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.

Conservatives actually only need 323 for a majority because SF never take their seats in parliament.

In reality, it looks like the Tories will have a decent working majority.

mentor - i wonder if there's any advance on the 329 that has been predicted since about 07:00 .... anyway, all will be revealed by late this afternoon latest

I was in a very small minority of about 1 who predicted an overall majority for the Tories, and whilst I didn't put my ''skirt on it'' as Fred suggested, I've done very well thank you.
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DIL - from my post 59890 .....
scotland is interesting
as was observed by someone on the box this morning .... if scotland want fiscal autonomy or something approaching that, then let them raise the money for all the SNP promises from scottish pockets .... that would assuredly concentrate a few minds!

Lol is Clegg thick or what ?

He just said its too early to say why they suffered such catastrophic losses .... its cos you sold your members out to the Tories last time round you numpty !

Earlier in the morning, the former Bradford West MP George Galloway lost out to Labour's Naseem Shah, who won with more than 19,000 votes.

Mr Galloway took the traditional Labour stronghold in a by-election in 2012 with a majority of 10,140 votes.
Earlier, he was reported to police by Bradford Council for allegedly breaking election laws. He is said to have retweeted his party's own exit poll before voting ended.
Ms Shah criticised Mr Galloway's campaign, saying it had "demeaned democracy".

'Personal attacks'
The Labour candidate won with a majority of more than 11,000. Mr Galloway's Respect party won 8,557 votes and the Conservatives 6,160.

Ms Shah is a political newcomer who has overcome childhood poverty, a teenage forced marriage and the imprisonment of her mother for killing an abusive partner.
She had urged voters to reject Mr Galloway, saying: "We do not need a one-man Messiah to tell us how to come and fix up Bradford.''

After being elected, Ms Shah said: "I want to thank the people of Bradford West. You have placed your trust in me to be your voice in Parliament. Can I thank all of my opponents - with the exception of one - who all conducted themselves with dignity and fought the election on issues in the spirit of friendly rivalry. To Mr Galloway, I say that your campaign demeaned our democracy, but personal attacks on me have not worked. The people of Bradford West have seen through this and you have been sent on your way."

cynic , thats what worries me about the loonies here in Wales who want more power.

Galloway worse than any other candidate by a mile , repugnant man .

Hark at Ed's speech ,he sounds like Fred .

Cammy off for a cuppa with the Queen.

Maybe she can persuade him to ditch Scotland.

Not whilst hubby is D of E.
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They can take him with them :-)

Of the 100 highest expense claims in 2013/2014, 58 were Labour MPs, 17 Conservative, 15 Liberal Democrats.

From backstabbing geek to loser in one night.

An in-out referendum on the EU is on

Cameron reeled off a list of pledges for the next five years and emphatically underlined the commitment that will likely dominate political debate for the next two years:



And yes we will deliver that in-out referendum on our future in Europe.



http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2015/may/08/election-2015-live-labour-and-libdems-crushed-in-shock-election-result

It won't help. There will be a referendum and Cameron will campaign for a stay in vote and that is how the public will vote.

This is Labour's least seats since the disaster of Michael Foot.

The Conservatives held their seat in Scotland. That's a better rate than Labour who lost 40.

I think the result of an 'In/Out EU Referendum' would give a majority of 'In'.

But we do need to negotiate some changes.

For one thing, the UK's beaurocrats absolutely overdose on EU regulations but does Spain, Portugal, France, Greece? Ans: NO!

Labour lost the Gower their longest held seat to the Conservatives. It's been a Labour seat for the last 100 years !