2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

Anything's possible in Dumfries, but I really can't see it

4 cgi people died during that recalibration, and it still may not be enough.

does there to be a realignment of political parties on the centre-left and left particularly in england after tonight?

social liberals and social democrats that have supported liberal democrats and have destroyed by the orange bookers by clegg / laws / alexander
and labour have been blighted and infected by right of the party i.e progress blairites that failed to ignite both the traditional working class and educated/ informed left
meanwhile caroline lucas is said to have increased her vote / majority

SNP have shown what can happen with conviction and clarity of real social democracy

all points to more clarity and a bolder centre-left, it's time to reunite the centre-left.

While I wouldn't deny that the Lib Dems have lost a lot of support because of the orange-bookers and that Labour have been ruined by the right, I think this is fanciful. The reality is that Scotland is a special case, quite different to England, and the combination of UKIP and the Tories is much bigger than that of Labour + Greens (and who knows how to allocate the pitiful number of Lib Dems that remain?). Everything's fucked.

Mike O’Brien, the former Labour minister, has failed to take North Warwickshire back from the Conservatives. The Tories’ majority in 2010 was just 54, and this was Labour’s top target

Basildon 92. Time for bed. Up for work in three hours. What a load of shite.

i somehow ended up on new questions and thought ilx had broken, i can't be having that i need u right now

Jim Murphy!

Fucking hell!

TOXIC

Fucking arsehole that man

i should go to bed now and pretend that jim murphy is the story of the election

Curran out too

UKIP scoring treble the vote of the Greens in Glasgow East

I think all the Greens I know are voting SNP for this, but will vote Green at Holyrood.

sturgeon can hear every word he's saying

that "wave your hands you have the power" nonsense is exactly why Scotland loathes the BBC and its attitude

39% swing in Glasgow NE looks like the record

And that's Willie Bain gone - game over for Scottish Labour.

It'll be a massive adjustment for the Parliamentary Labour Party to be Scot-free.

Orkney and Shetland stop the clean sweep.

24% swing not enough to win wtf

they still don't know about the coalition amirite

mixed feelings cuz tories are winning but amazing to see scots lab dinosaurs losing. So pleased jimmy hood is gone.
Amazing night in Scotland.
Labour whining SNP mps put tories in but even if Labour won all 59 they would still lose. So if they continue with that tack then they wont win back Scotland.

re murphys speech
Jim Murphy is not gonna make Scots labour a socialist party. He's wrong that "Scotland needs a strong Labour Party" Scotland needs a Socialist Labour Party.
He is not a socialist; he cannot deliver it. Dont think any of them can.

labour revival on! Edinburgh South held.

multiple recount in west wirral .. is esther mcvey going? it's close

liverpool echo...

Unverified, but have been told Lab had a 402 majority in Wirral West #GE2015
https://twitter.com/Liam1971/status/596514871132454912

keep monitoring...
https://twitter.com/Liam1971

Boris "Ajockalypse Now" Johnson says the people of Britain have rejected the politics of division.

Vince Cable's gone!

dozing off here - have I missed Danny Alexander?

via twiiter search

Bundle check still underway in Wirral West. Result expected in 20 minutes

massive 75% turnout in West Wirral

https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=west%20wirral&src=typd

"Tory councillor officially warned to stop interfering with recount in Wirral west.,"

so much boris

Clegg holds on

clegg reconsiders his own future in the party i.e implies standing down as leader

West Wirral Witch is Gone

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've just woken up. Are we looking at a majority?

glad the evil mcvey is gone

xp

dunno yet

Charles Kennedy out.

Just woken up, any cause for optimism? doing better than I thought but looks like a bunch of holds - can't tell if we've had results where it matters yet

No cause for optimism at all, as far as I can tell.

no labour breakthru in england only 5 gains but 5 losses in relation to the tories

main story in england...ukip vote strong in certain parts on england outside london, drift of working class to ukip from labour - has damaged labour in many seats and marginals, letting tories to hold on and indeed some gains from labour like telford, lib dem collapse - in some seats their vote has drifted to tories meaning that labour fall short.

https://twitter.com/NCPoliticsUK/status/596534217904914433

BBC FORECAST UPDATE

CON 325
LAB 232
SNP 56
LIB 12
UKIP 1
GRN 1

I kicked the radio hard against the wall this morning and wished death upon most of this country again, another day in paradise!

Danny Alexander is toast, as expected.

Well, by the looks of things I guess I'm going to be thanking Scotland and UKIP voters for five more years of Conservative bullshit.

Not to mention the number of utter twats in England and elsewhere that actually voted for that utter cunt.

poll

tax

anyway, sorry uk.

3m+ ukip votes

Farage is actually quite important, i will be genuinely worried when they get someone who is actually good at this shit.