2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

Working with the Lib Dems is hardly preparation for trying to work with the DUP, those guys will have their nuts in a vice and have no compunction about applying pressure.

Off the Lib Dem leash, with a claim to the backing of the public for their programme and requiring everyone including the DUP to work together to vote them down - they could be much bolder this time.

I do look forward to them having to wheel half dead MPs on hospital beds through for key votes like the Major years though.

what is the situation with sinn fein and still not attending? i kind of assumed they would be attending by now?

half-dead Tory MPs, i love how everybody's trying to cheer us up tonight, it's like the Blitz

They will never attend. They do not see it as a legitimate seat of power. Xp

XP slogan isn't "might surrender eventually"

So with 310 they'll govern, lose the odd vote (as Peter Kellner is saying) but you know 'finish the job'.

Yea, that's the faint bright spot about the exit poll: as Labour are trying to say, the majority has vanished. It'd be wheeling in beds from hospitals again territory. Labour, plus the rump of the Libs and the SNP, would be able to play a pretty strong opposition.

Kellner's a Tory wank. The odd votes they'll lose will be the doozies.

but a much tighter majority?

xposts, yeah that's what i was wondering.

The only votes I can see them losing are ones where there are Tory rebels - I would guess around Europe.

what is the situation with sinn fein and still not attending? i kind of assumed they would be attending by now?

there's an oath of loyalty to the queen

every time they try to memorise the oath they keep failing it

gerry adams has sworn that no member of sinn fein will ever remember the oath of allegiance, as long as he lives

Christ I always hate this hot air talk between 12-2am broken up by results from NE.

am pondering how aggro Neil will get if the poll starts to revise below 316 Tories

Hope you're all right - proper coup by "the losers"

Galoloway Out

So it'll take the DUP to dismantle the NHS in England? What was all that about legitimacy?

Fuck I hate the Tories.

^

sitting here in q gloomy stupor. what is this "popular vote" bullshit. oh fuck off boris.

i like the way labour are dismissing the poll as if positivity can change the already-cast votes

I still believe that conservative-Labour marginals are going to be more in favour of labour compared to the bbc exit poll, and surely the lib dems want be as low as 10

maybe the margin of error could be 20 / 30 seats down for the tories

tory dinosaur, michael fallon on tv doesn't understand labour + snp combined will vote against the tories

ed balls didn't look like he was dismissing it. he looked and sounded defeated.

i took the oath but i meant Queen Medb

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he only knows what we know about exit polling so of course he sounds defeated

ed balls didn't look like he was dismissing it. he looked and sounded defeated.

SO IT's NOT ALL GLOOM

^party colours apt there lol xxp

Danny Alexander rumoured to be losing his seat too?

there's an oath of loyalty to the queen

Did this actually happen or am I going mad? I have this vague recollection of Adams and McGuiness heading to the Houses of Parliament (maybe in 1997?) and claiming some kind of office (a literal office, i.e. a room) that they were entitled to, but never actually taking up their seats. And something about taking an oath, but having their fingers crossed?

nah, i think Willy Hamilton (sp?) or one of the old guard actual left wing Labour MPs crossed his fingers once

Amazingly Fallon is actually Scottish, so we've had him, Andrew Neil, Marr and Gove on tonight. Need Fraser Nelson and/or Niall Ferguson to complete the set of right wing Scottish wankers.

and Gordon Brown

would things have been different with david or steve rather than ed?

i think there was some shit about adams and mcguinness using the gym at westminster wasn't there, some minor scandal?

you didn't have to say the oath to use the hydrotherapy spa, rain room, or get a hot elemis stone massage

Danny Alexander rumoured to be losing his seat too?

he was miles behind in recent local ashcroft polls - on just 21%

Are you the *actual* djmartian?

wow peston and robinson loathe each other

hello peston, business hates uncertainty you say, novel

business euphoria.

well tbf peston was rejecting the idea that the business community like the convervative party per se rather than stability/status quo, which is what robinson was pushing

Are you the *actual* djmartian?

yes, the same one that started on ilxor in september 2000, and music blogger on blogspot through the 00s,

hoping that my outburst of solidarity-in-despair twitter favs and facebook likes will somehow effect change

what a blast from the past - and tonight of all nights dj xp

well tbf peston was rejecting the idea that the business community like the convervative party per se rather than stability/status quo, which is what robinson was pushing

yes and the point that for many businesses uncertainty over europe is disastrous.

yes exactly and then he gave robinson a death stare and they cut away

Scottish turnouts look to be pretty high again

it's weird it's like if you offer people a genuine alternative to Tory austerity they get all excitable and vote for it

yes, the same one that started on ilxor in september 2000

I can't remember you posting for years and years and years

Robinson wrong to project his own views on the Conservative Party onto the entire business community.

there are many members of the business community who don't have a party preference as long as the party behaves like the Tories