General Election Vote

(08-05-2015 08:17 )Tractor boy Wrote:  

(08-05-2015 08:02 )Charlemagne Wrote:  And Ed Balls was one of the favourates to new be leader of the Labour party. And they've already lost Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander.

So where do Labour go next.

They need to look to the next generation and drop those who are associated with Gordon Brown and his administration.

Bet his Missus Yvette cooper will become leader haha that will be a kick in the balls

(08-05-2015 08:18 )HannahsPet Wrote:  hes Gone

Guess that sums up Labour's campaign

(08-05-2015 08:19 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Bet his Missus Yvette cooper will become leader haha that will be a kick in the balls

Why can't they pick a babe show babe to be leader? She looks like Ed balls in drag!! But seriously I'm glad he lost!!

Even though the Tories win, it looks a very small majority for the next Government but I still think he will need to find support to prop that majority up.

Whoa Stock market Up already 120pts up rise in stirling and banking stocks and house building stock and energy stocks all up

Surprised by the results, genuinely seismic in Scotland and elsewhere.

(08-05-2015 08:17 )Tractor boy Wrote:  

(08-05-2015 08:02 )Charlemagne Wrote:  And Ed Balls was one of the favourates to new be leader of the Labour party. And they've already lost Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander.

So where do Labour go next.

They need to look to the next generation and drop those who are associated with Gordon Brown and his administration.

Quite. Post-New-Labour. They picked the wrong leader last time. They may be up against Boris in 2020.

Stunning result - far better than we dared hope!

And Ed Balls out on his arse, icing on the cake.

(08-05-2015 08:32 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Whoa Stock market Up already 120pts up rise in stirling and banking stocks and house building stock and energy stocks all up

Is that the first bit of good news for Cameron after winning?

Have UKIP started calling for electoral reform yet? They got more votes than the SNP who got 55 or 56 seats. I'm not a UKIP supporter by the way, but just saying that this looks like the oddest general election result ever.

Wow! What a night!

Miliband is toast
My vote actually counted
The Torys have equalled the number of Labour seats in Scotland

Mixed feelings about the SNP landslide. It's good Scotland has a strong voice at Westminster but, personally, I don't think it's right that one party could hold every seat, as they could easily have done. 100,000's of Scots who voted Labour, Tory or Lib-dem came close to having absolutely no representation at Westminster. This surely has to mean some kind of electoral reform. The downside to some form of PR would mean more UKIP MPs, but maybe that's the price we have to pay for true democracy?

Interesting times ahead, though