Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

[PermaBanned]

Austerity isn't just about promoting growth though, it's about developing a sustainable economy that isn't just growing artificially by borrowing more and more money.

Growth can come later, once the need to borrow billions on top of billions just to pay the bills has been resolved.

Growth is exactly what you need to recover from a recession. As GDP rises the debt falls as a % of GDP. And i don't know if you had noticed, but the tories are still borrowing billions upon billions because we're still running a deficit. Because that's how national economics works. The tories wouldn't have been any different if they had been in power during the crash.

 

[ElliorR]

Yes, let's have a cull of old people. Oh wait...

At least supermarkets and post offices will be easier to negotiate.

 

[robfosters]

Enjoy it while it lasts Labour.

 

[muon]

Will the exit poll update as the results start rolling in and confirming some seats.

 

[Housey]

Sunderland South has just voted in a fembot. Scary woman.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Anyone that thinks the last 5 years was austere need to talk to relatives that lived through rationing.

 

[Danthus]

Massive gain for UKIP.

 

[robgmun]

UKIP Second!

 

[Kenai]

UKIP will be much like Lib Dems have been historically, they'll get loads of votes but always second place to massive Con/Lab majorities per seat.

 

[George Hincapie]

Oh she's fit. Such a shame she's a Commie

 

[McBain]

791

Almost feel bad for the guy.

 

[D.P.]

From BBC

First result in - Labour hold
Posted at 22:53

The first result's here. As usual, it's in the safe Labour seat of Houghton and Sunderland South. What do they feed the vote-counters there? And... it's a Labour hold. Bridget Phillipson takes 21,218 votes, beating UKIP into second place.

 

[Glaucus]

Wtf, what a ****
Essentially saying her county is hooligans. Thanks for the police keeping order.

 

[Azza]

The ****? Houghton and Sunderland South wiki page was updated before the returning announcer even read out the results on my TV!

 

[ElliorR]

When someone mentioned the exit poll to Farage he did a jig until someone told him it wasn't that the Polish were leaving the UK.

 

[muon]

Exit polls are anonymous.

I'd be amazed if yougov polls weren't anonymous as well.

 

[thebennyboy]

Anyone that thinks the last 5 years was austere need to talk to relatives that lived through rationing.

We're gonna head that way if the tories get in again.

 

[wunkley]

HS2 is destined to be the biggest waste of public money with it's ever increasing costs. Considering it only benefits the wealthy Londoners it's pointless.

********. The problem with politics is no one thinks past the next 4 years/ the next election. We need to revamp the rail system top to bottom. And that means looking ahead for decades. End of story. You cannot just keep patching up century old tech and make do. Look at other countries rail systems, ours is utterly pathetic in comparison.

 

[Freddie1980]

Ouch that's a poor turn out 57%

 

[Azza]

From BBC

First result in - Labour hold
Posted at 22:53

The first result's here. As usual, it's in the safe Labour seat of Houghton and Sunderland South. What do they feed the vote-counters there? And... it's a Labour hold. Bridget Phillipson takes 21,218 votes, beating UKIP into second place.

LD have gone from 5292 down to 791... incredible!