2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

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.

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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

xxp https://twitter.com/laurenpotts/status/596470452270329856

Hopefully he can be jailed for this.

Or flogged.

current coverage viewing situation here:

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lol my hair is almost identical to yours at this moment

SNP 14,000 majority in Kilmarnock and Loudon holy fuck. That's Cathy Jamieson out, and booted out too.

lib dem hold!

xxp my naturally horrified look will become more and more universal

wow Labour absolutely fucked in Kilmarnock, a 26% swing, that must be pretty much unprecedented?

kinda think that Labour & England deserve this

(re: SNP)

I can't find swings like that on first look. That's annihilation for scottish Labour.

Judging by the way things have been going, I wasn't expecting Lib Dem to hold that seat at all! Fucking hell, that swing to SNP in Kilmarnock, though!

(xps) The thing is, the SNP winning everything isn't news - it's an incredible turn around in less than a year, but we've known it was coming and factored it in. It's what's happening in England which is genuinely jaw-dropping.

A soaring SNP is one thing, a 29% swing and cleaning out the west of Scotland is definitely still in the jaw-dropping territory I think

Is what's happening in England so jawdropping? I was never going to vote Labour and I'm sure many others felt the same. Choosing Green over UKIP/Tory is almost arbitrary ;)