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Con hold Bury North

Labour GAIN Norwich South

refitman wrote:In fact, thanks to every one who has been here, in 'person' and in spirit. to all.

You'll make me cry again. Running out of tissues.

Ed Balls in trouble. Oh flip.

Birmingham Hodgehill: Labour hold for Liam Byrne

Liam Byrne holds his seat with a return of 28,069. Nearest rival was Con 4,707

pk1 wrote:I get my new Motability car at noon so I'm waiting for Ed M & maybe Ed B then I'm off for some sleep or else I might be a danger on the roads

Congratulations on your new car

Edit: to add - and goodnight and thank you for everything. xxx

Christopher Hope retweeted
Britain Elects ‏@britainelects 2m2 minutes ago
David LAWS OUT.

Normanton: Lab hold with increased vote (Yvette Cooper)

Yvette Cooper 25,213
UKIP 9,785
LD 1,330
Con 9,569

Bury North

Con hold with a 0.8% majority, 67% turnout
candidates votes %
David Nuttall 18,970 41.9% Cons
James Frith 18,592 41.1% Lab
Ian Henderson 5,595 12.4% Ukip
John Southworth 1,141 2.5% Green
Richard Baum 932 2.1% Lib Dem

Con gain Gower from Lab

Sorry Wales, Cons gain Gower

Lib Dems have lost £60,500 in deposits.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/this ... ost-so-far

Con hold Finchley & wotsit

Charles Kennedy seat

UKIP 814
SNP 20119
Ind 191
Lab 2043
CK 14 995

so he's gone too

Sky'sGoneOut wrote:Yah Yah I'd love to join you in Wales but it seems your cymric fellows seem to be voting Ukip in disturbingly large numbers.

Don't you think it odd that the SNP, who claim they hate the Tories, didn't want people to vote Labour in England and Wales, thereby trying to ensure Labour were in no position to go into government ?

I'm not great in the critical thinking department myself but that obvious point seems to have sailed by the brains of all those SNP voters.

Ross, Skye & Lochaber: Charles Kennedy OUT (ie., SNP gain)

Charles Kennedy has lost his seat. One of the few I wouldn't have minded surviving.

Doncaster North: Lab (Ed Miliband) hold (UKIP 2nd, Con 3rd)

Doncaster North

Edward Miliband elected with 20708 votes

My brain's a bit addled, am I just hallucinating this theory ?

Murdoch, Tory, SNP deal - Tories will offer Nats another referendum, bye bye Scotland, Labour finished there for some years, Tories get England in perpetuity.

pk1 wrote:Doncaster North

Edward Miliband elected with 20708 votes

Such a good man. The people of this country are fools if they have kept him out of Downing Street.

Boris has already talked about the 'federal' option apparently. So that's probably the deal.

I have to creep off to bed now - and creep it feels like. Truly depressing when you are living in a world that doesn't fit.

Goodnight all. Please may we wake to something just short of a Tory majority.

Lab gain Manchester Withington from LD

Before I shed a tear I should clarify something I said yesterday. Terminology is important and I may have given a false picture regarding speed-reading. What I referred to would more accurately be described as scanning, something I do in preparation for studying a text. When speed-reading I do verbalise but only key words. It's as though they're floating on the page and the significant ones float to the surface. I still use music though to force the pace. Anyway let's catch up on what's been happening, I've been laying in my bed far too long, perhaps putting things off.

Labour gain Withington from LD

Impressive result for Keir. Dobson had 46%, 25,198 in 2010

Labour Keir Starmer[4] 29,062 52.9
Conservative Will Blair[5] 12,014 21.9
Green Natalie Bennett[5] 7,013 12.8

Good to see that the Bennett vote didn't impact on Labour.

Gawd, it sounds like Ed is thinking of quitting.

Don't do it Ed !

Goodnight, @rr2 - hope you get some decent sleep and thank you for all your incredibly hard work.

Goodnight RR2

yahyah wrote:Don't you think it odd that the SNP, who claim they hate the Tories, didn't want people to vote Labour in England and Wales, thereby trying to ensure Labour were in no position to go into government ?

I voted Labour today, and I can't remember the SNP instructing anyone else how to vote.

Labour have to look to themselves. The English (and Welsh of course) Left has to look to itself.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liv ... st-9210799 Ms McVey was beaten by 417 votes by Margaret Greenwood.
The employment minister was behind in the polls for most of the race against Ms Greenwood.
Turnout was a massive 75.86%, up from 71.52% in 2010 with 42,008 people voting out of a possible 55,377.

Con gain Plymouth Moor View

Steeling myself for the cognitive dissonance showing up in the English voters that have encouraged the dismantling of the NHS.

John Hemming 10534

Lab 17131

Another gain for Lab at expense of LD

Labour gain Birmingham Yardley from LD's John Hemming

Goodnight PK & RR.

LadyCentauria wrote:Labour gain Birmingham Yardley from LD's John Hemming

Any idea what time Ed Balls & Danny Alexander declarations are due ?

RobertSnozers wrote:Dimbleby interview of McVey:

'There, there, you poor little thing, were the nasty other parties mean to you?'

She'll have more time to spend with her hair straighteners and fake tan.

Kirkby in Ashfield: Lab hold (Gloria de Piero)

post deleted as half delirious.

I didn't realise Rupa Huq was the sister of Blue Peters, Connie.

Live and learn something new every day.

Are the Conservatives on for a majority?

Oldham East & Saddleworth: Lab hold (Debbie Abrahams)

yahyah wrote:Did I miss something earlier when still asleep ?

Has Danny Alexander gone ?

Not yet but don't know what time the dec is due.

Lab gain Wolverhampton SW from Con

pk1 wrote:I didn't realise Rupa Huq was the sister of Blue Peters, Connie.

Live and learn something new every day.

And sister-in-law to Charlie Brooker.

pk1 wrote:Gawd, it sounds like Ed is thinking of quitting.

Don't do it Ed !

No.

Labour gain Wolverhampton West (or do I mean South West? see above)