Stella got 69% of the vote here, insane. Is she the highest in London?
UK General Election 2015 | Conservatives win with an overall majority
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Somewhat similar in my area, Labour candidate went from 17,500 to 24,000 votes. Lib Dems went from 11,000 to 2,300(!). Tories stayed the same (8,928 in 2010 and 8,939 in 2015).
Unfortunately the labour vote has strengthened in many places that were already safe, chiefly in the cities and industrial towns (the areas feeling the effects of a tory government the most). It collapsed in Scotland and failed to capitalise in the marginals and previous lib dem seats.
That's the problem, people did think that. Miliband was a walking, talking liability. We've seen some of the most drastic cuts the country has ever seen, yet Labour have still managed to disillusion the majority of the general public and force a Conservative government.
The lurch to the left has backfired, as has the lack of a viable leader, and many working people in the private sector, small business owners, have done well enough over the past five years to ensure they'll vote blue.
It was clear their power grab would come back to haunt them from the very moment they jumped for it.. it was shocking
He will try and hang on the despicable turd. Trashed his party for self-aggrandisement - the last time the Liberals went into coalition with the Tories in the 1920s it stuffed them for years.
Good speech from Clegg. Always the way when you are free from the Westminster bubble.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. I have a sense of despairing at all of them. The worst isn't the way people voted, it's the parties that stood.
History will remember him as the guy who sold out his party just to prop up a Tory Government, simple as.
Up 17%! She's a star.
You'd imagine it's up there. Good for her.
I think he definitely helped them win this election too. Lib Dems have been scape goats throughout but taken little credit for anything.
Who cost the Liberal Democrats a generation of voters before they even reached an age where they could vote.
Cheers! Labour share went up 4.7% in my constituency.
And destroyed his own party in the process.
If Lib Dems have any chance of recovering (and I'm not sure they do to be honest) - whoever steps in next really needs to distance themselves from the Clegg party line that he's been shiting out for the last 5 years.
Nah, I dont believe that.
He put the country's best interest in front of what was best for his party. Everyone sensible has been saying that for 5 years. Unfortunately, the Lib Dem supporters arent that sensible (myself included), and will never forgive him for getting in bed with the tories.
Massive swing in my constituency too, Lib Dem -29% Labour win +8%, we did our job.
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+ 1 here with +4 to Green. +11 to UKIP
8mp's... one of who is clegg
so I think the others are
Tim Farron - Environment Spokesman
Norman Lamb - PPS to nick Clegg
and none of the others have held any role in westminister... so I guess Tim Farron would be favourite?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Farron
So possibly Clegg, Farage and Milliband all gone or going? Who said this result is bad 
Interesting stats on there, the LibDems managed to drop 16.8% in Tunbridge Wells, all the others picked up 2-3% except for UKIP who gained 8.5%
As I can't imagine it being Labour or LibDem supporters who switched to UKIP, I suspect a lot of Tories went UKIP and their places on the Tory ballot papers were filled by disillusioned LibDems.
Feel sorry for Ed Miliband. Seems like a genuinely nice likeable person. The Scottish referendum hurt Labour hard. Labour always needed Scottish votes to form the government and the massive slide to SNP crushed them. They underestimated the Scottish electorate's anti-Labour support for the SNP. Ed should have explicitly said that he wouldn't have allowed SNP to be the whip in a Lab-SNP coalition and that Torys were just scaremongering the English.
and with Boris elected Cameron must be quietly looking over his shoulder as wellSo possibly Clegg, Farage and Milliband all gone or going? Who said this result is bad
feck, I thought Tim Farron was okay but he is a Anglican who voted against Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007. feck everything.
Smeared by Cameron's pals in the gutter press. He was never going to win anyway though if I'm being honest with myself. Didn't have the right face to be PM.
Oh well, bye bye Human Rights Act... Jeez.
Jeez.Oh well, bye bye Human Rights Act...
It's okay we can all look at the economy graphs going up and feel good about it while we get poorer in real terms.
Oh well, bye bye Human Rights Act...
Oh god, forget about that.
Indeed.
I quite liked Ed, and my political views are still very much Labour, but he came across as (and ended up) far too weak to be PM.
If they had sat on the sidelines and played their cards right then they could have been competing for a majority government in ten to fifteen years time, I reckon. As you say, an entire generation could have been backing them into government.
Clegg will not be remembered favourably.
Once again it's the North of England who get fecked the hardest.
Times like this I wish it was Game of Thrones in real life and the North could rule itself.
Times like this I wish it was Game of Thrones in real life and the North could rule itself.
For anyone who cares the mood on RAWK is as usual more grim than this place 
Proper meltdown going on over there.
Oh and cheers to everyone for the fantastic result. I can see some rays of sunshine.
Proper meltdown going on over there.
Oh and cheers to everyone for the fantastic result. I can see some rays of sunshine.
He'll stand down in two years so he wont be bothered. Id guess Osborne is more worried since he was next in line.
But you have to ask why people thought Labour would be worse, and it's because the Tories said that they would be. And because Labour were so useless at countering the argument, sometimes even failing to respond at all, people just believed whatever Cameron and Osbourne said. The Tories were going up against one of the most pathetic and weakest Labour parties that we've seen since Kinnock - it was never going to be a hard fight.
We just need a new wall to keep the wildlings out
spot on. can we get some diagrams and maps showing where the nearest/best food banks are while we're at it? will also come in useful
It would be interesting to know what talks/deals are going on within the Parliamentary Tory party right now, as it seems the Tories might be their own opposition with this slender majority if factions develop, as they almost certainly will.
Miliband speaking now.
Miliband speaking now.
Balls lost his seat? Oh dear.