Silver lining - Farage has lost Thanet

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That's it, really. Let's hope that's the beginning of the end for UKIP.

with a Tory government that will be utterly bogged down by infighting over Europe? Lib Dems are dead, Labour in disarray - they may not have seats but UKIP aren't going anywhere! Fuckers.

Farage may return. It depends on what UKIP do next.

He has resigned, but hasn't ruled out standing again at some unspecified point in the future.

And yes, if we did not have FPTP, he'd be an MP leading one of the largest party blocs in the Commons.

I have never been so pleased we have a FPTP system. Thank sweet baby Jesus he lost.

Silver linings: Caroline Lucas kept her seat in Brighton.

1/3 of MPs are women

And Nigel didn't win (but Douglas Caswell sadly did).

And Ed too...

Also, don't forget: Cameron said he wouldn't go for a third term!!

Hmmm! Promises, promises

We could be looking forward to a complete clear out, though.

South Thanet here, so proud of our little area, we have reject racism and bigotry. (not so happy about MacKinley, but for us here the battle for to not elect Farage)

More silver linings:

George Galloway
Esther McVey
John Hemming

All gone.

for you OneStep.

Well done, onestep

As I said above, I would have voted Tory in South Thanet, and had always wondered if there were any circumstances that could make me vote Tory. Now I know.

and for OneStep and all in your área who rejected Farage. Well done you.

At this rate, we'll have the sun peeping back out

Little 'S' on sun, btw

Al Murrays face in some of the pictures is just hilarious! There are loads on his twitter feed.

Sadly we have the beer drinking attention junkie tory cunt back in round here :(

I've printed off a picture of Nige and Al to stick on my fridge. It will bring me some comfort.

I'm glad he's gone.

But it remains the case that 3 million-ish people voted UKIP, for a single MP. A million people voted Green and got 1 MP.

Meanwhile, 1.4 million voted SNP and we all know the result.

This isn't an anti SNP comment btw (they deserve their success) but it does highlight the unfairness of the FPTP system. It is wrong that such a large segment of the population is so effectively disenfranchised, even if I disagree with their views.

He has resigned, but hasn't ruled out standing again at some unspecified point in the future.

So presumably he wants some yes-man or woman to keep his seat warm for him till he can wander back. Thoroughly dishonest.

UKIP obviously has polled a large number of votes, but you have to question whether those are committed votes in the longer term. If Farage stays out - and probably even if he doesn't - UKIP won't have an adequate brake on the nutters and that will alienate plenty of yesterday's voters.

Al Murray gave us all a good laugh and showed Farage up for what he is.

I'm a little bit in love with Al Murray since the election. I thought his pie policy was very sound.

For me the silver lining was George Galloway losing.

NIgel Farage will be back as UKIP leader at some point, unless his back injury is too much for him to consider it.

Could anyone tell me what Al Murray did, I missed it

thanks

All this fptp/ pr stuff. The systems have advantages and disadvantages but one of the biggest advantages of fptp is it keeps extremists out, imagine some of the potential minor parties ...... The SNP are different, because they polled the most vote in their area. And they can't get more seats (as they are unlikely to ever get many votes in Chatham). The other really good thing with fptp is that you get a local MP who represents your local interest, with a party list that wouldn't be the case. Personally I would rather stick as we are. And the SNP are not in government, are not the main opposition party so Scottish power in one way is less than when they had some of their MPs in the cabinet.

Anyfucker it was his delight when he realised that Nigel Farage had lost.
His mouth dropped open in shock, then he grinned in delight, turned to the Conservative and clapped him on the back. All comically exaggerated
There's a clip on the Daily Standard among others if you want to see it - on my phone atm and can't work out how to link.

I do love joke candidates in our elections and Al's manifesto was the usually good humoured madness

thanks, Tan

John Hemming's gone? Brilliant, the weasely horrible man.