2015 UK Election Thread

[Hamish McPanji]

Their economic policies are far from libertarian as well - you can't reduce taxes if you are buying more guns to go fox and immigrant hunting

How dare you! Fox hunting is an essential part of the British Economy

 

[zippy]

Yesterday I would have guessed a Labour minority govt. These exit polls look like a Tory minority govt.

Tbh, there is very, very little between Labour and the Tories election policies. The only single issue separating them is the referendum on the EU, and even then Cameron has said he will campaign for the UK to remain in the EU. They agree on everything else. Their differences on the reducing public spending is only how quickly it should be done. There are only 2 parties radically different. UKIP and the SNP. If Farange doesn't win his Thanet seat, he has said he will quit. That will kill UKIP. It's a one man party. I think he has a good chance of winning his seat, but it's by no means certain.

 

[Paul Hjul]

How dare you! Fox hunting is an essential part of the British Economy

Pesky immigrant judges and lawyers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackson_v_A-G
http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKHL/2005/56.html

Never ever let Saffricans in court

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

Huge result...UKIP 2nd in Sunderland. As I said.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Even the lassie up North finds it hard to believe her party has won 58 seats. That is the only part of the ipsos exit poll I find highly unlikely

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Huge result...UKIP 2nd in Sunderland. As I said.

As you said what.....and when?

 

[zippy]

Huge result...UKIP 2nd in Sunderland. As I said.

So what good is that ? coming 2nd doesn't cut the mustard

 

[zippy]

Even the lassie up North finds it hard to believe her party has won 58 seats. That is the only part of the ipsos exit poll I find highly unlikely

The same people did the exit polls in 2010 and it was spot on. However, at this early stage everyone is being cagey.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

The same people did the exit polls in 2010 and it was spot on. However, at this early stage everyone is being cagey.

Don't get me wrong....I am all for the Scots, but even with tactical voting for the Tories there, that seems highly unlikely.

That the Lib dems have lost a lot is the most likely as they have been ridden by the Tories like a parisienne whore for the last 5 years.

 

[zippy]

Don't get me wrong....I am all for the Scots, but even with tactical voting for the Tories there, that seems highly unlikely.

That the Lib dems have lost a lot is the most likely as they have been ridden by the Tories like a parisienne whore for the last 5 years.

I think it was the lib dem success in 2010 that is the anomaly. I think that's a standard 15% to 20% of voters who will always be volatile. In 2015 they have switched to UKIP. I always thought it was odd that the lib dem's where so successful in 2010. The lib dem's where never going to retain those votes because they where more anti labour than they where pro lib dem.

 

[Dave]

I think it was the lib dem success in 2010 that is the anomaly. I think that's a standard 15% to 20% of voters who will always be volatile. In 2015 they have switched to UKIP. I always thought it was odd that the lib dem's where so successful in 2010. The lib dem's where never going to retain those votes because they where more anti labour than they where pro lib dem.

I'm not sure of your point, the LibDems actually lost seats in the 2010 election (62 in 2005, 57 in 2010).

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

As you said what.....and when?

About UKIP being the 2nd party in the north. I said it a few pages back.

Damn, looks like Farage has lost to the Conservatives. Not official, but rumours on Twitter. Would have been a great addition to the Commons. Sad.

 

[MickeyD]

Lib Dems are being punished. Badly.

SNP making significant gains.

Looks like another Conservative government on the way...

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Serious? Then you are looking in the wrong section of the Guardian. All they do is bash Tories. Lol.

Yes of course I want Farage to win. I dont view Cameron as a real conservative given that net migration has risen under the coalition, has not given the UK a referendum on the EU like he said he would and has not cut the ridiculous international budget yet cuts local services etc.

And in what world is Farage better?

Cameron won't be PM again, I think. Didn't he indicate as much?

 

[JayM]

And in what world is Farage better?

Cameron won't be PM again, I think. Didn't he indicate as much?

He said he won't be PM after the *next* election, not this one.

 

[noxibox]

I'm not sure of your point, the LibDems actually lost seats in the 2010 election (62 in 2005, 57 in 2010).

The UK voting system is one where number of seats in parliament does not represent actual support for the party. The Liberal Democrats have always been under-represented compared to their actual voter support.

 

[Hamish McPanji]

Lib Dems are being punished. Badly.

SNP making significant gains.

Looks like another Conservative government on the way...

Lib Dems are getting killed out there. Large % of their leadership has not won. I think Clegg just made it...but his no.2 is out

 

[JayM]

Lib Dems are getting killed out there. Large % of their leadership has not won. I think Clegg just made it...but his no.2 is out

Might not even be a Con-Lib coalition. The bookies have the Tories getting an outright majority as of a few minutes ago!

 

[TriGuN]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news

UKIP nationally will have gained 3.5 million votes and yet will only end up with one (or possibly two seats) in the House of Commons, YouGov's Peter Kellner says. Meanwhile, the SNP will have 1.5 million votes but 56 seats. Hardly surprising that UKIP have become advocates of electoral reform. Mr Kellner says, if nothing else, it makes electoral reform a subject of debate.

Respect MP George Galloway has lost his Bradford West seat to the Labour Party.

The BBC has updated its election forecast and it gives the Conservative Party a wafer thin majority, but a majority nonetheless of 325 seats. Labour fall to 232 seats, the SNP are expected to take 56, Lib Dems 12, UKIP 1 - which they have already won suggesting UKIP leader Nigel Farage is destined to lose in South Thanet - and the Greens 1.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-scotland-32635871

Mhairi Black, who becomes the UK's youngest MP at the age of 20, overturned former shadow foreign secretary Mr Alexander's majority of 16,600 in Paisley and Renfrewshire South to win by 5,684 votes - a swing of 27% from Labour to the SNP.

 

[cr@zydude]

That's the problem with first past the ppst voting. Millions vote for UKIP, but they aren't a majority in any area. They are still loons though.