Election 2010 Results Here

i voted at 7AM this morning... fingers crossed it was woth it. 

And queuing for 2 hours and not being able to vote is also unacceptable.

With the exception of the piles of students turning up late doors, it sounds like there's a really mess in several constituencies.

The Electoral Commission has spoken:

* Those issued with a ballot paper MUST BE ALLOWED TO VOTE

* Those locked outside the polling station at 2200 or later CAN NOT VOTE

* Those locked inside the polling station WITHOUT a ballot paper CAN NOT VOTE

* Doors must be closed at 2200.

This is the law. Apparently if it is broken, the constituency in question will be subject to a petition. The Electroal Commission are calling for reforms to the way people can vote so this doesn't happen again.

It is looking like there may be a legal challenge.

In one constituency it is looking like there may be riots.

The Conservatives want change, change this:

* Proprtional representation

* New laws regulating voting (i.e. if you turn up to vote, you can). Even in Africa they kept the polling stations open for days longer than planned so everyone could vote! It is disgusting that we can not in the UK.

Where are the people who monitor elections? Why aren't they monitoring OURS?

Best regards,
Vulcan.

The markets are responding favorably to the current situation. They're reporting they just opened the Bond markets, and that Sterling is trading 1 cent up against the Dollar.

The Tories claimed that a hung parliament would mean bad things for the UK economically, and that the IMF would step in, but that is utter rubbish. Experts were saying a few days ago that the markets are pretty calm regarding either kind of outcome, either hung or Con.

Of course, we don't know what deals have been done or promised ahead of the election (or long ahead of the election...).

Best regards,
Vulcan.

Nah - it is a pretty good bet that it will be a hung parliament.

Hopefully it will be a Labour/Lib Dem coalition. Keep the Tories away from power!!

Any budget cuts will have to be made by any party, and I doubt that the cuts, interest rate and tax rises to follow would be that different between the parties, but the Conservatives would do far more damage than that to the country!

Cameron must be rather annoyed at not getting into No. 10 and missing out on that tax free salary.

Assuming a Labour/Lib Dem coalition, and assuming they can make it work for more than a couple of months, I will bet that there will be a Tory leadership challenge and Cameron will be kicked out on a vote of no confidence. If he couldn't do it now, they wouldn't think he could do it later. He couldn't do it in 2005 either.

Best regards,
Vulcan.

M31... Just a little word, the use of bad language isn't allowed according to the forum rules.

Problem is, if Labour are back in and they don't cut spending, that'll damage the markets and the economy.

The UK is a good place to invest in at the moment. Not tied to the Euro with a much stronger economy than some of the other Eurozone countries. But if the deficit continues to rise at the current rate, investors will get spooked that down the line it could go Greek and will resort to the Dollar instead.

The £ is already down slightly on the uncertainty, but it's being eclipsed by the Greek tragedy. We'll know more next week once the market has had the weekend to digest the power brokering.

Another 5 years of that joker Broon - God help us!

Unite will be laughing all the way to the picket line. They'll prevent any serious cost cutting, and have massive leverage over the Labour coalition. The NI increase will hurt business for sure and there'll be more disparity between public and private sector job cuts.

Labour won't have the stomach to battle the Union and the populace won't take kindly to the strikes.

On the up side, if the Liberals go into coalition with Labour, and Labour perform as dire as usually, both of them will end up being despised which will give the Torys a clear run next time.

Bad language, you are having a laugh mate

Nick Clegg has said that the Conservatives must demonstrate that they can rule in the interest of the country, and that they will consider working with them.

The bonus is that the Conservatives will be forced to rule in the interest of the country and not the party, and not just make a statement to that effect.

We need to wait and see, and that could be a few days.

Best regards,
Vulcan.

The Conservatives are showing their true colors already!

The in-fighting has already begun, the blame-game has started amongst Conservative politicians over the election, and the Conservatives have said that they will **NOT** entertain political reform as part of any deal with the Lib Dems.

They are also talking about a voting system of Alternative Vote, not Proportional Representation.

It is rubbish that PR creates "weak governments" (according to the Conservatives). The Conservatives don't like it as they don't get absolute power.

We must have PR. The Conservatives are already breaking any hint that they want to move away from "the old politics".

No surprises here so far.

Best regards,
Vulcan.