Pass the crisps: UK Election watch
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Apparently the beeb have a election barge. Armando Iannucci was tweeting at one point that its power was off, and was hence the worst place to be watching the election apart from Gordon Brown's trousers.
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JLM,
Because she thought there were too many jobs in the government!
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I'm sorry, the what now?
They're on a boat, bitch, with their swim trunks and their flippy-floppies.
Consider this: The UK is still a monarchy. A hung parliament is likely. In that event, the queen apparently gets the final say.
Joan Collins and Richard and Judy have been spotted aboard. Clearly the BBC are attempting to hijack the correct constitutional process. Now, can anyone confirm the presence of Julian Clary?
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Astounding phallic graphic of the UK election result superimposed on Big Ben right now!
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Speaking of which;
Ed Balls has indeed held his seat. As David Dimbleby says, the Tories have been denied their "Portillo moment". After the result, Mr Balls acknowledges it was "quite close" and pays tribute to his Conservative opponent for fighting a "straight" and "decent" campaign.
Oh come on, please don't make it this easy.
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Since we're heading in this direction, am I the only one that when the anchorman said "let's go to the count" didn't quite hear the word "count", but a similar one?
Also, I briefly thought that in Swindon they had a "Greek Party".
I should probably schedule a timpanometry.
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huzzah for Ed Balls...
Balls for Britain.
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Oh come on, please don't make it this easy.
Well, I'm watching Balls now and apparently the only reason he almost lost his seat was because of the "Ashcroft millions" -- where 'clueless' isn't so much a wonderful film as a career path.
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You'll be mishearing "German" as "Jewman" next.
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Whoops. The low-o-meter will start to operate soon. I was going to post Julian Clary's mincing machine earlier, but thought better of it. Still, Friday is a long day, especially when there's an election going on.
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Rich Lock spake of the UKIP
Crudely speaking, they want to 'unsign' Britain from any sort of EU treaty that's been signed in the last 30-40 years.
The UKIP seem to be working from within, having MPs in the European Parliament. The first I heard of the UKIP was in February when footage of one of their MEPs turned up on the news here shot during the Copenhagen climate meeting. He was praising France for sinking the Rainbow Warrior: Apology demanded for Warrior bombing comment
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I should probably schedule a timpanometry.
Beethoven's 10th is recommended, if you can afford the full string section.
And stop mumbling.
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I wonder if the BNP candidate for Hammersmith didn't take the stage because the conservative candidate was black.
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The BNP vote is more than slightly disturbing. Does this match increases in right wing parties across Europe? Apparently in Hungary it does.
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I don't know - how big is it ? They seem to be getting one-two thousand in every sit that reports live. That's about 3-3.5% of the vote on average. Don't know what the proportional vote overall is though.
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So was the guy behind Brown when his election was announced who was doing a black power salute clueless BNP candidate?
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He was a member of the landless peasants party I thought.
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actually on closer examination it appears it was, um, something else
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Holy crap the journo's must be doing it rough, I guess they do start counting at 10pm, but its 6:07am and they are still going
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Tympanometry for the devil?
actually on closer examination it appears it was, um, something else
Must be the representative from the British Satanist Party, he looks like Anton La Vey, but he's dead!
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Well, the Brighton Pavilion result is at least something to celebrate.
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From the Beeb's rolling updates:
Richard Shaw from New Zealand writes: As the only Westminster jurisdiction with significant experience of proportional representation, we could pass on a few lessons about governing under minority conditions. It's really not that scary: governments negotiate confidence and supply agreements, then get on with the business. Down here, at least, the sky hasn't yet fallen.
I confess, I've had the urge to explain stuff to people over there all damn day ...
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This is as stark an example of why FPP is not democracy as any I can imagine. At least political studies professors will now have a working example of why it sucks so badly.
Ok, so our MMP needs some improvement, but this is patently ridicolous. LD 22% of the vote (so far) and 7% of the seats. Right?
Whatthe?
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You know, the British have had minority governments in the past; in fact, they have had minority governments dependent on minor national parties, which looks like a probable outcome, which we haven't. It might be worth not getting too lecture-y.
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Hold the phone, BBC says Brown not necessarily down, even with Balls up. (sorry)
But seriously, apparently he could coalesce with Clegg and form a minority Government, as happened in 1974. Seems unlikely, but the Beeb is hypothesizing. Interesting.
Harold bloody Wilson aye.
@Keir Snap.
Oh, and RB, sorry for my backhander on quoting Twitter. The Beeb is doing it, so it is now officially journalism. Carry on.
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