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Anxious Conservatives thread!

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VicToryA · 06/05/2010 19:27

As the lefties have one, we need one too.

I have everything crossed for them to win, by however small a margin, and red wine and arsenic ready in case they lose...

I daren't stay up as my nerves can't take it. I just desperately want to wake up to a Conservative government tomorrow morning.

Lefties, please don't intrude. I have deliberately started this thread so as not to pester you on your anxious thread. It feels mean and unnecessary to tell you why you are wrong on your own thread.

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Coolfonz · 07/05/2010 08:08

It's a disaster for the Tories. All the polls had them walking it by 40-50 seats until about a month ago...

Now Labour can get rid of Brown...

MrsGuyOfGisbourne · 07/05/2010 08:23

Delighted to see that our local candidate Zac Goldsmith beat the very dodgy Lib Dem Susan Kramer who fought a very dirty and mendacious campaign.

ninna · 07/05/2010 08:46

I found it all fascinating. Stayed up till 4-15 when our new constituency beecame tory. I feel quite content. I don't want the tories to be held solely responsible for the hard times to come.

jackstarbright · 07/05/2010 08:50

Mrs G - that was the news that greeted me (via Paul Mason tweet) when I awoke. Made me smile! Not sure what I actually make of Zac - but the vision of Ms Kramer giving Vince Cable the hard stare came to mind. Bet she's livid about his 'bankers will vote LibDem out of shame' comments given the number of bank workers who live in Richmond.

Vince sending his Twickenham canvassing team over your way didn't help her much it seems. Though of course he still held Twickenham .

ZephirineDrouhin · 07/05/2010 09:05

Hello anxious conservatives. Sorry to intrude, but then again we may all have to work together now...

Paul Mason very funny on subject of Zac. Last night: "Zac's entourage at Richmond count stand out for high fashion and wild hairstyles. Other parties workers staring at them, fascinated" and this morning: "Half of Debretts in tow."

I read an interview with him a while ago which made me feel surprisingly warm to him where he talked about pricing environmental costs correctly into the market. I think he has some good ideas (for a Tory, natch). But it's hard to get past the hair and teeth.

jackstarbright · 07/05/2010 09:13

Hi Zeph - Yes Paul Mason is good. I am also following Tim Harford this from him on the Mandy

"TimHarford Mandelson on @r4today now. Sounds like candles lit, champagne on ice, seafood risotto reaching perfection and Nick Clegg due round in 5mins
about 1 hour ago"

Cartoose · 07/05/2010 09:15

Good morning everyone. Can't believe Ed Balls is still in

wasabipeanut · 07/05/2010 09:17

I woke up to the quite depressing picture I expected.

The maths are so close that it is by no means clear that DC can form a minority govt. GB will do everything possible to avoid leaving the building.

My only consolation is that the Tories will not be held solely responsible for the financial hardship ahead.

I kind of feel like shouting to the electorate "well done, you got what you wanted. Now sit back and watch the chaos unfold".

ZephirineDrouhin · 07/05/2010 09:19

I bloody love Paul Mason actually. Became quite obsessed with his excellent reports on Newsnight as the financial crisis was unfolding. And he always looked so winningly cross about it all.

abr1de · 07/05/2010 09:24

SOmeone very close to me worked hard in Abingdon/Oxford W. for the Tories--and they won! So pleased for him. He was pounding pavements for night after night after commuting back from London.

If you look at the picture for England, it's even more Tory than it was before. Our own Tory MP increased his share.

Cartoose · 07/05/2010 09:24

I know. GB is super stubborn. This could go on forever. I hate this "up in the air" stuff.

Cartoose · 07/05/2010 09:25

Right, got to go or I'll be sitting here all day

wasabipeanut · 07/05/2010 09:26

It is indeed Abr1de. My local Tory MP increased his share too. I think the probl;em is the seats they didn't get in Wales & Scotland!

justaboutkeepingoutthetories · 07/05/2010 09:30

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ZephirineDrouhin · 07/05/2010 09:38

Hello justa. I'm all anxietied out now, and disproportionately pleased that we kept Sadiq Khan here.

George Osborne? If I were thinking of voting Tory the thought of him as chancellor at this particular point in history would certainly have given me pause.

abr1de · 07/05/2010 09:42

It's a good question, justabout.

I was looking at Eric Pickles on TV last night and wondering whether perhaps he and David Davies and Kenneth Clarke should have had more airtime. I feel less in common with them myself as a still, cough, reasonably youngish female voter, but perhaps they have that straightforward bloke-ishness that the general electorate prefer? I like David C. myself and I've heard lots of good things about him through people who know him through his little boy, before he died.

I think that George O. was a weak link. I'm sure he's good technically but he doesn't inspire as a public speaker.

abr1de · 07/05/2010 09:44

Cross-posted in agreement, Zephirine!

ZephirineDrouhin · 07/05/2010 09:48

Ken Clarke does seem to have a fundamental integrity about him which is very admirable (and appears to be increasingly rare).

crystal123 · 07/05/2010 09:49

I was at the count this morning, an absolute disaster. 10 policeman were present to stop the fights, I was told that punch-ups had ensued before. As the night rolled...on and on, it was obviously going to be a hung parliament. What the hell is happening to this country. 13 years of misery and still the Tories don't romp home to a victory. I vote UKIP and they got 850,000 votes and not one single MP. As the night drew to a close and morning arrived, 5am to be precise, the Tories became more miffed and I'm afraid the stiff upper lip may soon be evaporating into this
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Lolly68 · 07/05/2010 09:50

Morning everyone

I see some of you stayed up most of the night!

Cartoose · 07/05/2010 09:51

I'm equally surprised at that Justabout. I wish I knew.

abr1de · 07/05/2010 09:51

You also have the impression that KC has a hinterland: jazz and bird-watching. Not my choices but at least he's got some passion. Were those binoculars strung underneath his jacket? We could work it out. Perhaps he was popping out to a night hide along the Thames in between interviews.

ANd what on earth was the point of that silly boat with all the tipsy luvvies? THey could have cast them adrift and nobody would have noticed.

whifflegarden · 07/05/2010 09:51

justabout this is why

People scared of losing benefits.

Cartoose · 07/05/2010 09:53

"I was at the count this morning, an absolute disaster. 10 policeman were present to stop the fights, I was told that punch-ups had ensued before"

That's horrible! Where was that?

scaryteacher · 07/05/2010 09:54

I stayed up all night and watched it. Am disappointed that the Tories didn't do better countrywide, but delighted so far at the results in the South West, especially in Cornwall and SE Cornwall in particular. I hope that the Torridge and West Devon count will return the Tory incumbent, and once the helicopter gets over from the Scillies the last Cornish count can begin.

Would have liked to see Ben Bradshaw out in Exeter, but you can't have everything.