The General Election Thread

[cleavers]

Greens - 1m votes - 1 seat
UKIP - 3.6m votes - 1 seat
Lib Dems - 2m votes - 8 seats
SNP - 1.4m votes - 56 seats

Great system

What's more ridiculous, is the one party with the most seats in that list doesn't even want to be part of the country its elected in.

 

[Cheesy]

So, probable majority for the Tories then. The day just keeps getting better & better. Lots of smiling faces around the table this morning during our business breakfast meeting :-)

 

[blueunit]

David Cameron is the reason freddos are 25 fucking pence

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

Morning Leonard.
A refreshing and gracious response from a defeated Labour supporter.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

Very gracious of you Len , it has been fun , do you think Miliband can survive the week?

He won't survive the day, he'll be seen dragging a huge stone tablet around London in scenes reminiscent of The Last Temptation of Christ

 

[blueinsa]

Compassion doesn't pay the bills or run the Economy and to be fair that is just your Liberal standpoint anyway

Everyone paying their tax does though.

Yes but before you pay tax you need to work unless we are going to start taxing benefits

mind you 11.5bn...... might just be part of the answer

Then its the job of any government to create meaningful, paid employment is it not?

Not zero hours, minimum wage jobs that still means folk have to rely on the welfare state to top up wages, companies cant be arsed paying.

Again though, it would help this country enormously if everyone paid their tax yes?

 

[SWP's back]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

FAIR PLAY TO YOU FOR COMING ON.

This.

Fair play Len

 

[the god Gerry Gow]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

Good on you LR

Have disagreed with just about everything you have said over this campaign but I don't think I would have been as gracious as you this morning.

 

[Ancient Citizen]

Morning punters.
First of all congratulations to the Tories. Ruthless winners.
I think Labour got done over twice by the SNP, in Scotland (obviously) and in England where voters didn't want the SNP influencing the government in any way.
I still think Labour should have got at least around 270 seats and it's a desperately disappointing night for them.
Oh well back to supporting the real blues. I just hope they can be as ruthless at winning as the political blues.
PS I won't be taking any further notice of opinion polls in the future.

Very gracious of you Len , it has been fun , do you think Miliband can survive the week?

He won't survive the day, he'll be seen dragging a huge stone tablet around London in scenes reminiscent of The Last Temptation of Christ

That really was a laughable mistake and just shows how inept he and his advisors were.
It was just screaming 'Epitaph' but the nasal no-mark couldn't see it.

 

[Blue Maverick]

Since most politicians are self-serving c*nts in my experience I''m not too concerned either way. If you're middle class you're going to get clobbered whoever gets in.

As a public sector employee we've been asked to predict what would happen to my Department following cuts of 20,30 and 40%. So major public sector cuts are a certainty. That shouldn't concern me because there are huge areas of bureaucracy and waste.

What does concern me is that where the cuts fall is being left to the bureaucrats to decide. Not being turkeys voting for Christmas, they naturally decide that cuts should be in the frontline, not amongst the huge swathes of managers and consultants.

Spot fucking on, the austerity measures put in place over the last 5 years have actually started to come to fruition over the last two year, now they have got their teeth into it and no liberals to hold them back watch the axe come swinging faster and harder.