Depressed lefty red-eye thread

[policywonk]

hello

Caroline Lucas for PM?

A massive well done to Margaret Hodge for battering the BNP in Barking.

Am amazed by how close the Lab/Con results are though, expected there to be a bigger difference.

Gah. Slept for four hours. Whad I miss? Thought it would be done and dusted by now. Did Lloyd George get in then?

justabout, I think Clegg wouild. It's whether the real liberals behind him in the party will let him do it (rubs eyes).

justa, clegg appears to be signalling that PR would be third on his shopping list

would

I've really gone off Clegg. What are one and two? One - give me a job two - give me any job?

Even if Lab / Lib try to govern surely the House of Lords still has a Tory majority that could send bills straight back to the Commons. I know they could then be guillotined but it would be absolute turmoil.

You'd think it would be a sine qua non wouldn't you? But it's not looking so sure (re. Clegg/PR)

Gordon, the LibDems have in fact lost Lloyd George's seat. More importantly, they lost Evan Harris's too

Maybe Clegg is thinking that if he props up a Labour govt, he will lose any chance of gaining soft Tory votes for the next several elections? And there's no point demanding PR from Tories because they just won't give it.

Morning all. And what a grim morning. Switched on the TV just in time to see Camborne go Tory. Harrow's gone too.

so nice to come onto MN again this am and see the anxious conservatives thread, er, anxious