Anybody any idea who's going to form the next government ?...

Wonder what the odds would be for Ken Clarke to made made Chancellor, instead of that hopeless George Osbourne.

Dont rule it out............

Thanks again cynic.

A tories win but 50 seats is it enough.

how are the polls going? am in the states and have no idea
i am hoping the tories get in but fear for a hung parliament which will help nobody

edit dont worry about it i got iplayer working

xit polls taken 30 mins ago give 307 seats to Tories and 255 seats to Labour.

If that is correct NC will go with Cameron's lot....can't see him working with GB...who would ?....

Disagree. If NC joins with Labour it would force another election pretty soon and with the disillusionment that goes with it, NC would believe his party would stand a better chance second time around.

And for those that haven't been following, a whole load of people have been turned away at the polls at 10pm so the chances of legal redress are huge.

"a whole load"

lol

about 200 and the majority is about 10,000

there were 5 seats where voters were left queuing - 3 x l and 2 x ld - only one of which was marginal (chester from memory)
the election will not be re-run on the basis of that

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a minority party is perfectly capable of forming a gov't and arguably could stay in power for some time without calling an election
nevertheless, it would be inherently weak, needing to rely on tacit or actual support from others to push through legislation
the tougher that legislation, the harder it is likely to be to push it through

except that on the exit polls labour-lib do not have combined majority

but Cons-Lib would have

you are assuming a formal coalition ..... that is a rare occurrence

balls up at the polling stations ....... 100's turned away , some running out of voting papers.

I made no personal assumptions at all

Its just simple arithmetic

anyway, it may be all academic with 8% swing against Labour

exit poll looks to have been pretty accurate ...... cons now predicted to win 307 = +2 from exit poll ..... ld have surprisingly not performed nearly as well as predicted

Cameron at the moment could hope for a coalition with the liberal-democrats or the northern ireland mp's in the event of the former going with labour.....so to me Cameron has to be leader.....Brown still clinging to the railings at number 10....but perhaps not for long...

do you have any idea where the DUP (i think that's the party with all the seats in NI) stands relative to Tory mandate/promises?

At least the Falklands oil cos are performing well today against the general fall in the uk markets.

I thing NC will go with Cameron....the situation with GB would not work out...the rest of them could help but I'm no expert in political affairs, some would go with Cameron others won't.

I think you'll find it's more than a few hundred. Stories say it happened in several cities and certainly we had to queue to vote which has never happened before.

Whether the story runs who knows but I still feel we will have another election soon.

i think you are right and assuredly there will be a massive row about the chester shambles as that is a very close count-call

Why would anybody want to vote for Labour ? never overestirmate the intelligence of the British public .