My seat should be posted in the next hour. City of Chester, who are next to me got Conservative, although Chester was a very important seat.
sigh.... Elected MPs keep talking about their 'Agents' in their acceptance speeches. It makes them sound like pop stars. As Ive had a few beers to watch the results trickle in I now want Cameron et al to self harm, sod off for a few years, collaborate on new material acceptable to the masses, get a mighty and most impressive boob job, and come back to the UK Politics scene to top the charts. Get yourself on the red carpets Dave. You will need fake tan and sexy sexy dresses.
Won't be finding out about my MP till 10:30am. Been a complete balls up in the counting so they're doing a recount.
Peter 'Useless' Tapsell won again, despite never doing anything for the constituency. God, I hate first past the post.
Looks like my vote didn't count for much - Hammersmith remained Labour As for finding time to go and vote, I only managed as I did it in the morning and went into work a little late. A long day in the office yesterday didn't see me getting back home until gone 10! Prospect of a hung parliament has already starting to kick in - pound is at its lowest level against the dollar for a year...
Pretty much the whole town of Northampton (Actually, the whole county by the looks of it) has been painted blue overnight. Apparently Northampton North & South where key Tory targets, and the incumbents have been given the heave ho with pretty sizable swings. Now all we need do is get rid of the wet liberals on the local councils and I'll be happy.
Our seat has been LD for the last 2 elections and they won by an even bigger margin than they did last time. So I guess my vote counted but everyone seems to have voted Conservative for fears of a hung parliament; I know several people who wanted to vote LD based on their policies but didn't for this reason. I'm surprised how well Labour have done though.
Ours went conservative Given the upper middle class families who seem to live in this area (right next to an industrial estate, where there's Orange, David Wilson Homes, few other big names, lots of SMEs) I shouldn't be hugely surprised
Lib Dem have pretty much failed in the end... Our constituency still hasn't been announced, but sadly the rumours seem to be pointing towards Labour winning.
Shadow defence secretary Dr Fox wins again for my local, I didn't even know who the Labour candidate was this year.
Gutted to see David Drew, the labour candidate in my old home of Stroud be voted out by faceless tory number 243589. He was one of the only MPs to have frequently gone against labour party line, opposing both the Iraq war, and the DE bill. He also survived the expenses scandal with a clean bill of health and no signs of dodgery whatsoever. He is generally awesome and I am mortified to see him voted out. In my new home in London the conservative MP won by a fat margin, and as he seems to be doing a good job in the local area and didn't fiddle his expenses either, that's no bad thing.
They lost seats but they didn't 'fail'. They now have the biggest say in the next government, they have a much greater mindshare and people don't make as much fun of them, plus they got a decent number of votes.
Shame, Evan Harris is pretty awesome. Steve Goddard also lost, by the slimmest of margins. LibDem actually got a lot of votes, they just didn't win many seats.
<2% of the vote though probably still wouldn't get a seat. Interestingly more than the SNP got so perhaps a mixed system would be required if PR would work properly....
For every BNP candidate locked out, theres many other candidates locked out as well (lib dem, greens, UKIP and others) sacrificing democracy itself to keep the BNP out is not an acceptable price. besides, i'd wager that many BNP votes are protest votes, if the system was fairer they'd get less votes anyway
A wise man once said: "they who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
