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Conservative
27
25%
Labour
40
37%
Lib Dem
3
3%
UKIP
10
9%
Green
10
9%
SNP
1
1%
DUP
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1%
Plaid Cymru
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No votes
Respect
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1%
Sinn Féin
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1%
SDLP
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No votes
Other/Independent
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2%
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 6:27 am  
Incredible result really. After 5 years of largely unpopular austerity the Tories have somehow managed to increase their seats. A shocking performance by Milliband who will surely be off to the job centre on Monday.
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 7:16 am  
Revised projections as of 8 am Friday have Conservatives on 329. Enough to form a slender majority.

Regardless of if he quite gets that many it's been a brilliant night for Cameron, (and the SNP). Meltdown for Labour, Cleggers, the pollsters, and probably 75% of people who post on The Sin Bin. :D
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 7:18 am  
Ed Balls has gone! Good riddance.
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 7:31 am  
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Does the SNP destruction of Labour in Scotland mean that Labour can no longer hope to be in power without some kind of coalition with them? Or will the SNP vote fade enough in the future to give Labour a chance to win outright?


Once the tories have redrawn the boundaries, they'll be looking at power for a generation
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 7:36 am  
Yes, I'm sure Ed Balls & The Head Prefect will be just devastated today as they finalise preparations to take up lucrative business opportunities they've cultivated shamelessly over the past few years taking every last shred of advantage from the exclusive access they've had as senior members of the opposition party. What abject failures they are. ROFLMAO!
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 8:21 am  
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Once the tories have redrawn the boundaries, they'll be looking at power for a generation


No need to redraw boundaries, Conservative government will give devo max to Scotland to keep SNP subdued and in parallel introduce some form of English votes for English laws. As a result even when SNP fades a bit Labour will never again be able to use Scottish MPs to pass laws in England that don't apply to Scotland (having said that I expect SNP to remain biggest party in Scotland for considerable future albeit I don't expect them to retain quite this level of dominance). As long as UK remains intact and we keep Trident it doesn't matter if Scotland has higher tax rates to pay for higher spendingn in Scotland, the SNP then have to make that trick work without tanking the Scottish economy.
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 8:55 am  
The BBC are reporting that Ed Milliband is likely to step down in the light of the election results. What a great loss that will be...to political cartoonists, at least
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 9:10 am  
The Scots are even bigger fools than we are. They've simply substituted one elite class of politician for another - and will be paying more for the privilege.

I'll give them until the next election before they're complaining bitterly about "broken promises". The SNP will likely learn the same brutal lesson the American Democratic Party did in the wake of the passing of Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act. At the end of the day "Freedom" is just a word. It's certainly no compensation for the guy across the border earning considerably more than you.
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 9:16 am  
Incredible outcome really, showing just how far off the media in this country are when trying to gauge the British public. The media had us all convinced it was a split vote, nothing between Conservatives and Labour and only a coalition would create any form of Government. Goes to show that the public had very little faith in Labour's economic policy and the prospect of them joining up with the SNP to form a Government was too much.

Labour lost this election when they chose Ed Miliband to lead them. He isn't a strong enough character to carry off a job like that an ultimately he's completely failed to get his own policies across. The knives have been out for him this morning with many Labour figures slating him for a 'confused campaign' where the policies weren't well enough defined and many suggesting the Conservative campaign had been far more broad and far more concise.

An interesting day looms, one that could see the leaders of Labour, Scottish Labour, Lib Dems and UKIP departing. If that happens it would be a crushing victory for Cameron.

One interesting comment I heard this morning was that if the weather was sunny on the day of the election, people are far less likely to vote for change. Another blaming pencils and the complexities of having two voting forms and talking of thousands of votes being spoiled because people hadn't marked with a cross correctly. One has to worry about the future of the country if people can't mark an 'x' in a box with a pencil.
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Re: The General Election Thread : Fri May 08, 2015 9:19 am  
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The Scots are even bigger fools than we are. They've simply substituted one elite class of politician for another - and will be paying more for the privilege.

I'll give them until the next election before they're complaining bitterly about "broken promises". The SNP will likely learn the same brutal lesson the American Democratic Party did in the wake of the passing of Lyndon Johnson's Civil Rights Act. At the end of the day "Freedom" is just a word. It's certainly no compensation for the guy across the border earning considerably more than you.


It's an interesting move from the Scottish. The media are now banging the referendum drum again. Do they have the power to hold another referendum again so soon after losing the previous one?
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