Congratulations to Tory and SNP voters

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Brilliant result for SNP voters. Amazing. Most significant change in British electoral history ever. Truly historic.

Very good results for Conservative voters.

The LibDems won't help us. They are and always were with them.

It's Farage, Natalie Bennett, Caroline Lucas and Russell Brand against the LibDems and them.

We're unstoppable. Brand has 9 million twitter followers. Cameron said "Russell Brand, he's a joke", but it ain't that funny. And who knows, maybe Labour will join us against the LibDems and them.

SNP don't have 56 seats for 5% of the votes, as pp have said. They have 56 seats for 50% of the vote (in the 59 seats in Scotland). That right and proper under the current FPTP system.

Ukips 3.5million votes are spread over 600 seats, is proportionally a much smaller achievement, they have one seat because only one seat put them FPTP!

FPTP Isn't perfect but it's what we have right now, and it's too simplistic to feed current results into a pr calculator and say that the result would have been X or Y, because changing the system will also change the way people vote, and potentially who they vote for.

'because changing the system will also change the way people vote, and potentially who they vote for'

Absolutely, if people could vote for what they believed in, the main two parties would lose millions more votes.

'They have 56 seats for 50% of the vote (in the 59 seats in Scotland).'

Good point, but isn't the argument that this wasn't a Scottish election (Holyrood etc), but a UK wide election in which case they only have 4.5% of the UK vote?

Yes, it was 4.7% of the UK vote (provided by only 8.5% of the UK population). It was also 50% of the Scottish vote, quite a remarkable feat!

It was a truly remarkable result. Amazing. Fantastic vote.

And the fact that I don't need to watch Jim Murphy and Margaret Curran on TV anymore (I hope) is a bonus.

Lol, I agree!