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The Candidates Debates are over and the results are in...
Posted by Uncle Wheaty on 6 May 2010 - 9:57pm.
If you are up and here lets share our views.
Initial comments on the Exit Poll as a starter...
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Howdy
I'm watching this alternative election thingy on C4. Rod Liddle has been on. Appalling man.
He really is a complete cock, isn't he?
(Fun starts at about 33m 10s - watch until the "Millwall" comment...):-
Come Dine with Me Election Special
Exit Polls
Tories ahead but without a clear majority.
Feck!
What happened to the 'new politics' and the LibDem surge?
my money
is on a Tory majority. Got a feeling it is a 1993 replay.
That would be interesting...
there wasn't an election in that year :-)
Doh
1992 even
Oh god
We're headed for a Tory government. Possibly with Peter Robinson in tow. Worst-case scenario really...
In that case I'm glad
I've only got a five figure mortgage and the old man had his bypass last year.
Medical science works
You will have another 7 happy years with him as a minimum based on my experience
Thanks Wheaty
I've come over all optimistic suddenly..
Quote of the night so far
"so you might consider getting into bed with Peter Mandelson?"
At least he has shaved off the tache!
Separated at birth
Peter Mandleson and Boycie from Only Fools And Horses.
Boycie? No....
...Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Viennnnaaaah....
This Sunderland Speed Counting thing
Am I the only one who's slightly concerned that they've got the wrong idea about counting the votes (i.e. let's see if we can count them as fast as possible, rather than count them as accurately as possible)?
It is an opportunity for Sunderland to make the news
Nothing else does.
Especially the football team.
I can't believe...
...the exit poll. I mean, I'm prepared for the Lib Dems' bounce to be a lot less than the polls suggested, but to actually lose seats? Something fishy about that exit poll...
Agreed
It is clearly wrong I hope.
I can only watch Sky News as I am in Croatia at the moment (I usually only watch the BBC for news) but even they seem shocked.
Yeah
Just doesn't seem right does it?
Apparently a high turnout in Barking which should see the BNP come absolutely nowhere, which is one piece of good news if the exit polls turn out to be accurate.
I know what you mean
but at this point it feels like the final stages of the World Cup qualifiers - going through an increasingly improbable set of circumstances in which Scotland might still somehow qualify...
You're not the only one...
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2010/05/seven-reasons-to-be-wary-of-the-...
Hey, thanks for that, Gauntlet!
Brilliant reading. :-)
Fiona Bruce...
yowsa.
People have been unable to vote before 10pm and are complaining!
The Stations have been open from 7am until 10pm.
If you can't arrange your life to vote between those hours then tough.
If you're really that busy
Use a postal vote.
I hadn't heard about this, Wheaty. Is it on a news site?
Just seen it on Sky News
People from Sheffield Hallam (Clegg's constituency) have complained that they were queueing at 10pm and were refused a chance to vote (as the law states).
Lauren
'bloody' Laverne. Switching to Fiona.
Computer graphics are rubbish...
I have absolutely no idea what is going on.
Which channel?
BBC...
I think they are a convoluted mess... the information isn't being presented in a clear and simple way.
I'm glad I can only get Sky then in Croatia
I assumed the BBC coverage would be better
Ah
but the Beeb, bless 'em, are streaming their coverage on the the internet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/
It's been vintage so far. I've counted one video wall breakdown, three audio breakdowns and one Bruce Forsyth 'what the HECK was that?' moment so far.
(and it works overseas - I'm in sunny Sweden and it's coming over loud and clear)
Thanks
I'm voting for
Charlie Brooker
Me mum saw Theresa May at her polling station this morning and her hair was a right mess (T May not me mum)
(as Harry Hill) Hello I'm Zeenar Bedawi and here is the news.....
Jeremy Vine
is no Peter Snow. Although he is a complate swinging dick
News in
Labour wins the Houghton and Sunderland South. By quite a long way.
But, but, but
with an 8.4% swing from them to the Tories in a Labour heartland seat.
And yet...
a much lower swing in the more marginal Sunderland seat.
I'm trying hard not to grasp at that straw but I'm not sure I can resist.
I grasped so hard
I grasped so hard at that straw that I may just have broken the camel's back. Or something.
exit polls
I just like Fiona Bruce. sexy voice, great body, nice face. smart. watchable. yeah!
Jeremy Vine
May as well be doing Alan Partidges 1994 Football World Cup of Football 1994.
He's a pillock.
It could be worse -
he could be dressed as a cowboy again.
Dominoes
WTF was that thing he just did with the dominoes?
I agree with Patrick
I can't follow Jeremy Vine's graphics to save my life.
I keep expecting him to mention...
Alf Ramsay's Porn Dungeon.
This always happens....
...Smalltown Gypsy Massacre?
Just for you....
Headslapping?
Andrew Neil's
hair.
Brillo!
What f**kwit decided...
that that was a good idea?
Give me strength...
The Punslinger
I think he nicked the idea off his little bro.
God Save us..
...from these people. Fancy a pint, Patrick, Sam? My round?
I might just do that...
watching this is making me feel like taking up the sauce again.
Esther Rantzen
Uuurgh!
Lutonians - WTF!
Two seats gone
In safe Labour seats and these idiots are trying to extrapolate the results based on that alone, and rubbishing the exit poll. For gawd's sake, wait until a few marginals are in at least!
Fiona Bruce or Emily Maitland
?
Let me think about that...
...for an hour or so...
I'd go for Maitlis
despite this
3-0 to the Labour, 3-0 to the Labour
3-0 to the Labour!
UNBELIEVABLE...
Jeff.
The blizzard of bullshit has begun
Wake me up when something of any note at all happens.
Now might be the time to check out job opportunities in Europe...
Hurricane of horseshit?
Tornado of turds?
Cyclone of crap?
Farrago of Faeces?
Pile of Poo?
I wouldn't normally wish personal injury on anyone
but that Nigel Farage story has just given me the biggest laugh of the night. Well second biggest, after the crass domino toppling stunt earlier.
Had to admit to a snigger
when the Beeb reported the plane was Polish made.
Understand the pilot is quite poorly - hope he rallies soon.
Can I just say
this will be the first time I refer to Monty Python tonight?
Martin Amis
pished
Ah! So that's who that was...
I thought it was Mark E Smith.
Ah. No.
He's down the Bus Station...
Deffo
Joan Collins: 'Cameron will be good for the family'
And yer nine hubbies Joanie!
"He looks very presidential."
If that's what you want, fuck off back to America, Joan.
Jeeeeezuspleazus.
Jesus ...
Joan Collins, Tony Parsons, Armando Iannucci and Richard Wilson. It's like the most bizarre supergroup ever.
wasn't she a UKIP
Euro MP candidate a couple years back, the turncoat tart?
These Andrew Neil
party pieces are utterly pointless - fatuous comments from the clueless.
Yes.
See them fiddle while the UK burns!
Agreed...
...the Beeb are flapping a bit. I'd rather have dead air. Paxman should liven up a bit and get on his game.
I don't care what they say..
Joan looks like a million Icelandic Kroner.
Aren't there normally more
than 3 seats in by now? My eyelids are getting heavy and more talk of exit polls isn't going to keep me awake for much longer.
I know...
...I'm bored. Is there anythin good on the other channels?
I suggest watching in the US ...
...the time difference is most agreeable.
I started
watching SC4 to see if I could get the gist of what is going on despite knowing 0% Welsh.
I have the same approach to French cinema but this promises less chance of rumpy but maybe a few twats
Thats
about £2.50 innit?
On a
good day!
Anyone fancy a pint?
Not with Cameron though.
Cameron's down the boozer
A pint of Diamond White I assume?
You need 'i drink 12 pints me'
William Hague, he's a right laff
I'm on the wusabi peas and strawberry milkshake
Our local MP
Didn't it used to be 14 pints?
Lots of fuck ups at the polling stations.
Does the American influence have no limits?
At least we dont have any hanging Chads
Thanks to..
Preparation H
Apparently
Afghanistan have offered to act as overseer for our crooked election.
I thought if you didn't vote by 10pm then that's that. Is that not true? Does it matter if you are in a queue?
Yes
If you are late then tough. It is hardly as if you dont get enough time.
Just got in
from watching Biffy Clyro tear the f'ing roof off the Hammersmith Apollo and am catching up on the Premier League Darts. Keep the news coming chaps then I don't have to bother with the news channels.
What is going on with Andrew Neill's hair?
Either my tv colour is right off or he's dyed it a nasty shade of plum
Think its called
'McCartney mousse' that he's using
Neil is actually a little unsettling ...
...and the McCartney mousse is just the icing on the cake, so to speak. More pissed celebs ...
This result just in
Biffy Clyro are pish :)
Bobby George has held bristols (his own)
Recount
I demand a recount. They may not be the most sophisticated of combos but they make a hell of a noise and I love em for it.
It looks like Phil Taylor has seriously increased his majority.
Wouldn't it be great ...
...if the Beeb had got Crosby, Stills and Nash in to fill some time between results? Surely Jeremy Vine could have sorted it.
Hooray!
Peter Robinson has been kicked out! One member of the Massive (at the very least) will be made up about this.
Could be the high point of the night
but why on earth was he standing anyway - he's First Minister of NI!
Aww
him and his stupid bigotted wife used to give my bile ducts an extra kick everytime they opened their big bazoos
Toby Young
What a tit! Faux serious. Vacuous ... "more champers Tobes?" "why not, I'm a nonentity, top me up"
You know...
...he's actually a pretty good bloke, politics aside.
Sorry, unsubstantiated late night nonsense
I withdraw the comment. But the whole Thames party thing did seem a bit pointless.
No argument from me.
Who's interested in Brillo's bloody ligfest anyway? It's like they had a special focus group on how best to remove gravitas from the coverage.
"Hmm. Yeah. No, not Hattersley or Ashdown. I don't like that. Too substantial and weighty. Could we have an interview with Jedward instead?"
An enthusiasm of Snows
.
Victoria Coren - mmmm, nice
I like Victoria Coren. I'd give her my vote.
The new Tory MP for Kingswood
looks like he should be at home in bed - he won't be up in time for school otherwise
Top fisting at Brown count
Man in sunglasses from Land and Power party (57 votes) holds up fist as Brown gives speech in constituency.
So that's who he was
He did well to get right behind Brown so that he'd be in shot for the speech. It can't have been easy holding that stance for so long.
Freedom for Tooting!
This is getting interesting.
If the Tories get in tomorrow
and it looks like they will, at the moment, I hope every Tory voting white van man racist scum Sun reading "I've always voted Labour but it's time for a CHANGE", or "Maggie was the best PM this country's ever had, apart from Winnie Churchill 2 car new money shits" or wishy washy Lib Dem "tactical voting" loses their jobs and their houses burn down. CHANGE? Ooh it's time for a CHANGE all right, but this is the sort of CHANGE that you you won't like at all, you bastards. Still, on the plus side, I had a new sink put in today. It don't work. Nighty night.
I'm out
How very, very depressing. Another 5 years of same old same old, Buggins' turn politics. Labour can stop pretending they'd like PR. Lib Dems go back to being patronised by the other two and ignored by the media. And yet they'll still have enough votes to warrant having at least twice the number of seats it looks as if they'll end up with.
May the night prove me wrong.
Labour gain!
Glasgow East from SNP!
Labour 40 Conservatives 21
Apparently, there's a crisis in the bond market ...
... and this election thingy is just a side show. So says the multi-headed monster that is "The Markets". Live and Let Die.
'3am and this doesn't smell like a Conservative victory to me'
says Billy Bragg on Twitter.
Oh good Lord, it's those expert political analysts ...
... Bill Wyman and Al Murray. Are they willing us to bed or something?
Bill Wyman
on that bloody boat! Oh dear oh dear
Si Si Je Suis Un Political Analyst...
available for download soon.
Sunshine on Leith
Not a good night for the Lib Dems in Scotland
yup
after all that, No Change Whatsoever in terms of seats (with one to come)
The Beeb's coverage ...
... has seemed really sloppy to me. Too many faces, not enough content and a little too much levity for my liking.
Emily Maitland ...
...just suggested that we needed to look at the molecular detail of the voting patterns. Wow. There's some real chemistry there.
her dad
is a Chemistry Prof (really)
Lab gain!
Chesterfield from Lib Dems. Con 185, Lab 145.
Esther Rantzen only gets 1,800 votes in Luton
Hey,
That's Life!
(Well, someone had to say it!)
In the cold light of day
It looks like their's gonna be a hanging.Iv'e got a rope you bring a ladder.
I see...
...we all caved at about the same time! I went to bed at 1.45....
It was
2.00 am for me after I made sure it wasn't going to be 1992 part II
Time For A Change
In the way we do things?
http://www.takebackparliament.com/
Did I miss something
?
I had a good night's sleep for once...
I must watch incredibly tedious election coverage more often, it does wonders.
Hang on a sec!
Whoah, stunning footage of Nick Clegg's car driving somewhere. And we thought the excitement was all over!
Ed Balls survived by a mere 1000 votes. What could have been, eh?
all through last night when
people asked 'Whats the story?' i could hear Malcolm Tucker add 'in fucking Balamory?'
I've been imagining...
...Malcolm and Jamie running around like blue-arsed flies, increasingly baroque threats of violence spewing from them as the results trickle in.
Jamie in "Spinners and Losers" comes irresistibly to mind: "Are you a fucking horse? Are you a fucking horse? Are you a fucking horse? No. Especially NOT A STALKING HORSE."
There will be people having aneurysms this morning. Brilliant stuff.
You're the worst James Bond ever
you're David Fucking Niven
Oh, Trinny and Susannah! I'm
Oh, Trinny and Susannah! I'm sorry to burst into your little fucking boutique, but you've got a fight on your hands! That's all I'm saying, I'm backing a rival candidate, so fuck you and fuck you and your Nutter coronation 'cause it ain't happening!
I see Emily Maitlis has got one of those new ipads......
A bit too big aren't they?
Oh FFS
Jeremy, take your virtual world of shite and fuck off for another 5 years (or six months)
Paxo & Dimbleby are still going!
They've been on since 10pm last night - 17 hours all in one shift. Unless they had a nap while I wasn't watching (between 3am and about 7am)
58-0 Barking Council
No more BNP. Result.
You get an arra...
...just for being the bearer of those glad tidings. Good to see the little fuckers still utterly, utterly nowhere.
Ditto!
Can anyone else confirm
the sight of Andrew Neill talking pointlessly to an inanely mugging Bruce Forsyth in the company of Don Logan from Sexy Beast during an election broadcast?
That's when I put the wine down and went to bed.
I did see that...
... and wondered if Neill and Forsyth got their wigs from the same shop - and I never realised what a cock Ghandi is.
I was deeply troubled
Forsyth behaved like an old fool and I fully expected Ben Kingsley, in his chilling Logan guise, to suddenly start going 'Yes! Yes! Yes! Do the job. Do the job. Do it'
Anyway where were they and why were they there?
I can indeed
Not least because to start with I thought Sir Ben was Patrick Stewart.
You did the right thing. We later had the UKIP poster girl Joan Collins