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UK PoliGAF: General election thread of LibCon Coalitionage

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BGBW

Maturity, bitches.
Cheeky Girls singer Gabriela Irimia expresses her sadness for former fiance Lembit Opik, who has lost his Montgomeryshire seat to the Conservatives. She says of the Lib Dem: "The voters have lost a dedicated man who cared for his constituency and the people in it. It was his life."
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Quality political commentary.
 
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gofreak

GAF's Bob Woodward
The suggestion that Lib+Lab wouldn't be legitimate or wouldn't have a mandate is insulting messaging from a particular corner.

Lib+Lab would have more seats and significantly more popular vote than the Tories. You can't implicitly disenfranchise those voters by saying that this bloc wouldn't be legitimate. It's silly. If the people wanted a single party majority, they'd have voted for it. They haven't. So it's up to the parties to come together in some configuration, and that is legitimate.
 
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JonathanEx

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Let's just do this again, PR, allow people to vote in the polling stations, don't do what Sheffield did (consider students as second-class and less important to residents), and just do it properly.
 
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Varion

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Empty said:
just woke up after finally turning in at 7am

what's happened in the last five hours?
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292-251-52, officially hung. Cameron's making a statement at half 2, Clegg's made a speech saying the current system sucks but he's standing by what he said in the campaign and so Cameron should have the first chance to form a government.
 
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Empty

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Varion said:
292-251-52, officially hung. Cameron's making a statement at half 2, Clegg's made a speech saying the current system sucks but he's standing by what he said in the campaign and so Cameron should have the first chance to form a government.
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thanks.

what was his language like? did he sound committed to helping cameron out or did he look like he was going to fight for his corner or promise to go with a different labour containing coalition.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
You don't need polling stations in supermarkets you numpty, just make it so that all registered voters have the day off work as long as they vote. Problem solved.
 
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Varion

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Empty said:
thanks.

what was his language like? did he sound committed to helping cameron out or did he look like he was going to fight for his corner or promise to go with a different labour containing coalition.
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Wouldn't say he seemed committed to helping, no. He said something like "It's up to David Cameron to prove he's capable of governing in the national interest". Then went on to how the current system is broken and he'll continue to work to fix that.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Yeah, they cut to him standing on a greenscreen staircase for a split second before going to a seat declaration.
 
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Withnail

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Interesting from the Spectator.

There may be Tory trouble ahead
FRASER NELSON 10:04am

Will the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs elect an emergency chairman today? If so, the mission would be to warn Cameron off doing any deal with the LibDems. Most Conservatives will wake up today judging the Cameron campaign to have failed. In the view of many, he will have failed to honour his "change to win" promise: they all changed, as he asked, but he didn't win. There will be a price to pay, and perhaps one of the heads around Cameron will have to roll to assuage the discontent.

Any Lib-Con deal over voting reform will be anathema to many recently-elected as well as existing Tory MPs. A new chairman of the 1922 Committee will want to make this point to Cameron before any damage is done. A deal with Northern Irish MPs would probably be as much as the party would wear. So be prepared for a small dose of Tory wars today.
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Wes

venison crêpe
I wonder if in the future this election will be remembered as the PR election, in more ways than one.
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
cgi staircase glitch. lazy devs not using cell properly
 
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Empty

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spectator guy talking about another election next year on bbc. i don't think i can bear another one after this one.
 
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curls

Wake up Sheeple, your boring insistence that Obama is not a lizardman from Atlantis is wearing on my patience 💤
Robinson: conservatives don't get it
 
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Zenith

Banned
oh, and lol at everyone using 1992 as an example to disregard the exit polls. It's like when people use MGS2 as an excuse to disregard anything they don't like in a game's preview.
 
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gofreak

GAF's Bob Woodward
I wonder if Cameron will resign if he doesn't form a government.

When you think about it, it does indeed seem like quite a fail on the Tories' part not to win a majority given the context. A long-in-the-tooth, highly unpopular incumbent with a huge economic challenge.

Also, anyone else having trouble posting? I keep getting 'invalid thread specified' etc..
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
Got myself my chicken ordered. Got a 1.6 litre bottle of beer and some chocolate digestives. I'm livin' this up mang.

Hammer24 said:
Why don´t you guys vote on Sundays?
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I'd rather reward people for voting, rather than giving a straight up holiday to everyone.

That and there's a few communities in Scotland that reject anything major happening on the Sabbath.
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
dsister44 said:
why are we getting commentary on blogs and twitter? I think the BBC should report this thread
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SOMEONE, ANYONE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD EMAIL THE BBC WITH THIS THREAD!
 
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xbhaskarx

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These paving stones are the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And do they really have to put them down (with sound effects) every time they use it?
 
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industrian

will gently cradle you as time slowly ticks away.
xbhaskarx said:
These paving stones are the dumbest thing I've ever seen. And do they really have to put them down (with sound effects) every time they use it?
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Do you know how much the BBC has invested in that green-screen green house? They've gotta justify it somehow.
 
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gofreak

GAF's Bob Woodward
industrian said:
Do you know how much the BBC has invested in that green-screen green house? They've gotta justify it somehow.
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Maybe Gordon Brown could go live in it after all this is done. Would be a shame to go to waste.
 
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