Just checked BBC Election Latest and all I see is photos of dogs... 
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Just voted labour, for the first time in my life I've not voted Tory, and for surprisingly I feel really good about it 
Never felt such conviction as I was when voting Labour, whatever the result Corbyn has done the party proud.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36197153Just checked BBC Election Latest and all I see is photos of dogs...
Ah I see!
The 2015 election Trumped all for me. If the Tories won every single seat today it wouldn't be as dispiriting as that night.
Edit: or you mean Corbyn may turn water into wine. I'd drink to that.
Austria in the last twelve months?
Or Hollande at France?
Everyone at work seemed depressed at prospect of May winning and upset at last night's polls. Maybe it is a London thing but these middle class professionals were Tories pre brexit.
Still hoping it will be less of a majority than people think but then the size of Mail and Sun readership scares me.
Still hoping it will be less of a majority than people think but then the size of Mail and Sun readership scares me.
Just voted labour, for the first time in my life I've not voted Tory, and for surprisingly I feel really good about it
Out of interest was it Mays feckwittery that did it? Or Corbyns campaign?
Were they centre left, or proper socialist (verging on marxist tendencies).
The changing face of British Government
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If Corbyn does better than Miliband he breaks the trend of Labour doing worse the more left it goes. If he doesn't then it's going to be pretty hard to deny the pattern.
Brown to the left of Blair, did worse
Miliband to the left of Brown, did worse
Corbyn to the left of Miliband, ......?
Brown to the left of Blair, did worse
Miliband to the left of Brown, did worse
Corbyn to the left of Miliband, ......?
I'm hoping that my MP retains his seat. It was close in 2015.
I don't want a Tory MP even if we get a Tory PM.
I don't want a Tory MP even if we get a Tory PM.
If the Sun had gone pro-Labour, today's front page would never even have been mentioned on here. As long as (the majority of) people on here are happy to go and cross the red box I wouldn't worry too much what the newspapers say. The fact that Labour are doing much better than could have been anticipated a month ago is testament to how little it means in reality.
Hollande is a socialist. I'm not really qualified to say any more than that, or where his government should be positioned on a left wing scale. Hopefully someone else can jump in.
you did
Not sure whats worse the terrible play on words and defamation of someone or the fact that people will be influenced or become more entrenched in their opinions despite there merit.
But Labour are the nasty ones.
I have a bad feeling about today, that the 'surge' for Labour is merely a surge in optimism that won't translate into enough votes. I feel like the media is so despicable and England is so rotten under the surface that it's had the opposite effect and they, Tory voters, will turn out in big numbers to maintain the status quo.
Hope I'm proven wrong.
Hope I'm proven wrong.
Voted. My constituency is the most marginal in the area so I'm really hoping we hold on to it. Fingers crossed but I've done my bit!
You won't be. The Tories can count on all the knuckle dragging UKIP voters that they've pandered to since Brexit to add to their existing base.
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https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/06/francois-hollande-labor-law-socialist-party-el-khomri-macron/ Socialist in name only.
I'm struggling to think of other country in the West, so if Labour somehow win, Britain will be possibly be the most leftist country in The West.
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There'll be an enormous difference between the naughtiest thing she's ever done and the worst.
Labour won 70%+ of votes in my constituency last time out.
As safe as a seat can be.
As safe as a seat can be.
How little what means, the Sun?
The Sun's Election Picks
2015 - Conservatives and Scottish Conservatives (won)
2010 - Conservatives (won with Dems)
2005 - Labour (won)
2001 - Labour (won)
1997 - Labour (won)
1992 - Conservatives (won)
1987 - Conservatives (won)
1983 - Conservatives (won)
1979 - Conservatives (won)
1974 October - "All Parties"
1974 February - Conservatives (lost)
1970 - Labour (lost)
1966 - Labour (won)
1964 - Labour (won)
I think they are pretty important
I was with our local MP for a few hours yesterday. She's a massive Corbin supporter. Wonderfully brave young lady in standing up for her beliefs despite opposition from the political establishment. I'll open up in the future in a relevant thread.
The internet is now a major factor too and all those results are relative to the years they were taken.
Hollande was five years ago, not the poast 12 months.
He was such a bumbling, useless idiot, France even elected an ex-Rothschild banker to replace him.
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Don't even know who the Tory candidate is in my constituency tbh. Go Andy Slaughter!
If the conservatives win like 45% of the seats, who would join them in forming a coalition gov.? Could they accept Ukip? And even if they do and it is still below 50%, who else?
Just like the idiots who voted brexit and really wanted to remain, dangerous gameI don't think I've ever been so hopeful for a party to win an election that I'm not actually voting for.
UKIP won't have a seat to share with them. Maybe Lib Dem again if the maths works out, but I find it hard to see how they can reconcile their views on Europe.
UKIP won't win any seats. If they can't get a majority with the DUP it will be a minority administration, assuming Lab/Lib/SNP also too short.
Even if UKIP did have seats, surely it would be political suicide to go into partnership with them.
Exactly. With Brexit, this time it's different to the Cameron/Klegg one. So if the polls are correct, you might have a hung parliament.
Farron entering into another coalition with those cnuts would kill the party forever.
You can't blame Conservatives for Brexit, most of the party wanted to remain and most of their voters as well.