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[Tak3n]

in the interest of balance, worth remembering the tories throw everything at farage...

tactical voting, loads of cash....

he was always on to a loser

 

[Atrophis]

Farages face is the best thing that has happened in this election.

 

[AngryMoth]

it is all I have left to cling to.

I remeber someone said last night they watch CBeebies for the next 5 years is the Tories did better than the exit poll, was that you?

 

[Jezbollah]

Just a FYI in case anyone didnt know, Farage was quoted as saying he would resign as UKIP leader within 10 minutes if he didnt win Thanet South.

 

[broadwayrock]

 

[Ashes]

farage out
reckless out
miliband out
alexander out
balls out
clegg out
alexander 2 out

man, what a night. only person I'm sad to see lose their seat is charlie kennedy.

Quite an injury list.

 

[Tak3n]

farage out
reckless out
miliband out
alexander out
balls out
clegg out
alexander 2 out

man, what a night. only person I'm sad to see lose their seat is charlie kennedy.

BBC got it spot on

a firing squad has moved into politics and took out a whole swathe of important players

 

[RedShift]

farage out
reckless out
miliband out
alexander out
balls out
clegg out
alexander 2 out

man, what a night. only person I'm sad to see lose their seat is charlie kennedy.

Don't forget Vince lost too.

 

[Deleted member 231381]

Conservatives just waiting on 3 more seats to have a working majority, or 5 more to have a strict majority even allowing for abstentionist parties. There are 15 seats left to call and the Conservatives are the favourites in ten of them; Labour in five.

Final results will almost certainly, barring last minute upsets, be:

Con 330 (+1 speaker for 331)
Lab 232
SNP 56
LD 8
DUP 8
Sinn Fein 4
Plaid 3
SDLP 3
UUP 2
UKIP 1
Green 1
Lady Sylvia Hermon 1

 

[Moze]

This election was alright. I will go back to the cave i came from now.

 

[twobear]

pppreeeeeetty much

 

[Mr. Luchador]

Just to add salt to the wounds, the CONs guy vows to reopen the Airport on Farage's doorstep to give the immigrants a direct route to spit on him from above.

 

[GrizzleBoy]

Fear not, David Cameron will take the reigns on making life harder for immigrants.

 

[Tak3n]

shame on them for only giving Al Murray 340 votes

 

[N7Commander95]

While Im glad some of the Lib Dems are gone, I feel awful for Kennedy.

Always seemed like a nice guy in a bad bunch

 

[Psycho_Mantis]

Farage is quitting?

Dave dropping bodies today

lmao Dave going in for the final blow.

 

[Atrophis]

Please let this be the last we see and hear of Farage.

 

[D4Danger]

pictured: Nigel Farage without a pint... or seat

 

[Scully Scully Scoo]

Ffs this sucks

 

[N7Commander95]

pictured: Nigel Farage without a pint... or seat

OMG someone make this a face emoji

 

[PJV3]

I remeber someone said last night they watch CBeebies for the next 5 years is the Tories did better than the exit poll, was that you?

Possibly, my wife who wasn't supposed to be able to have kids anymore dropped a surprise in February.

So I will be watching anyway.

 

[AngryMoth]

When the fuck did Scotland become the boogieman of English politics

 

[Madchad]

Only issue now is you have almost 4 MILLION people represented by 1 MP and 2.5 represented by 8 :/

 

[Mr. Luchador]

haha big fan of the Lib Dem guy behind Farage pulling faces.

 

[RedShift]

Has he resigned yet?

 

[cloud_sleep]

Now Farage can fuck off and be reduced to popping up on increasingly degrading reality TV shows in a desperate attempt to stay in the limelight.

 

[dapperbandit]

Farage made it too easy to mobilize against him, probably shouldn't have promised to leave

 

[Guerrillas in the Mist]

Only issue now is you have almost 4 MILLION people represented by 1 MP and 2.5 represented by 8 :/

The wonders of FPTP.

 

[L1NETT]

that bloke's face behind nigel

chuckling away when he sighed

 

[Jezbollah]

Quick, has anyone got the rights to hasfarageresignedyet.com?

 

[Moze]

What will UKIP even do without Farage?

 

[twobear]

When the fuck Scotland become the boogieman of English politics

it's seriously pathetic.

scotland need to bail out, to be honest, before england drags them down too.

 

[PJV3]

Farage made it too easy to mobilize against him, probably shouldn't have promised to leave

There's a referendum coming, he will be back.

 

[Vitanimus]

if someone could give me a brief rundown of FPTP that'd be nice

is it just essentially get the most votes and you win?

 

[RedSparrows]

The wonders of FPTP.

Indeed. The Labour vote is actually quite good, overall, as I understand it - but not where it counts. Ditto for UKIP.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

I have a feeling a lot of Steam users probably voted for UKIP, as those guys love an indie.

if someone could give me a brief rundown of FPTP that'd be nice

is it just essentially get the most votes and you win?

Pretty much. Whoever gets the most vote in an area wins that seat, all the other votes are just thrown away and don't go towards anything.

 

[gerg]

Just remembered that this result means sustained Katie Hopkins.

Bugger.

 

[broadwayrock]

What will UKIP even do without Farage?

They can get Jeremy Kyle as their leader.

 

[SmokyDave]

This isn't about single interests. This is about putting the most vulnerable people first then looking at everybody else. Poor disabled people literally have no way out. They should always be put first.

I put my wife and child first, everyone else can get in a line. I'm never going to place my vote solely according to the interests of poor disabled people.

 

[Jezbollah]

I have a feeling a lot of Steam users probably voted for UKIP, as those guys love an indie.

If that was the case they would have voted for Al Murray

 

[AHA-Lambda]

When the fuck did Scotland become the boogieman of English politics

Well after September obv, there's a huge contingent that wants to break up the union.

 

[kitch9]

pppreeeeeetty much

It should be pointed out no matter who would have got into power the policies and changes that get made always negatively affect someone.

 

[Mr. Luchador]

If that was the case they would have voted for Al Murray

haha true, but he's more like a Greenlight title!

 

[Joni]

pictured: Nigel Farage without a pint... or seat

He looks like a wet rag.

 

[twobear]

I put my wife and child first, everyone else can get in a line. I'm never going to place my vote solely according to the interests of poor disabled people.

so you say your vote depends on the welfare of your wife and child, and then you're happy for the party who savagely axed all kinds of benefits for women and children.....

[edit] correction: you said you didn't vote

 

[RedSparrows]

I put my wife and child first, everyone else can get in a line. I'm never going to place my vote solely according to the interests of poor disabled people.

Considering you didn't vote, this is moot, but it's not an absolute choice. That's the point.

 

[Vitanimus]

I have a feeling a lot of Steam users probably voted for UKIP, as those guys love an indie.



Pretty much. Whoever gets the most vote in an area wins that seat, all the other votes are just thrown away and don't go towards anything.

oh ok

so that basically encourages people to vote for people who they think will win rather than who they want so the vote isn't wasted?

 

[Tenebrous]

I don't agree with 99% of what comes out of Farage's mouth, but voting reform would be nice.

I have a feeling a lot of Steam users probably voted for UKIP, as those guys love an indie.

2/10.

 

[dapperbandit]

What will UKIP even do without Farage?

Douglas Carswell or Suzanne Evans I would say.

It might actually be a good thing for UKIP in the end, while Farage's public persona did push the party into this position it was problematic having it all rest on his shoulders.

 

[CyclopsRock]

Possibly, my wife who wasn't supposed to be able to have kids anymore dropped a surprise in February.

So I will be watching anyway.

Congratulations!

As for what Farage said, it's hard to argue that the SNP getting 50x the seats with half the number of votes is anything other than a shambles, but with a Tory majority able to enact boundary reform, I can't seem them wanting to change much. But if they make serious moves into federalisation, it seems impossible to imagine they'll be able to avoid it.