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Hello everyone, I haven't been here for a few days because frankly I've been too angry to write anything constructive that wouldn't upset a few people and that's just not who I am so best that I keep my opinions to myself for a time. I'm also too depressed to even want to think about politics right ...

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Morning all, Fucking hell. :fire: :wall: Yes indeed. Lots of thinking for Labour to do, problem is they really need to create time and space to think. On a very minor plus side, once Cameron gets over the huge ego trip of scraping a win, he has an absolute nightmare ahead of him. How is he going to...

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Morning all,

Fucking hell.

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Not just nationalism, the right wing media have made sure people are not informed about how bad this government is, and has suppressed any alternative view. I thought people were better than this. Looks like they're going to have to learn the very hard way. And the rest of us suffer along too while...

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Ok I've changed my mind about staying up. I've got to get up for work in 5 hours and I don't feel like being depressed and exhausted at the same time. Hopefully things won't go the way they seem to be going but if I have to wake up to another 5 years of these c***s I'm going to need to be rested.

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Nationalism has turned the country (UK) to shit. Well done. Not just nationalism, the right wing media have made sure people are not informed about how bad this government is, and has suppressed any alternative view. I thought people were better than this. Looks like they're going to have to learn ...

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mikems wrote:Swindon North had a tory majority of 7000 last time, hardly an 'important marginal' in a neck and neck election.

It required a 7% swing so was never really likely to go Labour based on any polling I've seen in last year.

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Look at the BBC at the moment, everyone laughing and smiling after that Tory hold.

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Well if it turns out that Labour switchers to UKIP is the deciding factor in this election then I hope those fools enjoy their Conservative government.

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BBC saying Greens expected to gain Norwich South. That'd be a surprise considering the 2010 results.

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Tories saying Ed Davey in trouble according to Daily Mail

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Count in Rotherham delayed due to postal vote counting machine malfunction.

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Lib-Dem source saying Danny Alexander has lost according to Daily Mail.

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May2015 Election ‏@May2015NS 2 hrs2 hours ago
Either the polling industry or the exit poll has been set back 20 years. Whoever's wrong will not be trusted for… a decade? Amazing.

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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Never thought I'd say it but thanks Louise for these Tweets

Frankly I assumed she's been hacked.

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Apart from that early comment by Oiky Gove, there seems to have been very little comment on the exit poll from the bastard Tories. You don't think that it could be that they don't believe it either? The LDs seem to think that Clegg is safe: I'd trade that for a good result now. Libs discounting the...

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Smaller swing in Washington 2.7% to LAB The idea of swings seems more and more silly when there is no longer a virtually two-horse race in today's multi-party politics. I really didn't understand how it can be a Labour to UKIP swing when Labour increased their majority. That didn't make any sense t...

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I'm following things via a combination of here and the Guardian (old habits die hard). I can't face any television. Not now. I watch my TV online so I've got the BBC on with the sound off and shrunk to a small screen so that I can turn it on whenever there's a declaration. I couldn't care less what...

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BBC talking about a trend they've noticed... after 2 results. It's the European/Local elections all over again.

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What the hell is anyone who calls themselve a liberal doing switching their vote to UKIP?

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ohsocynical wrote:Ed Wilson ‏@eddwilson 10 mins10 minutes ago

Exit polls don't include postal votes (obviously).

So that's 4 million votes right there...

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pk1 wrote:If this exit poll IS true, it proves that the rise of the SNP has once again heralded a Tory govt.

They must feel so proud......

Already seen a few of them saying that it was England that turned to the Tories.

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Does anyone remember how many polls there were back in 1992? Did they do constant polling back then? I'm finding it hard to believe that the thousands of polls we've had are all wrong and one exit poll is correct.

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 32 secs33 seconds ago
There were reports that the exit pollsters were finding it hard to persuade people to be interviewed with particularly problems in Scotland

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That exit poll is total bollocks.

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lucy thornton ‏@lucethornton 10 mins10 minutes ago
Reports of up to 50 per cent turnout by midday at some Sheffield polling stations #GE15

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Anecdotal evidence from Twitter and other sources suggests that the polling stations in Sheffield Hallam are busy and there are queues of people waiting to vote in Crookes, a student dominated part of that constituency. What type of evil genius puts a polling booth, in a shop next to a chip shop?? ...

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I'm going to attempt to stay up all night, by the way. I might try and grab a bit of a nap in my armchair. I'll need to be up at 6am anyway so I might as well. I'll be checking in here regularly if anyone fancies any virtual company I'm pulling an all-nighter. Have lots of coffee and redbull on han...

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Anecdotal evidence from Twitter and other sources suggests that the polling stations in Sheffield Hallam are busy and there are queues of people waiting to vote in Crookes, a student dominated part of that constituency.

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Another vote for Lapurr...

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Evening all. Just caught up with today's posts. Special thanks to whoever it was posted that Taiwan news animation.

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Anyone else really glad today has finally arrived? This has been a long campaign. I don't know how Americans put up with year long election campaigns.

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A question for Team Miliband: why isn’t he cruising to victory? If Labour fails, it will have more to do with the leader’s caution than his Moses complex http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11584519/A-question-for-Team-Miliband-why-isnt-he-cruising-to-victory.html Tweeted as "...

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Ok I'm calling it a night. This time tomorrow I'll be hooking myself up to a coffee saline drip...

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Paul Mason ‏@paulmasonnews 42 secs43 seconds ago
Times (Murdoch) claiming Cabinet Secretary has forced HM Queen to support minority Cameron govt. Read this carefully.

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Jesus wept...

Paul Mason ‏@paulmasonnews 2 mins2 minutes ago
Wow Rupert Murdoch's Times "can reveal" the Queen is going to back Cameron. Surely they should declare victory for Cameron now?

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Jason Beattie @JBeattieMirror
Poll by @survation has glimmer of hope for Labour: undecideds have been breaking 31%Lab, 23%Con #GE2015

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That "Wow" 10,000 superpoll that the Sun was bigging up? May2015 Election ‏@May2015NS 7 mins7 minutes ago 10k-person YGov poll says Tories 34 Lab 34. If they - and many others - are wrong, and Tories win by 3, it's because of methodology not MoE. People are questioning why they added that ...

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Mike Smithson ‏@MSmithsonPB 1m1 minute ago

Panelbase
LAB 33% (-1), CON 31% (-1%), UKIP 16% (-1), LD 8% (NC), GRN 5% (+1), SNP 5%, OTH 2

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ohsocynical wrote:Mark Littlewood ‏@MarkJLittlewood 58 mins58 minutes ago

For those hoping for/predicting 1992 style Tory surge...back then, it showed up in the polls on eve of election day. In #ge2015, it isn't.

The real wildcard in this election is what all those undecideds do tomorrow.

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Low pay and high rent: is work really the route out of poverty in Tory Britain? http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/may/06/low-pay-high-rent-work-poverty-employment-general-election-chingford This is a Tory stronghold, the kingdom of Iain Duncan Smith. At the last election, the secretary of st...

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Final YouGov Nowcast:
Con 276, Lab 276, Lib Dem 23, UKIP 1, SNP 51

Now that would piss Cameron off no end.

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Headline on the Telegraph site is...

David Cameron to declare victory on Friday without a coalition deal

Cancel the election, Cameron's already decided who won.

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If you live in social or council housing in the Borough of Wandsworth, and you are eligible for the Under Occupation Penalty, you might get a letter from the council offering new accommodation - in Birmingham. Wandsworth Cllr. Simon Hogg, who represents Latchmere and Battersea in the borough, has T...

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A selection of comments from last night about this morning's newspaper front pages... Paul Lewis ‏@paullewismoney 7 hrs7 hours ago Tomorrow's newspaper front pages really bizarre. Air of desperation about them as all polls show Lab and Con neck and neck on 34%. Owen Jones ‏@OwenJones84 7 hrs7 hours ...

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Also a few comments BTL Over There and on Twitter saying that Eddie Izzard dressing up as Nicola Sturgeon was also provocative. :smack: He went up in my estimation when he dressed up as Robert Watson Watt (Scottish pioneer of radar) in "Castles in the Sky". He was damned good in that. But...

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Just seen Eddi Reader's tweet basically saying Murphy shouldn't have gone to Glasgow it was provocative ... and am very depressed. What has it come to when parties are being told they shouldn't campaign somewhere during an election? I'm still laughing at Sturgeon's "Those weren't our nationali...

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Looking at the weighting, it looks like they had to weight the 18-24 year old group up by 20% due to undersampling but there's almost no change in weighting for any group above age 35. Sounds like it's that potential phone poll problem of younger generations not having landlines and/or going home fo...

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