British General Elections Live Thread

The Daily Telegraph ^ | 05/07/10 | Daily Telegraph

[TonyInOhio]

The 2010 General Elections in the United Kingdom are underway, and the first results will trickle in in the next few hours. Post your observations here, and let's all root for the Tories!

[Steve Van Doorn]

No one wins until the EDL starts a party and takes seats. Both parties believes Islamophobia is a disease.
David Cameron and other conservatives want to pass anti-discrimination laws protecting Islam.

There isn’t even a political party that aren’t Nazi’s that oppose Islam. BNP are national socialists.
EDL isn’t a party.

Britain is soooo dead.

[GeronL]

2251 First result: Houghton & Sunderland South: Labour hold seat with 19,137 for Bridget Phillipson. Tories second with 8,147. Turnout of 55pc

FIRST RESULTS

55% turnout

[GeronL]

first result in

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Thanks.

So I go to CSPAN to find out what’s happening in the UK, and BBC to find out what’s happening in America? And even better, the limey’s put on a show about eating? ROFLMAO!!

[C19fan]

I like the BBC old dude announcer.

[ScaniaBoy]

The swing to the Conservatives was 8.4%. Translated to the whole country would give an absolute Cons majority, but of course too early to predict yet.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

British elections aren’t as exciting as American elections, are they? I mean, watching the results come in bit by bit makes for great fun... as opoosed to some nerd on a podium reading final results. Talk about anti-climatic.

[GeronL]

That would be an awesome thing to see.

[GeronL]

lol

[JSDude1]

Excuse me, UKIP is both anti immigration, and pro conservative and may I add not fascist like the BNP!

[GeronL]

2303 Has Labour's Douglas Alexander had early word of the count in Ed Balls' constituency, when the Education Secretary is facing a serious Tory challenge? He's just told Jeremy Paxman that "if the polls are correct we lose some very valuable colleagues this evening".

That could work.

[dfwgator]

“Reginald you have the wrong map here you silly old leg-before-wicket English person.”

[GeronL]

The comments above and the 8.4% swing in the first constituency might mean a good evening for the Cons

[lowtaxsmallgov]

“Sunderland first to report because they have Rainman counting the votes” LOL

[Steve Van Doorn]

you are right. Why isn't UKIP doing better in the polls then?
I would expect them to be near equal to what Geert Wilders is doing.

[propertius]

Socialists hold Washington. No surprise there then.

[C19fan]

Big swing against Labour in an another Commie safe district, almost 12%.

[lowtaxsmallgov]

Yeah, but a huge 11% swing from Labour to the Conservatives. Could be a Tory rampage shaping up...?

[ScaniaBoy]

2d seat decared. Another safe Labour seat, but the swing to Conservatives was 11.4%.
Interestingly the Conservatives overtook the Liberals and ended second in the constituency. Cleggomania is not showing up yet.
Next seat the first that can be called a contest - Sunderland Central Labour majority by 12.8% in 2005.

[ScaniaBoy]

Bill Cash (C) - Good egg! - “Milliband, Brown, and Clegg would be a Greek tradgedy.”