Depressed lefty red-eye thread

[policywonk]

hello

Am gutted - my old constituency went Tory with a 7.7% swing. WITH A MARGIN OF 54 VOTES!!!

I feel for you, Pfft. I've just staggered out of bed after 2.5 hours to find that I'm 'represented' by a filthy rich landowner with a quadruple-barrelled name.

Gutted for our outgoing Labour MP, who has worked hard for this area .

Morning. Woken with a headache.

Wish I was a fly on the wall to hear what strategies were being developed.

I'm feeling happy there will be no Tory flag waving victory moment, means some smuggery has been avoided at least.

Love how close loads of the seats are though.

dd2 is really wound up about the tories winning. She is hoping for wet play so she can go on the internet and find out who won!
She is 8

Been up all night apart from hour's doze on sofa. Of course dd is now up and ready to go dancing.

Am pleased by Barking result. BNP haven't dine half as well as they expected anywhere. On that happy note am off to bed for hour.

I'm watching from Sydney, and am SO depressed. I remember living in Brighton when Labour got in after the Thatcher years and it felt like waking up to a new dawn. The thought of the banker wankers being back in power is horrible.

Still got Liddell Granger. No big surprise there. Lib-Dems in second place ahead of Labour.

BNP only got 2.35%. Thank fuck for that!

Anyone got any info on seats left to declare (about 56?) Are they all big rural Tory consituencies or what??

See Esther Rantzen did shockingly badly.

Am impressed at the lack of Tory landslide. If they can't do it now....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Morning all, was just about to type in despair, but just saw that we stayed red here, thank goodness.

I just needed to vent the fact that I want to poke Gove in the eye (want to do worse, but I'm also concerned about making threats on mnet). Why do they keep claiming it's been a comprehensive defeat/rout?? It hasn't at all. I was expecting a rout, but I'm finding myself relieved this am.

So pleased by how badly the BNP are doing, but I'm actually relieved that people have voted for them and not the Tories in some constituencies! Never thought I'd be pleased about BNP votes.

BNP and UKIP combined got almost 10% of the vote here.

really awful local result we now have a Tory MP

Lots of London seats left to declare, they're often red

Exactly dragon! If they can't get a landslide after 13yrs in oppostion

Morning all.

What is the state of the nation this morning? It is not looking great, is it?

Wilf - last time I looked, about 20 of the seats left to declare were Top 200 Tory target seats.

now live in a tory seat . shit

aren't they...

Cumbria- Copeland -was labour but is rural
Penrith was tory & v landed
westmorland was libdem but may waver
Morecambe may waver but I would suspect left
Lancaster similar

fucking hell. Woke up to find that neighbouring Harrogate (safe LibDem seat for decades) has been lost by a massive unexpected swing to the Tories

Grim all-round really.

i cant watch anymore. why are people desperate for a tory government when their policies dont add up for the economy and the they will start making cuts? people think they are clever sticking to gordon brown....wait till it hits them in the pocket.

cannot believe our labour mp is out here.

are there more people with money in the country than i know about?

I'm also feeling evilly smug that my travelling db didn't organise his postal vote, he's annoyingly Tory. The rest of the family are lefties, so I cant say my parents went to much effort to remind him [evilgrin]

I can't believe people think that non-dom millionaires' sons are representative of their constituencies