Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

BBC latest estimate is 36% turnout.

Cynic how do you mean Labour havent really peformed the bookies were using a spread as low as 150 seats.

They have done far better than that.

In the end they came with a late run and the transfer of seats from Tory to labour in London was a real boost.

The real losers now its over are the Tories.

Labour have done badly. They should have got at least 400 to have a chance of success.

In fact this was the best result of the day........

Labour is jubilant over the capture of Hammersmith and Fulham, which it described as “David Cameron’s favourite council”, from the Conservatives.

If they can beat the torys on this ground Milly should be telling the troops they can win them everywhere.

Hays talking s-ite again.

The tories have a diabolical result on their hands.

Only 2 winners UKIP and LABOUR.

Camoron and the boys are already panicking thinking of an alliance with UKIP, but UKIP dont want it.

Didn't the tories do well.

Didn't the tories do well.

Yeah Yeah Yeah, more more more more FRED is back.

Look out manuel.

Set fred set fred....set.

Hope you had a good holiday Fred.

If you add UKIP to the Conservatives you get over 50% as a centre right group. If the UKIP voters support the Conservatives and a referendum then there will be a large majority for the Tories,

gordon bennett!
i was hoping for some intelligent comment and not just the usual partisan polemic ..... clearly far too much to hope for

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sticky - what care i what bilge fred posts; i read little of it; nor yours come to think of it .... it's all just so goddam predictable, as is that from hays

for reference, i have just picked up the following and i can't be bothered to look up the source ....

• Election results:
• Ukip + 132 as Tories demand pact
• Labour + 273, fall short in middle England
• Tories - 147. 'Fire Shapps' demand members
• Lib Dems - 222, lose Kingston
• Farage: "Ukip fox is in the Westminster hen house"

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is crowing by labour as sticky propounds? ..... doesn't sound like it
and what of the tories performance? .... can't tell from the above

You're in friendly mode tonight c :-)


exterminate...

hi max .... not sure why it should surprise you, but generally, i'm always looking for a balanced viewpoint

Indeed c.

Now whats the chances of a tory/ukip tie up?

Taking into account Farage has stated that he will not enter any agreement with a Cameroon led party.

Eyewash, or are events overtaking the present?

Its silly talk from Hays clutching at straws.

Now this is solid not spectacular from labour...... Labour + 273,

thanks for posting that up Cyners.

Some were saying theyd only get 150+ and the labour gains in london from the Tories are a massive bonus.

cheers.

i must confess, +273 also doesn't sound much like even a pretty good result to me, so i'll wait to see what the political commentators have to say about it all .... we know the bit on ukip (very good but crap in london) but i've no idea on the other two (lib/dems are a wipeout of course)

This post was pinched from advfn, mabel seems to have got at some of the figs.



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The BBC is trying to downplay UKIP's success with some very deceptive statistics.

Usually commentators can't get enough of individual seats voting percentages and then bombard viewers with endless 'what if' projections.

Well, the BBC is trying to sell some spurious stat that UKIP received only 17% of 'projected national vote'.

This is camouflaged by 45% of the seats being under contention being in London where UKIP admit to being 18 months behind, and didn't even contest most seats.

So I decided to google some places where I know UKIP did quite well and the results were startling.

Basildon

UKIP 39%, Cons 34%, Lab 22%, LibDem 5%

Rotherham

UKIP 46%, Labour 43%, Cons 10%, other 6%.

NB

This would mean winning seats at a general election (but you wont find the BBC admitting this, worse, they are trying to pretend that UKIP's support is waning)

Roll on Sunday.

mabel

edit. When, in the past, has the BBC not told us what the breakdown of the vote is, in the individual constituencies.

Don't forget that the Libs lost 271 seats. That accounts for quite a few of other parties' gains.