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Valiant and proud lefties election night thread

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MarionCole · 06/05/2010 15:35

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animula · 06/05/2010 22:49

Feel sick and grim at our Con candidate as "new kind of Conservative". Grim, grim laugh.

ZephirineDrouhin · 06/05/2010 22:49

If Mark Clarke gets Tooting I am committing harakiri tomorrow

aloevera · 06/05/2010 22:48

Seriously hoping that exit poll is off. Lib Dem -3???? Nooooo....

policywonk · 06/05/2010 22:48

AV+ = more proportional system than Labour were previously prepared to consider (which was pure alternative vote). AV+ is what the Jenkins Commission recommended back in 1998 or summat but was blocked by various Labour dinosaurs.

Big swing to Tories in England WHY are you English so bloody right wing, eh?

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MarionCole · 06/05/2010 22:48

Oh yes Wilf!

Have allowed DSD (13) to stay up because she is genuinely interested in the process. Asking lots of sensible questions.

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ImSoNotTelling · 06/05/2010 22:48

you have to have a tall man and a swingometer

even if it's all bollocks

it's the law

Disenchanted3 · 06/05/2010 22:48

My TV is my computer screen so I can't do both, im choosing MN,

at least you lot can explain to me whats happening!

EweStupidToryVoters · 06/05/2010 22:48

DP was out in Tooting this afternoon campaigning for tory party, he thinks it will go blue, Sadiq Khan apparently not very popular on the doorstep.

PfftThePinkoLeftyDragon · 06/05/2010 22:47

I am flagging

LadycAshcroft · 06/05/2010 22:47

I am loving Mandelson.

Labour activists in Sunderland looked glum.

animula · 06/05/2010 22:47

alysonpeaches - when I lived in Hackney there were queues from early evening onwards.

WilfSellOut · 06/05/2010 22:46

anyone else got multimedia induced schizophrenia and eyestrain?

RedRedApples · 06/05/2010 22:46

7 % is nothing nothing!!! and its wrong anyway +/- 22% as I conclusively proved with graphs and pie charts earlier in the thread..

Puff pipe ajusts cravat

FlyingFig · 06/05/2010 22:46

Just popping in to wave - have been ill all day at the thought of a Tory win.

PfftThePinkoLeftyDragon · 06/05/2010 22:46

come on sunderland!

Beachcomber · 06/05/2010 22:46

ISNT you are on fire tonight!

StewieGriffinsMom · 06/05/2010 22:46

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MmeLindtChocBrownies · 06/05/2010 22:45

What is the point in the whole swingometer thing when the exit poll is very dodgy?

Aranea · 06/05/2010 22:45

oof, don't think i can handle all night... hmm... need to get bigger one to school

onebatonevote · 06/05/2010 22:45

disenchanted, wish I could be as cheerful as biwi. Suspect the answer is truthfully, no.

PinkFuschia · 06/05/2010 22:45

I can understand how a handful of ppl can't get to the polling stations before 9.30pm but hundreds in one constituency...?

smallishsheep · 06/05/2010 22:45

Do you think Jimmy Carr is deliberately modelling himself on PeeWee Herman? That man is looking plastic tonight

PinkFuschia · 06/05/2010 22:45

I can understand how a handful of ppl can't get to the polling stations before 9.30pm but hundreds in one constituency...?

animula · 06/05/2010 22:44

Disenchanted - there is no chance of a Lab majority.

A hung parliament would be a good result.

justaboutkeepingoutthetories · 06/05/2010 22:44

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