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I was going to vote for them right up until I got into the booth and noticed their candidate didn't even have the decency to live in my borough so voted Tory instead...

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Hardly, participating in democracy is never wasted no matter who you vote for, oh and they were open till ten ;)

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Brighton Pavilion - first Green MP

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Maybe GB is humming "Should I stay or should I go now? "

Really glad the Cons were not handed the country on a platter, it shows that no amount of whitewash and wishes can dupe the electorate (or something).

Labour FTW! Or LibLab FTW!? (or something)

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I'd say it had more to do with polling stations closing early and people being denied their democratic rights...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8666338.stm

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I would disagree - it was a few hundred people at a few constituencies, which would not have affected the end result, imho.

But the good new is that Griffin the **** has come third in Barking.

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The same could be said why people haven't voted for Labour, surely?

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You disagree that hundreds of people being turned away had less effect than a small sign on Punky's polling station ;) I think it stinks and the people involved should make as much noise as possible and sue imo.

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No, I disagree that the amount of voters affected would have made a difference to the end result in those constituencies. Where the polling stations ran out of voting slips is a different matter.

I also think that some people were the architects of their own failure, especially those who stated that they had turned up a number of times earlier but couldn't be bothered queue]ing those times.

Yes, let them sue - they can claim money from the government, plus all the lawyers fees, which will all be funded by the taxpayer....

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So Nick Clegg said he would form a coalition with the party with the most votes and/or the most seats - the Conservatives fulfill both of those criteria.

I wonder what happens next......

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Bed time.............................

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Forcing people to vote is completely at odds with democracy imo but I do agree that if you don't vote you lose the right to moan about the results



Some were in the queue for a couple of hours and so what, as long as your in the queue that should be enough and I bet the Electorial Commision will agree.

Yes let them, they have had their right to vote removed, surely no one would suggest they should have their legal right to do anything about it removed as well.

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No he didn't, he said he'd talk to the party with the most seats/votes first and see if he could work with them. Heard it from Simon Hughes earlier.

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In our country it'll probably mean another election in about a year :(

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That's how it should be imo...

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_parliament

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His wife didn't declare large loans to The Assembly that she used to fund her teenage lovers business....

Here's to you Mrs Robinson :erm:

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You don't think he'd make a good next leader of The Labour party then ;)

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Excellent news for me, Warrington South is now a Conservative seat taken from Labour :clap:

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Might be best although IIRC much of The Tory manifesto doesn't actually require Parliament's consent :(

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Yes I think everyone recognised the importance of this election and perhaps gives a glimpse of how sick everyone is of Gordon and his pals although tbh I have been quite impressed with Gordon since he called one of his voters a biggot if he had got his act together earlier he still might be in power today.

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Yeah was a bit of a shock no bounce what so ever, guess we wont be needing tv debates anymore after all.....

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:tu: at that prospect....

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Best result of the night imo

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Good, seemed like they were doing quite well from what I heard earlier, few thousand votes here, few thousand there, gotta be the worst thing about PR, the likes of them getting into Westminster.

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Yes I wounder what the PTB behind each party think, the mess this country should've buried Labour, the fact it didn't means the other leaders should take a good hard look at themselves because others will be behind the sceens that's for sure.

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Seems like across the nation thousands of people eligable to vote were turned away from pooling stations.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/elec...s-Britain.html


I would guess that if any of these are in areas where the seats were gained by a very small amount then the runners up will have an argument about "they may have won the seat if only"

One of the problems seems that because of the high turnout polling station ran out of ballot papers.

I think 15hrs is a too short an amount of time to vote and this should be raised to 36 or 48 hours rather than the " I want it now" type of voting.

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It is much longer if you apply for a postal vote. I'll bet there's a significant increase in postal votes in the next General Election... in Ocotber. :D

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I haven't read any further than this yet... but what?!? Who is this "we" that should promptly forget? Cheers for making N.I. part of the U.K. :erm:

In a hung parliment you can find that one seat in N.I. can make a huge difference depending on who that seat chose to 'side' with.

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So now we have a Hung Parliament , what does it mean exactly? Another election?