The UK election thread

[beige]

Non sectarian win in ireland.

Great victory.

[ficklefiend]

I'm watching C4 behind time, but damn, they need a few more people who know what the fuck they're talking about.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

In Sheffield, protesters are preventing the ballot boxes from leaving because they weren't allowed to vote.

Good for them.

[Pappa]

Apparently, potentially thousands of people have been turned away from the polls because the lines were too long and they ran out of time before the 22:00 deadline.

A part of me says that you should never, ever do that. Another part says why are so many people late?

That was my immediate thought. Maybe it was the weather, or the general mood or whatever... but something made lots of people turn up late. Well tough shit. They could have voted in the morning, or on the way home from work. They didn't need to leave it until 7 or 8, leading to long queues.

[beige]

Apparently, potentially thousands of people have been turned away from the polls because the lines were too long and they ran out of time before the 22:00 deadline.

A part of me says that you should never, ever do that. Another part says why are so many people late?

That was my immediate thought. Maybe it was the weather, or the general mood or whatever... but something made lots of people turn up late. Well tough shit. They could have voted in the morning, or on the way home from work. They didn't need to leave it until 7 or 8, leading to long queues.

It's stuff like people queueing since 5:30 in the afternoon, and local residents arriving later being put in a preferential fast track queue. If you show up almost 5 hours before it closes, I'd assume that you'd expect to be able to vote.

[RuleBritannia]

What will it mean if the Tories get a majority without winning a single seat in Scotland?

[beige]

What will it mean if the Tories get a majority without winning a single seat in Scotland?

Civil War?

[Pappa]

What will it mean if the Tories get a majority without winning a single seat in Scotland?

Civil War?

[Azathoth]

Tories got the vale Pap. I bet you are ecstatic

[Horwood Beer-Master]

'Night.

[FBM]

It's all over BBC that the conservatives are making huge gains. This is good, right?

[RuleBritannia]

It's all over BBC that the conservatives are making huge gains. This is good, right?

Still looks like a hung parliament I think.

[Deep Sea Isopod]

Gisela Stuart (Labour=Edgbaston) kept hold of her seat here. Not suprising, considering all the spongers that live around here. They're not gonna bite the hand that feeds them.

And I got up just in time to see Jacqui Spliff lose her seat in Bromsgrove

[RuleBritannia]

Charles Clarke and Jacqui Smith have both been scalped.

Lembit Öpik somehow lost a 7000-vote majority, to the Conservatives, in Wales. WTF!

[Rum]

Looks like the conservatives will have around 1% more than Labour did at the last election - at around 37 - 8%. They *could* form a wobbly government on that basis, but there is something wrong with a party forming the government when 2/3 of the votes went to other parties. Dead wrong.