FFS....counting ballot papers isn't rocket science...
@lbc973: Unconfirmed reports that the Mayoral result may be another 90 minutes away after two ballot boxes were found uncounted in Brent & Harrow.
@officialsaints: Food going down well at the SFC Player Awards Dinner - sponsored by Parkhouse the Jeweller. Guest speaker Lord Brian Mawhinney up next...
You seem to be keen to portray the cuts as some kind of exclusive Tory crusade.
All three main parties said before the general election that widespread cuts were necessary and despite the retrospective rhetoric of the Labour Party there wasn't a huge difference in the rate and quantity of cuts being proposed.
Whichever party had assumed power in 2010 there would have had to have been unpalatable cuts.
I give the 'ordinary folk' more credit than that. I'm sure people can see the principle behind reducing the high rate of tax to 5% above what Labour held it at, whilst at the same time removing a record number of low earners out of tax altogether
And another similarly sickening story just featured on the BBC news channel:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-17942687
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17867208