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[iMax]

Which is a clear implication that you don't care about it. It isn't important to you, so you didn't vote for it. It is important to me. But, like I said, I don't care who you voted for. We all do what we do for different reasons. That's fine.

You're seeing what you want to see. As I said, I voted for what's important to me. I also said I don't subscribe to the criticism the Conservatives face for its stance on the NHS and the Welfare State. I believe their approach will do good. Perhaps I'm wrong, perhaps I'm right. But if I think this is the best route for a better NHS, then it's what I'm going to vote for. Got it?

Stop putting shit in my mouth. You can't just go around making libellous 'implications' for people based on whatever subtext you may have interpreted.

 

[phisheep]

How are your constituencies doing BritGaf?

I went to bed in a Tory/libdem marginal and woke up in a safe Tory seat with ukip third.

 

[Jezbollah]

The Lib Dems have lost their deposit in over 300 constituencies

 

[RedSparrows]

My constituency (Oxford East) actually saw Labour hugely increase their majority. It was 8% over the Lib Dems last time, but with their collapse the majority is now 30% over the Tories.

A fellow resident! Testify.

 

[twobear]

So if England left the EU, and Scotland voted to stay in... those in England who still want the benefits of the EU could just move to Scotland?

i'm sure that scotland would really appreciate the migration of tens of thousands of english people

 

[siddhu33]

Reading East had a decent number of Labour votes this year...but it still is the Home Counties, and so it still is a Con Hold.

 

[Charles Brandon]

cant happen, they already said before the election that if the vote is to leave then Scotland will have to follow

Even if the Scots cede, which is looking more likely again, they would still have to reapply to the EU, with no guarantee of admission.

 

[Baleoce]

Quite a lot of 2nd places for UKIP in the constituencies. Just a tad worrying. David Miliband to make a

Spoiler

not so

shocking return to politics me thinks.

 

[Cyport]

Vauxhall had a Labour hold although that was a dead certain to be honest. Fairly happy although I am cautious about Vauxhall's gentrification however that's another story.

 

[pashmilla]

So if England left the EU, and Scotland voted to stay in... those in England who still want the benefits of the EU could just move to Scotland?

That's the plan.

 

[CCS]

A fellow resident! Testify.

Nice to see another resident here! Have you looked at the constituency map? We're a little dot of red in a see of blue.

 

[smiggyRT]

Well, this is the most disappointed I've been in a while. Those Theresa May comments are disturbing as well to say the least.

 

[RedSparrows]

I'm a bit Scottish, and I love Edinburgh...

 

[Carl2291]

The Lib Dems have lost their deposit in over 300 constituencies

Clegg has taken the Lib Dems from 62 seats to less than 10.

 

[anonymous_abc]

Quite a lot of 2nd places for UKIP in the constituencies. Just a tad worrying. David Miliband to make a

Spoiler

not so

shocking return to politics me thinks.

No way, we will see new blood at the top table.

 

[SmokyDave]

Who did you vote for?

I opted to spoil my ballot. For the first time in my life I couldn't endorse any of them in good faith, nor did I have a clear protest vote. As such I have no complaints regarding the results (though I'm mildly chuffed that Labour didn't get in).

 

[Charles Brandon]

FPTP is just impossible to predict. A uniform swing just isn't how it always works.

It was a pretty uniform swing though

 

[Moosichu]

Well, this is the most disappointed I've been in a while. Those Theresa May comments are disturbing as well to say the least.

What did she say?

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

i'm sure that scotland would really appreciate the migration of tens of thousands of english people

That would make a change.

 

[RedSparrows]

Nice to see another resident here! Have you looked at the constituency map? We're a little dot of red in a see of blue.

Aye, twas ever thus. I was up in Woodstock the other day, god it's fucking smug land. Beautiful, rich, suffocating.

/zealot

 

[Madchad]

North beds stays Con. Why expect anything different :/

 

[D4Danger]

UKIP got more votes than the SNP and Lib Dems combined

UKIP: 3,785,499
Lib Dem: 2,324,349
SNP: 1,454,436

Still waiting to see if Farage will get elected but I wonder how they'll do after this whether it was just a one time thing or if they're now a serious player.

 

[Tak3n]

John Pinar

first job will be English Votes for English Laws, to put the SDP in their box

 

[More Fun To Compute]

So if England left the EU, and Scotland voted to stay in... those in England who still want the benefits of the EU could just move to Scotland?

No, Scotland has no separate membership of the EU.

 

[Queen of Hunting]

Why does everyone wanna leave eu si badly

 

[smiggyRT]

What did she say?

"A conservative government would be giving the security agencies and law enforcement agencies the powers that they need to ensure they're keeping up to date as people communicate with communications data. We were prevented from bringing in that legislation into the last government because of the coalitions with the Lib Dems and we are determined to bring that through because we believe that is necessary to maintain the capabilities of our law enforcement agencies so they can continue to do the excellent job day in day out of keeping us safe and secure"

Will post source when its up.

 

[Vashetti]

I voted Green. I live in Westminster. I knew I was throwing my vote away.

Thank you.

 

[Napoleonthechimp]

Why does everyone wanna leave eu si badly

Because they're god damned idiots.

 

[CCS]

Aye, twas ever thus. I was up in Woodstock the other day, god it's fucking smug land. Beautiful, rich, suffocating.

/zealot

Whereabouts are you? Was living out towards Summertown last year, glad I wasn't this year!

 

[Lagamorph]

How are your constituencies doing BritGaf?

Sadly gone Labour.
Increase in the Conservative vote from the Lib Dems at least so not all bad news.

 

[Baleoce]

No way, we will see new blood at the top table.

That's a good point though, who do they have now?

 

[RedSparrows]

Why does everyone wanna leave eu si badly

Because nobody has dared (yet) actually made the case for EU membership. We've had years, now, of negativity about the EU with pretty much silence from the other side.

 

[twobear]

my constituency turned labour from lib dem

a change i rather grudgingly helped to cause, thinking that i might have a chance of preventing the tories from taking power

 

[Mr. Sam]

Not to just add to the noise but:

These results are genuinely astonishing to me.

 

[anonymous_abc]

It was a pretty uniform swing though

That wasn't my impression from the BBC's 3D Big Ben.

 

[Moze]

I opted to spoil my ballot. For the first time in my life I couldn't endorse any of them in good faith, nor did I have a clear protest vote. As such I have no complaints regarding the results (though I'm mildly chuffed that Labour didn't get in).

Why? If they are for some reason all the same except for 1 policy that would save vulnerable disabled people £5000+ over the next 5 years, wouldn't that make the party with that policy slightly better?

 

[PJV3]

How are your constituencies doing BritGaf?

Ed Davey gone, First tory mp since Norman Lamont.

Don't give a fuck as i hate the cunt, but it means no Labour government unless the Libs retake these sort of seats.

 

[RedSparrows]

Whereabouts are you? Was living out towards Summertown last year, glad I wasn't this year!

Off t'Cowley road, not too far down from the Plain.

 

[pashmilla]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

 

[kharma45]

How are your constituencies doing BritGaf?

SDLP held it as expected. Alliance who I voted for though roughly quadrupled their vote which is good, but still less than 1000 votes.

 

[driver116]

Why does everyone wanna leave eu si badly

We're sick of Eurovision.

 

[Renegade Yeti]

The one thing I've learnt from this election is that there is no point in even looking at opinion polls , it was the same with the Scottish referendum pretty much up until the vote it was 50/50 before the no vote smashed it, same scenario here with the tories

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

We don't know and no respectively. Farage is announced now.

 

[Hasney]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

Still waiting on Nige. Clegg held.

 

[driver116]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

We find out ~midday for Farrage. Nick no.

 

[Sir_Crocodile]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

clegg retains, we're still waiting to see if farage won - tons of votes in that constituency

 

[CCS]

Off t'Cowley road, not too far down from the Plain.

I'm over in Cowley too, glad we gave the Lib Dems a kicking.

 

[Delusibeta]

Oh! I forgot to ask: did Nige and Cleggy lose their seats?

Clegg was one of the few Lib Dem holds, Nige is next to declare but that appears to have been a Tory hold.

 

[RedSparrows]

The one thing I've learnt from this election is that there is no point in even looking at opinion polls , it was the same with the Scottish referendum pretty much up until the vote it was 50/50 before the no vote smashed it, same scenario here with the tories

Not quite the same shock for the referendum, but broadly, yes. I suppose it's because polls offer something to cling on to when nobody actually knows anything, and rolling news magnifies it.

 

[mrklaw]

Party affiliations aside, you steer very close to moral bankruptcy with comments such as these.

How you target the poor ahead of so many other considerations in society with the veneer of legitimacy is contemptible.

I'd rather my tax pounds were invested in the poor than leave them hungry.

Long term strategies to get them out of the poverty trap is so much more socially responsible than this almost psychopathic - by that I mean totally lacking empathy - striking at the little money that most of the less well off in our society get.

WTF? Of course I want to make sure the most vulnerable are protected. That doesn't mean a runaway welfare budget can simply be left unchecked. Proper reform of welfare would potentially mean a lower welfare budget *and* better targetting of help to those most in need.