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LIVE THREAD: UK Election Results (Update - Early Exit Polls Show Tory Upset)
BBC ^ | May 5, 2005 | anonymous

Posted on 05/05/2005 7:59:15 AM PDT by tellw

The Vote is under way!


TOPICS: Breaking News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: blair; exitpolls; ukelection
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To: snugs

#2 in Wales!

Preseli Pembrokeshire goes blue!


2,061 posted on 05/05/2005 7:59:05 PM PDT by GiveEmDubya
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To: JustaCowgirl

Yes, Finchley was Baroness Thatcher's constituentcy.


2,062 posted on 05/05/2005 7:59:18 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Who Dey! Who Dey! Who Dey Think Gonna Beat Dem Bengals!)
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To: snugs

I was sure Plaid Cymru would take Ynys Mon and Conwy but Labour held both - bummer.


2,063 posted on 05/05/2005 8:00:08 PM PDT by Heatseeker (Requiem in Pacem, Ioannes Paulus Magnus)
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To: TheBigB

Well we are making key in-roads, especially in Wales it appears, so not too bad overall.


2,064 posted on 05/05/2005 8:00:19 PM PDT by GiveEmDubya
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To: GiveEmDubya

Yay! :)


2,065 posted on 05/05/2005 8:00:28 PM PDT by TheBigB (Can we shave some fuzz off these woofers?)
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To: GreenLanternCorps
But they are registered to vote for the Democrats in Chicago.

You mean the dead don't rise to vote in the British Isles? Those people over there don't know how to run an election!

2,066 posted on 05/05/2005 8:00:38 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Let us always remember, the Lord is in control.)
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To: JustaCowgirl
Just thought I heard Labour held Finchley - isn't that Baroness Thatcher's old riding?

Yes, it is

2,067 posted on 05/05/2005 8:00:50 PM PDT by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: Soul Seeker

It looks to me that the hard left will drag Labour to the left over this, which can only be good for the conservatives.


2,068 posted on 05/05/2005 8:01:25 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: TheBigB

There is a very decent shot of making it 3 in Wales with Clywd West.


2,069 posted on 05/05/2005 8:01:26 PM PDT by GiveEmDubya
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To: Heatseeker
I was sure Plaid Cymru would take Ynys Mon and Conwy

I'm tempted to do a spell check. ;)

2,070 posted on 05/05/2005 8:01:27 PM PDT by TheBigB (Can we shave some fuzz off these woofers?)
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To: snugs

Great link, thanks. I like him. He talks about alot ot things.The only thing I didn't see was his opinion on the Iraq war. Was he for it or against it?


2,071 posted on 05/05/2005 8:02:19 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: TAMU_Neocon

Northern Ireland doesn't start counting until tomorrow morning, it is a bit of a throw back to the old days when the security risk at night was quite high. You wanted to see the riots that used to erupt in my home town after the polling stations closed. The army and police had to escort the ballot boxes out of the polling stations, wow they could be pitched battles!

Now that Sinn Fein is so involved in the elections the riots have been called off but its not unusual for attacks on the polling stations to happen. At the last election voters were still queing outside a polling station after closing time in Fermanagh (the constituency with the traditionally highest turnout in the UK, even the dead vote). When the returning officer tried to close certain -ahem - gentlemen advised him to keep it open needless to say Sinn Fein won.


2,072 posted on 05/05/2005 8:02:50 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: hispanichoosier

Britain has the good fortune to have social policy set by the Commons, not by judges. The hot-button American social issues aren't important there because neither side has used anti-democratic means to ram their pet cause down the throat of the British public.


2,073 posted on 05/05/2005 8:02:52 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (Christ is Risen! Christos Anesti! Khristos Voskrese! Al-Masih Qam! Hristos a Inviat!)
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To: TheBigB

You should have heard me trying to learn "Bread of Heaven" during the Six Nations Tournament - and that was in English. ;)


2,074 posted on 05/05/2005 8:02:52 PM PDT by Heatseeker (Requiem in Pacem, Ioannes Paulus Magnus)
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Probably


2,075 posted on 05/05/2005 8:03:11 PM PDT by snugs (An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME - Vote Conservative 5th May 2005)
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To: ScaniaBoy

Labour 312 (-31), Conservative 128 (+21), LibDems 43 (+8), Scottish National 6 (+2), Plaid Cymru 3 (-1), Independent 2 (+1) (494/646 reporting, Labour needs 12 more to win)


2,076 posted on 05/05/2005 8:03:14 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
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To: Ciexyz
" You mean the dead don't rise to vote in the British Isles?"

The day they incorporate a town and call it New Philadelphia then we'll know the practice has gone full circle.
2,077 posted on 05/05/2005 8:03:15 PM PDT by Windcatcher
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To: Heatseeker

Mybe nxt tme, boyo.


2,078 posted on 05/05/2005 8:03:58 PM PDT by 1066AD
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To: The_Reader_David

That could change in the future though - I'm sure gay advocates are pushing to go...


2,079 posted on 05/05/2005 8:04:05 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
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To: Heartofsong83

A Labour win overall was all but a given, but these circumstances are certainly good for the Tories.


2,080 posted on 05/05/2005 8:04:27 PM PDT by TheBigB (Can we shave some fuzz off these woofers?)
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