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Thursday, May 03, 2007
What's Going on in Your Area?
We're now live on 18 Doughty Street with our election coverage. Do leave any gossip, tips, predictions you havce in the comments and I may read them out.
150 comments:
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Tomorrow Blair will thank the electorate for electing him president
I live in a small ex-mining village, a former Labour stronghold. Although the ward is represented by a popular independent councillor, it is normally rock-solid Labour at the national level. I was out at the polling stations in support of the SNP. The estimated turnout at the 3 polling stations I visited was 50%. Labour only fielded campaigners at 1 polling station out of the 3. Despite the convenient polls yesterday (not the YouGov one today though!) and the decision of the Scottish red tops to support Labour, I think Labour are in for a real kicking.
I live in a small borough in West London - a Conservative stronghold. However, there has been no sign of any election activity by the local councillors. And the polling stations were operating today as primary schools. Not sure what's going on, but I will keep you posted.
Haven't a clue sadly - council not counting till tomorrow. I live in Aylesbury which is expected to fall to the Lib Dems but I can't vote as my postal vote never arrived. Is suspect that I am not the only one and am complaining to the Electoral Commission to try to find out more. I can only hold out hope for a legal challenge but I suspect this is highly unlikely.
Very little going on here, candidate wise, we have an idle toad and conservative reps.
No, lib dem, no Labour...interesting, although strictly speaking the toad is an erstwhile Labour man so presumably he will follow their line come the crunch.
The idle toad is an independant for those of you assuming I'm hurling slander btw ;) )
When I voted late this afternoon I asked about turnout, which they said was low. This is a a quite strong Conservative area (Stone, Staffordshire, Bill Cash's constituency). Could this somehow bode ill for the Tories across the country as a whole?
Mike Rouse here in the Doughty Street studio. Keep posting to this comment thread. I've got my eye on it all night. Also email myself, Iain or Shane on studio@18doughtystreet.com.
Newsflash from sleepy leafy South Gloucestershire: unprecedented turnout, thousands of voters young and old marching robotically to the polling stations like Cybermen, eyes glazed, chanting in unison "Dale! We Want Dale!" Interviewed later, flustered citizens claimed to have received subliminal messages saying "go on go on go on you know you want to VOTE VOTE VOTE FOR ME VOTE do it for me GO ON GO ON". Many stated their disappointment that Mr Iain Dale did not appear on the ballot paper, forcing them to add his name in pencil, but all were confident they had made the right decision. "Aye, that Iain Dale's the man for the retired miner!", said a retired miner, adding that he had always voted Labour before but "summat just came over me".
In rural Aberdeenshire people still voting late on met a couple just walking down at 21:30 and the Polling station was quite busy. Hopefully a good turnout, itching to see change in Scotland
9.50 PM: The only light in my little village street comes from a back room in the village hall, where an elderly couple keep vigil until 10.00 PM. The street is deserted. The last voter came at 8.45 PM, but still they keep their vigil till the statutory hour. Rather touching.
Our forefathers fought long and hard for the secret ballot and the universal franchise and now millions can't be bothered to vote.
But who can blame them, in local elections? All we want is our dustbins emptied once a week and none of our candidates has anything to say on that subject, expect that they are subject to central government directions.
If we lose Malvern Hills DC it will be because we were forgetting to mark down postal voters on canvass returns such that people were wasting hours knocking them up this evening!
In my area of Oxfordshire (Dave Cameron's constituency) went at about 4.00 p.m no one in the streets surrounding the polling station and only 4 people in there. Only had two candidates for the local council (Lib Dem and Cons) to vote for and only 10 candidates for the 9 seats on the parish council. It seems democracy has died....
"Aye, that Iain Dale's the man for the retired miner!", said a retired miner, adding that he had always voted Labour before but "summat just came over me".
I understand that bad news may be on it's way from Epping in Essex Iain.
This little, well heeled, middle class market town in the Metropolitan Green Belt a few miles from here has already shocked the district by electing 6 BNP councillors. Here's the current council elected 2006:
BNP 6 Conservatives 29 Independent Group 3 Labour 1 Lib Dems 13 Loughton Residents Assoc 5 Independent 1
There is a very real possiblity, I understand, that the BNP will win more seats, perhaps snatching nulab's only ward in Epping.
I hope the fears prove groundless, I want to see Blair kicked, but not that way.
Not very relevant (sorry) but Peter Hain on Newsnight talking about Ian Paisley: "we are diametrically opposed politically - he is fiery orange and I am not"
More news from Harlow. I understand that there may be a couple of interesting results here.
The ward to watch is nulab controlled Little Parndon - one of half a dozen parishes which, along with the village of Harlow, were swallowed when the new town of Harlow was built in the late 40s- 50s.
Are nulab going to lose control of their stronghold in Little Parndon? I understand it's possible. However, I'm told it's very close, so keep your finger crossed.
There's also an interesting situation in the Lib Dem stronghold of Staple Tye. Will it still be a stronghold by midnight or there abouts?
Respect are fielding a very popular candidate, Maureen Topley, in the Labour controlled ward of Toddbrooks, so that's an interesting ward to watch too.
Lastly a former local Conservative party leader, Chris Ford, who retired from politics a few years ago is standing as an Independent, would you believe, for the Conservative stronghold of Old Harlow. He was a very popular local politician, so it will be interesting to see what effect he has on that result.
Blimey, look at the time, I must shoot off to the count! It might be in by midnight. Will our nulab, government minister MP be there, I wonder, or is the rumour I've heard that he'll be miles away in another town true?
11:53pm: Stirling is Michael Forsyth's old [Westminster] seat, and the Tories are trying desperately to take it "back". They require a swing of just under 5% to capture it from Labour.
My man inside the Stirling Tory campaign says - and this is hard information, by the way - that the Tories were ahead on the postal vote, with the SNP pushing Labour into third. With half the ballots now counted, the SNP are in pole position - just - with the Tories second and Labour still third. The remaining votes are, they think, from more rural areas of the constituency, which tend to be more Tory. It's going to be tight.
Looks like it's the night for the Lib Dems :/ Iain if you will strip for Rhonda, I dread what you will do if the Tories get past the 20 barrier in Scotland!
The sound is breaking up every five seconds or so and staying off for five or six seconds, so one cannot understand any of the commentary and I am out of here.
It was a wonderful, engaging programme while one could hear it.
any views on this comment/conclusion from nick robinson's blog?
Some early signs of how the Tories are doing in the north. The party says that they are on course to become the largest party in Bury and to make gains in Crewe and Nantwich. The official results are not yet in. Sounds good - at first.
These areas used to have Tory MPs and these are councils they really need to take control of. So, the verdict will be likely to be good, but not good enough
Birmingham Uni CF are doing some blogging tonight about the Bimingham wards, it is slighlty spontaneous. We are very hopeful of winning three wards and becoming the biggest party in Birmingham Council
East Herts district verification tonight suggests it could to be an interesting count tomorrow. BNP potentially gain their first seat in Bishop's Stortford. A coalition of 'independents' look set to gain small number of Tory seats. Oddly (considering they haven't done any campaigning), there were rather a lot of crosses against Labour candidates.
40 irish gypos arrive at the pearly gates.....st peter is shocked and says "sorry lads we only have room for 10".......he trundles off to god to explain.....god is adamant that only 10 can be allowed in ...... god sees peter running back towards him breathless and blurts out "theyve gone" ........."what all of them?' says god........."no the gates"!
After starring in films like Get Shorty and Twins and producing Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich, Danny DeVito is one of Hollywood's most successful men.
The Italian-American actor is now branching out into Italian lemon liqueur following a drunken appearance on US TV show The View late last year.
"I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me," he said at the time.
Showing a true businessman's instinct for turning a PR disaster to his advantage, his own brand of his favourite tipple will go on sale in the US later this year, costing $23.99 (£12) for 750ml.
How can you stop indigenous people voting for the BNP when mass immigration is turning inner-city areas into miniature versions of Warsaw or Islamabad?
It’s a serious question. I dislike the British National Party. But I can appreciate why people are voting for them.
He was being booed by SNP types and started ranting about how they let the party down, how it did the SNP down, how he, the Labour Party and the Scottish people would not be intimidated.
Something in the water - he and the winner in Kelvin (next to each other) both delivered their speeches in the key of screech.
Huge spoilt papers up here (7% in Kelvin). Problems with boats and helicopters from the islands. Computer problems up everywhere and a ned smashing up a few ballot boxes in Edinburgh West.
150 comments:
Tomorrow Blair will thank the electorate for electing him president
Canterbury is believed to go from Tories to the Liberal Democrats. Conservatives haven't been doing well here, bad press.
The count starts at 9am tomorrow, I shall be nice and inform you of the result :)
Annnd! on my blog, i have the current make up of the Canterbury Council. So, you can make a rough guess on how it will go.
I live in a small ex-mining village, a former Labour stronghold. Although the ward is represented by a popular independent councillor, it is normally rock-solid Labour at the national level. I was out at the polling stations in support of the SNP. The estimated turnout at the 3 polling stations I visited was 50%. Labour only fielded campaigners at 1 polling station out of the 3. Despite the convenient polls yesterday (not the YouGov one today though!) and the decision of the Scottish red tops to support Labour, I think Labour are in for a real kicking.
I live in a small borough in West London - a Conservative stronghold. However, there has been no sign of any election activity by the local councillors. And the polling stations were operating today as primary schools. Not sure what's going on, but I will keep you posted.
Haven't a clue sadly - council not counting till tomorrow. I live in Aylesbury which is expected to fall to the Lib Dems but I can't vote as my postal vote never arrived. Is suspect that I am not the only one and am complaining to the Electoral Commission to try to find out more. I can only hold out hope for a legal challenge but I suspect this is highly unlikely.
Dazed and Confused.
London has no elections today, only the rest of the UK, Why London is excluded is odd, its a quirk of our electoral system
Very little going on here, candidate wise, we have an idle toad and conservative reps.
No, lib dem, no Labour...interesting, although strictly speaking the toad is an erstwhile Labour man so presumably he will follow their line come the crunch.
The idle toad is an independant for those of you assuming I'm hurling slander btw ;) )
Expectations have been stupidly overhyped in this election.
Expect low turnout, Conservative gains short of expectations, Labour not doing too badly. V.close result in Scotland - Labour retain most seats.
Very bad expectation management by Tories - it will look compartively good for Labour and bad for them.
9.15: you are bhownagree and I claim my £5.
Er, no. I am a Tory party member and there is no £5 for you.
(for the record: "bhownaggree" - he can't even spell it properly - is a tw*t)
I hate to say it - really I do - but I think that's what's going to happen. We don't do *that* well.
Everyones gone a bit over the top in their predictions this year.
When I voted late this afternoon I asked about turnout, which they said was low. This is a a quite strong Conservative area (Stone, Staffordshire, Bill Cash's constituency). Could this somehow bode ill for the Tories across the country as a whole?
Hello Everybody,
Mike Rouse here in the Doughty Street studio. Keep posting to this comment thread. I've got my eye on it all night. Also email myself, Iain or Shane on studio@18doughtystreet.com.
We need your news!
Mike
Newsflash from sleepy leafy South Gloucestershire: unprecedented turnout, thousands of voters young and old marching robotically to the polling stations like Cybermen, eyes glazed, chanting in unison "Dale! We Want Dale!" Interviewed later, flustered citizens claimed to have received subliminal messages saying "go on go on go on you know you want to VOTE VOTE VOTE FOR ME VOTE do it for me GO ON GO ON". Many stated their disappointment that Mr Iain Dale did not appear on the ballot paper, forcing them to add his name in pencil, but all were confident they had made the right decision. "Aye, that Iain Dale's the man for the retired miner!", said a retired miner, adding that he had always voted Labour before but "summat just came over me".
In rural Aberdeenshire people still voting late on met a couple just walking down at 21:30 and the Polling station was quite busy. Hopefully a good turnout, itching to see change in Scotland
Just thrown up 2003 results on my blog;
http://theliberalrepublican07.blogspot.com/
9.50 PM: The only light in my little village street comes from a back room in the village hall, where an elderly couple keep vigil until 10.00 PM. The street is deserted. The last voter came at 8.45 PM, but still they keep their vigil till the statutory hour. Rather touching.
Our forefathers fought long and hard for the secret ballot and the universal franchise and now millions can't be bothered to vote.
But who can blame them, in local elections? All we want is our dustbins emptied once a week and none of our candidates has anything to say on that subject, expect that they are subject to central government directions.
IDS has just rolled up on Sky News. Thank God the polls closed 40 minutes ago.
Is this the best Central Office could do? Or has Adam upset them in some way?
There are rumours around that the BNP have made a big breakthrough in Essex
If we lose Malvern Hills DC it will be because we were forgetting to mark down postal voters on canvass returns such that people were wasting hours knocking them up this evening!
In my area of Oxfordshire (Dave Cameron's constituency) went at about 4.00 p.m no one in the streets surrounding the polling station and only 4 people in there. Only had two candidates for the local council (Lib Dem and Cons) to vote for and only 10 candidates for the 9 seats on the parish council. It seems democracy has died....
If you all know so much why aren't you at the counts!?
"Aye, that Iain Dale's the man for the retired miner!", said a retired miner, adding that he had always voted Labour before but "summat just came over me".
Iain Dale came over a retired miner?
Who the fuck picked that horrible pink set for 18 Doughty Street?
Also, I thought gay men had a sense of style; what the fuck is Iain Dale wearing?!
Lutterworth is full of in-breds.
Iain - we love you!
Just back from a 5 hour stint telling for the Conservatives at one of Harlow's polling stations - where things looked very good there.
Haven't seen hide or hair of nulab or the Lib Dems all day - until around 9.30 pm when one of the Lib Dem candidates came to vote.
Nulab and the Lib Dems couldn't muster a single teller for the polling station I was based in.
Eating at my pc, I am so famished.
Auntie Flo'
I'm keeping an eye on the very Web 2.0 election results map on the Dim Leb's website.
I understand that bad news may be on it's way from Epping in Essex Iain.
This little, well heeled, middle class market town in the Metropolitan Green Belt a few miles from here has already shocked the district by electing 6 BNP councillors. Here's the current council elected 2006:
BNP 6
Conservatives 29
Independent Group 3
Labour 1
Lib Dems 13
Loughton Residents Assoc 5
Independent 1
There is a very real possiblity, I understand, that the BNP will win more seats, perhaps snatching nulab's only ward in Epping.
I hope the fears prove groundless, I want to see Blair kicked, but not that way.
Auntie Flo'
I've been taking part in the count in Coventry and it looks like Labour may take the Council back from the Tories.
Where did you nick that laptop from Iain? Do you want to give it to me?
That bald headed is a bit of a c*nt...Ming would beat the southern softie David in hand-to-hand comabt. BRING IT ON!
Iain would know all about size wouldn't he? Go on Iain, how big are you?
Not very relevant (sorry) but Peter Hain on Newsnight talking about Ian Paisley: "we are diametrically opposed politically - he is fiery orange and I am not"
PML - Hain is as Orange as they come!
BBC Parliament reports turnout in Scotland about 60%
More news from Harlow. I understand that there may be a couple of interesting results here.
The ward to watch is nulab controlled Little Parndon - one of half a dozen parishes which, along with the village of Harlow, were swallowed when the new town of Harlow was built in the late 40s- 50s.
Are nulab going to lose control of their stronghold in Little Parndon? I understand it's possible. However, I'm told it's very close, so keep your finger crossed.
There's also an interesting situation in the Lib Dem stronghold of Staple Tye. Will it still be a stronghold by midnight or there abouts?
Respect are fielding a very popular candidate, Maureen Topley, in the Labour controlled ward of Toddbrooks, so that's an interesting ward to watch too.
Lastly a former local Conservative party leader, Chris Ford, who retired from politics a few years ago is standing as an Independent, would you believe, for the Conservative stronghold of Old Harlow. He was a very popular local politician, so it will be interesting to see what effect he has on that result.
Blimey, look at the time, I must shoot off to the count! It might be in by midnight. Will our nulab, government minister MP be there, I wonder, or is the rumour I've heard that he'll be miles away in another town true?
Auntie Flo'
2 seat swing needed - not 4 or 5.
Robinsons intro to bbc progranne as biased as possible. he really is a total wanker isnt he?
Tip - East Riding Of Yorkshire - looks like a LD win here and quiet a shock for Cameron's Tories.
This Birmingham postal vote-rigging nonsense is queerer than a 3 bob note.
Does anyone like ginger beer?
Smart people don't vote Tory hence no Tory scum in Oxford or Cambridge. Haw-Haw!
Looks like the Tories have lost overall control in Warwick with gains from Independents and the Lib Dems taking the council back to NOC.
Looks like the Tories have lost overall control in Warwick with gains from Independents and the Lib Dems taking the council back to NOC.
Looks like the Tories have lost overall control in Warwick with gains from Independents and the Lib Dems taking the council back to NOC.
The music played over your promo thing just now sounds like it was ripped from a porn flick. I like!
Mr eugenides reports
11:53pm: Stirling is Michael Forsyth's old [Westminster] seat, and the Tories are trying desperately to take it "back". They require a swing of just under 5% to capture it from Labour.
My man inside the Stirling Tory campaign says - and this is hard information, by the way - that the Tories were ahead on the postal vote, with the SNP pushing Labour into third. With half the ballots now counted, the SNP are in pole position - just - with the Tories second and Labour still third. The remaining votes are, they think, from more rural areas of the constituency, which tend to be more Tory. It's going to be tight.
jeremy vine making a tool of himself on bbc progcan
Beaten Sky and the BBC - aren't you great?
Iain Dale a brother who likes it live and loose - little too much information Mr Dale!
Mike and Iain sitting in a tree, k.i.s.s.i.n.g.
Get 'em off Iain - lets see what you got!
Looks like it's the night for the Lib Dems :/
Iain if you will strip for Rhonda, I dread what you will do if the Tories get past the 20 barrier in Scotland!
And the BBC have Sarah Teather for the Lib Dems, who looks like a pug with a wig.
Why did the BBC drag up that t*rd munching LibDem creep from Winchester?
Just for interest, if you have sky tv ,channel 972 BBC1 Wales and Channel 971 BBC1 Scotland.
LD hold West Lindsey
CON hold Tamworth
CON hold Peterborough
CON hold Broxbourne
CON hold Brentwood
LAB hold Sunderland
Anyone know if Guildford is counting tonight - we want news of the legendary Cllr Sheridan Westlake!
I hear Iain has a lot of meat between his legs, in fact he has 3 legs. Puts Claude Makélélé to shame.
*Shock Rumour*
Plaid Cymru are pipping Labour to the post in Llanelli
CON hold Worcester
LAB hold Easington
And please Iain, no more singing!
LAB hold Halton.
And yes, the feed is freezing a lot! Don't want to do the audio stream as we are expecting nakedness!
The sound is breaking up every five seconds or so and staying off for five or six seconds, so one cannot understand any of the commentary and I am out of here.
It was a wonderful, engaging programme while one could hear it.
LAB hold Sunderland
CON hold Swale
This is a lot more fun Iain than Murdoch's evil Sky or the dour BBC...
I'm watching in LA right now. Great TV guys, keep it up.
CON hold Great Yarmouth
Mexico.
When you say "I can't cope with Links," are you referring to hyperlinks of Lynx spray..?
Bow-chicca-wow-wow
BNP have lost there first Cllr - let's hope its not there last loss of the night.
I am watching in NZ. Moved out here 8 months ago (BLiar made me do it) and am enjoying your coverage.
I'd love to spray my banana all over your body Iain!
CON hold Southend-On-Sea
BNP loss in Broxbourne
Harlow remains NOC
CON hold Havant
It's either...
[*No. 1*] Channel
[*No. 2*] "Temptation" by Jade Goody...
Or..
[*No. 3*] Cheezy Peas - a combination of cheese and peas.
BNP forecast to take more seats from Labour in Essex
Iain - BNP lost the Cllr in Broxbourne
any views on this comment/conclusion from nick robinson's blog?
Some early signs of how the Tories are doing in the north. The party says that they are on course to become the largest party in Bury and to make gains in Crewe and Nantwich. The official results are not yet in. Sounds good - at first.
These areas used to have Tory MPs and these are councils they really need to take control of. So, the verdict will be likely to be good, but not good enough
CON hold Shrewsbury & Atcham
CON hold Walsall
NOC in Southampton
Coventry UPDATE - NOC
NOC in Sefton and Barrow-In-Furness
CON gain Chester
emily maitliss on bbc (sound down) and Iain Dales aftershave conversation on 18doughty DS. Happy?
NOC hold Weymouth & Portland
I'm not gay, but I think Mr. Dale is very attractive.
His eyes are very similar to Salman Rushdie's.
NOC hold Bristol
NOC hold Elmbridge
LAB hold Motherwell
Iain
You strike me as a Dolce & Gabbana Men's Cologne kind of guy.
Tom
Go on Iain, scratch your balls so I can have a sniff.
Birmingham Uni CF are doing some blogging tonight about the Bimingham wards, it is slighlty spontaneous. We are very hopeful of winning three wards and becoming the biggest party in Birmingham Council
NOC hold Carlisle
I think Iain splashes on a bit of Cream of Sum Jung Boi in the morning.
East Herts district verification tonight suggests it could to be an interesting count tomorrow. BNP potentially gain their first seat in Bishop's Stortford. A coalition of 'independents' look set to gain small number of Tory seats. Oddly (considering they haven't done any campaigning), there were rather a lot of crosses against Labour candidates.
is john burton an ageing circus act>????
what was that one in the purple bottle sold in the eighties? smelt like old socks
Iain's Dale's Cologne:
1) “The Hitch” – by the Hitch [a viking musk combining the blood of gypsies with the sweat of Romanian donkeys.]
iain
a dunhill man without doubt- stylish
NOC hold Bolton
LAB hold Stevenage
CON hold Tandridge
LD gain Rochdale
CON hold South Bedfordshire
LD hold Stockport
Any chance of a job or internship at 18DS Iain?
NOC hold Preston
40 irish gypos arrive at the pearly gates.....st peter is shocked and says "sorry lads we only have room for 10".......he trundles off to god to explain.....god is adamant that only 10 can be allowed in ...... god sees peter running back towards him breathless and blurts out "theyve gone" ........."what all of them?' says god........."no the gates"!
Iain, if you taste sour then eat lots of pineapple, will make you taste great and your lover will definitely swallow!
LAB hold Knowsley
CON hold Mole Valley
CON hold Macclesfield
iain was that my joke?
NOC hold West Devon
STOP SINGING!
Harlow election result:
As forecast, the Conservatives have won the election in the Lib Dem controlled Staple Tye ward.
Nulab held onto their stronghold ward of Little Parndon - just. There are only c 100 votes between the two parties here.
Auntie Flo'
NOC hold Torridge
NOC hold Bury
SNP gain Dundee West
NOC hold Harlow - BUT, Lib Dems lose two seats.
Auntie Flo'
Apparently, Mourinho was seen in Boots this morning buying viagra. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't get past a semi...
Iain, were you forking over cash for sex there?
LAB hold Tameside
CON gain North Warwickshire
Maccelsfield is CON hold not a gain
CON hold Hyndburn
CON hold Rushmoor
Don't stop broadcasting - I'm having fun!
CON hold Worthing
CON hold Castle Point
Iain and Co.,
What's your favourite smell...?
I like smells. I like smelling things.
I don't think your colleague bought you any cock or arse.
LD hold Eastleigh
LAB hold Ellesmere Port & Neston
How shite is the BBC analysis so far?
Iain - no buggering you filthy man!
LAB hold Salford
CON hold Chorley
NOC hold Wyre Forest
POTUS has to sign-off now, he has to get up at 4am...
Have fun guys and keep it up (Iain if you have a problem you can always speak to Mourinho ;)
Iain,
Since you like lemon you might like this:
DANNY DEVITO'S PREMIUM LIMONCELLO LIQUEUR
After starring in films like Get Shorty and Twins and producing Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich, Danny DeVito is one of Hollywood's most successful men.
The Italian-American actor is now branching out into Italian lemon liqueur following a drunken appearance on US TV show The View late last year.
"I knew it was the last seven limoncellos that was going to get me," he said at the time.
Showing a true businessman's instinct for turning a PR disaster to his advantage, his own brand of his favourite tipple will go on sale in the US later this year, costing $23.99 (£12) for 750ml.
Iain,
Here’s a serious question:
How can you stop indigenous people voting for the BNP when mass immigration is turning inner-city areas into miniature versions of Warsaw or Islamabad?
It’s a serious question. I dislike the British National Party. But I can appreciate why people are voting for them.
How big a factor is the Gordon Brown looming? At he moment it's the economy that is keeping Labour in the swing.
I'm liveblogging from Scotland. Bill Butler of Glasgow Anniesland has just gone off the rails on TV. Idiot.
RS
reactionary snob - details please ! sounds fantastic..
Sticky keyboard Iain - stop wanking over gay porn onto your laptop!
Anonymous,
He was being booed by SNP types and started ranting about how they let the party down, how it did the SNP down, how he, the Labour Party and the Scottish people would not be intimidated.
Something in the water - he and the winner in Kelvin (next to each other) both delivered their speeches in the key of screech.
Huge spoilt papers up here (7% in Kelvin). Problems with boats and helicopters from the islands. Computer problems up everywhere and a ned smashing up a few ballot boxes in Edinburgh West.
Welcome to Labour's Scotland.
It's looking VERY VERY BAD for Labour in Wales.
I'm blogging from inside the BBC so have all the latest gossip...
http://blamerbellbriefs.blogspot.com
Torbay
Massive night for the Cons, but nobody yet dares to mention it.
In fact it won't get mentioned at all.
ps fuck off back to woolworths Peter Hain.
Peter Hain: why no DNA re-investigation of that Bank job?
I wonder if the Schoolboys wear glasses.
I wonder where the "double" is now?
Salmond now has two jobs - representing two constituencies, two electorates, two different parliamentary bodies...
RS
Colchester still counting.
Not looking great though. We really expected to take control of the council and yet we might be looking at losing 2 but gaining 2.
When I left the count though there were a couple of wards too close to call so finger crossed!
I promised to announce a competition to liven things up.
I’m looking for the oldest date by which a politician is promising to update their website.
The best I have found so far is Tony Benn’s website, which is promising that it WILL be updated in 2005. See my article here.
Link on my name.
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