UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority

How did you vote in the 2015 General Election?

  • Conservatives

    Votes: 67 20.0%

  • Labour

    Votes: 152 45.4%

  • Lib Dems

    Votes: 15 4.5%

  • Green

    Votes: 23 6.9%

  • SNP

    Votes: 9 2.7%

  • UKIP

    Votes: 11 3.3%

  • Independent

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Did not vote

    Votes: 43 12.8%

  • Plaid Cymru

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Sinn Fein

    Votes: 4 1.2%

  • Other (UUP, DUP, BNP, and anyone else I have forgotten)

    Votes: 9 2.7%
  • Total voters
    335
  • Poll closed .
The economic and sociological factors behind rise of UKIP in the north sounds a lot like Nixon's Southern strategy come to think of it, and the collapse of the Democrats there.
 
The marginals are all the Tories' to lose:nervous:Bad feeling Miliuseless hell yeah will get in.
 
I'm going to sleep, the exit poll is depressing and nothing else is happening. Hopefully the exit polls turn out to be wrong when I wake up.
 
naturalized said:
The economic and sociological factors behind rise of UKIP in the north sounds a lot like Nixon's Southern strategy come to think of it, and the collapse of the Democrats there.
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Reminds me of the start of Nazi Germany.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
It is generally poorer than the South. There is a lot of resentment towards immigration in working class areas as immigrants are usually competing at the bottom end of the jobs market with them.
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I live in a poor area of Scotland and I don't know anyone who is voting for any right wing party really! It's strange because when I hear from my relatives from England they seem to think there's some racial tension down there but here in Scotland I haven't really encountered anything like that and I've lived here for 20 years! Although I live in a small town so perhaps a comparison like that is silly
 
Cheesy said:
They could, but then he'd be kinda defeating the purpose of quitting since he'd win, and people would feel he's gone back on his word.
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The question is would people care?

Vine's board just looks completely against expectations. Utterly devouring the Lib Dem vote by the looks of it, to Labour's irritation.
 
Silva said:
You offering odds? I'll put a fiver on Jippy making an alcohol fuelled late surge to take it.
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They have have their butlers to provide them with energy juice, the damn Tories!

10/11 for Nick, and 11/10 for Jippy. Ubik a 12/1 outsider, with me at 20/1 if you fancy a Scottish outsider.
 
I feel a bit dirty for saying this, but I'm slightly encouraged that the high UKIP turnout will hurt the Tories :nervous:
 
Nick Clegg's days must be numbered now. He threw away the opportunity of a century after the last elections and is now paying for it
 
Cheesy said:
They have have their butlers to provide them with energy juice, the damn Tories!

10/11 for Nick, and 11/10 for Jippy. Ubik a 12/1 outsider, with me at 20/1 if you fancy a Scottish outsider.
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Coalition? Let's lock the tories out.
 
I can't believe how much of a gap is in the exit poll! It seemed so close for months now and it seemed a lot of people had warmed to Miliband recently...

So if the conservatives do win...will we be having a referendum on our EU membership now? Everthing I've read seems to suggest that we will be better off by staying in it but considering the amount of Ukip /tory voters the vote to leave might win.
 
I'm encouraged by the exit poll but still very concerned by the prospect of a Labour government.
 
Scrumpet said:
Labour going with "the exit poll shows that the coalition government lost its majority". Whoever decided that line would go down well with people needs a slap.
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Yeah what the feck? How does saying something this idiotic benefit them in any way?
 
I still can't get my head around the projected result.

The Lib Dem vote has clearly completely collapsed, with the UKIP vote rising. I don't see how those two facts can combine to increase the Tory vote? Surely those movements should best benefit Labour?
 
Appoint Ed Milliband as party leader
Get your arse wupped at the next election
Claim "the exit poll shows that the coalition government lost its majority"
???
Profit
 
Attila said:
I live in a poor area of Scotland and I don't know anyone who is voting for any right wing party really! It's strange because when I hear from my relatives from England they seem to think there's some racial tension down there but here in Scotland I haven't really encountered anything like that and I've lived here for 20 years! Although I live in a small town so perhaps a comparison like that is silly
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Scotland is one of, if not the most, homogeneous country in Europe. 96% white. Which is why I find it hard to buy all this Scotland is more inherently socially progressive than England in that regard.

Where I come from which is North Manchester there are working class towns like Moston close by that have completely transformed in the past ten years in term of demographics. It feels like about 50% of the people there are foreign born now when you are in the town there. That level of immigration in such a short space of time would cause friction if it happen in built up areas of Scotland, of that I'm sure.
 
ThierryHenry said:
I still can't get my head around the projected result.

The Lib Dem vote has clearly completely collapsed, with the UKIP vote rising. I don't see how those two facts can combine to increase the Tory vote? Surely those movements should best benefit Labour?
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I don't really know what the feck I'm talking about but to me it sounds like Tories won quite a few seats off the lib dems. Probably because enough of them in those areas went to labour and enough stayed with the lib dems to split the vote?
 
ThierryHenry said:
I still can't get my head around the projected result.

The Lib Dem vote has clearly completely collapsed, with the UKIP vote rising. I don't see how those two facts can combine to increase the Tory vote? Surely those movements should best benefit Labour?
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With them projecting Norwich South to go Green as well, they basically seem to say Lib Dem votes are going everywhere but Labour which isn't supposed to happen. That seat was supposed to be easy Labour. The Lib Dem vote was also supposed to hold in Tory marginals, which seems to not really have happened. The guys that did the exit poll are the most distinguished experts you can find so I can't really pick fault with it, just seems so odd.
 
Looks like the right wing scaremongering has pushed a lot of 'shy' voters into voting Tory.

Murdock really does always get what he wants...
 
Seems quite a few Labour figures in Scotland are getting worried. Seems as grim as suggested.
 
For fecks sake you shitc**t politicians just answer one question straight in your collective lives.
 
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