Poll: *** 2010 General Election Result & Discussion ***

[britboy4321]

(Edit double post)

 

[Kenai]

Haha Labour have just suffered their worst defeat for the best part of 80 years and this is all the fanboy's keep saying. The public don't want labour, deal with it.

The public have not shown a majority of confidence in any single party quite simply and all things considered the Conservatives should have walked away with this election without even breaking a sweat. Instead they've not even managed a slim victory, which frankly is a huge failure.

 

[Third Opinion]

Breaking news on the BBC. Seems he is suggesting that a Lib-Lab alliance could happen and he would be prepared to step aside to gain it. Brown that is

 

[Luseac]

Open your eyes - the public don't want anyone.

Yup, certainly don't want labour though and more people want the conservatives than any other party. Shame so many people still vote Labour. The markets are longing for a Tory Government, the pound is falling and the FTSE's down. On every conservative seat won last night the pound gained and the pound rocketted when Clegg said he would talk to Cameron first. The markets know what Joe public seem hard to get their heads round - the Conservatives are what's needed.

 

[D.P.]

Conservative close to the 300 seat mark, that is significant psychological barrier.

 

[Slam62]

Projected, lets not count the chickens before they're hatched, that the socialist way

Really, it was on BBC News, you should pay more attention

EDIT - 298 now

oh that must be right then, will you be pleased with a lib/lab and GB as PM?

 

[britboy4321]

If the Tories can't get a majority when they were up against the much hated Brown, seriously, it can only be analysed as a pretty big failure for the tory bloke who 2 months ago had polls saying he should WALTZ the elections!

How did he go wrong so desperately?

 

[muon]

What I don't understand is that they keep saying its the best Conservative performance for 80 years? The overall vote count wasn't that high and they couldn't even get a majority.

Similarly, how can this be the worst Labour performance?

 

[Luseac]

The public have not shown a majority of confidence in any single party quite simply and all things considered the Conservatives should have walked away with this election without even breaking a sweat. Instead they've not even managed a slim victory, which frankly is a huge failure.

Considering the moutain they had to climb I don't concede last nights results as a failure in the slightest. The party that has just had their worst defeat for 80 years is a failure, as is the party which was as little as 2 weeks ago about 6 points higher in the polls than where they ended up.

 

[qqg3]

Remember, realistically there are only 649 seats up for grabs, the 650th will be voting at the end of May (although its certain to be Cons').

 

[The Mad Rapper]

Yup, certainly don't want labour though and more people want the conservatives than any other party. Shame so many people still vote Labour. The markets are longing for a Tory Government, the pound is falling and the FTSE's down. On every conservative seat won last night the pound gained and the pound rocketted when Clegg said he would talk to Cameron first. The markets know what Joe public seem hard to get their heads round - the Conservatives are what's needed.

From what the BBC are saying though, it doesn't seem that Cameron will accept a coalition with Clegg. A bit short sighted of him IMHO.

 

[Slam62]

If the Tories can't get a majority when they are up against Brown, seriously, it can only be analysed as a pretty big failure for the bloke who 2 months ago had polls saying he should WALTZ the elections!

exactly it's shocking, Brown should have been toast.

 

[gambitt]

39.7% of the vote in England.

Scotland need to start running themelves, it seems like that's what they want anyway

 

[avec]

I think you had to be there to realise just how bad it got under Thatcher.

15% inflation. 15% interest. Millions upon millions unemployed. Nightmare stuff. Poll tax (everyone pays the same local tax REGARDLESS of earnings!!!). Economic disaster. It was a strange time all in all, and took a lot of voters away from the tories forever ...

It wasn't a great time absolutely, but don't you remember what happened before the 80's, with Labour? Wasn't what Thatcher did mostly as a result of what Labour did before her?

People get unhappy at cuts, but it's stupid to blame those doing the cutting.

If the Tories did get in now and cut a lot of waste and saved the country financially, do you think it's right that they receive the blame for it? Is it their fault? No.

Would we have been anywhere near this position had we had a Tory government? No, of course not.

It's disheartening to know that people will blame whoever does the cutting, rather than those that were catastrophically irresponsible during the years of boom. What mindless moron increases our debt year on year during the good times? How can anyone believe he or his party still deserve a vote, especially if their grudge against the Conservatives is solely based upon Thatcher.

Apparantly what Thatcher did is worse than what Brown has done, that sounds ridiculous to me.

 

[robgmun]

oh that must be right then, will you be pleased with a lib/lab and GB as PM?

Yes, because it will cause the biggest crisis in decades, all fall apart and we'll have another election in 6 months with a Tory landslide, Labour won't be back for a generation, it'll be worth some short-term pain.

 

[Andy_82]

What I don't understand is that they keep saying its the best Conservative performance for 80 years? The overall vote count wasn't that high and they couldn't even get a majority.

Similarly, how can this be the worst Labour performance?

Its the most seats they've gained in an election in 80 years and reverse for labour

 

[Luseac]

From what the BBC are saying though, it doesn't seem that Cameron will accept a coalition with Clegg. A bit short sighted of him IMHO.

Who know's what will happen, Cameron speaks at 14:30. That will be telling.

 

[PMKeates]

What I don't understand is that they keep saying its the best Conservative performance for 80 years? The overall vote count wasn't that high and they couldn't even get a majority.

It is an achievement when you measure the number of seats gained on the previous election.

Nice , conservative got Thurrock

Very! The Conservative candidate won by just 92 votes. It's less of a surprise for local people, as the universally popular Labour MP Andrew MacKinlay didn't stand, and instead a more controversial slightly more work-class-esque councillor stood in his place. Thurrock is an interesting mix of deep working-class territory with a growing "aspirational-class", and it seems in this election the latter swung in favour of the Tories.

 

[britboy4321]

From what the BBC are saying though, it doesn't seem that Cameron will accept a coalition with Clegg. A bit short sighted of him IMHO.

Depends entirely on what Clegg wanted.

Cons or Lab agreeing to 'PR' will damage their respective parties for many decades. Is it worth it for 5 years of 'almost power with compromise'??

 

[ordinaryjoe]

Well if you look at the Tories target seats which they didn't get, most of them were won by Lib Dems... not Labour and the same goes for the defence seats the tories lost, so you could blame the Conservatives lack of success on Lib Dems doing well against Conservatives