General Election 2015 - chat, predictions, results and post election discussion

[Andrew Hertford]

The tories look like winning an overall majority with around just 36% of the vote. Wouldn't that be the lowest percentage ever for a 'majority' government?

We badly need electoral reform, but I can't see us ever getting it.

 

[Dovydaitis]

Sounds a plan, will be a quick one though as been up since 3.....

 

[ibilly99]

Worst possible result - I think a lot of wavering English voters were scared into voting Tory at the prospect of a Scottish tail wagging the English dog.

 

[Cid]

And SNP.

They've wiped out Labour in Scotland, but they haven't shifted the balance rightward - the liberals have.

 

[frogwoman]

Sounds a plan, will be a quick one though as been up since 3.....

Lol. Went bed at 2 and kept waking up

 

[chilango]

Labour are fucked after this.

 

[PursuedByBears]

Labour gain Lancaster & Fleetwood, we managed to kick the Tory out after all. Pyrrhic victory.

 

[paolo]

About the only cheer I'm taking from the night...

Not the same head culling, but on that Alexendar theme:

 

[Dovydaitis]

balls

 

[bi0boy]

Ed Balls now

 

[Roadkill]

Does this mean we face the possibility of him as PM?

Hardly. He was always going to walk the parliamentary seat, but arse-features isn't going anywhere any time soon, in the wake of last night.

 

[bi0boy]

lost by 18354 to 18776

 

[SE25]

Goodbye Ed 'Ed Balls' Balls

 

[Lord Camomile]

Balls has gone!

 

[Ted Striker]

New Balls please

 

[Roadkill]

Reckless gone.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Labour are fucked after this.

My thoughts as well.

 

[bemused]

It's not nice to gloat when someone loses their job, but when it comes to Ed Balls it's hard not to.

 

[kebabking]

Balls gone.

Yvette clear to stand?

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Paulie]

Never thought of Yorkshire as Tory territory...

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Labour are fucked after this.

Well, maybe not. Labour is now an England and Wales party, at least as far as the PLP goes. That should makes it nimbler in terms of messaging. The collapse of the LibDems means that there is a vacancy in the centre ground. Cameron, meanwhile, will be dragged rightwards by a 1922 committee which scents blood and opportunity. The electorate really doesn't realise what it has done: austerity is going to hit far harder this term than last, and by 2017 the narrative will have shifted hard.

Umana or Jarvis - or someone else who can mollify middle England, win over political editors and woo the city - has every hope of a solid majority in 2020.

 

[doddles]

They've wiped out Labour in Scotland, but they haven't shifted the balance rightward - the liberals have.

Seriously?? Nothing to do with Blair and Brown??

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

[/crap joke about a cock with no balls goes here]

 

[redsquirrel]

Never thought of Yorkshire as Tory territory...

Why fucking North Riding wankers are Tory shills, see Hague

 

[Roadkill]

Never thought of Yorkshire as Tory territory...

Eh? Most of rural Yorkshire is as true blue as it gets.

 

[Steel Icarus]

DEAD BALLS

 

[prunus]

Well, that went badly.

 

[Lord Camomile]

I don't think Ed Balls had this particular speech prepared...

 

[Paulie]

Eh? Most of rural Yorkshire is as true blue as it gets.

Oh yeah - i'm tired and stupid ...