Time for Change? (UK General Election)

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:lol:

I'm sure there's a joke in there about a Dell crashing too, but I fear my computer may take offense

edit: best election quote so far:

"I can't do a convincing Nick Clegg, but nor can he" - Rory Bremner
 
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Touring Mars
Good question - perhaps they just claim this month's costs on expenses... no, wait...

If ever a picture could sum up an entire election campaign for Labour, it would have to be this (from here):

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:D I love it.
 
mirial
And never trust a man with a beard and no moustache; another example of biting the hand that has fed him. Would never happen if he was in a minority as I said earlier.
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Yeah, because white people never commit crimes and walk free from court :rolleyes:
 
I wonder, why do they call it a hung parliament?
 
Only one sleep to go before the big day. I’m sure everyone has already decided how they are going to vote tomorrow but it’s worth checking out your constituency to see if it is one of the battlegrounds and if you can use your vote tactically to help your party by stopping the opposition gaining a seat. The links below from the BBC make this very easy.

Constituencies

Battlegrounds

Make sure you do go to the polls regardless of how you vote because if you don’t vote you don’t have a say.
 
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EvilNeal
Only one sleep to go before the big day. I’m sure everyone has already decided how they are going to vote tomorrow but it’s worth checking out your constituency to see if it is one of the battlegrounds and if you can use your vote tactically to help your party by stopping the opposition gaining a seat. The links below from the BBC make this very easy.

Constituencies

Battlegrounds

Make sure you do go to the polls regardless of how you vote because if you don’t vote you don’t have a say.
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I fixed the links for you. 👍

Here's what the outcome of the 2005 election would've been based on today's boundary changes for my constituency:
Conservative 55.9%
Liberal Democrat 19.2%
Labour 16.5%
Others 8.4%

Conservative Desmond Swayne survived the national Labour victory of 1997, and has increased his majority in the two general elections since, winning with a majority of 17,285 in 2005, 56% of the vote.

At the election, the seat loses part of the Boldre and Sway ward to New Forest East. To find out what might have happened had this boundary change been in force at the last election, see a notional - or estimated - result below.

This seat contains the more affluent and populous areas of the Forest, in the towns of Lymington, Ringwood and New Milton. Forestry, farming and market gardening are prominent in much of the seat, with many market towns and villages scattered through the area.

The Forest itself, established as a hunting ground by William the Conqueror in 1079, dominates the constituency both geographically and economically, drawing around seven million tourists every year and providing employment opportunities.

Farming and market gardening continue as the mainstays of the rural economy, and there is a fair amount of light industry, especially manufacturing and engineering.
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Pretty much makes my vote useless. :grumpy:

This is Hampshire, whereas the three main candidates are from Dorset, Kent and a strangely unknown birthplace for our current and long term Tory MP.
 
Sphinx
I fixed the links for you. 👍

Here's what the outcome of the 2005 election would've been based on today's boundary changes for my constituency:


Pretty much makes my vote useless. :grumpy:

This is Hampshire, whereas the three main candidates are from Dorset, Kent and a strangely unknown birthplace for our current and long term Tory MP.
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Thanks Sphinx, I should have checked them!

My constituency has been Labour for decades so today's outcome is pretty much decided but I'll still be voting. Hopefully the people in the battleground constituencies will also make the effort!
 
Sphinx
Pretty much makes my vote useless. :grumpy:

This is Hampshire, whereas the three main candidates are from Dorset, Kent and a strangely unknown birthplace for our current and long term Tory MP.
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My area has been labour since 1922 ;) With an 11,000 majority last general election.

But I still voted regardless.
 
The constituency I'm in, and it's 2 neighbours, had Labour majorities of 15,000, 14,000 and 20,000* last time, so I don't think there'll be any huge changes here.


* Largest numerical majority in the UK.
 
My constituency had Labour majorities of 10,000 in 2005 and 14,000 in 2001 yet had the lowest voter turnout in both of any seat in the UK! Apathy and disenchantment with new labour do not make a good mix!
 
Can't compete with my 0.019. You guys win. :(

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Any last minute predictions?

Me, Cons with a majority of 1 ;)
 
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Lib-Dems to get a late swing and 60% of the votes but only 20% of the seats. :)

My local (Labour) MP got 65% of the vote at the last election and 75% at the one before that. Majority of 15,246. Who can guess who it is?
 
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Cons to win most seats, but no overall majority (under 300 seats)... Brown announces his resignation as Labour leader at 3.15 am, me to fall asleep at 00.25 am.

I love watching the election, and I'm really looking forward to tonight, but I'm absolutely shattered as I just got back from a three-day work retreat (Team building and all that guff), where we climbed a Munro (my first, yay!), drank too much wine, and stayed up until 2 am every night playing billiards... :)
 
I quite like the Daily Mash's take on it as usual (probable language warning - I'm too lazy to check, but they swear occasionally).

I've been, written "None of the above" and come home, happy in the knowledge my vote will be counted and read out on telly by the returning officer but, like all votes that aren't for the winning team, ultimately ignored.
 
I think Labour are going to get it.

I haven't even met a single person who likes Conservatives....Must just be my age bracket and social class. Very strange that I live in a conservative county though.
 
I can see Cameron just pipping it. Not by much though. Maybe a last surge in Labour votes but I think there has been alot of under estimation in the sheer number of Lib Dem votes among the first time voter/ youth vote.
 
It's irrelevant, they have to get something like 80% of the vote to get anywhere near a majority iirc.
 
BBC Exit Poll suggests the following

Con = 307

Lab = 255

Lib Dem = 59

Others = 29

Hung Parliament predicted and Labour people are already buttering up the Lib Dems with talk of PR.

Not the result of course.
 
Only_in_f1
1-0 Labour
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Prof Vernon Bogdanor, from Oxford University, tells the BBC that if the swing of 8.4% in Houghton and Sunderland South is repeated across the country we will not have a hung parliament - we will have an outright Conservative victory.
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8.4% swing. Even Tarzan would be proud of that one. ;)
 
It's looking bad for Labour - 3 dead-cert lock holds but with big swings towards the Conservatives, including one with an 11.5% swing... the Tories need a 7% swing overall to get an overall majority. So much for the Lib Dem surge so far, but the night is young...
 

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