10 more seats required if I am to take my family on holiday this summer...
I'm rooting for you (though you'll forgive me, I hope, in wishing they are all LD holds vs Labour) - do the family know the holiday is at stake?! I tend to keep my bets to myself; unless I win, of course....
Paul Waugh retweeted Chris Mason @ChrisMasonBBC 38s38 seconds ago Dudley North Tory candidate Les Jones tells the BBC he thinks he may unseat Labour's Ian Austin. #ge2015
So, do the Tories amongst us still think this is a good election to lose?
I did say that this was a good election to lose - I was almost immediately corrected . However, the next government has some huge challenges to meet, and I'm still not convinced that any of our political class has the appetite to address them.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
BenM has to be one of the most honest and decent posters on the site.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A post that does you credit, sir.
Hear Hear. That was very difficult and courageous for him to say.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
BenM has to be one of the most honest and decent posters on the site.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
BenM has to be one of the most honest and decent posters on the site.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
You think Labour needs to go back to Blairism? It's not 1997 anymore. Neither what Miliband's been offering, nor Blairism will save Labour. Blairism certainly won't get Scotland back, or hold off a potential UKIP challenge in the North.
Does this mean EV4EL on the table? You can bet backbenchers will be pushing for it, and more.
That's effectively what there'll be anyway.
This result gives the Tories the scope to be a lot more imaginative about a new constitutional settlement if they care to be.
I'm getting premature, but if the Tories want to hold and build on this result 'doing nothing' on sensible, balanced constitutional reform simply isn't an option.
I echo BenM. Congratulations to the Tories. A clear and convincing win. I just hope they have the vision and the statesmanship to keep our country together.
As for Labour, it's clear the march to the left has failed utterly. The problem is that the unions will prevent a proper realisation of that. It's a long way back from here.
Farron will be next LD leader. Clegg's leadership has pretty much been a failure. I think it'll take a generation for both the LDs and Labour to come back from this.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
A top post, I have liked your honesty and lack of complacency during the past weeks
BenM has to be one of the most honest and decent posters on the site.
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Been lurking long?
I've been posting here since before the last election. Posted quite a lot when we had disqus, but hardly ever in the past couple of years.
Farron will be next LD leader. Clegg's leadership has pretty much been a failure. I think it'll take a generation for both the LDs and Labour to come back from this.
Not if Ashdown has any say in it - there is no love lost there at all.
Dr Éoin Clarke @LabourEoin 16m 16 minutes ago Still see no reason, whatsoever, to change my view that David Cameron's career is over.
He really is a total moron. Why he has so many followers I have no idea, when he is consistently caught out lying and / or just plain wrong.
Dr Eoin is one of those irritating overeducated blogcentric media nodes who somehow manages to consistently beam out negative quantities of information. I'm just glad he hasn't turned into a media darling a la Owen Jones.
Congratulations to the Conservatives. A majority is looking a good possibility now.
An utter unmitigated disaster for Labour who'll be wracked by existential crisis and another leadership election. A left programme has been soundly repudiated. Labour needs another Blairite.
This is a mandate for the Conservative programme which I wish well for the sake of the country.
Still a great privilege to watch democracy in action. The people have spoken.
Very creditable and honourable of you. I would hope to be as magnanimous if the situations were reversed.
Devolving taxes to Scotland would be a good way of 1) saving money for the rUK (bit less off the welfare bill) 2) giving the Tories in Scotland a raison d'etre (when are the Tories ever likely to prosper in a Parliament whose main responsibility is to spend a fixed amount of pocket money on Public Services 3) test whether Scotland really has an appetite for (fiscal) independence
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That might change soon
Chris Mason @ChrisMasonBBC 38s38 seconds ago
Dudley North Tory candidate Les Jones tells the BBC he thinks he may unseat Labour's Ian Austin. #ge2015
Can't wait to see him rescue Labour in England and Scotland... (LOL)
https://twitter.com/LibDemDeposits
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_George,_Scotland
SNP 8k
SNP hold
Tory 1215
Christian 1045
Lib Dem 456 OUCH
SNP 8662
Labour 4560
Full credit to you in predicting Ceridgion as a LibDem hold.
Been lurking long?
I hope they see sense.
As for Labour, it's clear the march to the left has failed utterly. The problem is that the unions will prevent a proper realisation of that. It's a long way back from here.
Lab -1.1
Plaid -7
UKIP +13.5
lab hold
Good luck with that
26% swing in Kilmarnock is a "record" according to BBC.
It only happened because he won the centre ground - Gay Marriage (and similar policies) WON votes.
The LibDems could only DREAM of being decimated tonight.....
Lab +5.8
Con +3
Green +7.2
LD -18.6
That rules out pretty much every one of the current leadership.
They need to be real and grounded. They haven't got anybody.
Labour HQ source: "Ed has to resign tomorrow. Everyone here accepts that."
Just install Yvette and I think I might burst or retire.
Ceredigion result:
LDEM - 35.9% (-14.2)
PC - 27.7% (-0.6)
CON - 11.0% (-0.5)
UKIP - 10.2% (+7.7)
LAB - 9.7% (+3.9)
GRN - 5.6% (+3.8)
So, I'm not surprised the pollsters and Labour bods like Andy Burnham are struggling to reconcile with that happened on the ground.
Second Referendum - 55%.
Freedom.
Come on!!
Clegg's march of the party away from the centre-left has been an unmitigated disaster.
1) saving money for the rUK (bit less off the welfare bill)
2) giving the Tories in Scotland a raison d'etre (when are the Tories ever likely to prosper in a Parliament whose main responsibility is to spend a fixed amount of pocket money on Public Services
3) test whether Scotland really has an appetite for (fiscal) independence