A thread for the all-nighters

Caroline Lucas got an increased majority.
We are real, jo1book. We need some small bits of comfort, and you are being mean to deny us.

Oh my God. Get real. Big Business rules the World and the Tories won because "It's the Economy, Stupid".

Won Cambridge and the Wirral from the conservatives, too. Esther McVey has gone, but says she'll be back.

Perhaps the North East should join the SNP.

I think that the next parliamentary term may see huge changes.

The SNP will of course push for independence, and this government could lose the UK.

We then have the EU referendum and we could be out of Europe.

The NHS will look very different in 5 years time with effectively it being contracted out to the private provider.

There are to be no tax rises - so the rich can rest easy, as nothing else the government does will touch them.

The poor will grow as will inequality - the sort of society I was hoping never to see.

State schools as we know them will no longer exist -

The list goes on and on.

The good news? We won Hove

the SNP just cleared the board in Scotland, Labour were nowhere.I think in a few years you will find Scotland going it alone, and for us, here in the rest of the UK maybe this is the best thing.

Yes, Iam. I put a link on earlier to a DM article listing the best 50 seats to vote tactically to keep Labour out.
It hasn't always worked because at least five of them have gone to Labour, 3 from LD and two from conservatives.

The Tories ate the Lib Dems alive and spat out the bones. Only two years Durhamjen - a small consolation but a glimmer of hope I guess.

Well, didn't see that coming. One thing Nick Robinson pointed out this morning was the anomaly of our 'first past the post' system as illustrated by the fact that in terms of actual votes, the SNP and UKIP have achieved very similar numbers, UKIP has 1 seat, the SNP have over 50. My sympathies do not lie with either party so I am not saying one is fairer than the other but it is clear there would be a different outcome nationally if the densely populated urban areas dictated what happens right across the country.

It is strange that Scotland voted against independence in last year's referendum, but the SNP have swept the board, bar Orkney and Shetland, in Scotland. Also interesting to see how London has bucked the trend and swung very much to Labour, yet voted in a Conservative mayor last time around.

Final observation, the Lib Dems have been virtually wiped out particularly in England by the Conservatives with whom Nick Clegg chose to form a coalition. It looks as if that was a suicidal decision for the party and IMHO Clegg should go for selling his soul and that of his party.

I realise this result won't please many of you on this thread, but after all, the British people have spoken, so it is what they want.

No. They have won because Labour is useless and (shock, horror, no one really cares that much about the Welfare state because it is always in a mess).

www.thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/mum_of_4_fears

excellent result (no I am not a selfish anti-labour voter)
admit it - if things had gone in your favour (as they did in 1997) you would all be crowing at how wonderful it is. (addressing the left-leaning majority on here)

Granny twice sums it up. As for proportional voting, I'm all for it, especially after the results in England.

BTW I did not have a Scottish vote, in case anyone was wondering. x

Well, I am very happy with the results so far.What an exciting night it's been! would have liked the Lib Dems to have done a bit better but it was inevitable that they would do badly.It's not quite over yet, but it looks as if the Conservatives will win by loads.Yay!

I think that's a reasonable summary GA .

durhamjen, I agree the EU influenced people but I also feel the rhetoric about immigration and the nonsense continually repeated about Labour having been responsible for the world wide recession were significant. The fact we have a largely right wing press hasn't helped.

I am devastated.
Now we will see the Tories in their true colours, and just hope that the poor are not so badly affected as some are suggesting.

Only two years, falcon.
Then there's a vote on the EU, which, if Cameron loses, he will bow out.
Boris looked and sounded drunk.

I think the Tories won because of the EU vote.

Even though I feared the Conservatives might do quite well, I am absolutely staggered that a party which has presided over the biggest transfer ever of wealth from the poor to the rich has actually increased its popularity.

I am truly devastated by this dreadful result and can't understand how all the opinion polls have been so hugely inaccurate.

Only 50% of Scots voted SNP. It would be a very different matter if we'd had proportional rep. Time will tell how the new MPs actually do. One is only 20. At least the Tories won't have to horse trade with Alec S et al. Thank God.

Woke up to a nightmare. Looks like we're stuck with a Conservative Government for years and years to come.

I think its really unfair to criticise the SNP and to suggest the low motive of hatred of the English. For decades Scotland was ignored by the Conservatives and taken for granted by Labour. Thatchers disdain for them was manifested in many ways - for example trying out the poll tax on them. The Government never thought the yes vote would do so well and then all sorts of promises were made that then clearly were not going to be kept. The rhetoric aimed at the SNP during the election must have hardened many people's resolve to support them. Sorry to Scottish SNP supporters if my analysis is somewhat crude

J52, where did you see that suggestion, I certainly have not noticed anything to that effect. I'm sure the Scots are well informed voters.

Well said J52.