Poll: The official I voted/election results thread

[Jono8]

I would love Balls to lose his seat.

 

[Rroff]

A sample of 22,000 doesn't give me much faith in it's accuracy so I won't be holding my breath based on the exit polls.

Had an interesting debate on the voting age today with my stepson, we are of differing political opinions and he wasn't best pleased when I suggested he and the majority of people his age (19) aren't really qualified to vote.


"But I've studied politics for three years, I know more about politics than you do"

"Politics isn't some thing you learn from a text book or a documentary, it's something you experience, do you imagine you could learn to drive from a text book without any practical lessons ? no you couldn't and so it is with politics, the only thing you've learned over the past three years is how to be a politician"

Without creating a new thread is there anyone else who feels we need to address the age at which people can vote ?

Not sure how you'd go about changing the age - personally I didn't really have any idea about politics until very recently (around early 30s) when I started to get my head around some of it - whereas I know some people who even at 18-20 had a good grasp.

 

[Schlong&Stable]

So if Balls loses his seat he's out of a job?

His job is MP... so I'd think so

 

[GAC]

balls on itv now!

 

[George Hincapie]

Hs2 won't happen in our lifetimes most probably. Get over it. But it needs doing, and it needs starting now. **** it, it needs to be hs4 really. If people had the dull mentality of all the naysayers about hs2, there wouldn't be any trains, or roads, or fire.

Interesting. I wonder why they have taken 3 floors in my building then? HS2 will happen.

 

[Kenai]

The defecit was only that high during the crash because we had to bail out the banks. Which is not something the tories disagree with.

Doesn't change the fact that something needed to be done to sort it out afterwards and I don't believe that borrowing even more to fund growth was the answer or is the answer now.

 

[antijoke]

Lol then.

 

[George Hincapie]

i think labour will win with libdem majority.

LMAO. No.

 

[FoxEye]

Headline writers will have a field day if Labour lose their Balls

 

[Raumarik]

i think labour will win with libdem majority.

I think the conservatives will win an outright majority. I never seem to vote for the winner.. So it's likely lol

 

[Steedie]

i think labour will win with libdem majority.

Haha

 

[One More Solo]

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

It's standard practice to thank the police and returning officer, just a bit of a tradition more than anything I guess.

 

[Mr Jack]

Bizarre predictions from the exit polls, surely they can't be right? And the YouGov polls wildly different as well.

 

[thebennyboy]

i think labour will win with libdem majority.

No way in hell would labour ever go into a coalition with the lib dems.

 

[George Hincapie]

Headline writers will have a field day if Labour lose their Balls

Oh, delicious!

 

[Abraham]

The same sample was used in 2010 with an alarming accuracy.

Also for the scottish referendum and previous elections with alarming inaccuracy.

 

[D13]

balls on itv now!

lol he is ******** it

 

[Azza]

Nick Robinson ‏@bbcnickrobinson 49s50 seconds ago

Hear that ballot boxes only recently arrived at @edballsmp count so rumour re losing his seat seems to be just that - a rumour

 

[Duke]

Link?

Way too much swearing to link directly.. just head to the Guardian site and click on comments for the main Election result coverage

 

[Dolph]

IF Houghton and Sunderland South is in anyway Representative then ti would show the exit polls wildly wrong, UKIP doing far better than any poll expected, and the Tories getting destroyed.
But it is one seat so fairly meaningless in itself.

Not really, the exit poll actually predicted a greater gain for labour than they actually achieved...