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  • bunncobunnco Posts: 169
    Balls 18354
    UKIP 7951
    Green 1264
    Cons 18776
    Balls Gone
  • PurseybearPurseybear Posts: 766
    Balls goes!!!!!!
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826
    Balls out
  • gettingbettergettingbetter Posts: 561
    OGH Mike I would like to thank you so much for your fanatic coverage of this election and fuck you Balls
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,045
    WERE YOU UP FOR BALLS?
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    #EdBallslostday 8th May
  • SquareRootSquareRoot Posts: 7,095
    BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLS !
  • another_richardanother_richard Posts: 26,803
    Scott_P said:

    @Markfergusonuk: Ed Balls has lost. It’s confirmed now

    Which totally shits on local elections as a predictor.

    Before 2010 the Conservatives were ahead in local elections in Morley & Outwood yet Balls won.

    Since then the Conservatives have lost all their councillors in the constituency but now they win !!!

    Antony Calvert must be stunned as well.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    Did you stay up for Balls?
  • MattWMattW Posts: 23,937
    5he real Portillo moment?
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Balls loses by 422 votes.
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    THANKS GREENS YOU ABSOLUTE DOYLES
  • Sunil_PrasannanSunil_Prasannan Posts: 52,150
    I WAS up for Balls after all :lol:
  • numbertwelvenumbertwelve Posts: 6,927
    YESSSSSSS
  • PurseybearPurseybear Posts: 766
    The Portillo moment of 2015

    WOW!!!!
  • ProdicusProdicus Posts: 658
    YES YES YES YES YES YES BALLS GONE TORY GAIN YES YES YES
  • TW1R64TW1R64 Posts: 56
    Yipee!
    Nite nite all sweet dreams.
  • KentRisingKentRising Posts: 2,917
    And as Balls' defeat is announced, sunlight shines in through the window.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,533
    I can proudly say I was STILL up for Balls......
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,712
    Delicious.
  • dyedwooliedyedwoolie Posts: 7,786
    lmao see ya Ed
  • bunncobunnco Posts: 169
    RobD said:

    WERE YOU UP FOR BALLS?

    Been up for 30 hours... and now the sweetest moment

  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,968
    Tiny majority, but Balls is out. Good for Jenkyns. Almost 8k votes for UKIP.

    Behold, for I am Morris, Destroyer of Balls!
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,653

    Lucas whining like a bitch and wanting to gerrymander the electoral system to harm the Conservatives and help 'the progressives'.

    Tory majority on 36 per cent. Eh, who's getting the gerrymander boost now?
  • jayfdeejayfdee Posts: 618
    Balls out,best result of the night!
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,978
    Reckless and Balls both losing.

    Life cannot get any better
  • No_Offence_AlanNo_Offence_Alan Posts: 4,596
    Yvette for leader, then?
  • DavidLDavidL Posts: 54,032
    Balls losing probably makes Yvette a much stronger candidate for the leadership. In fact it probably makes her favourite.
  • Bob__SykesBob__Sykes Posts: 1,179
    Balls out.

    Good riddance!
  • CookieCookie Posts: 14,081
    Morley - this is rearkable.
    And I don't like the man, but well done to him for his dignified and magnaminous reaction.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,045
    bunnco said:

    RobD said:

    WERE YOU UP FOR BALLS?

    Been up for 30 hours... and now the sweetest moment

    The magnificent cherry on top of an AMAZING night.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Balls dropped...
  • alex.alex. Posts: 4,658
    No speech prepared...
  • FregglesFreggles Posts: 3,486
    LABOUR HAVE NO BALLS
  • steve_garnersteve_garner Posts: 1,019
    I did my bit to get rid of Ed Balls. If Morris Dancer is about I'm sure he did likewise.
  • richardDoddrichardDodd Posts: 5,472
    edited May 2015
    BALLS GOES..YES
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,721
    Reckless gone!
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    Oxymoron of the Day

    Lucas: The nation can't afford austerity.

    The irony.

    Dim woman.

  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,533
    She sounds like Nicola Murray.....
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    Ed Balls.
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,516

    Reckless and Balls both losing.

    Life cannot get any better

    There are feebies going at the dockside.
  • RodCrosbyRodCrosby Posts: 7,737
    edited May 2015
    Silver lining to an awful night.

    This hopeless smug prick gets his just desserts.

    [another tip of mine, I forgot!]
  • watford30watford30 Posts: 3,474
    Balls gone. HELL, YEAH!

    A 1990 Bollinger will toast his loss this evening.
  • Casino_RoyaleCasino_Royale Posts: 60,712
    Will 8th May now become the new Ed Balls day?
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Possible Tory gains to come: Halifax, Berwick-upon-Tweed, St Ives, Derby North, Wells.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,952
    I could not have written a script for this election that could have given me more uncontrolled joy than how this has unfolded....
  • JonathanJonathan Posts: 21,706
    Bollocks.
  • tlg86tlg86 Posts: 26,223
    Amusing to see Ed Balls lose his seat. But I will always give him credit for sacking on the spot the despicable Sharon Shoesmith over the Baby P case. Now I know she got a big pay out in the end, but that was not his fault, and he actually did the right thing, even though our disgraceful legal system protects scum like Shoesmith.
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    Yes, I stayed up for Reckless and Balls
  • Rexel56Rexel56 Posts: 807
    Busted Gonads
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,036
    edited May 2015

    Reckless and Balls both losing.

    Life cannot get any better

    FFFFF********KKKKKKKKK YYYYEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • weejonnieweejonnie Posts: 3,820

    Reckless and Balls both losing.

    Life cannot get any better

    You've forgotten the Ace of Spades.
  • AndyJSAndyJS Posts: 29,395
    Tories gain Portsmouth South as Hancock comes 6th with 716 votes.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/E14000884
  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,968
    Mr. EPG, please feel free to point out a single occasion I have said FPTP was not the right system.
  • SouthamObserverSouthamObserver Posts: 39,672

    Well, I knew Labour would be comfortably beaten but this is a surprise. The Midlands and London are the two places I know, Scotland was easy, but I thought Labour would do better in the NW.

    The Tories deserve to enjoy themselves this weekend, then it gets serious: they have a country to save. Let's hope it is not too late.

    Yes indeed Southam, and I don't think they can do it. The Euro referendum has all the hallmarks of the event that will kill the Union. In my heart of hearts this result isn't a surprise although the scale goes beyond what I expected. The complete lack of enthusiasm did scream 1992, and the voters have gone for the devil they know.

    Labour needs to reflect properly on where it went wrong and what it stands for in the C21, and take time to choose a new leader. Having a couple of credible female candidates would be a very good start. With a Nicola Sturgeon type in charge who could actually communicate with ordinary people, they could have been at parity in this election.

    I'm afraid that the unions are a massive millstone round Labour's neck. They are backward looking and unwilling to challenge comfortable beliefs forged many decades ago. Labour needs to start again, but can't because of the unions.

  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Scott_P said:

    Yes, I stayed up for Reckless and Balls

    I stayed up 27 hours for this....and Cable...
  • MarkHopkinsMarkHopkins Posts: 5,584

    Mark Reckless
  • FluffyThoughtsFluffyThoughts Posts: 2,420
    Morley-and-Outwood: Congrats Morris-Dancers!

    :triumph:
  • Tony_MTony_M Posts: 70

    Did you stay up for Balls?

    HELL YES!!!!!
  • TheScreamingEaglesTheScreamingEagles Posts: 119,978
    David Herdson was campaigning in Morley and Outwood.

    David Herdson = PBer of the year
  • SunnyJimSunnyJim Posts: 1,106
    I proper belly laughed at that.
  • CreidekkiCreidekki Posts: 18
    Balls falls
  • paulyork64paulyork64 Posts: 2,507
    ukip really taking a chunk of labours northern vote
  • AlanbrookeAlanbrooke Posts: 25,516
    Balls out - simply brilliant.

    Next time could we also have Alisdair Campbell banned from the airwaves in perpituity ?
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,952
    Would this be a good time to give Ed Balls a flat-lining hand gesture?
  • watford30watford30 Posts: 3,474
    How will Balls survive without the expenses?
  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    edited May 2015
    EBXMP has flatlined.
  • Tony_MTony_M Posts: 70
    Fair play to Balls, most dignified.
  • FrankBoothFrankBooth Posts: 9,929
    Feeling down but Cameron will be exposed without the Lib Dem cover.
  • ProdicusProdicus Posts: 658
    Announcement. Ed Balls Day 2016 is cancelled.
  • FrancisUrquhartFrancisUrquhart Posts: 82,533
    I wonder what hand signals Cameron is currently making at the tv?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,045

    Would this be a good time to give Ed Balls a flat-lining hand gesture?

    http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lta21gPm3U1qhy4uu.gif

    He won't be able to sit there anymore :D
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    edited May 2015
    MattW said:

    5he real Portillo moment?

    After Murphy, Alexander, Alexander, Curran, Cable, Kennedy, Moore, Swinson. You think Balls is the best?

    Hell you might be right.

    We're still waiting for Farage loss.
  • SquareRootSquareRoot Posts: 7,095
    When BBC parliament re-runs this election, it will be the one to watch.
  • OldKingColeOldKingCole Posts: 33,721
    When do we hear from Thanet S?
  • weejonnieweejonnie Posts: 3,820
    tlg86 said:

    Amusing to see Ed Balls lose his seat. But I will always give him credit for sacking on the spot the despicable Sharon Shoesmith over the Baby P case. Now I know she got a big pay out in the end, but that was not his fault, and he actually did the right thing, even though our disgraceful legal system protects scum like Shoesmith.

    We would rue the day when a politician can sack a public worker on a whim without due process. Sorry - but I totally disagree.
  • GrandioseGrandiose Posts: 2,323
    So that's no Shadow Foreign Secretary, no Shadow Chancellor and soon, surely, no Leader.
  • PongPong Posts: 4,693
    I don't think Ed Balls was expecting this. He hasn't prepared a speech at all.

    Totally shaken.
  • dr_spyndr_spyn Posts: 11,300
    Gracious speech from Balls conceding defeat.
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,045
    Dair said:

    MattW said:

    5he real Portillo moment?

    After Alexander, Alexander, Curran, Cable, Kennedy, Moore, Swinson. You think Balls is the best?

    Hell you might be right.

    We're still waiting for Farage loss.
    You are right, it is tough to decide which is the most delicious defeat. Balls, TPD, Farage.. :D
  • GIN1138GIN1138 Posts: 22,387
    edited May 2015
    Vince and Ed Balls. This has been a bloody great election, LOL! :smiley:

  • PurseybearPurseybear Posts: 766
    Balls is being almost Portillo like. Almost, but not quite.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,036
    He's losing it now, should have just said well done and moved on.
  • SquareRootSquareRoot Posts: 7,095

    Feeling down but Cameron will be exposed without the Lib Dem cover.

    Why?
  • oxfordsimonoxfordsimon Posts: 5,844
    Has any party ever lost both shadow Chancellor and Foreign Secretary in the same election?
  • DecrepitJohnLDecrepitJohnL Posts: 13,300

    Well, I knew Labour would be comfortably beaten but this is a surprise. The Midlands and London are the two places I know, Scotland was easy, but I thought Labour would do better in the NW.

    The Tories deserve to enjoy themselves this weekend, then it gets serious: they have a country to save. Let's hope it is not too late.

    Yes indeed Southam, and I don't think they can do it. The Euro referendum has all the hallmarks of the event that will kill the Union. In my heart of hearts this result isn't a surprise although the scale goes beyond what I expected. The complete lack of enthusiasm did scream 1992, and the voters have gone for the devil they know.

    Labour needs to reflect properly on where it went wrong and what it stands for in the C21, and take time to choose a new leader. Having a couple of credible female candidates would be a very good start. With a Nicola Sturgeon type in charge who could actually communicate with ordinary people, they could have been at parity in this election.

    I'm afraid that the unions are a massive millstone round Labour's neck. They are backward looking and unwilling to challenge comfortable beliefs forged many decades ago. Labour needs to start again, but can't because of the unions.

    I'm not sure I share this view but leaving that to one side, the Conservatives are up half a percentage point in votes and have swept to victory. This was won by Jim Messina and the voter-targetting boffins imo.
  • Tony_MTony_M Posts: 70
    Jonathan said:

    Bollocks.

    Ed?
  • DairDair Posts: 6,108
    Scott_P said:

    Yes, I stayed up for Reckless and Balls

    Farage soon.
  • foxinsoxukfoxinsoxuk Posts: 23,548
    Clears the way for Yvette Cooper though. It was never going to be tenable to have a married couple as PM and CoE.

  • Morris_DancerMorris_Dancer Posts: 61,968
    Mr. Pong, he should've been expecting a close result.
  • EPGEPG Posts: 6,653
    Grandiose said:

    So that's no Shadow Foreign Secretary, no Shadow Chancellor and soon, surely, no Leader.

    Good news for Labour, in a way, and they need it. I think they will be as shaken as the Lib Dems.
  • Philip_ThompsonPhilip_Thompson Posts: 65,826

    Has any party ever lost both shadow Chancellor and Foreign Secretary in the same election?

    Good question. Incredible.
  • SandpitSandpit Posts: 55,036

    Balls is being almost Portillo like. Almost, but not quite.

    I was only 18 in 1997, this is our generation's Portillo Moment!!!!!
  • SunnyJimSunnyJim Posts: 1,106
    I think you can call that a pretty comprehensive decapitation of Labour.

    You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.
  • RogerRoger Posts: 19,983
    edited May 2015
    Congratulations to all those who did well commiserations to all those who did badly. I think the public usually get it right and realistically Ed wasn't really up to it. Nonetheless the personal always trumps everything else so particular commiserations to Nick Palmer a great contributer to this site.

    From a personal point of view the only result I really cared about was Edinburgh South which by the most extraordinary piece of good fortune Ian Murray managed to win.

    Finally congratulations to Jack antifrank and Pulpstar for excelling at what the site's designed to do and to Mike and Eagle for making the contest so interesting

  • PlatoPlato Posts: 15,724
    So far Labour have lost 7 seats to the Tories.
  • MarqueeMarkMarqueeMark Posts: 52,952
    Prodicus said:

    Announcement. Ed Balls Day 2016 is cancelled.

    All Smythson diaries will have 8th May marked as Martin Day.....
  • Scott_PScott_P Posts: 51,453
    @NicoHines: Labour humiliated. Election chief and architect of economic plan both turfed out of office.
  • SimonStClareSimonStClare Posts: 7,976
    Ed Ball’s defeat must come as a bit of a bombshell to Labour HQ – What will Miliband do now without his long term buddy by his side?
  • RobDRobD Posts: 60,045

    Ed Ball’s defeat must come as a bit of a bombshell to Labour HQ – What will Miliband do now without his long term buddy by his side?

    Miliband is out, so it doesn't matter :D
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