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The Official UK Election Thread! 6th May it is!

I'm still up watching it. My constituency is a mining area, that has been an easy labour win for 80 years. I've never seen anybody over the age of 50 here who is a Tory. This year it was 17,000 to Labour, 15,000 to Conservative. I do not like how close that got. A bad sign, I think.
 
Ok, somebody explain Jesus and the guy with the huge ribbon in West Oxfordshire.
 
Ohh, but it was actually a lot closer than I expected.

David Tredinnick Conservative 23,132 42.6 +0.0
Michael Mullaney Liberal Democrat 18,100 33.3 +11.7
Rory Palmer Labour 8,674 16.0 -15.9
John Ryde British National Party 2,458 4.5 +4.5
Dutch Veldhuizen UK Independence Party 1,098 2.0 -1.9
James Lampitt English Democrats 615 1.1 +1.1
Michael Brooks Science Party [The] 197 0.4 +0.4
 
Suck it, Clegg! Ah, I am so happy that obnoxious, opportunist, twit has proven himself to be impotent.

Salmond said that they aren't getting major gains, but I'm hoping they stay about even.
 
Tsukasa Buddha said:
Suck it, Clegg! Ah, I am so happy that obnoxious, opportunist, twit has proven himself to be impotent.

Salmond said that they aren't getting major gains, but I'm hoping they stay about even.
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Why are you happy? That means we've likely got the bloody Tories in.

Wonderful. Will they be able to rip the heart out of the British economy again?
 
Matthew Best said:
People who are voting for the first time this year were born in 1992. So Thatcher must seem like some mythical figure from ancient history to them.
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This is my first vote; I was born in 1991. Looking around me, Thatcher does not seem like a mythical figure. I just have to walk around North East Derbyshire to see the effects of the 1980's. But I do agree that a lot of people have no idea about what happened. I'm glad that UKIP didn't gain big here, though. Speaking to a lot of my friends, it seems as if they are all BNP voters. Fortunately BNP weren't running here, and they were possibly too stupid to realise that UKIP was the closest vote.
 
I have been watching the BBC feed on C Span. Not much different then US election coverage really.
Looks as if Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are not doing as well as expected. but with the hung Parliament Clegg might still get a chance to be Warwick the Kingmaker.
 
dudalb said:
I have been watching the BBC feed on C Span. Not much different then US election coverage really.
Looks as if Clegg and the Liberal Democrats are not doing as well as expected. but with the hung Parliament Clegg might still get a chance to be Warwick the Kingmaker.
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That's what I'm thinking.

I know I'm biased, being a member of the Lib Dems, but does anyone else think it's a disgrace that we've got 21% of the vote and only 19 seats?
 
MarkCorrigan said:
Sort of.

It technically has to be rubber stamped by her but there isn't a chance in hell she would pick anyone other than who gets elected by the vote.

On the other hand, the electoral college voters in the USA somewhat regularly pick people other than who the State they work for voted in. It doesn't ever matter, but still....
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Huh? where did you hear that?
 
Giggywig said:
Ok, somebody explain Jesus and the guy with the huge ribbon in West Oxfordshire.
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It's a pretty safe Conservative seat, so you get all sorts of interesting characters who turn up for their 5 seconds of fame.

I was somewhat amused by the pose struck by the 'Land is Power' candidate in Gordon Brown's constituency (he's the guy behind the speaker): http://i41.tinypic.com/15f5axe.jpg

Also, how the heck did Lembit Öpik manage to lose his seat? The Tories had that constituency as something around 200+ on their list of priorities.
 
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