LIVE THREAD: UK Election Results (Update - Early Exit Polls Show Tory Upset)

BBC ^ | May 5, 2005 | anonymous

[tellw]

The Vote is under way!

[gopwinsin04]

The exit poll industry suffers through another credibility gap

[PhiKapMom]

Some guy with the strangest hair just said this election is NOT going to be a landslide for Tony Blair. This guy is convinced that Blair will be replaced.

[JohnBDay]

Did the Beeb purposely pick the dumbest sounding Tory?</p>

[goldstategop]

The British term is "riding." Its been adopted in Canada which adopted parliamentary government in 1867.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Peach]

LOL.

When will the results be finalized?

[Qwinn]

The Sky News election map is now showing 3 seats won by Labor, 0 for everyone else.

http://news.sky.com/election/

Qwinn

[PhiKapMom]

I noticed the same thing with the guy with the blond hair that is all over the place!

[TheBigB]

I'd love to get a t-shirt with that Conservative torch logo. Ivan, do they sell any over there? : )

[MadIvan]

We'll probably have a clear idea around midnight, your time.

Regards, Ivan

[gopwinsin04]

I like the tradition of the members standing to hear the results of each district individually.

Queen Hillary would never submit to that.

[prairiebreeze]

I haven't a clue. Exciting to see a close win though I believe.

[PhiKapMom]

I agree -- their analysts cannot believe the exit polls are wrong and trying to spin! I am sitting here laughing at the spin.

[FreedomNeocon]

ROTFL... this panel on BBC is like a long lost monty python sketch.


"Run awaaaaaaaaaay, run awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay, run awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!"

[Peach]

Thanks, Ivan. I'm so glad you're here to help us out.

[Dog]

Listen to these people....LOL!

[bernie_g]

The guy with the strange hair is Boris Johnson (Conservative Party Jester) if you're watching the BBC streaming footage.

[Peach]

Definitely exciting. We've been monitoring on and off today as we planted even more English (how appropriate) ivy.

I've been braiding the older English Ivy today and checking in here occasionally.

[JohnBDay]

That was hilarious.

[Dog]

What is a bun fight?

[johnb838]

From what I understand your Conservatives are so liberal that we wouldn't see eye on much, but they're the best you've got, and our country is far from as conservative as we would like, so we're with you till the end, as they say.

I haven't even been able to allow myself to hope for a black eye for the Socialists in Britain. Could it be that people round the world yearn to breathe free and are only now coming to understand that they've been oppressed by the Party all these years?