to ask if I'm alone in sensing that the election results will confound the pollsters??

[grovel]

It's just a gut feeling that the nation(s) won't vote as predicted.

If that is the end result I am gutted.

Peltata i thought so too. Im sure they just moved....

Nicola Sturgeon would make a great double agent

that SNP number is awful for the 56 million of us who have to put up with them without any control

I'm sure the DC model winked

One night, I know. I was just messing about :)

If the exit poll is indicative of the actual result, then I do think that - as much as many true Labour supporters will disagree - that they made a mistake in the leadership election of 2010.

If the result is true, I think that the Conservatives could try to go it alone...

Ed is an idiot to have refused help from Nicola. He shot himself in the foot.

If those polls are true we're fucked aren't we off to book valuations for our house

I think DC will move very quickly with English votes for England to keep the SNP at arms length

woah, was not expecting that exit poll!

Love Paddy Ashdown volunteering to eat his hat though!

Where is the all night discussion thread? Is it this one?

I think Nicola Sturgeon has come across a lot better in this campaign than she did pre-referendum. She seems a lot, I don't know, calmer and more states(wo)man like perhaps? Less angry and shouty in general. Maybe because this election isn't specifically about independence so isn't quite as fraught?

Certainly some of the GE debates seemed a world apart from the lovely indyref one between her and Johann Lamont where the pair of them screeched at each other and were "astonished" at everything!

I love those Sunderland people running around with the votes. Wasn't it one year that Tower Hamlets took over a week to count theirs? That was also brilliant. Sorry, slightly off topic I know

She's had a lot of media training since she and Lamont were shrieking like fishwives at one another a few months ago.

Yeah, I think Sunderland South (?) likes to be the first to declare. Apparently Newcastle Central are also in the running. Mackems vs Geordies for first to declare, should be interesting.

It's an exit poll based on 22000, don't despair yet ??. They have been wrong before.

Funny that's exactly how I described it at the time too squoosh!

Sickoffrozen - I have just had the very same conversation over the phone with DP.

I think Paddy's probably right about some of the extremes of the exit poll.

I love Sunderland for their thing about being first to declare.

Perhaps a certain type of person answers the exit poll? I was asked and I said I wasn't going to say. Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't see the point in a secret vote if you then tell a random outside the hall and show them your polling card with your name and address on?

I just don't believe that exit poll because so many of the constituencies are finely balanced. I don't think that the Liberals will have done quite so badly or the SNP quite so well. I'm uncertain about the Tory figures because I have no feel for UKIP influence on the ground. Much is still to play for.

In the meantime, I have now opened the hard liquor and I doubt sincerely if I will manage to last even until the three results I particularly want to see announced. I hope that you will all sympathetically ignore any drunken ramblings later on in the night.

The pound is going up because of the exit polls!!!

My experience of that AbbeyRoadCrossing was that I was jumped on with what appeared to be great authority by people who didn't say who they were and who asked for my polling card as well. (That was in an inner city constituency some years back.) I told them to take a hike but I imagine that many people would not have.

peltata agree 100% with you. Dave will move to try and fight off Nicola.

Ooh nasty word picture.