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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #25 on: May 08, 2015, 12:34:26 am »
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CON Hold Nuneaton     #GE2015

Got to be an upset for Labour. They'd all but measured the curtains for that seat.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #26 on: May 08, 2015, 12:46:38 am »
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Two cases of 'voter personation' - pretending to be someone else at the polls - investigated in Edinburgh http://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-05-07/labour-set-to-be-swept-out-by-the-snp/ …
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #27 on: May 08, 2015, 12:50:40 am »
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Pound surges following shock exit poll that forecasts Conservatives as the largest party http://ind.pn/1ccpuUQ 

16 of the 650 seats are in so far. All holds by the incumbent.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #28 on: May 08, 2015, 12:57:44 am »
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Count delayed in Poole because postal voters 'don't trust Royal Mail' #GE2015 http://www.itv.com/news/story/2015-05-08/election-2015-results-start-to-roll-in/ …

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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #29 on: May 08, 2015, 01:01:40 am »
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Update: the Lib Dems have now lost £3500 in parliamentary deposits.

That's 7 seats where they have lost their deposit.

Parties pay £500 per seat to get on the ballot. If they get below a certain % of the vote, they don't get it refunded. It's there to stop lunatics cluttering up the ballot. For a major party, especially one that was in power 6 weeks ago, to lose their deposits at this rate is unprecedented.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #30 on: May 08, 2015, 01:14:08 am »
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That's 7 seats where they have lost their deposit.

Parties pay £500 per seat to get on the ballot. If they get below a certain % of the vote, they don't get it refunded. It's there to stop lunatics cluttering up the ballot. For a major party, especially one that was in power 6 weeks ago, to lose their deposits at this rate is unprecedented.


Wow, not a bad way to thin out the herd of useless parties..
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #31 on: May 08, 2015, 01:15:31 am »
Elections in May! A great idea. Maybe to take advantage of better weather?  I also like loser pays in British tort litigation. That's a good one. We yanks could learn a lot from Brits.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #32 on: May 08, 2015, 01:15:58 am »
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SNP Gain Kilmarnock & Loudoun     #GE2015

Labour's first loss in Scotland.  :laugh:

This is why I wanted Scottish independence - the Labour party would have been screwed for years, allowing the Tories to actually move to the right without fear.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #33 on: May 08, 2015, 01:17:18 am »
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SNP Gain Dunbartonshire West     #GE2015

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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #34 on: May 08, 2015, 01:17:55 am »
Quote from: aligncare on May 08, 2015, 01:15:31 am
Elections in May! A great idea. Maybe to take advantage of better weather?  I also like loser pays in British tort litigation. That's a good one. We yanks could learn a lot from Brits.


I also like the 2 month campaign...
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #35 on: May 08, 2015, 01:20:10 am »
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George Galloway reported to police for 'breaking election law' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11591124/George-Galloway-reported-to-police-for-breaking-election-law.html …

You've probably not heard of him. Runs the Respect party and is a long running joke in UK politics. Vulgar and violent thug, basically.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #36 on: May 08, 2015, 01:22:25 am »
We have the odd good idea!  :laugh: :laugh:

Campaign is always 6 weeks, no more. The election can be called at any time up to the 5th anniversary of the previous one, solely at the discretion of the Prime Minister, so we don't always get May elections. Nice this year though, the weather was good, which always helps turn-out.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #37 on: May 08, 2015, 01:23:01 am »
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You've probably not heard of him. Runs the Respect party and is a long running joke in UK politics. Vulgar and violent thug, basically.


I have heard of him.. He is a disgusting human being..
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #38 on: May 08, 2015, 01:27:22 am »
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Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander has just lost to a 20-year-old SNP Mhairi Black. WOW. #GE2015 http://ind.pn/1AIEq33

That is a high profile loss. No great loss as far as the nation goes though.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #39 on: May 08, 2015, 01:29:06 am »
32 seats declared:

LAB) have the following results:
14 seats
, a -3% change

Conservative
(CON) have the following results:
4 seats
, a +0% change

Democratic Unionist Party
(DUP) have the following results:
4 seats
, a -1% change

Scottish National Party
(SNP) have the following results:
4 seats
, a +3% change

Liberal Democrat
(LD) have the following results:
1 seats
, a +0% change

Others
(OTH) have the following results:
5 seats
, a +1
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #40 on: May 08, 2015, 01:37:46 am »
There are some freakish turn-outs being reported. Don't think I've seen one seat yet under 60% - most general elections you are lucky to get 45% turning out.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #41 on: May 08, 2015, 01:40:51 am »
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CON Gain Colchester     #GE2015

No bloody way. That had a big enough majority for Labour that it was counted as a safe seat.  :thud:
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #42 on: May 08, 2015, 01:43:01 am »
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Nigel Farage has already had a mini-meltdown http://i100.io/kcxfntQ 
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #43 on: May 08, 2015, 01:45:30 am »
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The Lib Dems got 80 votes in Castle Point. Eighty. It's their worst electoral performance since 1859. Bloody hell.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #44 on: May 08, 2015, 01:52:36 am »
With 60 seats declared:

LAB) have the following results:
22 seats
, a -10% change
Scottish National Party
(SNP) have the following results:
14 seats
, a +11% change
Conservative
(CON) have the following results:
11 seats
, a +0% change
Democratic Unionist Party
(DUP) have the following results:
6 seats
, a +0% change
Plaid Cymru
(PC) have the following results:
2 seats
, a +0% change
Others
(OTH) have the following results:
5 seats
, a +0%

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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #45 on: May 08, 2015, 02:00:22 am »
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Ealing Central and Acton - Labour gain it from Cons. I bet that's because the LibDem vote collapsed and went to Lab.

Fair swing in vote, as well.
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #46 on: May 08, 2015, 02:16:47 am »
Looks like the SNP is helping out the Tories.. I see a coalition Government between them..
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #47 on: May 08, 2015, 02:20:01 am »
Great news, EC! Thanks for keeping us informed. Really enjoying watching Labour lose power.  Hip hip Hooray!
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« Reply #48 on: May 08, 2015, 02:20:15 am »
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Has to be game over for Ed Miliband now, no? Wipe out in Scotland, failed to get Battersea, Warwickshire N, Nuneaton, Swindon S #GE2015
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Re: UK General Election 2015 Live Thread
« Reply #49 on: May 08, 2015, 02:22:53 am »
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Looks like the SNP is helping out the Tories.. I see a coalition Government between them..

Be difficult to pull off. The one thing the Scots hate more than spending money is the Tories. It's bone deep and why Scotland has historically been a Labour stronghold.
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