British General Elections Live Thread

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 05/07/10 | Daily Telegraph

[Steve Van Doorn]

No one wins until the EDL starts a party and takes seats. Both parties believes Islamophobia is a disease.
David Cameron and other conservatives want to pass anti-discrimination laws protecting Islam.

There isn’t even a political party that aren’t Nazi’s that oppose Islam. BNP are national socialists.
EDL isn’t a party.

Britain is soooo dead.

[GeronL]

2251 First result: Houghton & Sunderland South: Labour hold seat with 19,137 for Bridget Phillipson. Tories second with 8,147. Turnout of 55pc

FIRST RESULTS

55% turnout

[GeronL]

first result in

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Thanks.

So I go to CSPAN to find out what’s happening in the UK, and BBC to find out what’s happening in America? And even better, the limey’s put on a show about eating? ROFLMAO!!

[C19fan]

I like the BBC old dude announcer.

[ScaniaBoy]

The swing to the Conservatives was 8.4%. Translated to the whole country would give an absolute Cons majority, but of course too early to predict yet.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

British elections aren’t as exciting as American elections, are they? I mean, watching the results come in bit by bit makes for great fun... as opoosed to some nerd on a podium reading final results. Talk about anti-climatic.

[GeronL]

That would be an awesome thing to see.

[GeronL]

lol

[JSDude1]

Excuse me, UKIP is both anti immigration, and pro conservative and may I add not fascist like the BNP!

[GeronL]

2303 Has Labour's Douglas Alexander had early word of the count in Ed Balls' constituency, when the Education Secretary is facing a serious Tory challenge? He's just told Jeremy Paxman that "if the polls are correct we lose some very valuable colleagues this evening".

That could work.

[dfwgator]

“Reginald you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-wicket English person.”

[GeronL]

The comments above and the 8.4% swing in the first constituency might mean a good evening for the Cons

[lowtaxsmallgov]

“Sunderland first to report because they have Rainman counting the votes” LOL

[Steve Van Doorn]

you are right. Why isn't UKIP doing better in the polls then?
I would expect them to be near equal to what Geert Wilders is doing.

[propertius]

Socialists hold Washington. No surprise there then.

[C19fan]

Big swing against Labour in an another Commie safe district, almost 12%.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Yeah, but a huge 11% swing from Labour to the Conservatives. Could be a Tory rampage shaping up...?

[ScaniaBoy]

2d seat decared. Another safe Labour seat, but the swing to Conservatives was 11.4%.
Interestingly the Conservatives overtook the Liberals and ended second in the constituency. Cleggomania is not showing up yet.
Next seat the first that can be called a contest - Sunderland Central Labour majority by 12.8% in 2005.

[ScaniaBoy]

Bill Cash (C) - Good egg! - “Milliband, Brown, and Clegg would be a Greek tradgedy.”