Depressed lefties sign in here...

[WilfSell]

...on the grounds that if we assume there will be a Tory govt, then the crowing triumphalism of all the Chinless Wonders and Thrusting Monetarists and Nasty Racists who'll poke in here to crow and gloat, will somehow force a cosmic rift in the time-space continuum. And it will be like 1992 all over again but the other way round.

I fear the best we can hope for is a hung parliament.

I've suggested hemlock for the Election Night supper thread...

I have a raving Tory younger brother who will be unbearable, plus I live in a Tory safe seat. My brother tells me I am just thinking about myself (child tax credits, surestart etc) whereas he is voting for the good of the country. What, an altruistic Tory - gullable fool more like. He is a pompous, selfish, self centre twit at the best of times. ARRGGGHHHHH. I was raised in a Tory family who worshiped Thatcherite values and it was not pleasant. Rampant individualism ruled and quite frankly none of them give a sHit about anyone other than themselves. I'm just going to have to avoid FB or I'll end up having a virtual rant at my brother and he'll just smugly make out I'm a raving lefty who's lost the plot. Family and politics. What a bad combination. Think I might have a bath and go to bed.

Depressed leftie signing in. There's got to be something to hope for. A hung parliament is better than an outright Tory win, isn't it? Isn't it?

Depends who's dealing with who rosebud.

Let's imagine for a moment the Tories as the largest party with a delightful group of 3 UKIPs and Nick Griffin holding the balance of power. Huzza!

A youngster at work told me he's voting tory because they are(and I quote) the 'party of the people'. Oh My God.

Good first result in Sunderland! Perhaps there's hope.....??

Another depressed Scottish leftie signing in. There are practically no Tory seats in Scotland and a real feeling that the Tories tend to treat us badly because they don't have to care about losing any voters. It's almost enough to make you vote for independence ...

JustDepressedTiggaxx

Don't believe the exit polls. DId my own calc from canvassing tonight in marginal and think it will be a bit closer than exit polls :-)

shimmer, an 8.4% swing? not hopeful...

yes but that was in a seat where Labour voters might be forgiven for being complacent.

I'm embarrassed that only 54% of people in my area (Washington) bothered their arses to vote

I think that's called voting with your feet Mermaidspam

humph.

Poor you MonkeyChicken - must be hard when your family think soooooo differently.

The very fact you are writing in here is a political step and a good one too.

We midwives and mums in Australia have found out the hard way unless you are politically savvy you cannot fight City Hall. WE have had to be so driven to even get the politicians to listen to us and what we mean by safe - and that doesn't include the current assault and battery of hospital birth. Major Abdominal Surgery for Birth is not safe practice and for social reasons doctors are breaking the rule of a duty of care in performing these deeds.

Informed consent means knowing the harms of what happens to you after you go home after major abdominal surgery for birth. Rising postnatal depression slow recovery and detachment from your baby and poor breastfeeding is a the result of the obstetric torrent of unfettered terminations of pregnancy and high intervention rates. There is a shortage of midwives world wide and an alarming rate of ill health as a result.Midwives are leaving because of the slaughter they are having to helplessly witness.

The marginal that I campaigned in HELD!!!!!! Left the post campaign party at the MPs house before the result. Really pleased as we did our ground work through winter......feel a bit better this morning as there is still hope. Lib-Lab has the popular vote.

Clegg should not have ruled out working with Brown though

Damnit I was really hoping to be able to send DS to preschool next year when he turns 3

Can forget about that now.

Glad that BNP have seen an overall loss of votes but still and that there were still people scummy enough to vote for them.
I wonder how cheekydee's DH did.

i think a lot of natural Lib-Lab supporters who didn't vote will now regret it.

Been up all night (amazing how much work you can get done around watching the election coverage) and have just had a commiseratory smidgeon of Waitrose chocolate and raspberry torte.

All is far from safe and the overall result far from known but at least, first thing this morning we won't have to suffer the sight of ToryBoy muscling his way into No.10, pausing only to gurn,smarmily, at a phalanx of cameras. And for that salvation alone, a bit of cake seemed justified. Now to go to bed and hope that when I awake, a Tory victory is just a very bad dream.

TDiddy - you are right, there has been a Lib Dem slaughter. Now Shef Hallam has declared and Nick Clegg has kept his seat, it is making a a Lab-Lib coalition more likely, and one of the things such a coalition would be pushing for is proportional representation.

I wouldn't be surprised to see 1974 re-run - this time with a Lab-Lib coalition that is conditional on electoral reform. However, yet another LibDem has just bitten the dust which isn't a help.

wah!! just woken and seen the latest figures.really scared now