please empty your brain below
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They think it's all over...it is now!
Grumpy Anon | 08.05.15 - 12:16 a.m. | #
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I love election night and am currently following proceedings from a friend's flat, a mere quarter mile from DG's abode, drinking beer and waiting for a Vietnamese takeaway to arrive from deepest Hackney. Add to that a DG commentary and what could be better?
Robert Johnson | Homepage | 08.05.15 - 1:29 a.m. | #
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03.57, I'm exhausted, bed calls. Very gracious speech by Jim Murphy, a decent bloke, but very pleased to see the back of the self-important sanctimonious Douglas Alexander. David Lammy needs to go on a diet, his face gets more pudgy by the year!
Julian | 08.05.15 - 4:00 a.m. | #
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... I feared that outcome. Often, when there is a threat of a hung parliament people read this as a bad thing, which in many ways I suppose it is (the pound would have dropped for a start), and thus they compensate by making a clear choice. In this case I guess it was for some form of stability, although I suspect that things are soon to become very unstable for a significant proportion of the UK citizenry.
Antipodean | 08.05.15 - 8:18 a.m. | #
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Ah, missed the live blogging. Had planned to go to bed and get up early, but the exit polls kept me up until it was very clear that the results were actually going that way. And now Ed Balls has lost his seat.
Andrew | 08.05.15 - 8:56 a.m. | #
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What time's the next train to Scotland?
timbo | 08.05.15 - 3:13 p.m. | #
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An interesting morning for me as after going to bed with a sinking feeling on seeing the exit polls, we go to the morning-after-the-election-night-before recording of Have I Got News For You.
This is just my impression mind, but having been to a recording previously, the audience is somewhat lacklustre as is the panel itself because it looks like most people are utterly dejected at the outcome (or it could be everyone is knackered from staying up late then getting up early to be here! I think it’s both).
About two thirds of the way through recording, the floor manager interrupts to say Nick Clegg has resigned. He comes over again to say Ed Miliband is resigning, and then once more to say Nigel Farage has gone – that got the biggest cheer and round of applause of the whole show! It'll be interesting to see if that section is left in the edit for tonight's show.
s | 08.05.15 - 4:11 p.m. | #
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I'm still struggling to come to terms with what the next 5 years are going to bring. :(
Cornish Cockney | 08.05.15 - 4:17 p.m. | #
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DG, it seems you didn't sleep at all last night ... did you have to go into work as usual or did you have the day off
Caroline | 08.05.15 - 4:37 p.m. | #
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I took a day off especially. That worked well.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.05.15 - 4:46 p.m. | #
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@Cornish Cockney:
Well, just for starters....
No NHS
No BBC
No United Kingdom
Withdrawal from the EU due to political agendas of millionaire owners of right papers who don't even live here
Further demonisation of anyone looking vaguely dusky
and many, many more....
G | Homepage | 08.05.15 - 5:47 p.m. | #
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One of my work colleagues took the day off especially. Hmm.
Andrew | 08.05.15 - 8:52 p.m. | #
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Sounds like some kind of Tyranny of the Majority is on the way?
Patrickov | 09.05.15 - 6:17 a.m. | #
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@ Patrickov ... don't forget that Hitler was a democratically elected leader.
Are there figures in yet for the percentage of the population who voted?
Antipodean | 09.05.15 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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Antipodean: I personally used that Hitler argument to challenge a high-ranked official (in HK) 12.5 years ago.
Patrickov | 09.05.15 - 11:48 a.m. | #
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