owned by Chelsea FC. We love you Nick, but those are some bad vibes...and do you have any idea what might have happened on those suede leather seats?

In news that actually could be considered relevant to the Premiership, both Labour and the Tories have stated that they are interested in making it easier for football supporters to be more involved in owning their clubs, so there's that.

On a final note, Islington North, the constituency which contains Arsenal, has not yet declared their results; we'll be sure to give you a heads up once we hear. However, it's gone Labour since '66, so we're not very concerned that the red and white will go anything besides red.