General Election 2015

[Man of Harveys]

I'll stay up as long as I can tonight but nothing's ever really going to beat 1997: pissed as a fart from a very good "sod it, let's get pissed whatever happens" dinner in good company. Then suddenly Portillo "had a slight problem on his hands", Martin Bell etc etc, then down to the south bank at 5am to greet the new dawn with voices hoarse from having cheered for the previous eight hours or so.

Ah kids, just for a while back then it really was bloody great to be alive.

 

[Mancgull]

I'll stay up as long as I can tonight but nothing's ever really going to beat 1997: pissed as a fart from a very good "sod it, let's get pissed whatever happens" dinner in good company. Then suddenly Portillo "had a slight problem on his hands", Martin Bell etc etc, then down to the south bank at 5am to greet the new dawn with voices hoarse from having cheered for the previous eight hours or so.

Ah kids, just for a while back then it really was bloody great to be alive.

And just a couple of days before the most important game in the history of BHA.

 

[Kosmonaut]

"A polling station in Nottinghamshire has apparently been struck by lightning. The polling station - at Strelley in the Broxtowe constituency - has lost its electricity, according to returning officer Ruth Hyde."

 

[pasty]

Does anyone know roughly what sort of time historically the 2 Brighton constituencies have returned their results?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Does anyone know roughly what sort of time historically the 2 Brighton constituencies have returned their results?

Around 5 am is predicted for the three Brighton seats.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

A summary of the situation in Brighton from the Grauniad.

"If posters in homes was the currency of general elections then Caroline Lucas would be set for one of the bigger Commons majorities. A long walk through the Seven Dials district of her Brighton Pavilion constituency, which she made the Greens’ first seat in 2010, reveals a sea of her placards. Someone has even made a vast “Vote Caroline” banner to hang from their balcony. No other candidates’ posters are visible.

The reality is, of course, more tricky – Lucas is defending a mere 1,252 majority over Labour, for whom it is, officially, their number 19 target seat. The Greens have poured vast resources into preserving their MP, bringing in hundreds of volunteers from around the country, even abroad, to get the vote out. They even had canvassers at the rail station, targeting returning commuters.

Will they do it? Some local Greens remain privately cautious, putting Lucas’s hopes at 50-50, and worrying about a local “shy Labour” factor (her nearest challenger is Labour’s Purna Sen, a thinktank boffin). But Lucas is nonetheless a reasonable bet to remain in place. She is a popular local MP known as much for her name as her party – and it’s notable that the latter is in tiny writing at the bottom of the ubiquitous window placards.

That said, a couple of voters I talked to at a busy polling station in a church community hall said they had received not even a leaflet from the Greens or Labour during the campaign, only from the Tories, who held the seat until 1997, mainly under veteran MP Julian Amery.

There’s also an argument that Pavilion is the least interesting of the Brighton area’s three seats this time around. The others, Kemptown and Hove, have Conservative majorities of well under 2,000, and Labour hold high hopes of recapturing them both.

These are the very sorts of seats Labour must win if Ed Miliband is to start flicking through the Yellow Pages for removal firms. The only downside is that neither is expected to declare until at least 5am.

If that wasn’t enough excitement, today also sees elections for Brighton’s city council, currently run by a Green minority administration. Counting for this, however, does not start till Monday."

http://www.theguardian.com/politics...live-tories-and-labour-neck-and-neck-uk-votes

 

[Kosmonaut]

Around 5 am is predicted for the three Brighton seats.

Including Hove?

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Including Hove?

Yep, see above - not expected until at least 5am. If you're only interested locally, best bet is to watch the exit polls at 11pm head to bed and set the alarm for 5am!

 

[Hampster Gull]

You don't really believe the economy is in better shape do you?? If people are feeling better in the past months its got more to do with the drop in oil prices and food prices - nothing to do with the fool lying to you that they are better than the lot before.

Its a fact the economy is in a better shape

 

[Hampster Gull]

Right, off to cast the magic vote.

Whilst doing this i will reflect on the many illuminating and even less than illuminating comments on this thread.

Now, where toput the X is the big question.

 

[Chicken Runner61]

Its a fact the economy is in a better shape

Really?? who told you George or David?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...my-election-agenda-Labour-Tories-compare.html

 

[Ernest]

Odds on Dave being the next PM continuing to shorten...

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Very fluid odds that are changing by the minute so don't count your chickens yet

 

[Flex Your Head]

Interesting, thanks! Have never met anyone who ever has. I once got stopped in the middle of Burgess Hill and was asked to take part in a customer survey regarding new Pringles and associated dips. I couldn't say no.

I took part in the same survey, back in the 90's in Peacehaven. Free Pringles and dips, followed by a tenner or a money off voucher or something. Was a no-brainer.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Yep, see above - not expected until at least 5am. If you're only interested locally, best bet is to watch the exit polls at 11pm head to bed and set the alarm for 5am!

Exactly my plan

 

[Bozza]

Very fluid odds that are changing by the minute so don't count your chickens yet

I'm not counting anything - chickens or otherwise. I'm enjoying the fascination of the whole thing. Roll on 10pm...

 

[melias shoes]

Right, off to cast the magic vote.

Whilst doing this i will reflect on the many illuminating and even less than illuminating comments on this thread.

Now, where toput the X is the big question.

You know where to put it.
Then same place I have.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Really?? who told you George or David?

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...my-election-agenda-Labour-Tories-compare.html

It says in your attachment GDP is up on the depths of the recssion (2008) by 10.7% and up 8.4% since the conservwtives came to power

 

[melias shoes]

Come on Ed. You can win!

 

[AlastairWatts]

My pub is open tonight until 2.00 am, so I could watch the results except that (as usual) I've a bunch of pretty dancers working and the barmaid booked for tonight has just called in sick so I'll end up working anyway. By the time everyone has been paid and gone home and I've checked that the place is locked up and no-one is asleep in a toilet somewhere (yes, it's happened!) it'll be 3.00 am so probably watch until 4.00 or so and hope the cleaner doesn't wake me when she comes in @ 7.30 in the morning. It's a hard life running a boozer!

 

[Hampster Gull]

You know where to put it.
Then same place I have.

Now, where are my Chickens, i need to do some counting