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.

Labour + SNP not enough exit polls show!!!!

Whahey!!!!!

Election 2015: Exit poll puts Tories close to majority

More at: Tories 316 seats - Labour only 239 seats

The Conservatives are set to be the largest party in the Commons but just short of a majority, according to the general election exit poll.

The survey taken at polling stations across the UK suggests the Tories will get 316 MPs to Labour's 239 when all the results have been counted.

It suggests the Lib Dems will get 10 MPs, the SNP 58, Plaid Cymru 4, UKIP 2 and the Greens two.

The exit poll was conducted by NOP/MORI for the BBC, ITV and Sky.

The first election results are due before midnight with the final result on Friday afternoon.

The finishing line needed to form an absolute majority is 326, but because Sinn Fein MPs have not taken up seats and the Speaker does not normally vote, the finishing line has, in practice, been 323.

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If the exit poll is accurate, as it was in 2010, David Cameron could be on course to remain prime minister as the head of a minority government without the need for a coalition - although he might have to rely on the support of the DUP or the Lib Dems.
Even if Labour leader Ed Miliband was able to persuade the Lib Dems to join the SNP in backing a Labour government, he would not have the necessary numbers to get his legislative programme through Parliament in a Queen's Speech.

Labour looks set to suffer a hammering in Scotland at the hands of the SNP, with their vote dropping an average of 18%.

But the exit poll suggests it will be an even worse night for the Lib Dems, with the party's vote falling 16% on their 2010 share - worse than the most gloomy predictions before polling day.

Lib Dem election chief Lord Ashdown told the BBC: "If this exit poll is right I will publicly eat my hat."

Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman also placed a question mark over the exit poll but said that if it was correct "the coalition government's majority has all but been wiped out".

"Do the coalition still have a majority? Do the Tories have the ability to make a majority government? If they don't it wall fall to the leader of the opposition," she told BBC News.

But Conservative minster Michael Gove said: "We haven't had an incumbent government increase its majority like this since 1983 and it would be an unprecedented vote of confidence in David Cameron's leadership."

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon was also cautious about the exit poll. She tweeted: "I'd treat the exit poll with HUGE caution. I'm hoping for a good night but I think 58 seats is unlikely!"

Pollsters interviewed 22,000 people in 141 polling locations in 133 constituencies throughout Great Britain.

A YouGov opinion poll of 6,000 people who had voted painted a much brighter picture for Mr Miliband, putting Labour and Tories tied on 34% each, UKIP on 12%, Lib Dems on 10%, the SNP and Plaid Cymru on 5% and Greens on 4%.

The survey was not an exit poll but was compiled by getting back in touch with people who had previously expressed a view to YouGov.

It was much closer to polling during the campaign, with a final poll of polls compiled by the Press Association putting Tories on 276 seats, Labour on 271, Lib Dems on 28, SNP 48, UKIP three and Greens one.

A total of 650 Westminster MPs will be elected, with about 50 million people registered to vote.

There are also more than 9,000 council seats being contested across 279 English local authorities.

Mayors will also be elected in Bedford, Copeland, Leicester, Mansfield, Middlesbrough and Torbay.

Some votes had been cast before Thursday through postal voting, which accounted for 15% of the total electorate at the 2010 general election, when the overall turnout was 65%.

Just keep an eye on those others.

It looks like a comprehensive rejection of socialism and its Muppet leader.

I agree

... and thank feck for that !

And lets give Scotland what they want ... bye bye , and give Wales a referendum while your at it cos we aint going anywhere.

We should also be allowed a referendum on whether we want to have a Welsh assembly before more powers are to passed to us.

Fred , in all fairness Labour have got stuffed.

Imo Milli was the wrong brother and Clegg is getting what he deserves for selling his voters out 5 years ago.

That's Douglas Alexander history, Jim Murphy next?

Libs held Cerdigion in Wales.

Murphy history, getting better and better LOL!!!

Shit wrong Murphy! :0(

Oh no it was the Jim Murphy :))

Vince Cable gone! Good riddance.

I wish Glegg would do one .

So that's another 5yrs of Freds disdain and hatred to come .

Good riddance to Labour in Scotland. At least it took the Conservatives two generations to decline, Labour have achieved it in six months! LOL!!!

Ed Balls may be out , asked for recount .

Icing on the cake would be for Ed Balls to lose now.