Depressed lefty red-eye thread

[policywonk]

hello

Hazel Blears - how stupid can people be to vote her back in?

Lol mrsbean dd2 also making the most of all night feeding frenzy.

Still can't get over the fact that a aparty with such a large proportion of votes can have such a low proportion of the seats. Do you think libdems will form a government with whoever guarantees electoral reform?

326 is technically the number (650 MPs), but there are already 4 SF MPs, who will refuse to sit.

So 324 is the real number, for whichever party/alliance

And the DUP - 8 MPs - will certainly ally with the Tories if required. There is also Sylvia Hermon who is a Unionist who was standing on an independent Ulster Unionist - but not Conservative ticket. Then there is the 'Independent Unionist' or SF in Fermagh & South Tyrone.

Not sure what the Alliance MP will do.

Of course Tories never going to guarantee that so if they don'tget amajoritywheredoes that leave them?

Would Labour go for PR to appease LDs?

Do you really think that people will accept GB if the Tories are the single party with the most seats and possibly greatest share of the vote for one party. I apprecaite that until he's ousted GB can sit tight however if people are upset about being locked out of polling stations they'll be a damn sight more angry at having GB continue in office.

Just thoughts?

More than just churlish - squatters!

So good to see Shaun Bailey beaten.

Wetaugust- those people may have wanted Labour?

thanks for the tea, dear

Would the scottish/welsh nationalists be more likely to side with Labour than Tories?

I agree Nymphadora that they may have wanted Labour but I just don't see how Labour could legitimately rule as a minority party when the Tories although also a minority party would be larger than Labour?

Just to set the record straight - I'm not a Tory voter - I'm just someone who's stayed up all night watching this unfold

Surely a Lib-Lab coalition minority with 50% of the vote is better than a Tory minority with 37% of the vote?

Morning, any news on Barking?