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[British Politics] Not As F****D As We Thought!

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    GrimReaper wrote: »
    On that note I go to bed to get sleep, it appears I have less endurance than David Dimbleby an oap.

    Do not doubt the Dimbleby.

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh god Osbourne, blergh.

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  • BurnageBurnage Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    The pound strengthened sharply after the first constituency result suggested the Conservatives may have secured a large enough swing for an overall majority. Sterling rose by nearly a cent to 1.482 dollars, and also climbed back above 1.17 euros.

    Huh.

    Also, another Labour MP in.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2010
    Burnage wrote: »
    EddieDean wrote: »
    So to conclude, it's a bad night for Britain?

    We knew that going in.

    Probably delusional but I really, really believed the LDs might turn it all around.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Labour got sunderland central !

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Labour takes Sunderland Central, but Conservatives take a huge chunk of the votes.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh, wait forget that.

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Any ideas when the results for Barking are in? I think you know why I'm asking.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    i don't know but I hope it's before I go to bed. It's a small constituency in terms of average turnout though/

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Any ideas when the results for Barking are in? I think you know why I'm asking.

    Go to the BBC website, they have predicted times for when the results of each constituency are in.

    More of a glimmer of hope that the swing in a seat the Conservatives had half an eye on didn;t swing as much as the others?

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  • RMS OceanicRMS Oceanic Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Ugh, stop saying Gordon Brown shouldn't cling to power, I get it, every Tory's said it tonight, say something different.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Any ideas when the results for Barking are in? I think you know why I'm asking.

    Nick Griffin and a Monster Raving Loony candidate sharing a ballot?

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    4:00 according to the BBC

    That's one of the latest as well.

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  • EddieDeanEddieDean Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Burnage wrote: »
    EddieDean wrote: »
    So to conclude, it's a bad night for Britain?

    We knew that going in.

    Probably delusional but I really, really believed the LDs might turn it all around.

    I geuninely think we can put this down to age. This year's really proven that we can have a successful three party system, ot at least proven it to the young. I think the old don't really believe that we can have a third party - 'a vote for Lib Dems is a vote for [the primary opposition]', and all that. At least, that's the impression I get from my parents. My mother's always been Conservative (she reads the Daily Mail, ugh), but my father's always been Labour. This year he's gone Cons, I think because he doesn't think Lib Dems have a chance. I don't know what a failiure for Lib Dems to gain the expected number of votes will do for their chances in the future.

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Haha, Fiona Bruce did it again! She's really happy Nigel Farage had a plane crash.

    I don't think they should show that photo at all.

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    ...I love you David Dimbleby. I love you.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2010
    BBC reporter not being very impartial there.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Ahahaha "any party of that ilk..."

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Ugh, Nick Griffin is a horrible, horrible man.

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Nick is looking particularly repulsive tonight.

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Wow, my constituency doesn't come in until 4:00 AM either...why does it take so long? It seems like this takes longer than U.S. Presidential elections...?

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "It's, hmm".

    A disaster is what it is.

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  • The Fourth EstateThe Fourth Estate Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    538 again:

    "Sunderland Central next. We are at Labour 38%, Con 30%, LD 18% here. Uniform swing is at Labour 42%, Con 29%, LD 17%."

    Labour 46%
    Cons 30%
    LD 17%

    Con and LD on track in all declared races, labour all over shop.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Wow, my constituency doesn't come in until 4:00 AM either...why does it take so long? It seems like this takes longer than U.S. Presidential elections...?

    hand counted votes.

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    We've actually had plenty of racist parties in Parliament, of course..

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Wow, my constituency doesn't come in until 4:00 AM either...why does it take so long? It seems like this takes longer than U.S. Presidential elections...?

    hand counted votes.

    British votes counted by British hands. Made in Britain.

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Farage is lucky he wasn't killed.

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Æthelred wrote: »
    We've actually had plenty of racist parties in Parliament, of course..

    We have, but none from the modern emergence of extremist right wing parties.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2010
    japan wrote: »
    Æthelred wrote: »
    We've actually had plenty of racist parties in Parliament, of course..

    We have, but none from the modern emergence of extremist right wing parties.

    If Conservatives get in we'll have one in power, theyre just not open about it,

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    What if we had an election that everyone thought was unfair...

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  • mr-razzcocksmr-razzcocks Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    anybody want to give me a direct link to the predicted results times? i can't find my way around the BBC site for shit

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  • jackisrealjackisreal Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Italax wrote: »
    Bad-Beat wrote: »
    jackisreal wrote: »
    Wow, my constituency doesn't come in until 4:00 AM either...why does it take so long? It seems like this takes longer than U.S. Presidential elections...?

    hand counted votes.

    British votes counted by British hands. Made in Britain.

    Ah! Well, at least when SkyNet becomes self aware the process shall remain pure.

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    anybody want to give me a direct link to the predicted results times? i can't find my way around the BBC site for shit

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results/

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  • mr-razzcocksmr-razzcocks Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    thank you, good sir

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Oh Milli milli milli

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  • japanjapan Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Pickles:

    "Well, I think it's a tad early to say, since we have three results and an exit poll. One thing I think is clear, however, is that Gordon Brown has lost."

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  • Saint MadnessSaint Madness Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    "We have a very strong leader..."

    Who you've been trying to get reid of for the last year..

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    japan wrote: »
    Pickles:

    "Well, I think it's a tad early to say, since we have three results and an exit poll. One thing I think is clear, however, is that Gordon Brown has lost."

    Everytime a tory says that, take a shot.

    You'll be dead before we're halfway through.

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    Hah, "screw you Pickles".

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  • ItalaxItalax Registered User regular
    edited May 2010
    If that Chester thing is true then this is going to fucking explode.

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