Be Excellent To Each Other

Pouring gin now. Was going to go to bed

Don't bait me, child

Yeah Galloway you cunt!

I'm really hoping those rumours are true.

I never noticed confirmation bias until I was told about it. Now I see it everywhere.

Not half as much as I am.

The idea that 5 Holds would be a good result for Labour in Scotland is an amazing turn of events.

I meant boro was more likely to offer an affluent place to live.

Quite, but it's a common opinion that twitter as a whole is left wing, isn't it?

Lib Dems have lost all 3 deposits so far.

I think I found a research paper about this once .

You've clearly never been there.

I have been to boro.

I have!

Yep, but they don't quite match the exit polls. UKIP stronger than expected in the north. If they can become a viable alternative to Labour up there then we're all fucked.

Then I will take your compliment, kind sir.

don't make me come up there again.

Sounds like UKIP are thundering through Labour votes.

Which is weird. Why go from (ostensibly) left wing to far right?

Are people really that scared of the immigrant boogeyman?

What this country needs is a Doctor.

Both ends of the extremes have more in common with each other than the more accepting and liberal left and right of middle.

UKIP are picking up the traditional Labour working class vote that feels abandoned by the current middle class party.

That.

God, this is depressing. I'm going to bed.

We've had worse threads...

Right I am putting my head down. I expect to be up at 5.

Ah, Putney. Scene of one of the highlights of 1997 when Jimmy Goldsmith went bonkers.

My brother lives (and voted) in Putney

Recount in Bradford west

Gallo(re)cunt!

Recount? Did someone mislay the graveyard votes?

To be expected again. UKIP up, but not by as much, everyone up, apart from lib Dems. Maybe their exit poll could be right?

BBC just said there is no recount but gorgeous George likely to have lost.
If so, he's going to resurface. Tower Hamlets, perhaps?

No recount apparently,

Another safe labour win, another ukip and green rise with lib Dems falling away massively

Curious thing about the Lib Dems is that at each election since 1992 their share of the vote went down, whilst their number of seats went up. Not this time!

Another 80 years in the wilderness awaits!

Lab slightly increase in tooting. Greens in 3rd lib Dems down big again.

Farage is out too. Which is a shame, as he would have been hilarious in the house.

Not confirmed yet though?

I'm sure he'll somehow manage on the meagre wages of an MEP.

Not confirmed, but 99% sure.

Kinnock - "Voters are self delusional, self interested, cunts"

[obligatory Brecht quote]

I paraphrase of course. He started that statement at 9:15.

Jesus, the Exit Poll dude is now inferring potential for conservative majority.

Assuming the figure given was the middle of the confidence interval, it wouldn't be impossible.

Oh, the Lib Dems came 3rd in Battersea. That's been rare tonight. Still dropped 10% though.

Ooo, the DUP counter just went up by one. I suppose had I switched to UTV or BBC NI I would have seen it.

Looks like buying almost every major newspaper in the country helps.

Who knew?

I got the impression that they stated result at SD, but thought it could be +5/-20 (for example), and now they're reversing the deviation. I expected backtracking on the Exit at some point - not in that direction.

We care little for the minor dependant territories. After cornwall, only scotland matters.

I remember an episode of the 'News Quiz' from about 15 years back where Jeremy Hardy made the point that Scotland will leave the Union, then Wales will, then England will, at which point we can say to the Ulster Unionists:
'Ha, you're on your own!'

Still, it could have been worse for Clegg. Jeremy Thorpe was tried for conspiracy to murder...