2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

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

^ Labour manifesto commitment 1997-2015

my step dad was a small business tory. nice person if you ignored that. literally nothing (eg QE money going nowhere near small business, tory big business favours only) wdve shaken him in his belief that tories favoured the little businessman.

Fuck a business community tho, right, brothers and sisters?

hate doing this so you can kill me if u like:

Lord Ashcroft ‏@LordAshcroft 3 minutes ago

33% of voters made up their mind how to vote in the last week. 11% decided today.

xpost, occasional appearances on ilm end of the year polls this decade, return to ilm since last december on selective threads, your right not on ile for a long time

local tv people getting their moment in the sun, there's something for the next few hours

djm - I hear Blur have a new alb out. have you heard it? xp

always nice to see Bedworth on national TV

lol

Apparently Farage may finish third in S.Thanet, so there's that!

sorry, no Blur

Interesting pedantry from constitutional lawyer Carl Gardner on Twitter. Ed doesn't have to strike any deal to become PM. Essentially, Cameron has to try to pass a Queen's Speech. If he can't get it through, Ed automatically forms the next government. With 310, it's pretty dicey to think he can pass a QS.

hurling myself aboard that liferaft, thanks stet

Theresa May terrified there by the thought of Tory backbenchers having the power they're going to have under this prediction. Tory party can't hold itself together over Europe at the best of times, and this will be the worst of them.

If they get 310, it's even less likely that Labour can pass a QS

That gets really interesting then. If all the parties that voted down the Tory bill can't find enough common ground to pass even a vanilla bill, then it's stalemate and I guess we're back to the polls

I'm ok with that.

speculation that previous labour voters have moved to ukip which have mangled marginals in favour of tories. the warning signs were in that north west, Heywood & Middleton by-election last year, it seems some people have fallen for a simple message, "ukip rhetoric" - get out of europe and all are problems can be solved.

Swing from L to C by 4%

in Swindon.

hey Noodle Vague, a word on the Lib Dems' performance there?

BBC fucked up showing the results!

i'm guessing they got a solid 5th place?

we need to build a wall along the M62 and secede i think

fuck that swindon swing is tory majority territory

they were solidly 5th again, yes, although I think they were within about 15 of the greens this time

really wish i'd bought cake on the way home tonight

Glad I did but now feeling sick from ramming it all into my fat face

LIB DEMS 3RD, DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK

lib dems beat greens in putney, booooooo

I'm feeling sick and I didn't even get cake xp

nudging ahead of greens, impressive

i've done a load of washing tonight, i think that's what's taking the edge of the worst election result in history

mind you the greens beat ukip for the first time too

fuck that swindon swing is tory majority territory

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Yeah, sorry. Looking on the down side all round now.

Need to wait for that first marginal.

almost finished my bottle of wine, i'm not gonna last m8s

Professor John Curtice says that the swing to the tories in swindon may mean that the exit poll is accurate

I had a healthy filling optimistic meal. Now I am eating a big lump of cheese and drinking wine from the bottle

the really hard bit over the next few days is not throat-punching the gloating wankers you'll run across irl

makes sense. i got a new mattress today. I'm going to make my bed, and then lie in it. *like this country*

Big contrast between my social media bubbles tonight. England is just having a terrible and depressing night, but Scotland is facing an absolutely epochal landslide and trying to figure out what that actually means. God we could use some actual results already

Nick Robinson off home to spend the night fucking his Thatcher realdoll

I'm drinking beer and eating crunchy nut cornflakes. it's not good.

fuck this country to its rotten bones

that's england

bitter farage raised a v slight smile.