General election 2015

Cameron off for tea with her madge at 11.30.

Devastated.
Especially as my girlfriend, mum, and sister all work for the NHS.

I don't think we can call it misguided now.

The Tory's did have a positive message in that things are getting better that they could get across (if it is true or not is not that important, the message was easy to get across). I felt they let that msg slide to the background in favour of, 'look at Miliband, look at that stupid face, he killed his brother and now he wants to give your money to that bloke for the council estate who you find slightly intimidating. He caused the global economic crisis'.

Share prices of house builders and estate agents up 7-11% according to Jules Birch the housing journalist.

Not because the Tories will build more houses, but because the markets know they won't :(

If your parents aren't rich enough to sub you a deposit, you don't deserve a house.

I'd call anyone who votes Conservative or is a Conservative Party member misguided, all the more so after this result. So many people in this country voted Tory, I find this unfathomable.

I think you might be confusing the Tory campaign with the Sun's campaign. I'm sure you wouldn't be suggesting that they might be the same thing...

(Seriously though, yes, that was definitely the read through but as I said that was the negative criticism/campaign against Labour bit).

Share prices in energy firms like Centrica up 6.5%

Wrap up warm kids.

I'm staggered by share price rise already. The markets have reacted to this very, very quickly.

Most be all the coke they're hovering up.

I hope Call Me Dave can slime out of this referendum now.

Interesting that there basically hasn't been a pro-Tory comment in this thread that I can spot... I guess that's because this is a largely urban, young, greeny community. Not a criticism, just an observation.

Anyway, Galloway, Balls, Douglas Alexander all out. Hopefully Farage will follow.

What a shower of shit. Can't see myself coming back to london whilst these jokers run the country.

Come to think of it, that's probably exactly what they wanted from the outset.

More than 20% voted UKIP where I am.
An area kept afloat by enormous EU subsidies, with very few immigrants - my parents are referred to as newcomers as they've only been here for 30 years.
Tell me this is a fucking dream.

I'm so sad, and I'm so angry. I was clinging on to a tiny hope that the tories wouldn't increase their vote but now they've had validation for every shit thing they did last term they can really start implement the social cleansing they've only dabbled in so far.
We are so irredeemably fucked.

That's messed up.

I'd like to see a map of economic representation. How much do Tory constituencies contribute to GDP vs. the other parties. Fox hunting can't have that big an impact on the economy, can it?

Estate Agents are happy because they'll have a new pipeline of Housing Association tenants doing the right to buy, and then letting out their properties at triple the previous rent. With agents fees, credit checks, and so on, to be paid by people like you.

city am headline

balls sacked

Miliband gone.

Game over, man. Game over.

Next labour leader?

fuck it. we're off to the states.

Can someone point me to the seats the lib dems lost and what they became?

Also: fuck this shit.

Paul Mason's blog on the Channel 4 news site is very perceptive in where Labour went wrong.

+1 absolute travesty.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/05/how-many-lib-dems-have-lost-their-seats-2015-general-election