A message from Boris Johnson
posted on 5 May 2005 at 10:45am
"Many thanks to all/both our readers for logging on. The Spectator Election Website is now drawing to its climax. Vote Tory, vote often! Any member of Spectator staff caught voting Lib Dem will be dealt with severely!
I’ve just been standing in a Conservative committee room watching the votes spool ever upwards like house prices in Oxfordshire; I am therefore full of confidence that whatever happens we are now seeing the end of the Blair premiership. Even if – which I do not for a moment concede – Tony Blair hangs on to his job tonight, he will find it increasingly unbearable. Not only will he face a revived and invigorated Tory party, but also ranged behind him will be the vengeful spirits of his backbenchers, consumed with self-loathing for what they supported in Iraq, and determined to jugulate Mr Tony as soon as they can. It will not be a pretty sight, but we of The Spectator will shed no tears. For the full blow by blow political coverage over the coming months you have only one choice: The Spectator. Buy the mag, build the movement. Over and out.”
As dictated from the campaign trail somewhere between Wheatley and Great Haseley in the wilds of Oxfordshire.
How do different demographic/income groups vote in Britain? Is it like the US where the working class tends to vote conservative and the more educated vote for the left? Or is it the more traditional opposite?
Is there a thread on Free Republic for the British elections today?
I guess we will start knowing the results late afternoon (Nebraska time).
I never liked Blair but I have to say that he was really there when it counted - I haven't heard of anyone like that yet on the other side.
BBC exit poll was supposed to come out at 22:01 BST... 13 minutes ago... what happened?