hahaha...  I bet you're seeing it all in Disney theme now...   smiling trees, chirping blue birds.... & talking squirrels

A year?  I give it 6 months at the most, just like 1974.  This weekend and coming week are going to be incredibly interesting.

Afternoon all, had a nap and woke up to David Cameron's speech, thought I was in a nightmare.....

What the hell is going on with Morecambe? Still waiting on them...most of my family work and run a childrens centre there.

I expect it to be Labour though, quite a poor area

Now I'm wishing there was a Monster Raving Loony rep in my area if they all wear hats like that...

ello Babe....

I am regressing back to apathy...  that way it doesn't hurt as much...

by tomorrow I will be back to  when politics is being discussed...

it doesn't hurt as much, and is a much less scary & happier way to live!

Here goes Meaty...

Conservative Gain at Morecambe

Bliddy Hell, it's gone Conservative

Bollox...

That was special

 I'm going on the school run. Bored with these kids on the telly

I have become No1 fan of afternoon naps......feel slightly human again now......
missed what Gordon and David said!!!!

Its all crap, because of the boundary changes there are now more conservatives

Well... that was rubbish.. none of the trees replied


Z.

lol...  thats quite a good thing...  its really freaky when they do!

Oddly the current boundaries actually favour labour. The Conservatives have to get a higher percentage of the vote for the same number of seats as Labour


Z.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/ho...cal-reform-deal.html

How can they say he defied the people of Britain? I don't see why he should budge just yet tbh, Cameron didnt exactly win massively... Labour got 29% and Tories got 36%. Its like they are saying that only the 36% of Britain matter and that no one elses vote should be considered

Same here Ditty, whoever gets in won't do much for Mr Pink or me!  But I have to admit I will be watching the news with a bit more interest this weekend.

Happy Birthday to Mr Ditty as well...

We won't be able to look the rest of the North East in the eyes anymore  We've let the Labour Party down, we've let the sitting MP down, but most of all we've let ourselves down. etc etc.

This is now going to be like a playground situation, be my friend, no be my friend, no be mine....  I do wonder which way Nick Clegg will jump though, it's looking increasingly likely that he will do a deal with the Tories and David Cameron will be PM.  Or do I need to go and get more sleep.

Thank you    He was asleep... but we just had a knock on the door which woke him up....  twas a parcel...   his bessie mate has sent him 4 bottles of champagne as a bday pressie..    So unexpected & such a nice thing to do... am all choked!

As a side note, the subtitles on Sky News are hysterical, I have just seen something referred to as Uranus and also a barbecue, I dread to think what the original spoken comments were....  I'm going to say Gene Hunt for PM!!

Get more sleep PB - in fact if you can hibernate for about 6 months it might be better

Z.

Same with my part of the world Joe, a lot of West Midland seats have gone to the Tories, mine has remained Labour, but places like Halesowen and Rowley have gone to the Tories.

I'm considering it Zaph, I'm amazed that you are still awake after last night!

Barring anything radical in terms of tax or council tax or something, I am fairly sure that there will be no obvious impact on us either.. not in the near future anyway....

...but its the bigger picture that worries me...  the stuff that happens quietly and little by little...  public resources, specialist services... you know the kind of thing...  I don't want to end up looking round and suddenly realising just how bleak & grim everything has got.

I'll be okay for a bit yet

*dribble... mumble.....*


Z.

You've done well Z.....I had to sit through most of this, did you? I think it's been the most fascinating Election I've ever taken part in, and it will bring us up to speed with most of the rest of the world (not very many Majority Parliaments out there). I'm bored of party politics, tribalism and dogma. The whole system will be shaken up now.

On a side note, I know this thread is about the General Election, but I have just checked the BBC website and see that Sandwell has been retained as a Labour council (boo,hiss) with a increased majority.  The only good news I can see about it is that the BNP who had 2 seats on the council have lost all their seats and sadly for me as I voted Lib/Dem locally as a lot of you know I have a real dislike of our council, both the Tories and Lib/Dems have lost seats to Labour.

One fondly remembers the somewhat sarcastic postcard in circulation many years back.

KEEP POLITICS OUT OF POLITICS-VOTE  SDP!

I will never tire of party politics, dogma, and in particular tribalism. If they are successful I can't wait to get stuck in.

It's appalling that the Libs can get 23-ish% of the total vote and only 9-ish% of the total MP's

If the Lib Dems make a deal with the Conservatives that doesn't guarantee electoral reform then they are total idiots.


Evening all

Christ all mighty!  Torridge and West Devon have a crappy place to announce their result Talk about not making the effort.

Breaking news on the BBC news channel

SNP talking to Labour about a possible deal, and Cameron and Clegg will be talking this evening.

Now this is going to sound really stupid, but would Nick Clegg want to join up with one of the other two and not be PM, what benefits will the Lib/Dems get from joining one of the other parties as I would feel that they are going to alienate a section of people who voted for them yesterday, especially if people tactically voted, or at the end of the day do we all say we will tactically vote and then just vote for the party we have always voted for at the end of the day?  I tactically voted locally, but voted for the party I always voted for nationally, as I feel our MP is one of the good guys and does actually listen to us constituents

Afternoon Ducky


Z.

Hello Ducky, you made it through the day ok then??  I'm going for a nap in a bit so as I am ready for BBC1 9pm.

It doesn't matter what percentage vote they get, it's in how many seats they have the most popular candidate that counts.

Whats on at bbc1 at pm?

I will never tire of party politics, dogma, and in particular tribalism. If they are successful I can't wait to get stuck in. ref: GJ

Good for you GJ, but I'm the one feeling positive and hopeful today, and you appear to be feeling like crap. And yes, the conditional if. IMO it hasn't been a success since the early 1970s, and I don't ever imagine dogma working again. I don't see the need to take a political position any longer, and it is liberating.

Always had a great deal of respect for Shirley Williams though, she should have led the Labour party against Maggie, history may well have been changed then....