CB Fry

This. By far our most effective player today in the twenty minutes or whatever it was he was on for.

Perfect. LOL.

Look who's back.

He's something of a liability.

....is what no one would have said.

This. Kelvin has been playing for sentimental reasons as much as anything. I'd say the right thing to do to give him a crack before the end of the season, to see if he has what it takes [to replace Kelvin as third keeper next season].

Hypo is right. Just silly reactions from some. The election is over, the result (FPTP issues notwithstanding) is conclusive. It might not be my ideal result but big politics is usually about increments and the changes to come will be within those increments, just not quite in the direction I'd want them to be. In the same way a Labour victory wouldn't have brought about some Michael Foot communist state, neither will this administration bring about turnstiles on hospital doors. Life goes on. Let's hope her Majesty's Opposition get themselves a competent compelling leader to hold the government to account, and begin to articulate a decent, progressive social democratic vision for a growing, better Britain into the roaring 2020s.

How and why would you ever "come across" a highly paid, say, investment banker asking you for cash?

Agree 100%. Directly responsible for some of the best policies of the last government (£10k tax rate, pupil premium) and contributed well to a government that would have been far more dysfunctional as a wafer thin Tory majority administration (brace yourself, Britain). I think Clegg did the right thing, especially considering the alternatives - which were a) prop up a lifeless Labour administration, or b) bottle out of power to be a perpetual all-things-to-all-people protest vote dumping ground - would have both been far less satisfactory. Clegg and that team can be proud that they took their party into government to actually do things rather than spend a life time shape-shifting depending who they were fighting constituency by constituency. Achieved more than Paddy and Charlie ever did anyway. They will clamber back eventually.

Yep, It has escalated into sixth form silliness rather quickly.

Who? VFFT? I was agreeing with him.

Some people are so desperate to make the cheapest "they're all hypocrites" point they don't even think about what they're writing. Blair/Murdoch tie up probably angered more Labour die-hards than Tories back in the day.

Absolutely. I think she's only ever made one mistake that I know of, and he lost his seat at half eight this morning.

This. This was an election Labour could have won - we're talking about marginals and percentage point swings to do it, plus sitting duck Lib Dems - if they had a compelling, articulate and credible leader. They simply didn't. Personally would like to see the now free-to-run Yvette Cooper get the job, have always liked her. But she's up against the 2020 Boris bus so probably a poisoned chalice anyway. Welcome back the natural party of government.

Oh behave yourself. Actual people voted the Conservatives in for actual reasons, and as you get older you'll understand that is what happens in the real world. It's not quite the result I'd have liked but it is the result. Get over it.

Razor-sharp.

They'll get Devo Max. Cameron will give the SNP enough jock rope to hang themselves with. Sucker the SNP in raising taxes and spending like mad, and let's see how it goes for them. The Scots don't want independence, and they won't get a referendum. Let's see how it goes.

Not sure Ed spent long writing a losers speech. He's busking it.

BALLS OUT/UP

This.

Congratulations Mark Reckless of the people's army.

I heart John Curtice. Hero of the night.

Caroline Lucas back in for the Greens. She'll be able to "cash in" even more with her money-spinning, err, boring book for a tiny niche interest independent publisher. Enjoy your wheelbarrows full of money, Caroline you greedy hypocrite.

Serious questions to answer at some of our polling organisations then. What a fu ck up on their part. Paddy Ashdown looks like (even more of) a right plum. Start eating your hat.

Five years ago I am pretty sure the exit poll puzzlement was around "but everyone loves Nick Clegg, how have they lost seats?". They lost seats.