Well, the day of the General Election 2015 is upon us and here is a thread that can be used JUST to cover how the rotten BBC covers it. I’m afraid I won’t be around for the next few days due to a family bereavement so will catch up the other side of the Election.
ELECTION DAY OPEN THREAD….
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Emily Maitliss says “UKIP could be the big unknown” after UKIP come 2nd in Sunderland. Good result! Yeah, the big unknown, no thanks to the BBC.
Rumour: Balls has lost his seat !
And pos. Clegg
22:54 Clegg Will Lose Claims Politics Proffesor
“If the Lib Dems have only won ten seat, it is very unlikely Nick Clegg has won his seat.” – Professor Simon Hix (Professor of European and Comparative Politics and Fellow of the British Academy Head of Department of Government London School of Economics)
That would be brilliantly hilarious if true! (He could have lost at the last election if all the UKIP voters had voted Tory.)
I wouldn’t get too excited by the exit polls just yet, they’ve been known to be wildly inaccurate in the past. In some areas there has been talk of intimidation and bullying, but that’s usually thuggish lefty types so the vote might be even higher. I think I can get a reasonable night’s sleep believing that Miliband minor and poisonous Jimmy Krankie aren’t going to play havoc with our country. However, in my opinion, it really is only the lesser of two evils. We need a decent Kipper turnout to force the European issue. Fingers crossed for Nigel and co.
Oh, and if the BBC are pissed off then I’m really chuffed..
In the 2010 election the exit poll was dead right ,on Tory , Labour, Lib dem seats .
Maybe, but the UKIP vote is already massively higher than anticipated. However, with selective voting in Thanet the Tories and the lefties could seriously damage Nigel.
In some of these northern seats you could put Sooty up and he’d get elected.
Hopefully good news re Ed bollocks Balls.
Fingers crossed!
The BBC have got depressing but dependable Dimbleby major whilst ITV have the gorgeous, though scatty, Nina Hussain in a black mini dress. Which one do I watch?
Sorry Dave…
I hope I’m wrong, but I think Nigel has had enough (or his family have asked him to stop – the pub incident might have been the final straw). His heart doesn’t seem to be in it, like it was in the EU elections. He would have known his promise to quit would entice the ‘get Farage’ brigade to mobilise. Maybe that’s what he wants – his life back and an end to the death threats/bullying and intimidation of his family. He cried on TV when they asked about the impact on his family.
The left truly are nasty c*nts.
Grimer – I agree with you 100%. Farage has stepped down before, and bounced back, as did Salmond. Farage needs another break and has earned it. UKIP has much more capable talent now to share the burden.
Oh yeah , trying to pick over the bones again , I`ve raided the BBC`s champers store & I am getting sozzled .The Evil Balls might loose too , fucking great.
Red clothes for the Labour dollies
Talking about UKIP on the WS now. Amazingly, without insulting them. Saying they might only get two seats but it will be interesting to see what % of the vote they will get. Also mentioning the EU.
Talking to Rob Ford about them.
Conservatives second in another Labour Sunderland , rotten borough , Kippers third , thought you were on the up . Oh dear ,what a shame .More champers please .
It’s a bit early to be bidding for the night’s stupidest post, isn’t it?
Sunderland Central: Conservative vote: -6.7
UKIP: + 16.6
Con down by about 3000 and LDs down 6000. UKIP also up by 6000.
That looks like up to me
But the Conservatives were 2nd not 3rd . Farage might be 3rd in South Thanet too , Oh dear , Rochester & Strood back to Tories as well .
Ought you not to be in your local Golf Club running your sweaty hand up the leg of the Ladies Captain ? You might score yet you lucky boy.
23:30 Washington and Sunderland West
Another second place for UKIP, Lib Dems on 5th again!
Labour – 20478
UKIP – 7321
Conservatives – 7033
Greens – 1091
Liberal Democrats – 993
you were sluring
I saw the first declaration in Sunderland. The Labour people in the crowd seemed hysterically surprised to have beaten UKIP into second place. While the expert on the BBC said he was surprised, because he was expecting the Tories to come second.
Kirsty and Emily dressed in The Party red. Could have chosen blue, but decided on red.
or white or black or brown or ……
JoCo in Margate…..I wouldn’t wear that paste necklace on the streets in Margate love, might get a few Romanians chasing you thinking you’re rich not a socialist.
Naga in Newcastle, probably in that police led convoy I saw going the other way on the A 1
I think JoCo may become the first reporter to cry at a count, if Farage wins…
Nick Robinson thinks “its striking that the two results from the north east is not just that labour are doing well of course there, but also that UKIP are the big success story. Big big swings there”
Just before he said UKIP, he really stuck his tongue out and as a student of body language (someone who’s read a few books and watched a few docs), that usually indicates a sign of disgust. You’ll often see football managers doing it in post match interviews, particularly if their team has lost. Anyway they’re not enjoying this at all at the beeb, which means that I am!
Just put this onto Radio Devon’s facebook page.
[Of course, good people of Devon, if the Tories win this election, it means that we will have to suffer BBC Radio Devon news presenters mentioning the word “cuts” every three minutes from tomorrow until the next general election. Please, BBC Radio Lefty, spare my ears, the last five years has been bad enough, please, not another five years. 8-(]
Turn off Devon & listen to Essex instead , we know some of the presenters & would lynch them . They are very fair in Essex , & the Brilliant James Whale is on the station too .
Vernon Bogdanor: LibDems wont go for it, loose deal with DUP, CMD has big problem over Europe.
Foggy all your predictions are ,fantasy , & I wouldn`t rely on you as a bookmaker .
Not looking good for Nigel. Off to bed, slightly drunk
Normal service resumed on the bbc, the polls are absolute bollocks and liebour are actually going to win with nick robinson going through the annals of history to explore every close call that liebour has won.
Like a dying man trying to catch that last breath in desperation.
Just to inject a bit of BBC bias back into the site !
Readers are aware that this exit poll of 22000 voters was not conducted by a polling company, but by the BBC ?
It’s a very large sample size so theoretically should be accurate, however if it is accurate then what on earth have 90% of the pollsters been doing to get it so wrong these past weeks?
On the other hand can we trust the BBC to have conducted a fair and unbiased exit poll? After all impartiality runs in their veins !
Tories never tell the pollsters what they voting , it always understates their vote .The exit poll comes from SKY , ITV too.
That’s been the point all along, in the modern age and with the negative media coverage of government policy, the infiltration of labour in to the charities and NGO sector, then people are playing their cards close.
Also, self selecting poll contributors on the web might overstate the totally zealous. Yougov will now probably go the same way as Angus Reid. Kellner looks like an ass tonight.
Would be gutted if Nigel didn’t make it. It would be such a huge missed opportunity for the future of freedom and democracy. Somehow I smell shenanigans on the part of Labour and the BBC, but still, feel a bit nervy!
Dimbleby announces that it looks like UKIP is third on the popular vote. Seems quite resigned when he said that. All I can say is “Well D’uh!”
Don’t they say that, in a democracy, people get the government they deserve? Whatever befalls the indigenous subjects of the UK, they had a chance to make a fresh start, but they declined. The message was clear enough, the bias, bad though it was, is no excuse.
No, don’t get me wrong. I believe in democracy, but Nigel right now is the best hope of getting the UK out of the hugely undemocratic EU. I’m from Ireland myself. A referendum and UK pulling out will help collapse that foul edifice which should mean a lot to anyone who loves freedom. With more EU integration, economic stagnation and mass immigration we’ll be seeing the end of democracy all over Europe. Then we’ll all get what we get whether we deserve it or not… That’s all I meant.
Besides, I really like Nigel. Amongst other things he’s very funny. My head tells me he’ll win, but I’d be gutted if he didn’t. He did seem very relaxed for the whole of last week so maybe he knows something we don’t.
UKIP are still an unknown quantity but are making headway but slowly as one would expect. If Nigel Farage did not win the seat he had hoped for and does decide to stand down, he will be missed. Having watched him in the European parliament for some time now, not having him in the H.O.P. will be a great loss. But, you never know, fate can deal strange hands.
Well, he didn’t look a happy bunny on ITV just now. Too divisive a character, I guess. If that’s the hand fate has dealt, it can be used to advantage by getting someone less divisive to attract votes from people who would never vote for Nigel.
I would dispute that Nigel Farage is ‘divisive’.
I would suggest that he has been made to appear that way by the most sustained propaganda campaign this country has seen for the past 50 years.
If Farage has lost in Thanet, I think it will be because he (unwisely, in my opinion) said he would immediately step down as leader if he was not elected. This has really galvanised the anti-Ukip vote.
Frankly, I think the man deserves to win. He has almost single-handedly brought his party from 3% to (probably) being the third party in British politics. Pretty amazing achievement.
If Farage has lost in Thanet, I think it will be because he (unwisely, in my opinion) said he would immediately step down as leader if he was not elected. This has really galvanised the anti-Ukip vote.
For sure; but maybe he thinks ‘I’m worn out, I’ve done my best for you, you decide.’ Couldn’t blame him.
Frankly, I think the man deserves to win. He has almost single-handedly brought his party from 3% to (probably) being the third party in British politics. Pretty amazing achievement.
There’ll be a lot with long memories of how eager the sneering Tories were to ruin him.
Memories of the media, for sure.
The BBC behaved exactly as expected but the Mail and the Telegraph are forever damned in my eyes. Both papers have shown they are not fit to be treated as anything other than propaganda rags.
True. I think it was on the BBC news that Cameron planned to go to Thanet to gloat if Farage lost. Nice to know he has his priorities right (if true).
Rumours saying Nigel bang on track. He did look very bullish and buoyant today as well when casting his vote. It’s about time we had some decent conviction politicians in our countries.
In spite of the bias he came across very well. He’s also been on telly about as much as any of the front benchers from the other parties.
If he’s been made to appear that way, then he is, whether justified or not, which is why he hasn’t won (though Paul Nuttal disputes this). But we’re dancing on the head of a pin here. If Nigel hasn’t won, UKIP has to move on without him and become less of a one-man band, which I think they’ve shown during the campaign they can do.
And yes, I think it was very unwise to say he’d step down. Unless he feels he’s had enough and this was his way of getting out.
I’m afraid British politics, whether we like it or not, has become about ‘one man bands’. It’s Cameron or Miliband or Clegg.
Nigel Farage has pulled off a near miracle by managing to add a fourth name as a challenger to the list of establishment hacks.
As a UKIP supporter, I have to admit that no one else I have seen in the party has anything like the required charisma to match him.
I think Suzanne Evans and Dianne James have the ‘right stuff’ to lead UKIP if necessary.
I’m 37 and I’ve never seen anything like it. The BBC bangs on about how badly Millitwat is treated, but sticks the boot into Farage daily.
Too divisive a character, I guess.
At a time when to be a nice person, you have to hand your country over to foreigners, then he probably is….. they said the same of Enoch; didn’t make him wrong.
Big pleasure at 23.40 on BBC watching Balls squirm trying to explain exit-polls.
And tortured by Dimbelby.
Deep joy 🙂
I would rather Harperson gets the chop , rather than Balls , She is total PC Evil , I am glad The Russian Millionaires will now stay , the one that owns the lefty Indy Newspaper wanted the Coalition to continue , so he can stay on , HSBC would of buggered off too .
Three seats declared and UKIP are neck and neck with the Tories.
In Labour Rotten Borough`s , not the Shires .
That may be, but nobody in their right mind will be coming on you Bunny.
James Naughtie on R4 having difficulty concealing his sense of bereavement.
And that’s only after one exit poll!
Does the BBC have any white reporters in any of the counting halls?
Well I hope after the Election the Kipper Fan Klub , finishes , on this site & we go back to Biased BBC , as it should be.You can go to” Kippers R Us”, to drown your sorrows.
Shouldn’t you be on EBay pricing up your family silver
Er What Silver , I would of left the country if Millipeed had Won , that`s correct . Glad I can stay now, is good . I am Happy . Galloway might get the boot too ,
man i would take a Stalinist landslide just to get rid of that twat galloway
Wise words suggest that UKIP are too young to make a big impact this year. But 2020 will be theirs.
Who knows?
The fixed term elections is a bit of a disaster, thanks Nick Clegg. Five years is a very long time. UK needs flexible terms back, it’s far better then to have a government stumbling for several years. Election reform is definitely needed.
Kippering will nose dive if Farage stands down , you got to face facts , we won`t go back to the 1950`s, which most of them want .If so, its back to the Home service & Light programme & 405 B &W T.V .
If we do get our Euro referendum under Cameron you can thank UKIP. There is no way Cameron would have offered that without UKIP and he may still use the LibDems as a smokescreen to wriggle out of it.
The result looks as I thought. I see it pleases you. The liberal elites have bought a litttle time . That is all. The existential problems facing us and Europe are not going to go away.
Third world and Muslim colonisation is going to go on and at a faster pace . And what a strange thing that is. Colonisation by the less competent. Something the world has rarely seen.
Few people are able to look ahead. It is not that hard and the future is firmly in the hands of liberal fantasists .All you can say of Cameron and his elite is that it is marginally more competent than Milleband.
But it is not fitted to deal with what is coming.
Can’t bear to watch the BBC (and I don’t have a licence) and won’t listen to BBC radio either. Won’t touch C4 either.
Happily STV is available and giving good coverage – of Scotland anyway.
Sky News also on. Good for me for UK coverage.
If Cameron wins then I will tune in later today and enjoy the R4 Today programme 🙂 The icing on the cake would be the Rt Hon Nigel Farage MP
What`s it like to live in a one party state ? Mr Flex . I am afraid you will be cut adrift from England soon . But you can have asylum in England , I am sure .
I hope to live long enough to see Scotland shake off socialism.
We shall do it together! Although it may take separatism to do it.
If Cameron is smart, he’ll review the Barnett formula, give Scotland the same as the rest of the UK, but give full spending power to Holyrood and watch them sink.
You should watch BBC, good to see them looking downcast!
They look absolutely distraught. Once again the bias is galling but still, serves them right!
Will Cameron now have the guts to depoliticise the BBC?
Hope so , Charter renewal will ,give the bastard`s a kicking , & put under Ofcom control . Farage is not going to win , Foggy , will be so disappointed .
Thanks to the internet I get all the coverage I need free of the BBC 😀
I did enjoy this though (seriuosly) so the BBC is not all bad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05t7kc1/all-aboard-the-canal-trip
and ‘Shark’ looks good too.
it is kind of gonna pain me that sinn fein have more morals than the snp
That’s simply not true. I’d choose SNP over SF in a heartbeat. I love my country, but would choose democrats over terrorist apologists any day.
at least SF dont take part in the thing they profess to hate and wish not to be part of terrorists yes hypocrites no
SF want to end the NI Assembly and have a united Ireland. SF has never won an election in NI yet is guaranteed a role in government.
yep and blair gave them that when he sold NI out
not arguing with you flexdream we probably closely aligned here the british people have been divided against each other whilst pandering to the foreigner
True. Yet more of his poisoned legacy.
Am I the only person who thinks the Lib Dems deserve better voters who live in the real world and understand what ‘coalition’ means?
True Liberal politicians should join the Conservatives or UKIP.
I’ve never voted for LibDEms, but I feel sorry for them. I guess too many of their supporters saw them as some form of Labour-Lite and could never forgive them for entering a coalition with the Conservatives.
ever since they became the lib dems and not the libs they shifted left left left and lost their own voters
churchill?
True. But the shift Left got them a sudden surge in support from the BBC. I noted this back in 2007, when suddenly, on the basis of no electoral success at all, the BBC suddenly promoted the LidDumbs to the front rank.
Libertarians or Classical Liberals are now regarded as Right-Wing, because they believe in individual freedom and the freedom to have thoughts and expressions that conflict with left-wing Political Correctness.
A freedom that is now only possible in a social environment, were no one is classed as inferior, by the left-wing rules of victim hood.
If farage loses Thanet despite overall ukip gains especially presumably in council seats that won’t be counted til tomorrow- then I think best that he carries out his offer to resign but stands for re-election as a sort of vote of confidence – thoughts?
if ukip polls 15% plus nige done a great job, from zero to third biggest party
Early hours. Personally I’d love to have seen him in action in parliament. Trouble is once you’ve burned your bridges it’s a bit difficult to get back.
I don’t think he can and retain any credibility, to be honest. And I’m not convinced he wants to.
I don’t think its about Kilroy-Silk or Farage.
I think its about the Independence of the United Kingdom.
I see the trolls have been busy, wasting their time. Anyway on to the matter in hand. I was watching the ITV coverage Owen Jones was off on his usual diatribe which featured the word hope multiple times. Switching between BBc and ITV was still giving the same view. Labour and BBC were in damage control mode early on so whilst it’s still very early 01:25 BBc are perceptibly trying to spin results i.e. Battersea “A disappointment” for Labour. I’ve given up on ITV as they wheeled out of all people Brian May (Queen). Kinnock was rambling on so much I had absolutely no idea what the hell he was on about. People telling pollsters one thing and then voting for someone else!!! The public being duped by Cameron…???
Labour hold Wrexham “easily” by 1,800. Easily? In Wrexham I used to live in Wrexham the proverbial you could put a donkey up for Labour up and it would win applied there. Over to the young voters..they don’t believe what’s happening…eeerrr ok!
Tristam Hunt “Milliband exceeded expectations” yep certainly exceeded mine.
As seen on the Live Chat:-
“Owen Jones has a face like a slapped baboon’s arse.”
Classic.
Galloway reported to police:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-32638176
bye bye paki pandering pc ponce
Was that language really necessary?
what pc
Not really. However you cannot disagree with the (implied) sentiment.
Fatcha! It’s all Fatcha’s fault!
Sinn Fein vote seems to be down. Is the BBC covering this?
Crikey, a Tory majority may well be on the cards! BBC to declare an official period of mourning.
Nuneaton a great result for the Conservatives. On Sky now Blunkett is telling it straight.
How will the BBC back pedal? Campaign for PR? That won’t work either 🙂 Scotland now looks like it might be a sideshow.
BBC now saying Tories will get an outright majority.
it would appear ukip taking labour and lib dem votes not tory so if the tories adopt ukip policy how many votes would they get, toughen up boys go with your gut you know what the people really think even if we to afraid/repressed/oppressed to admit it
How will the BBC explain UKIP taking Labour and LibDem votes? That wasn’t in the narrative.
Sturgeon looking a bit deflated, is it because she may no longer be Kingmaker in England. You would have thought she would have been happy.
The SNP members may prove to be toothless, leaving her with far less opportunity to cause trouble. And Labour MPs won’t be going out of their way to make the SNP look good by supporting them too often in the Commons.
You can be sure the Tories and Labour will be talking closely to come up with a strategy to harm the Nats. They won’t want to admit that, of course.
Labour in particular won’t want to help the SNP look a bit handy, they have to try to recoup some standing for next year’s Holyrood elections.
UKIP need to learn from this and move a little to the left with a more progressive approach to taxation, and a very posiitve approach to the NHs for British citizens
more progressive than who and what exactly
More progressive than their current position. They just need to target their Labour voters more, and seem less on the side of the rich. I think they should push for more Grammar schools too.
Agreed. In addition, they need to push for a whole & wholesome education system with the modern equivalent of Secondary Moderns & Technical – as well as Grammar – schools helping those youngsters who feel there is no purpose to education to catch a vision of something they can learn, skills they can obtain, something they can be good at.
In some parts of England, the bulk of the funding & the best teaching skills will need to be poured into those Secondary Modern & Technical schools to rescue kids who are being marginalised, or worse, by Comprehensive education.
the country needs to swing massively to the right just to regain the centre ground. What this election has proved is the majority of voters (except in National Socialist Scotland) dont want the far left politics pushed by Labour under Miliband and promoted by the BBC
They dont want the attacks on our freedom of speech and discrimination in favour of immigrants, or social housing going to them.
lol wee dougie alexander has lost his seat to the SNP
hahahahahahahahaha oh this election is fun
Douglas Alexander goneeee
never mind doughie the bbc has a job for you
I think he was one of the better Labour MPs. Scotland on course to be a one-party state. Not sure that is good news for any of us.
awwwwwwwww poor dougie, he sounds like he’s going to break down in tears
Just WTF do voters think a 20-year-old student lassie knows about life to be an MP?
Oh. It’s Paisley. They don’t do thinking there.
Mind you, sounds like she’s been smoking for 40 years.
Student trannie lassie by her voice. She sounds likea man.
erm a message for england ….. fuck off
5 million votes 60 seats er no pr,av any more ta
Shame the English didn’t get a vote on it (as usual)
I’m starting to worry that UKIP will only see a single seat returned for 4 million+ votes. Still, that’s democracy for us…
It was a ‘she’? Sounded like a bloke.
McBruins old seat has gone SnaziP.
I should be sorry – why am I laughing?
“eermmm” You know” Errmm” it’s Lucy Powell.
Wow four virtual swingommeters, wow.
they cant even take defeat gracefully
spin spin spin lies
How sad to see that smug twat Douglas Alexander voted out………..
hahahahaha
They keep indicating Nigel didn’t make it, though
Is this the first General Election to show there is absolutely no purpose served by BBC news?
Lousy, unbalanced debates. Partisan interviews. Unneeded election night coverage.
Still banging on about the future for labour. Trying to cheer themselves up I guess before they caught themselves or a producer said something in there ear Dimbleby “oh, ahem, this is a results program. Of course”
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3072932/Viewers-hit-BBC-s-embarrassing-election-coverage-senior-politicians-criticise-corporation-speculating-wrong-exit-poll.html
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Jim Murphy gonee
His speech in defeat was excellent, I thought
Let’s see Ashdown eat his hat
It’s still quite early, but I wonder what conclusions we can draw from this election and the projections for the number of seats. It seems this election has stripped the bias of BBC bare, but in spite of that it made no difference. In fact, it proved counter-productive. You really can’t polish a turd. The gains seem to have benefitted the conservatives. UKIP have done very well nonetheless in the popular vote, but perhaps not enough to win many seats. If Nigel doesn’t win I think it will cost UKIP momentum as the media exposure and the opportunity to challenge Cameron directly in the commons would have been hugely beneficial. Perhaps the BBC managed to score a blow with their dirty tricks if Farage isn’t elected. Still, overall a result. You wonder though, do things have to get worse in the UK before people vote for a party that promises an EU exit or is this par the course for a grassroots movement? I guess 15-20% for new parties rebelling against the EU is consistent. The UK voting system really needs reform.
So will there be a potential referendum? I think it’ll be put on the long finger as Dave “renegotiates”. Shame.
Andrew Neil now trying to run them down…
Cameron ‘promised’ a referendum. With a couple of conditions.
Yeah, the condition is that it doesn’t pass.
Is the BBC exit poll designed to build us up to fall in a mighty crash as I see Labour are beginning to make gains!
Sorry, I think I’ve fallen for the BBC’s “wishful thinking” rhetoric.
Marr lamenting the loss of Douglas Alexander to the country. In 2010 he spent hours denying that Labour had lost. One of the most vacuous tossers in politics. Only Chukka is more vacant.
BBC kite flying Chucky to replace The Millipeed !
Oh dear. Sour faces all round at the BBC tonight. Dimblebum looks like he’s choking on a dog turd. Ha ha ha !!!!
Ed Davey gone. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. The biggest clown ever to be inflicted on energy policy in this country since Ed Milliband. Thanks for nothing Davey.
I thoroughly enjoyed that.