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[EdibleExplosives]

Lib Dem voters dissipated and went to the Tories.

Which blows my mind.

 

[gerg]

Well this is an utter bloodbath.

To be honest the thing that most interests me is just how wrong the pollsters have been for months. The analysis on that over the coming days and weeks is going to be fascinating.

I'm finding this result too interesting to be upsetting.

 

[Ghost_Messiah]

Professor Peter Hennessy from Queen Mary University says tomorrow morning, if negotiations are needed, the prime minister will instruct the cabinet secretary to activate the plan for coalition talks to begin. There has been "a lot of slippery talk about legitimacy" in the last week, he says. Professor Hennessy also warns: "We are looking as a union almost for things for fall out over."

Just in from the BBC. With the Lib Dems collapsing who can the Conservatives form a Coalition with? Phil from EastEnders?

 

[L1NETT]

Some serious shakeups in the Labour party must be coming

Really fear a lurch to the right.

How some can say they were too left is beyond me. Huge push about controlled migration n that

 

[Scum]

Astonishing.

I do wonder how the UK will shape up in these next 5 years.

We're doomed, m8.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

We're in narrow Conservative majority region, folks.

 

[MrRoflWaffles]

Well this is an utter bloodbath.

To be honest the thing that most interests me is just how wrong the pollsters have been for months. The analysis on that over the coming days and weeks is going to be fascinating.

I wonder, though - is it that the polls have been wrong for months, or has opinion really swung extremely recently?

A bloodbath is right regardless. Carnage.

 

[gutter_trash]

Congrats UK, you now have self centered nationalists voting for tegional parties causing the Conservatives to win.

Now you are stuck with the SNP that will deliver nothing for Scotland just as the Bloc Quebecois proved to be s waste of space in Canada (Thankfully the Bloc are now fow to 2 MPs).

You SNP think that you will get represented but the opposite will be true.

You have no representatives in cabinet positions or in the official opposition

Wasted

 

[Jackpot]

Well this is an utter bloodbath.

To be honest the thing that most interests me is just how wrong the pollsters have been for months. The analysis on that over the coming days and weeks is going to be fascinating.

And the only thing of note that happened in the last few days of the campaign was the giant stone thing. "Silent majority" exists?

 

[iMax]

 

[fenners]

We're in narrow Conservative majority region, folks.

 

[Ruruja]

I think this just proves democracy is a failed concept.

Bring back the monarchy!

 

[painey]

played a bit of witcher 2 and ate some more popcorn. it's all stuck in my bloody teeth now

 

[tomtom94]

I think I now know what Republican voters felt like
when Obama got in.

 

[Kiever Sher]

Exit poll gave Nuneaton to Labour, Tory majority incoming

 

[RandyBobandy]

How does a country that votes SNP in a landslide victory vote no to independence?

 

[Audioboxer]

Thank fuck The Witcher 3 is out soon. This could be depressing as fuck in the coming days. Wished for SNP/Labour. Conservatives are poison to Scotland/SNP.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

Some serious shakeups in the Labour party must be coming

Really fear a lurch to the right.

How some can say they were too left is beyond me. Huge push about controlled migration n that

Yeah, I don't understand it either. If Labour are too left wing for England, then fuck me, the UK is doomed.

 

[Honey Bunny]

They just said on BBC that under their exit poll, Nuneaton was expected to swing Lab, and to expect now for the Cons to get a majority (ie slightly better even than their exit poll).

 

[Captain Smirk]

Even though most of Gaf hates them, UKIP are going to be unlucky in having quite a large percentage of total votes but resulting in hardly any seats.

 

[Tak3n]

Exit polls made to look stupid by the exit poll,


Now a good chance for a Tory majority....

This is not even close, I said it before they should of gone David miliband

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Congrats UK, you now have self centered nationalists voting for tegional parties causing the Conservatives to win.

Now you are stuck with the SNP that will deliver nothing for Scotland just as the Bloc Quebecois proved to be s waste of space in Canada (Thankfully the Bloc are now fow to 2 MPs).

You SNP think that you will get represented but the opposite will be true.

You have no representatives in cabinet positions or in the official opposition

Wasted

I'm Labour and a Unionist, and I'll straight up say the SNP had nothing to do with this. Even if every single SNP MP were a Labour one instead, Labour would still be below the Conservatives. This is a complete collapse of the United Kingdom left on a national scale.

 

[SuperSah]

We're in narrow Conservative majority region, folks.

It's now a legit possibility!

 

[Molemitts]

if i were a betting man i'd put money on us paying for GP visits by 2020

Almost guaranteed. Awful, smh.

 

[QuicheFontaine]

I think this just proves democracy is a failed concept.

Bring back the monarchy!

But we already have that!

How does a country that votes SNP in a landslide victory vote no to independence?

A vote for the SNP =/= a vote for independence. Plenty of people saying they're voting for them because they've done a good job so far, or because they will represent Scotland's interests well at Westminster

 

[ShogunX]

Fuck the state of this country and the majority of its inhabitants. Nationalism has a fuck of a lot to answer for.

 

[giant_frying_pan]

And to think after David Cameron, who won't seek a third term, we could have...

...Boris Johnson.

 

[Audioboxer]

How does a country that votes SNP in a landslide victory vote no to independence?

Scare tactics and the vow bullshit.

 

[CyclopsRock]

IMO the union will be best served by a Tory majority (rather than some cobbled together lump of hulking shite). I think a decent Tory majority could offer us a good chance of getting proper federalisation on the cards. It wasn't an issue in 2010 and it's even more of an issue now than in September 2015 if the SNP wipes Scotland - that sort of magical constitutional architecture requires a majority. The Tories are, well, conservative (Small C) and unionists. If Cam gets a majority here he'll be a Tory hero as long as the union doesn't die with it, so I think fixing the union will become the main zeal of this majority. I think they can do it. I can think of a few ways, but tbh I'm not totally sure on which is best. But I think it's possible.

Big DC.

 

[Kinky John]

Congrats UK, you now have self centered nationalists voting for tegional parties causing the Conservatives to win.

Now you are stuck with the SNP that will deliver nothing for Scotland just as the Bloc Quebecois proved to be s waste of space in Canada (Thankfully the Bloc are now fow to 2 MPs).

You SNP think that you will get represented but the opposite will be true.

You have no representatives in cabinet positions or in the official opposition

Wasted

Independence within our lifetimes. Enjoy!

 

[More Fun To Compute]

I think this just proves democracy is a failed concept.

Bring back the monarchy!

Scottish monarchs or German monarchs? Let's have a civil war to find out.

 

[kess]

Amazing as an outsider to see the Lib Dems die in Scotland

good work Clegg

 

[SomethingInTheSea]

How does a country that votes SNP in a landslide victory vote no to independence?

Because the YES vote is consolidated in one place, whilst the NO vote is split amongst all the other parties and even some SNP good governance voters.

 

[Carl]

Anyone want to move to Pluto with me?

 

[Visualante2]

My theory: YouGov is just too futuristic for Tory voters.

 

[Fergie]

 

[twobear]

i'm being completely serious, i don't want to live in this country any more

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Why would Scotland even take a federal offer? Like, what's the point? Okay, so they get to run the bits of powers they get given at a national level, cool, fine. But there will still be some powers retained at a federal level (that's what makes it a federal system). Judging by this result, Scotland will never have any control over that federal level. Why should they stand for that? May as well just push for full independence at that stage.

 

[CyclopsRock]

The SNP has been more than a Independence party for some time now, in the same way UKIP is more than an anti-EU party. They have owned the Scottish parliament for two terms now yet they still lost the Independence referendum. There's no need to associate "independence" with "snp" support - just like how UKIP "won" the EU parliament elections yet the public generally supports staying in the EU.

 

[Pankratous]

DUP has three seats. Were they expected to get any?

 

[FuturusX]

Nate Silver post if you are ok....

 

[iMax]

Exit poll gave Nuneaton to Labour, Tory majority incoming

Do you have a list of seats and exit poll results? Can't find one anywhere.

 

[EdibleExplosives]

How does a country that votes SNP in a landslide victory vote no to independence?

Combination of many parties voting No. Plus, the fear mongering and 'more powers' bullshite.

 

[Yen]

William "Bomb the Irish" McCrea defeated by UUP Danny Kinehan.

 

[linkandzelda]

DUP has three seats. Were they expected to get any?

Yes, about 8.

 

[MrRoflWaffles]

Anyone want to move to Pluto with me?

Take me with you.

Do you have a list of seats and exit poll results? Can't find one anywhere.

So far I've just been picking things up from the stream discussion, but a list would be useful for sure.

 

[Ravensmash]

DUP has three seats. Were they expected to get any?

I think they were always projected to get 8 based on polls.

 

[King_Moc]

predictions for the tories' next term?

if i were a betting man i'd put money on us paying for GP visits by 2020

My life would become significantly more awkward if I found myself needing to cause an equivalent amount of damage to council/government property everytime I visited the Doctors. Got to get your money's worth.

 

[fenners]

Because the YES vote is consolidated in one place, whilst the NO vote is split amongst all the other parties and even some SNP good governance voters.

I've heard that talking point repeated a few times, along with "SNP cost us a labour government" (that one's currently being repeated on BBC Scotland).

 

[Keyser Soze]

Looks like there is a car chase going on on BBC right now