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Now you've done it, i wouldn't want to be in your shoes when Thorpie gets home from school.

I want Leeds to lose or draw tomorrow badly.

Willy isn't interested in negotiating, he wants to crush the Union and he has the finances and the backing of the city to do just that. He'll only look to back down if the share price starts to drop and so far it hasn't.

That's the point, will the nasty medicine be administered or will the shambles of a government mean a weaker dose is given? We're back to uncertainty again and the markets hate that.

uncertainty is not funny when it comes the economy at the best of times. So far the LSE hasn't dropped too much and there hasn't been a run on the pound, but who is to say it won't happen tomorrow? Given the dire state of public finances we are vulnerable and we could end up like Greece.

This whole election has been a disaster for every party and for the country. The Tories have won it, but have failed to win it outright and that's poor under the circumstances. Labour have done almost as badly as Michael foot but this has been masked by the how the voting system favours them. The Liberals were going to breakthrough and win 100-120 seats due to cleggmania and they have done worse than they did last time. The result is a mess and we're now up **** creek with the deficit and there's not the necessary strong govt. to bulldoze through the unpopular, but essential cuts. Today is a grave day for Britain.

Who predicted that? I saw plenty of Liberals predicting that this was their year though.

The greens make the Liberals look normal. I thought the people of Eastleigh were weird, but voting for the greens takes weirdness to a whole new level.

They are not offering it, they have mentioned a review with presumably a referendum and the Tories will fight like mad (along with the Tory press) to get their slightly tinkered system through instead of a "dangerous and an end to strong govt" idea wanted by the Liberals. This is not desirable territory for the Tories to be on, and it's a battle they would sooner not fight, but they will fight it and the Liberals will have a battle on their hands because in political terms this'll be a life or death fight for the establishment and Labour are part of that too .

I would have been surprised a few weeks ago, but in lieu of those very unfortunate polls that got the Liberals so excited it did look like the Libs would hold out everywhere in Lib-Con marginals. At least there's only one horrible smear of yellow now in Hampshire and if i could choose between Eastleigh going blue and Winchester going blue i'd have chosen Winchester every time because it was such an unthinkable thing to happen and most humiliating to the Liberals.

Yeah it was a shame about denham just holding on, but the supposed Liberal stronghold of Winchester falling was THE SHOCK in the south. Nobody saw that one coming.

I know that.

There will be another election as soon as the Tories have sorted out the constituency boundaries and made an outright victory assured.

Clegg has said he'll stand by his word and has just categorically stated that the conservatives won on both seats and votes so they must be the ruling party. We shall see where this leads but on that initial clarification you can only respect him.

I think we need to stop LOLing at the Liberals very unfortunate results, especially as they'll be doubly gutted because this election was going to be their massive breakthrough, and start to think about what we're going to do with them.

I've just seen that, amazing but brilliant. I'm originally from nr Winchester so am very proud that they ditched the Liberals. It was a massive massive turn up for the books, ha ha ha, bet there's some very gutted Liberals sulking on here today, but gloating is not in my style and I must try very hard not keep LOL'ing.

I said that too and BTF said she'd rather have a Tory majority than a hung parliament, but I think we can now all get off the soap box and admit that all of us were talking utter ********. It was a good tactic to use in the arsenal of ammo at hand to destroy the Liberals, but now the dye is cast you've got to admit that although the situation isn't ideal we can at least get some Dickensian policies through to wind up the lefties. Its sad that we'll have to postpone the bestest policies such as deportations to South Georgia for convicts and the reintroduction of child chimney sweeps, but if we really really try i'm sure we can sneak through a few policies to supress the peasants and make them realise that power and wealth cannot be earnt, it can only be bred.

The Conservatives won with the same actual number of votes as Labour got in the 1997 landslide. Labour and Brown were clearly told they are not wanted and the Liberals ended up being seen as a wacky party with wacky policies and despite their x factor performance the public saw sense and gave their ideas, theologies, principles, policies and general nuttyness the thumbs down.

Go me for being the only person that rightly predicted the Liberals would do rubbish. I'm pretty unhappy the Tories didn't do enough, but knowing that the Liberals did a lot lot worse brings some solace.

Reading west swings a whopping 12% to the Tories. Amazing, i think whitehead is going to lose. Denham apparently will sneak home by a whisker of around 100 - now that is surprising, his seats was supposed to be rock solid.

The Libs have lost several "safe" seats to the Tories. This is like 1992 was for Labour for the Libs, a real disaster for the party and i think much of blame should lie with Clegg for overplaying the same hand over and over again until it sounded tired and patronising. Trying to say the libs were the new party when they'v e been around since the 19th c, trying to paint himself as working class from sheff (not like nasty posh boy dave xam) - in the end Clegg said too much and with every repition and all that acting and smarmy ****yness he went from being fresh and new to nothing but a very good actor with rubbish policies and dreams of a party that never believed this election would presenthem with a chance so they as usual had the same weird policies that when examined closely were always going be either disliked or mocked

Delldays will be happy that plymouth sutton has gone from red to blue,

who's gonna win it or is it marginal?

Enoch powells old seat in wolverhampton has gone Tory, thats a good Tory win considering how working class and dprived many areas are

you should have voted tory and said that as an expat you aint bovd by schools or the NHS.