2015 UK General Election campaign & aftermath discussion thread.

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.

woken up. wish i hadn't.

SNP's only real rivals in Scotland are now the pandas in Edinburgh Zoo.

woken up. wish i hadn't.

― Cram Session in Goniometry (Tom D.), Friday, May 8, 2015 6:02 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

spare a thought for those of us who stayed up all night

This is the first one I haven't stayed up for.

a key question is not what can Labour do to win a majority in England, but what can the Tories do to lose it?

So, will ukip give up now? They have not exactly surged..

this might be the most satisfying possible outcome. let the people have what they want, let them have it in fucking shovelfuls, let's have another 10 years of untrammeled English Conservatism.

To lose it? Fail to deliver their promises or, conversely, deliver a booming economy and the electorate go "Ok, where's my share?'

I want some Lib Dems, party of progressive politics, to explain why so many of their voters have decided to vote Tory, handing them seat after seat. Can we assume that Lib Dem supporters have liked what they've seen of the Tories in coalition? Has the Lib Dem campaign been, to borrow a phrase from earlier, 'too left wing'? Have they always been Tories in disguise (yes).

Jessie Rae!!! Standing in Berwickshire!!! Someone mentioned him in ILM the other week.

People vote on the economy. It should never be a surprise but always is. There are millions of people on what would be considered an ok wage who have gone through at least one redundancy process since the crash and worry about job security or who can pay for a mortgage at 3% but would struggle at 4%, etc. Any change to the status quo is scary, particularly when the Labour case for making it is so limply presented. There will be another downturn at some point, there will be inflation and there will be unemployment and when that happens the Tories will feel it. Until it happens, I think they will probably rule.

Though I think a lot depends on internal Tory politics. If they start pandering to the 1922 Committee, they could end up in trouble sooner.

what could Labour have done differently?

cos in their own narrative this was a bold, radical manifesto.

bbc not letting us hear caroline lucas' acceptance speech, cutting to a george osborne interview

cunts