Westministenders: The Election Car Crash

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I was thinking about how I could sum up the general election campaign and well. This said it all.

doug rivers‏*@doug*_rivers (man who did YouGov model)
@YouGov model

Thinking more about Murdoch........Paul Dacre too will be spittIng feathers.

Shame

Harry Cole‏*@MrHarryCole*
Tory source rather close to Boris Johnson: "people needed hope"

ROFL. No shit.
You knew this. Then May screwed it.

Sounding like Clegg has indeed gone. Something tells me he has a career in journalism ahead of him. Perhaps in London...

Funny how we were all going to bed at 10.01 two days ago....

That's a stunningly good match to the YouGov prediction so far...

Not Clegg

He has been the voice of reason since the referendum

Christopher Hope 📝 @christopherhope
Paddy Power is giving 7/4 odds of another General Election this year. #GE2017

Robert Peston‏ @Peston
What we know so far: 1) the left's grip on Labour now unshakeable, and Blairism totally dead (as I mentioned on Wednesday)
2) we are witnessing the starkest generational split at ballot box for years, with young backing Labour and old the Tories
Robert Peston‏
3) @theresa_may very seriously wounded - and her rivals, such as @BorisJohnson, will be weeping crocodile tears
4) we are back to traditional right-versus-politics of a sort we haven't seen for more than 25 years
5) we are entering a period of chronic political instability, and another general election in the autumn looks almost inevitable
6) sterling and stock market will be under serious downward pressure in the morning
7) goodness only knows what this means either for the timetable for Brexit or the nature of Brexit
8) what I worry about, more than anything else, is that our nation will be revealed as more divided that at any time since the 1980s

Tim Shipman‏*@ShippersUnbound*
Lib Dems think they are doing very well in Bath

I'm sad for Clegg if that's true.

Wrexham a big seat. Con target.

Yes, it's very sad for Clegg but I don't think we have heard the last of him. He'll continue to campaign against Brexit. He won't be on Celebrity Jungle any time soon (and, if all else fails, as one of the few experienced EU trade negotiators this country has, he could be earning £££ going eye to eye with the EU27 ).

Labour have held it.
This is not going the way the Tories want.
This is to be expected in Wales.

The places the Cons are more likely to do well in are the West Midlands. Towns beginning with B or C in the NW.

lurking on thread if it's ok I can't sleep

Can't sleeeeepppp

You think Brum will go blukip red??

This must be a shock in Scotland!

Chester sounds like it will stay Labour.

Its number one on the Conservative Target list.

Britain Elects‏*@britainelects*

Labour GAIN Rutherglen & Hamilton West from SNP.

YouGov had Rutherglen as a three-way marginal. But after the huge swings to snp last time we can expect a little correction I think.

It's early days but I'm coming round to YouGov.

Updating every few minutes as I can't sleep either. Daren't hope!

Not Birmingham. Cons only really have hopes in one Birmingham seat. Early on it was more but recently only realistically Birmingham Northfield.

It was Stoke Central, Stoke North, Stoke South and Newcastle Under Lyme plus Walsall North and Wolverhampton South West that were the key ones.

If they don't happen. The landslide is really off in my opinion.

Amber Rudd does NOT sound or look confident.

Pudsey. Lab target. Sounds like Cons potted.
Broxtowe. Anna Soubry. Lab target. Sounds like Cons potted.

This is in line with YouGov.