UK Elections exit poll

[Ian Osborne]

Okay, how did you vote? Please don't use the poll unless you voted or are certain to vote in today's General Election; those who can't/won't vode today but want to see the results should use the Planet X option.

 

[brodski]

Of course with the system we have in the UK, it doesn’t matter who you vote for more where you vote. I'm in a reasonably marginal constancy so my vote may count for something, but I have lived in places before where you could not bother with a poll at all and just let the local party pick their candidate and then automatically declare him the winner.

By the current exit poll you're running we're looking at a hung parliament, with the Libs and the Labs taking exactly 50% each. Not a single Tory seat in sight.

Now wouldn't that be a turn up?

 

[Darat]

Well I'm certain my 1 vote won't have a significant effect on Dominic Grieve's 13,065 majority in 2001 but I can dream.

I am less confident about the Election result then I was in 2001, I have a terrible horrifying feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Conservatives could somehow manage to get it or that Labour's overall majority is reduced to an unworkable level.

 

[brodski]

I am less confident about the Election result then I was in 2001, I have a terrible horrifying feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Conservatives could somehow manage to get it or that Labour's overall majority is reduced to an unworkable level.

I know what you mean; I'm just tiring not to worry about it too much until the polls close. Its a good job I'm not in work tomorrow, I think I'll be getting drunk whatever the outcome, either to remember, or to forget,

 

[Jaggy Bunnet]

Well I'm certain my 1 vote won't have a significant effect on Dominic Grieve's 13,065 majority in 2001 but I can dream.

I am less confident about the Election result then I was in 2001, I have a terrible horrifying feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Conservatives could somehow manage to get it or that Labour's overall majority is reduced to an unworkable level.

We would get better government with a smaller majority - at the moment parliament fails to act as an effective check on the government as the size of the majority is such that backbench revolts are virtually impossible due.

To get an idea of the likely outcome, look at where Blair has been campaigning - most of the seats he has visited have been between 30 and 55 on the Tory target list. That gives an indication of where Labour's polling tells them the real battlegrounds are. In other words, they expect to lose seats but still retain a healthy majority of 70-100 seats.

 

[geni]

Well I'm certain my 1 vote won't have a significant effect on Dominic Grieve's 13,065 majority in 2001 but I can dream.

I am less confident about the Election result then I was in 2001, I have a terrible horrifying feeling in the pit of my stomach that the Conservatives could somehow manage to get it or that Labour's overall majority is reduced to an unworkable level.

If the conservatives do get in it would be a very narrow majority and we know that labour can be an effective oposition.

 

[Jon_in_london]

If the conservatives do get in it would be a very narrow majority and we know that labour can be an effective oposition.

I dont see Labour losing. I predict a majority of around 130. Which is a bad thing- one party having a vast majority does not a healthy democracy make.

 

[Ian Osborne]

Four results in, all Labour holds, but a massive reduction in Labour's majority predicted...

 

[Darat]

Labour lost Putney with a 6% swing to Conservative

 

[Ian Osborne]

Lib-Dems are currently ahead of the Tories! I wish that would last...

 

[Darat]

Lib-Dems are currently ahead of the Tories! I wish that would last...

That would be a turn up for the books - and I don’t know who would be most shocked - the country or the Liberals!

 

[brodski]

That would be a turn up for the books - and I don’t know who would be most shocked - the country or the Liberals!

You would have a simmlar situations with Lib Dems now as with Labour in 1997, a large numebr of new MP's wern't planning on getting elected, and suddenly found that their whole lives where unexpectedley turned upside down on May 2.

 

[Rolfe]

Give us a bloody break!

I voted SNP, and we've already won two seats, including one gain from Labour, and this stupid poll that has every fringe bunch of raving weirdos listed doesn't have anywhere for me to record this?

I demand a recount.

Rolfe.

 

[Darat]

Give us a bloody break!

I voted SNP, and we've already won two seats, including one gain from Labour, and this stupid poll that has every fringe bunch of raving weirdos listed doesn't have anywhere for me to record this?

I demand a recount.

Rolfe.

Look will you lot not understand this? Until the oil and gas runs out you don’t get a say in how your country is to be governed, aren’t you happy with the lovely new building we've just built for you for your book club and mother institutes meetings?

 

[Rolfe]

Look will you lot not understand this? Until the oil and gas runs out you don’t get a say in how your country is to be governed, aren’t you happy with the lovely new building we've just built for you for your book club and mother institutes meetings?

I should coco, we got all six target seats. I'm going to sleep.

Rolfe.

 

[Ian Osborne]

I voted SNP, and we've already won two seats, including one gain from Labour, and this stupid poll that has every fringe bunch of raving weirdos listed doesn't have anywhere for me to record this?

Sorry, Rolfe

I forgot Plaid Cymru too, so at least I'm an equal-opportunities little Englander...