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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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Gary Whitta

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Conservative/Monster Raving Loony coalition confirmed?

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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
I guess Dimbleby's having a car battery strapped to his nipples during these regional news breaks to keep him awake.
 
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Varion

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The crazy thing is Cons were third in the last election and Lib Dems first, yet the Lib Dems actually gained 2% and the Cons got all their votes from Labour.
 
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FuturusX

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industrian said:
The "ballin'" statement was contrasting their current numbers to the previous ones. Nothing more, nothing less.

The Tories are heading for a minority government.
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Good. Thanks for clearing that up. I wouldn't want anyone to confuse this projected minority government or a possible coalition, as anything but a pathetic showing by all parties to reflect any decisive change in the political climate.
 
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Veidt

Blasphemer who refuses to accept bagged milk as his personal savior
I can't believe sheeple are so gullible.
Cameron straight up plagiarized the whole "change" concept from the Obama campaign. It wasn't even that smart.
:lol
Also, the irony of a conservative party advocating change is rather farcical.
 
phisheep

phisheep

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Swingometer useless in Camborne as well.

It showed swing from Libdem to Tory, but what actually happened is Libdem vote went up and Tories took all their votes from Labour.

Need new swingometer theory.

EDIT: beaten - too tired and using daughter's crappy netbook
 
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Kowak

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argh eamon holmes in HD not good.

Love the sky news guy shouting at brown arriving at number 10

"you gonna resign"

"you have lost haven't you"
 
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industrian

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That London weathergirl was quite nice looking, but nothing on Reporting Scotland's Heather.
 
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Gary Whitta

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Kowak said:
argh eamon holmes in HD not good.

Love the sky news guy shouting at brown arriving at number 10

"you gonna resign"

"you have lost haven't you"
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If I was Brown I would have gone over there and Prescotted him, I mean who gives a fuck now? Go out in a blaze of glory, fists flying.
 
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industrian

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To think that a few days ago polls were saying that the Liberal Democrats would have around 100 votes is incredible.

They're guaranteed to get at least 50 (the two Scottish seats that are left are LD strongholds) but I can't help but think that this is an absolute failure for them.
 
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Lucius86

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Gary Whitta said:
Clegg and the Lim Dems 2010 is the ultimate rags-to-riches-to-rags story.
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I'm a bit shocked by this, as I am sure other people here are. Maybe the constant fanboyism of the Sun, the Mirror, Express and the Mail has hit home on the electorate to vote for one of the two main parties.

My constituency held as Lib Dem - well done Tom Brake.
 
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Kowak

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industrian said:
To think that a few days ago polls were saying that the Liberal Democrats would have around 100 votes is incredible.

They're guaranteed to get at least 50 (the two Scottish seats that are left are LD strongholds) but I can't help but think that this is an absolute failure for them.
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I thought 90 was on the cards.
 
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industrian

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Gary Whitta said:
If I was Brown I would have gone over there and Prescotted him, I mean who gives a fuck now? Go out in a blaze of glory, fists flying.
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I wouldn't put it past him, he is from Govan.
 
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Gary Whitta

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So, how ugly is it going to get over the next few days?

Also, how fucked is an electoral system that allows for a government to be decided by back-room deals, which seems certain here?
 
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FuturusX

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Gary Whitta said:
So, how ugly is it going to get over the next few days?

Also, how fucked is an electoral system that allows for a government to be decided in smoke-filled rooms?
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You are describing so many political systems :)
 
Jex

Jex

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In reality, I'm not too surprised by the Lib dem result - it seems that it will take a lot more then a couple of debates to change people's actual voting preferences. In the end, they go with the safer option.
 
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industrian

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Gary Whitta said:
So, how ugly is it going to get over the next few days?

Also, how fucked is an electoral system that allows for a government to be decided by back-room deals, which seems certain here?
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I'd take it over the American system any day of the week.

I have a feeling that the Scottish system is the shape of things to come in the UK though.
 
phisheep

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Lucius86 said:
I'm a bit shocked by this, as I am sure other people here are. Maybe the constant fanboyism of the Sun, the Mirror, Express and the Mail has hit home on the electorate to vote for one of the two main parties.

My constituency held as Lib Dem - well done Tom Brake.
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I remember him from 1997. He was working with me and one day I got a call saying he wasn't coming in. I asked the usual question 'why?' and was told he had got himself accidentally elected to Parliament.

Best excuse I ever heard.
 
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Varion

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Gary Whitta said:
So, how ugly is it going to get over the next few days?

Also, how fucked is an electoral system that allows for a government to be decided in smoke-filled rooms?
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By the looks of it, quite ugly.

It doesn't look like the Conservatives or Labour can get enough to have a majority (excluding the entirely implausible Con + Lib scenario). So the possibility of either attempts at a minority government and/or or another election are definitely going up.
 
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Jex

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Lol at Cameron saying Labour has lost their mandate to govern - so far, no-one has a mandate to govern. This is going to be messy,
 
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Xavien

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Varion said:
By the looks of it, quite ugly.

It doesn't look like the Conservatives or Labour can get enough to have a majority (excluding the entirely implausible Con + Lib scenario). So the possibility of either attempts at a minority government and/or or another election are definitely going up.
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Chance of another election is definitely strong now, everyone thought that at the very least Labour and Lib Dems would have enough to form a coalition to govern if Tories couldn't get there. But it now looks like no-one can get a majority, the only possibility is Con and LD coalition now.

Minority governments just dont work in the UK Parliament, the whole thing will break down sooner or later.
 
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Kowak

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UnblessedSoul said:
So to all the Gaffers that voted lib dem, do you feel like your vote was wasted ?
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yes, i only voted lib dem because i thought they stood a better chance then the tories of winning it from labour. Lammy held it with 60% so at least it would have made the tories look like they had one more vote.
 
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Gary Whitta

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Jexhius said:
Lol at Cameron saying Labour has lost their mandate to govern - so far, no-one has a mandate to govern. This is going to be messy,
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Well he's not wrong. Cameron's not saying HE has a mandate to govern, he's just saying Labour has lost theirs, which is true.
 
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Dark Machine

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UnblessedSoul said:
So to all the Gaffers that voted lib dem, do you feel like your vote was wasted ?
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Yes and No. My vote was wasted since it didn't even count in the end. But it did show how fucked up the electoral system is in this country, so maybe that's a boon.
 
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industrian

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Scotland facts:

At least 1,025,254 people voted for Labour here. About 43% of the vote. That's around 1/5 of the Scottish population and 1/5 of the total UK votes. That's incredible.
 
Jex

Jex

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Xavien said:
But it now looks like no-one can get a majority, the only possibility is Con and LD coalition now.
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Not necessarily, a LibDem/Labour coalition is equally likely, even thought the whole situation is very weird.
 
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Varion

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At this point I can't muster the energy to be happy about taking seats from Labour. Considering a coalition is the best case scenario only seats taken from the Conservatives really make much of a difference :/
 
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Gary Whitta

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Who would even want this job? What a poisoned chalice to inherit, no mandate to govern and a financially crippled country which will force deeply unpopular cuts that will haunt their party for a generation. Brown and Cameron should be fighting over who doesn't get the job :lol
 
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