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« Reply #25 on: May 07, 2015, 07:06:24 PM »
Quote from: afleitch on May 07, 2015, 07:03:29 PM

If it makes you feel better. But if no seats in Scotland changed hands then the Tories would have 1 more seat on the Exit Poll and the Lib Dems 11 more. And they would be able to form a coalition anyway.

It's less that I'm blaming the results in Scotland themselves and more that I'm beginning to be convinced by the idea that the Tories successfully used the SNP as a bogeyman in England.
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« Reply #26 on: May 07, 2015, 07:09:53 PM »

Cold comfort, but comfort nonetheless.
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« Reply #27 on: May 07, 2015, 07:13:37 PM »
Quote from: Foucaulf on May 07, 2015, 07:11:12 PM
Why the blame to the SNP? The problem should be pinned on Labour and their very mealy-mouthed response to SNP collaboration.

Eh, fair point. Obviously Labour itself [Inks]ed up massively.
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« Reply #28 on: May 07, 2015, 07:25:37 PM »
I'd say things could be worse, but at this point, they really couldn't.
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« Reply #29 on: May 07, 2015, 07:45:26 PM »
Quote from: afleitch on May 07, 2015, 07:44:22 PM
Jim Murphy may have lost his seat.

What's Murphy's seat?
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« Reply #30 on: May 07, 2015, 07:50:46 PM »
I know this is just a function of what results have come in so far, but I find it really amusing that, on the BBC results page, three Northern Irish parties are currently ahead of the Lib Dems in total vote count.
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« Reply #31 on: May 07, 2015, 08:52:34 PM »

Oh definitely.

Again, I'm taking consolation where I can find it.
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« Reply #32 on: May 07, 2015, 08:55:21 PM »
Since Labour's not winning, at this point I'm just hoping for the most hilarious results possible.

Quote from: afleitch on May 07, 2015, 08:53:48 PM
My seat, Rutherglen and Hamilton West falls.

Congrats.
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« Reply #33 on: May 07, 2015, 08:58:50 PM »
Quote from: Sanchez Stands With Rand! on May 07, 2015, 08:56:06 PM
Quote from: RIP MILIBAND, RIP UK on May 07, 2015, 08:55:21 PM
Since Labour's not winning, at this point I'm just hoping for the most hilarious results possible.

Quote from: afleitch on May 07, 2015, 08:53:48 PM
My seat, Rutherglen and Hamilton West falls.

Congrats.
In that case Maddy, lets hope for a SNP pickup via write-ins in Yorkshire Tongue.

I'm hoping for an SNP clean sweep, Galloway hanging on by the skin of his teeth, a UUP pickup in Fermanagh and South Tyrone, Clegg getting Blanched, and at least three or four seats going to UKIP.
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« Reply #34 on: May 07, 2015, 09:09:05 PM »
Quote from: SJoyce on May 07, 2015, 09:08:06 PM
Who becomes Scottish Secretary if the governing coalition has no Scottish MPs?

I'm not sure there will be a governing coalition.
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« Reply #35 on: May 07, 2015, 09:10:32 PM »
SF holds Belfast West.
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« Reply #36 on: May 07, 2015, 09:13:00 PM »
Tory gain confirmed in Vale of Clywd.
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« Reply #37 on: May 07, 2015, 09:20:54 PM »
We've crossed the hundred-seats-called mark.
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« Reply #38 on: May 07, 2015, 09:24:08 PM »
Quote from: jaichind on May 07, 2015, 09:22:52 PM
It seems this will be the first time a ruling party will gain both seats and vote share from the previous election since the 1964 -> 1966.   The 2 elections in 1974 would be the only other case but they are so close to each other there is no chance of anti-incumbency to come into play. 

I don't think it's obvious yet that they'll gain vote share.
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« Reply #39 on: May 07, 2015, 09:34:28 PM »
If Clegg loses, who will be LD leader? Who will want to?
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« Reply #40 on: May 07, 2015, 09:46:17 PM »
Quote from: Sanchez Stands With Rand! on May 07, 2015, 09:44:30 PM
LibDems hold Orkney to the surprise of nobody.

RIP SNP CLEAN SWEEP 2K15-2K15
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
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« Reply #41 on: May 07, 2015, 10:16:07 PM »
A whopping 83 votes for Children of the Atom in Shrewsbury and Atcham.
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« Reply #42 on: May 07, 2015, 10:31:01 PM »

Really? Huh. Should that be surprising?
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« Reply #43 on: May 07, 2015, 10:46:38 PM »
Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross is gone.
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« Reply #44 on: May 07, 2015, 10:53:22 PM »
He didn't get Blanched? Aww. That's too bad.
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« Reply #45 on: May 07, 2015, 11:25:55 PM »
« Edited: May 07, 2015, 11:28:05 PM by RIP MILIBAND, RIP UK »
Quote from: Talleyrand on May 07, 2015, 11:21:29 PM
Sinn Fein loses South Tyrone to UUP.

Really? Wow. I knew it was close last time but I assumed that was just because there was a single Unionist candidate.

EDIT: Oh. There was a single Unionist candidate this time too.
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« Reply #46 on: May 07, 2015, 11:37:43 PM »
Quote from: Talleyrand on May 07, 2015, 11:36:11 PM
Latest BBC projection- 325-232

1 short of majority

A majority for all practical purposes.

Unbelievable.
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« Reply #47 on: May 07, 2015, 11:46:02 PM »
Quote from: cinyc on May 07, 2015, 11:43:45 PM
The Tories have pulled ahead of Labour for the first time in the BBC seat count.

In votes too.
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« Reply #48 on: May 08, 2015, 12:15:25 AM »
I'm going to start a band called Penrith and The Border.
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« Reply #49 on: May 08, 2015, 12:25:10 AM »
Poor Al. Every single Shropshire constituency went Tory.
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