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The Candidates Debates are over and the results are in...

Uncle Wheaty's picture

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.

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Spartacus Mills | 6 May 2010 - 9:59pm

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

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Paolo Meccano | 9 May 2010 - 11:21am

Exit Polls

Tories ahead but without a clear majority.

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Spartacus Mills | 6 May 2010 - 10:03pm

Feck!

What happened to the 'new politics' and the LibDem surge?

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Black Type | 6 May 2010 - 10:07pm

my money

is on a Tory majority. Got a feeling it is a 1993 replay.

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BigJimBob | 6 May 2010 - 10:09pm

That would be interesting...

there wasn't an election in that year :-)

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Black Type | 6 May 2010 - 10:11pm

Doh

1992 even

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BigJimBob | 6 May 2010 - 10:23pm

Oh god

We're headed for a Tory government. Possibly with Peter Robinson in tow. Worst-case scenario really...

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Lando Cakes | 6 May 2010 - 10:17pm

In that case I'm glad

I've only got a five figure mortgage and the old man had his bypass last year.

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Prestonia | 6 May 2010 - 10:19pm

Medical science works

You will have another 7 happy years with him as a minimum based on my experience

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:27pm

Thanks Wheaty

I've come over all optimistic suddenly..

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Prestonia | 6 May 2010 - 10:31pm

Quote of the night so far

"so you might consider getting into bed with Peter Mandelson?"

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Stuart Graham | 6 May 2010 - 10:24pm
Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:29pm

Separated at birth

Peter Mandleson and Boycie from Only Fools And Horses.

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Seamus | 6 May 2010 - 11:47pm

Boycie? No....

...Ahhhhhhhhhhh, Viennnnaaaah....

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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:53pm

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)?

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Tom | 6 May 2010 - 10:29pm

It is an opportunity for Sunderland to make the news

Nothing else does.

Especially the football team.

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:31pm

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...

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Bob | 6 May 2010 - 10:32pm

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.

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:37pm

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.

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Red Umpire | 6 May 2010 - 10:37pm

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...

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Lando Cakes | 6 May 2010 - 10:42pm
Gauntlet | 6 May 2010 - 10:50pm

Hey, thanks for that, Gauntlet!

Brilliant reading. :-)

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Bob | 6 May 2010 - 11:27pm

Fiona Bruce...

yowsa.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 10:36pm

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.

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:39pm

If you're really that busy

Use a postal vote.
I hadn't heard about this, Wheaty. Is it on a news site?

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Gatz | 6 May 2010 - 10:47pm

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).

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:51pm

Lauren

'bloody' Laverne. Switching to Fiona.

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Prestonia | 6 May 2010 - 10:42pm

Computer graphics are rubbish...

I have absolutely no idea what is going on.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 10:46pm

Which channel?

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:48pm

BBC...

I think they are a convoluted mess... the information isn't being presented in a clear and simple way.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 10:50pm

I'm glad I can only get Sky then in Croatia

I assumed the BBC coverage would be better

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 10:58pm

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)

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Jason Carter | 6 May 2010 - 11:11pm

Thanks

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 11:19pm

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.....

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DogFacedBoy | 6 May 2010 - 10:49pm

Jeremy Vine

is no Peter Snow. Although he is a complate swinging dick

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DogFacedBoy | 6 May 2010 - 10:53pm

News in

Labour wins the Houghton and Sunderland South. By quite a long way.

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Tom | 6 May 2010 - 10:53pm

But, but, but

with an 8.4% swing from them to the Tories in a Labour heartland seat.

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Red Umpire | 6 May 2010 - 11:03pm

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.

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Lando Cakes | 6 May 2010 - 11:54pm

I grasped so hard

I grasped so hard at that straw that I may just have broken the camel's back. Or something.

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Red Umpire | 6 May 2010 - 11:58pm

exit polls

I just like Fiona Bruce. sexy voice, great body, nice face. smart. watchable. yeah!

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rocker43 | 6 May 2010 - 10:54pm

Jeremy Vine

May as well be doing Alan Partidges 1994 Football World Cup of Football 1994.

He's a pillock.

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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:04pm

It could be worse -

he could be dressed as a cowboy again.

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Johan | 6 May 2010 - 11:12pm

Dominoes

WTF was that thing he just did with the dominoes?

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Red Umpire | 6 May 2010 - 11:24pm

I agree with Patrick

I can't follow Jeremy Vine's graphics to save my life.

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Johan | 7 May 2010 - 12:03am

I keep expecting him to mention...

Alf Ramsay's Porn Dungeon.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 11:20pm

This always happens....

...Smalltown Gypsy Massacre?

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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:28pm

Just for you....


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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:30pm

Headslapping?

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:23am

Andrew Neil's

hair.

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Prestonia | 6 May 2010 - 11:12pm

Brillo!

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DogFacedBoy | 6 May 2010 - 11:20pm

What f**kwit decided...

that that was a good idea?

Give me strength...

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 11:23pm

The Punslinger

I think he nicked the idea off his little bro.

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Spartacus Mills | 6 May 2010 - 11:31pm

God Save us..

...from these people. Fancy a pint, Patrick, Sam? My round?

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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:36pm

I might just do that...

watching this is making me feel like taking up the sauce again.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 11:57pm

Esther Rantzen

Uuurgh!

Lutonians - WTF!

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Uncle Wheaty | 6 May 2010 - 11:21pm

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!

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Rosbif | 6 May 2010 - 11:32pm

Fiona Bruce or Emily Maitland

?

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James Helford | 6 May 2010 - 11:40pm

Let me think about that...

...for an hour or so...

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Iainso | 6 May 2010 - 11:46pm

I'd go for Maitlis

despite this


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heshofcheese | 6 May 2010 - 11:50pm

3-0 to the Labour, 3-0 to the Labour

3-0 to the Labour!

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Olthwaite | 6 May 2010 - 11:42pm

UNBELIEVABLE...

Jeff.

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Patrick Crowther | 6 May 2010 - 11:51pm

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...

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illuminatus | 6 May 2010 - 11:51pm

Hurricane of horseshit?

Tornado of turds?

Cyclone of crap?

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Patrick Crowther | 7 May 2010 - 12:01am

Farrago of Faeces?

Pile of Poo?

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Iainso | 7 May 2010 - 12:06am

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.

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heshofcheese | 6 May 2010 - 11:55pm

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.

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fortuneight | 7 May 2010 - 12:43am

Can I just say

this will be the first time I refer to Monty Python tonight?

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:02am

Martin Amis

pished

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BigJimBob | 7 May 2010 - 12:14am

Ah! So that's who that was...

I thought it was Mark E Smith.

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Spartacus Mills | 7 May 2010 - 12:17am

Ah. No.

He's down the Bus Station...

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Iainso | 7 May 2010 - 12:20am

Deffo

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Iainso | 7 May 2010 - 12:19am

Joan Collins: 'Cameron will be good for the family'

And yer nine hubbies Joanie!

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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 12:17am

"He looks very presidential."

If that's what you want, fuck off back to America, Joan.

Jeeeeezuspleazus.

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 12:19am

Jesus ...

Joan Collins, Tony Parsons, Armando Iannucci and Richard Wilson. It's like the most bizarre supergroup ever.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:18am

wasn't she a UKIP

Euro MP candidate a couple years back, the turncoat tart?

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:18am

These Andrew Neil

party pieces are utterly pointless - fatuous comments from the clueless.

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Johan | 7 May 2010 - 12:20am

Yes.

See them fiddle while the UK burns!

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Iainso | 7 May 2010 - 12:22am

Agreed...

...the Beeb are flapping a bit. I'd rather have dead air. Paxman should liven up a bit and get on his game.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:23am

I don't care what they say..

Joan looks like a million Icelandic Kroner.

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Prestonia | 7 May 2010 - 12:23am

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.

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Johan | 7 May 2010 - 12:24am

I know...

...I'm bored. Is there anythin good on the other channels?

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Iainso | 7 May 2010 - 12:30am

I suggest watching in the US ...

...the time difference is most agreeable.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:31am

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

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:34am

Thats

about £2.50 innit?

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:26am

On a

good day!

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Prestonia | 7 May 2010 - 12:28am

Anyone fancy a pint?

Not with Cameron though.

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Uncle Wheaty | 7 May 2010 - 12:33am

Cameron's down the boozer

A pint of Diamond White I assume?

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:34am

You need 'i drink 12 pints me'

William Hague, he's a right laff

I'm on the wusabi peas and strawberry milkshake

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:36am

Our local MP

Didn't it used to be 14 pints?

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Spider-mans arc... | 7 May 2010 - 1:38am

Lots of fuck ups at the polling stations.

Does the American influence have no limits?

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:39am
Uncle Wheaty | 7 May 2010 - 12:41am

Thanks to..

Preparation H

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Hot Cider | 7 May 2010 - 2:21am

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?

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:44am

Yes

If you are late then tough. It is hardly as if you dont get enough time.

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Uncle Wheaty | 7 May 2010 - 12:46am

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.

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Dave Amitri | 7 May 2010 - 12:44am

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

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fortuneight | 7 May 2010 - 12:45am

Think its called

'McCartney mousse' that he's using

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:48am

Neil is actually a little unsettling ...

...and the McCartney mousse is just the icing on the cake, so to speak. More pissed celebs ...

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:53am

This result just in

Biffy Clyro are pish :)

Bobby George has held bristols (his own)

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:47am

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.

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Dave Amitri | 7 May 2010 - 12:52am

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.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 12:49am

Hooray!

Peter Robinson has been kicked out! One member of the Massive (at the very least) will be made up about this.

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Rosbif | 7 May 2010 - 12:52am

Could be the high point of the night

but why on earth was he standing anyway - he's First Minister of NI!

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Lando Cakes | 7 May 2010 - 12:58am

Aww

him and his stupid bigotted wife used to give my bile ducts an extra kick everytime they opened their big bazoos

0
DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:59am

Toby Young

What a tit! Faux serious. Vacuous ... "more champers Tobes?" "why not, I'm a nonentity, top me up"

1
Phil Pirrip | 7 May 2010 - 1:03am

You know...

...he's actually a pretty good bloke, politics aside.

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 1:09am

Sorry, unsubstantiated late night nonsense

I withdraw the comment. But the whole Thames party thing did seem a bit pointless.

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Phil Pirrip | 7 May 2010 - 8:23am

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?"

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 12:27pm

An enthusiasm of Snows

.

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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 1:03am

Victoria Coren - mmmm, nice

I like Victoria Coren. I'd give her my vote.

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Rosbif | 7 May 2010 - 1:06am

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

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fortuneight | 7 May 2010 - 1:06am

Top fisting at Brown count

Man in sunglasses from Land and Power party (57 votes) holds up fist as Brown gives speech in constituency.

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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 1:41am

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.

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Malc | 7 May 2010 - 2:14am

Freedom for Tooting!

This is getting interesting.

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Lando Cakes | 7 May 2010 - 1:46am

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.

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chabsy | 7 May 2010 - 1:53am

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.

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Rosbif | 7 May 2010 - 2:00am

Labour gain!

Glasgow East from SNP!
Labour 40 Conservatives 21

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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 2:12am

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.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 2:36am

'3am and this doesn't smell like a Conservative victory to me'

says Billy Bragg on Twitter.


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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 3:25am

Oh good Lord, it's those expert political analysts ...

... Bill Wyman and Al Murray. Are they willing us to bed or something?

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 3:34am

Bill Wyman

on that bloody boat! Oh dear oh dear

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Dr Volume | 7 May 2010 - 3:34am

Si Si Je Suis Un Political Analyst...

available for download soon.

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Patrick Crowther | 7 May 2010 - 9:43am

Sunshine on Leith

Not a good night for the Lib Dems in Scotland

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Lando Cakes | 7 May 2010 - 3:42am

yup

after all that, No Change Whatsoever in terms of seats (with one to come)

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Glenbervie | 7 May 2010 - 9:52am

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.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 3:47am

Emily Maitland ...

...just suggested that we needed to look at the molecular detail of the voting patterns. Wow. There's some real chemistry there.

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Martin | 7 May 2010 - 3:58am

her dad

is a Chemistry Prof (really)

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BigJimBob | 7 May 2010 - 8:27am

Lab gain!

Chesterfield from Lib Dems. Con 185, Lab 145.

Esther Rantzen only gets 1,800 votes in Luton

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Olthwaite | 7 May 2010 - 4:31am

Hey,

That's Life!

(Well, someone had to say it!)

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Black Type | 7 May 2010 - 6:47am

In the cold light of day

It looks like their's gonna be a hanging.Iv'e got a rope you bring a ladder.

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Pencilsqueezer | 7 May 2010 - 7:39am

I see...

...we all caved at about the same time! I went to bed at 1.45....

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 8:31am

It was

2.00 am for me after I made sure it wasn't going to be 1992 part II

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BigJimBob | 7 May 2010 - 8:35am

Time For A Change

In the way we do things?
http://www.takebackparliament.com/

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wayfarer | 7 May 2010 - 2:56pm

Did I miss something

?

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Steerpike | 7 May 2010 - 9:10am

I had a good night's sleep for once...

I must watch incredibly tedious election coverage more often, it does wonders.

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Patrick Crowther | 7 May 2010 - 9:44am

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?

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Rosbif | 7 May 2010 - 10:35am

all through last night when

people asked 'Whats the story?' i could hear Malcolm Tucker add 'in fucking Balamory?'

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:21pm

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.

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 12:32pm

You're the worst James Bond ever

you're David Fucking Niven

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 1:00pm

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!

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 1:04pm

I see Emily Maitlis has got one of those new ipads......

A bit too big aren't they?

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Hot Cider | 7 May 2010 - 12:39pm

Oh FFS

Jeremy, take your virtual world of shite and fuck off for another 5 years (or six months)

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DogFacedBoy | 7 May 2010 - 12:57pm

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)

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fortuneight | 7 May 2010 - 3:38pm

58-0 Barking Council

No more BNP. Result.

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Richie B | 7 May 2010 - 5:29pm

You get an arra...

...just for being the bearer of those glad tidings. Good to see the little fuckers still utterly, utterly nowhere.

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Bob | 7 May 2010 - 6:23pm

Ditto!

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Red Umpire | 7 May 2010 - 7:05pm

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.

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Beezer | 7 May 2010 - 6:33pm

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.

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Formbyman | 7 May 2010 - 6:39pm

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?

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Beezer | 7 May 2010 - 6:43pm

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

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fortuneight | 7 May 2010 - 6:40pm
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