Politics, The Election May 2015

[Prufrock]

I'm locking myself in Islington and not coming out for 5 years!

[Worthy4England]

Farage resigns....but may put his name forwards in September, which sounds like not resigning to me.

[Worthy4England]

I'm locking myself in Islington and not coming out for 5 years!

Nothing is EVER that bad!

[TANGODANCER]

Results in our manor. Bolton South East. Ukip beat Tory and Green.

Parliamentary candidatesVotes
Yasmin Qureshi (elected) Labour Party 50% 20,555

Jeffrey Armstrong UK Independence Party 24% 9,627

Mudasir Dean Conservative Party 20% 8,289

Alan Johnson Green Party 3% 1,200

[jmjhb]

Miliband, Clegg, Farage all gone...

[Worthy4England]

Delighted Milliband has gone. Not unhappy he's taken his Balls with him.

Please God, if there is a God, not Chuka Umunna.

Hobe's must still be buried under a landslide.

Interesting SNP increased their vote 3.1% and added 50 seats. Labour increased 1.4% and lost 26, Cons increased 0.7% and won 22, UKIP got nearly 4m votes and bagged 1 seat (about 40% of Labour total, 33% of the Tory total and nearly 3 x the SNP total)...

Maybe some folks should take a good look at how they campaigned on PR.

Some really interesting politics ahead, with only one party in charge - what to do about the Ajockalypse and the EU.

[Bijou Bob]

I'm locking myself in Islington and not coming out for 5 years!

I do hope you've stocked up on San Pellegrino and sun dried tomato focacia then?

[Prufrock]

Should be good for a few years until this referendum. After that the tariffs could be crippling. Many of us are already close to breaking point on proper South American quinoa.

[Hoboh]

Delighted Milliband has gone. Not unhappy he's taken his Balls with him.

Please God, if there is a God, not Chuka Umunna.

Hobe's must still be buried under a landslide.

Interesting SNP increased their vote 3.1% and added 50 seats. Labour increased 1.4% and lost 26, Cons increased 0.7% and won 22, UKIP got nearly 4m votes and bagged 1 seat (about 40% of Labour total, 33% of the Tory total and nearly 3 x the SNP total)...

Maybe some folks should take a good look at how they campaigned on PR.

Some really interesting politics ahead, with only one party in charge - what to do about the Ajockalypse and the EU.

Disappointed but not half as much as I would be if I was a raving socialist
Too many issues split the Labour party, too many people with their own agenda, no leader can say anything without some group shouting the odds, consequently they never appear to be together and sorry I don't care what anyone says Ed came across a bit weird and Balls, a joke.
Prior to this election the Tories had one problem, Europe, they threw a bucket of water over that fire with the promise of a referendum. Europe still hangs over them but the biggest problem will be Nicola 'shopping list' Sturgeon.
The result of this election only means one thing, death of the Socialists, a break up of the union and an Atlantic size chasm between North and South as well as more erosion of privacy and liberties.
Not really such a good day for many it will turn out.

Now the upsides
No more traitorous Clegg
No more Harman
No more Galloway and three cheers for that!
Farage will be back!

[Prufrock]

Delighted Milliband has gone. Not unhappy he's taken his Balls with him.

Please God, if there is a God, not Chuka Umunna.

Hobe's must still be buried under a landslide.

Interesting SNP increased their vote 3.1% and added 50 seats. Labour increased 1.4% and lost 26, Cons increased 0.7% and won 22, UKIP got nearly 4m votes and bagged 1 seat (about 40% of Labour total, 33% of the Tory total and nearly 3 x the SNP total)...

Maybe some folks should take a good look at how they campaigned on PR.

Some really interesting politics ahead, with only one party in charge - what to do about the Ajockalypse and the EU.

Disappointed but not half as much as I would be if I was a raving socialist
Too many issues split the Labour party, too many people with their own agenda, no leader can say anything without some group shouting the odds, consequently they never appear to be together and sorry I don't care what anyone says Ed came across a bit weird and Balls, a joke.
Prior to this election the Tories had one problem, Europe, they threw a bucket of water over that fire with the promise of a referendum. Europe still hangs over them but the biggest problem will be Nicola 'shopping list' Sturgeon.
The result of this election only means one thing, death of the Socialists, a break up of the union and an Atlantic size chasm between North and South as well as more erosion of privacy and liberties.
Not really such a good day for many it will turn out.

Now the upsides
No more traitorous Clegg
No more Harman
No more Galloway and three cheers for that!
Farage will be back!

Um...?

[Hoboh]

Delighted Milliband has gone. Not unhappy he's taken his Balls with him.

Please God, if there is a God, not Chuka Umunna.

Hobe's must still be buried under a landslide.

Interesting SNP increased their vote 3.1% and added 50 seats. Labour increased 1.4% and lost 26, Cons increased 0.7% and won 22, UKIP got nearly 4m votes and bagged 1 seat (about 40% of Labour total, 33% of the Tory total and nearly 3 x the SNP total)...

Maybe some folks should take a good look at how they campaigned on PR.

Some really interesting politics ahead, with only one party in charge - what to do about the Ajockalypse and the EU.

Disappointed but not half as much as I would be if I was a raving socialist
Too many issues split the Labour party, too many people with their own agenda, no leader can say anything without some group shouting the odds, consequently they never appear to be together and sorry I don't care what anyone says Ed came across a bit weird and Balls, a joke.
Prior to this election the Tories had one problem, Europe, they threw a bucket of water over that fire with the promise of a referendum. Europe still hangs over them but the biggest problem will be Nicola 'shopping list' Sturgeon.
The result of this election only means one thing, death of the Socialists, a break up of the union and an Atlantic size chasm between North and South as well as more erosion of privacy and liberties.
Not really such a good day for many it will turn out.

Now the upsides
No more traitorous Clegg
No more Harman
No more Galloway and three cheers for that!
Farage will be back!

Um...?

Resigned as deputy leader

[Prufrock]

To become acting leader! And still an MP.

Feck knows who's going to end up running the Labour party, and it won't be her, but certainly not "no more Harman".

Imagine how pissed off the likes of Simon Hughes must be with Clegg!

If Farage is back surely he's just another establishment politician making a U-Turn?

Very weird result for the likes of the Greens, SNP, and UKIP who had hugely successful nights in terms of share of the vote (and seats too for the SNP) and yet will have absolutely no power at all. Not enough enough to try to get electoral reform. Shame.

[a1]

the daft pricks'll be boating in Nicolas Maduro or summat to take over from Judas Edward Judas

[Lord Kangana]

Delighted Milliband has gone. Not unhappy he's taken his Balls with him.

Please God, if there is a God, not Chuka Umunna.

Hobe's must still be buried under a landslide.

Interesting SNP increased their vote 3.1% and added 50 seats. Labour increased 1.4% and lost 26, Cons increased 0.7% and won 22, UKIP got nearly 4m votes and bagged 1 seat (about 40% of Labour total, 33% of the Tory total and nearly 3 x the SNP total)...

Maybe some folks should take a good look at how they campaigned on PR.

Some really interesting politics ahead, with only one party in charge - what to do about the Ajockalypse and the EU.

Interestingly, the UKIP deputy was saying last night on TV how disgraceful it would be if the Libdems gained more seats with less votes because of FPTP!

I think time for electoral reform is long overdue. The only impediment is the Tories, though, and they are always the major benefactor under the current system, so its a bit like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.

And I can really see the incendiary mix of two such diametrically opposed causes as the SNP and a Tory majority only speeding up devolution - unnecessarily in my opinion. On the radio earlier the Tory campaign organiser (name escapes me) was crowing about the defeat of Labour and its principles north of the border - to which the interviewer, quite rightly again in my opinion, asked him whether it was appropriate to have such views when they had themselves the lamentable total of 1 seat in the whole of Scotland, and what he felt of that. Didn't really get an answer.

[a1]

have these benneton ads and coca cola records taught us nothing ?

[Lord Kangana]

To ignore you?

[Worthy4England]

I wonder which party got the half a million votes the BNP lost? I think I'm looking at you, UKIP.

Don't think we can do the PR vote again - we've only just done it. There were only 6m folks in favour (So pretty much LibDems and "the rest"), which broadly says both major Westminster parties thought it was a bad idea, despite Labour declaring a "free vote".

I don't mind the crowing about the Labour collapse in Scotland particularly - it'll be a self inflicted wound within the next 5 years - no English centric parties now have any sort of mandate, so over to you Tory's - sort it out.

The EU vote will be interesting - think Cameron has said his intention is to re-negotiate and keep to a "stay in" (broadly) - can't see it satisfying John Redwood - and it's a fairly small majority.

I do think this is going to be a much more interesting 5 years than the last 5 years, politically.

[thebish]

Am I allowed to call farage "yesterday's man" yet?

positives... farage gone (yesterday's man)
balls and miliband gone - both of them were toxic to labour's cause

so - when does this renegotiation with Europe start?

[thebish]

Farage resigns....but may put his name forwards in September, which sounds like not resigning to me.

aye.. plain man speaks the truth... (bollox!)

as my eldest has just commented: "So he's leaving his job and picking it back up again in a few months? Personally, I would call that a holiday rather than a resignation."

[Worthy4England]

Am I allowed to call farage "yesterday's man" yet?

positives... farage gone (yesterday's man)
balls and miliband gone - both of them were toxic to labour's cause

so - when does this renegotiation with Europe start?

Gotta say, I'm looking round and I'm not seeing any shoe-ins. After seeing the campaigns for the last couple of weeks, I think they need to pick someone who is photogenic and says really nice things whilst not doing any debates and pats babies nicely on the head.