Thank you voters for keeping Cameron in No. 10. This is the best for the country and I am looking forward to the next 5 years.
Now let’s work on restructuring Scottish consituencies so this farce with Scottish votes only counting for 4% of the population but having 9% of the seats won’t happen again. Todays vote will be good for NI and England and rightfully so.
Well done electorate, well done.
With 50+ seats for SNP and looking like Labour pretty much wiped out of Glasgow it’s looking good for another referendum to correct the wrong result last time. Fingers crossed.
No guarantee it’s Cameron though, depends who he can get on board to get the majority.
Coffeeholic:
With 50+ seats for SNP and looking like Labour pretty much wiped out of Glasgow it’s looking good for another referendum to correct the wrong result last time. Fingers crossed.
Only the English can give the Scots a referendum and Dave is not going to give them one, count on that. The SNP win today is only doing the Tory’s a favour, watch the realigning of the Scottish consituencies to come here within a year, this is the worst thing the Scots could have done and is the best thing to safeguard the union for at least a generation if not longer. Nicola did the English and the Tories a huge favour, thanks Nicola, you are now added to my Christmas card list.
Laughing my behind of, the Scots just dug their own grave and the English are back in charge as it should be.
Why was it the wrong vote ■■? People voted, one group won, one group lost.
Hopefully the Union will be no more within 5 years.
stevenmac08:
Why was it the wrong vote ■■? People voted, one group won, one group lost.
And today’s result will shut them up for a good 20-30 years.
Coffeeholic:
Hopefully the Union will be no more within 5 years.
You may want to read up a bit on how the union works, there is no way the Scots can leave, it is entirely up to the English and rightly so after we bailed you guys out, price of failure.
At least the highlight of the whole thing is the UKIP total failure to get any significant number of seats. That’s the best news of all. I’m going to bed now, I’m bored with it already.
wheelnutt:
Coffeeholic:
Hopefully the Union will be no more within 5 years.You may want to read up a bit on how the union works, there is no way the Scots can leave, it is entirely up to the English and rightly so after we bailed you guys out, price of failure.
I know how it works but things will change and this crap Union will end.
Not to derail the thread but why is the union crap?
How will Scotland survive without it’s big brother?
Really really hope Ed Balls loses his seat. Lol!!!
I’m not sure why you’re against UKIP either?
How many of us were polled as we exited? I certainly wasn’t
PaulNowak:
How many of us were polled as we exited? I certainly wasn’t
Me either
bazza123:
PaulNowak:
How many of us were polled as we exited? I certainly wasn’tMe either
And I’d have lied if I had been
PaulNowak:
How many of us were polled as we exited? I certainly wasn’t
22,000
For the last five years - we were asked to bring our own vaseline.
For the next five years, the nobbly stick being used upon the one-working family is studded with rusty nails, broken glass, and dolloped with sewage.
The prospect of Cameron being back in Number 10 without any constraints this time - fills me with dread.
Price change implications @ 0106am…
The Tories are now expected to cut loose Cleggy, even though they are likely to fall just short at 318 seats. UKIP won’t be entertained in coalition, as Farage is now 200 votes behind with less than 1000 left to count in South Thanet. Cleggy is 30/100 on to keep his seat, but not being in Coalition will probably see him booted by his own party in the next few weeks.
UKIP have closed the gap, raised their voting percentages - but in the first past the post system - “coming a close second” is as bad as “falling at the first fence” or “coming last”. 
Even Boris is gutted - The Conservatives gaining seats under Cameron kicks any hopes and dreams of himself being leader well into touch. A similar thing happened when Heath unexpectedly led the Conservatives to victory in 1970… Enoch Powell was consigned to the back bench oblivion, and the rest of the country has been suffering for it ever since.
Update: 06:15am Cameron to get an overall majority - odds on 4/7
“Right. That’s UKIP destoyed. There’s no need for an EU Referendum now. That was merely a postulated bargaining chip for any coalition deal, which I now no longer require. The 2017 referendum is hereby cancelled. The EU will be declaring it illegal anyway. It took the electorate 5 years to boot Cleggy for breaking his promise. I’ll be gone in 2020 so the electorate won’t get chance to punish me over me breaking mine! - Now for Government… Very punishing Government for the north and the cities it’ll be too!”
As I say when I see all the Landrovers parked up on the farm, with the green wellies and shotgun covers in the back and the hip flask on the dash…" It’s gonna be a bad day to be a rabbit."
wheelnutt:
Coffeeholic:
With 50+ seats for SNP and looking like Labour pretty much wiped out of Glasgow it’s looking good for another referendum to correct the wrong result last time. Fingers crossed.Only the English can give the Scots a referendum and Dave is not going to give them one, count on that. The SNP win today is only doing the Tory’s a favour, watch the realigning of the Scottish consituencies to come here within a year, this is the worst thing the Scots could have done and is the best thing to safeguard the union for at least a generation if not longer. Nicola did the English and the Tories a huge favour, thanks Nicola, you are now added to my Christmas card list.
Laughing my behind of, the Scots just dug their own grave and the English are back in charge as it should be.
Somehow I don’t think you’ve thought this through.I’m guessing that you don’t agree with paying the Scottish a fortune while cutting the English budget.But you also want to keep the union at all costs. 
Meanwhile Cameron is going to have to hold onto what is at best a hostile Scottish electorate who ( rightly ) want out together with whatever support they can get from the Northern Irish Republicans against an at best borderline majority possibly dependent on Ulster Unionists or at worst a zombie minority government similar to what Callaghan tried to keep staggering on.Together with an equally hostile ( rightly ) pished off UKIP vote who’s at best votes don’t count because of the voting system.Or even worse the whole result seems as ‘strange’ as the idea of a massive SNP majority which somehow translated as a narrow no to independence referendum vote.Especially if to add insult to injury ‘somehow’ now Farage seems to end up losing out against the Cons.In addition to some rather ‘strange’ Con gains in Wales. 
While make no mistake the UK is ( hopefully ) inevitably toast in the medium to long term and Cameron’s problems are only just starting.In trying to hold together an administration which seems to be based on some ‘strange’ electoral result,bearing in mind the reportedly general feeling in the country leading up to it,and which suddenly seemed to change disproportionately in favour of the Cons in a matter of hours.
As for ‘the English’ I think that nation was actually wiped out,by the same type of foreign federalist dictatorship,which tried to pretend that invading and wanting to rule Ireland and Scotland, was/is an English idea and who now call themselves ‘Unionists’.
It’s the right result for the country. I’m disappointed that ukip didn’t do better, but they got their first seat at a general election, and a lot of seconds to be proud of. Let’s face it, a lot of their support is from disillusioned tories, and when push came to shove, they voted tory to keep the Krankees out of Westminster, and I can’t blame them either. Lbc’s coverage of the election has been first class, and listening to Nick Ferrari this morning has been entertaining. He’s got the polls right though, they ain’t worth a ■■■■
bazza123:
Not to derail the thread but why is the union crap?
For the same reason as any type of federation is crap wether it’s the USSR,EU,Yugoslav federation.Or even the USA bearing in mind that Lincoln’s resort to force changed nothing,regarding all the downsides of centralised governments which trample all over the right of self determination and national sovereignty and unwanted financial integration.
OVLOV JAY:
It’s the right result for the country. I’m disappointed that ukip didn’t do better, but they got their first seat at a general election, and a lot of seconds to be proud of. Let’s face it, a lot of their support is from disillusioned tories, and when push came to shove, they voted tory to keep the Krankees out of Westminster, and I can’t blame them either.
Somehow that doesn’t make sense given the choice between defeating the object of supporting UKIP v cutting the Scottish loose.