2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

not afraid to risk an ilafl-ing from nakhers there

mark the ukip voter needs to be disembowelled live on telly

I can't really even understand Tory voting. West Londoners and posh people sure, but who the fuck else? ugh ugh

refreshingly unstereotypical Green supporter on TV there

Young people eh?

guh John Sopel suggesting that Labour's campaign was "too left wing" wtf

Salmond on STV there tripping him some Churchill

personal hero & colleague of mine is a tory voter - one of the most important people i've ever met and as far as i'm concerned a brilliant individual. his reasoning is that the tory mp in his area is a local of many years' standing & is demonstrably invested in helping the constituency

in such circumstances i can fully understand a tory vote, but in no others

Ed Miliband's spokesman just called him David on the BBC - hope he has a second job.

gonna move to have tooting secede from the rest of south west london

(he's working class & comprehensive-educated btw, i've disowned virtually all of my peers xxp)

xxp that was John Sopel I think, BBC journalist!

hurrah, green > lib dem in tooting

i saw that it was predicted to be close and i voted accordingly, grimly lol'ing at my vote actually having some kind of effect

mark the ukip voter has the swagger of oasis

That 'Labour's campaign was too left wing' line is killing me. And not in a good way

Lib Dems look to have been voting Tory AND UKIP, which is worse.

I've never known anyone who has admitted to being a Tory voter... oh one guy I worked with for a while who told me once that immigrants come to Britain because it's the only country in the world with a welfare state, and that there is an invisible inverted pyramid which floats over the Kremlin.

That 'Labour's campaign was too left wing' line is killing me.

don't worry, the Labour party will come to the same conclusion

Word is Labour has lost all 7 Glasgow seats.

That's because Labour's campaign was too left wing

couldn't cope with the harsh realpolitik of sturgeon and co

what is this nuneaton backdrop

Tories gon' get a majority

looking back on the campaign how much of the labour attack was focused on UKIP? rather than just the tories? apart for the uk lite one line pledge to control immigration and on those mugs.

obviously more needed to be done to expose ukip and on educating potential ukip defectors.

how much better would labour had fought on anti-austerity clarity / bold social democracy of SNP that would have also dragged the green vote back. how many English votes said they would have loved to vote SNP on socio-economic grounds. John Cruddas centre-left social democratic renewal review was kicked into the long grass and Miliband was dragged back by Progress to fight in trench warfare with the tories, meanwhile the real fights for potential voters was happening elsewhere.

has labour's political positioning been dragged back to the centre ground by focus group / the right wing press and "progress" and Dougie Alexander#s strategy within the labour to try to appeal to so called middle england that never would shift from the tories. All that talk of "balancing the books" and tough on benefits e.g means testing benefits of 18-21 year olds there were no votes to be grabbed there.

labour's lost vote in England:

mostly ukip defection of the working class
green drift of the educated / informed

Progress Group within Labour are to blame. Progress / Blairites / Blue Labour are still infecting labour trying to be tory lite.

Nuneaton: lab needed 2% swing, didn't get it.

that's Nuneaton, imago

it is sunny there because they vote Tory

i'm blocking everything out except the 3-digit lib dem votes

solid 5th place for the Lib Dems, mind

nice prospect of the DUP in government this time next week

lol TUSC beating the English Democrats, smile there

Well that's it, Lib Dem vote has collapsed and gone to the Tories, it's all over.

I'm surprised how surprised I am at how many cunts live in this country

can someone sum up the DUP in an image please

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4SJgeHq7Q8

I'm not. xp

http://images.lazygamer.net/2013/01/no-meme-rage-face.jpg

I'm sure the DUP will just want fair economic help for all citizens of Northern Ireland, be they protestant or presbyterian

http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2012/02/07/1226264/560144-ian-paisley.jpg

be they man or boy

Well that's it, Lib Dem vote has collapsed and gone to the Tories, it's all over.

"I voted Lib Dem to keep the Tories out but they've sold out and gone into coalition with them, compromised all of their principles, supported all kinds of shit and got nothing in return so....I'll just vote Tory." I really don't get it.

They're voting tactically to keep Labour out, not seeming to realise that Tories are voting to gleefully decimate Lib Dems.

Exit poll in Nuneaton is for swing from Con to Lab, so they got that wrong!!

LOL UK!

Which means that we're looking at a majority here. fucking fucking fuck

Planning on staying up all night to the bitter end watching this, but by the looks of things five years in bed with the Tories seems to have assassinated the Lib Dems based on the results so far. The Sheffield Hallam result is going to be interesting, that's for sure.

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/22418_10152864521212671_1377911798399180338_n.jpg?oh=517cf173821f5ef99651ad82f65a1f39&oe=55D9D7E1

lonely guy, thinking baout electoral law

Sharia law shurely?

Lib Dem voters on some weird Stockholm Syndrome/Patty Hearst joining her kidnappers trip or god knows what. What a fuck up

defatigable