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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Poor old Charles Kennedy. Won’t know he has lost his job until he sobers up this evening.
Emily Maitliss sporting a lovely red dress. Hopefully, it won’t blend in with the map of the UK behind her later.
“I do remember… the corridors of Broadcasting House were strewn with empty champagne bottles. I’ll always remember that”
I bet there are a lot of uncorked champagne bottles in Broadcasting House right now…
Glum faces all over the BBC. Delicious. How’s that Charter Renewal looking now, comrades? Love it!
Great results so far but will Cameron really do anything about the BBC?
Awake & on R4 at 6am this morning and they are giving no information, just waffling. Air of gloom suggests Conservatives doing better than expected … then … Naughtie sounding almost in tears after 6.30am. At last a guide to the results in a news update: Labour massacred.
Well, highly-paid BBC presenters, take this as consolation; you won’t have to pay the Mansion Tax on your Barnes, Blackheath, Chiswick, Chelsea, Fulham, Hampstead, Highgate & Muswell Hill piles. 😉
Decided to go on Facebook first as local results of interest.
First thing I see is a BBC ‘analysis’/Q&A story where the question is asked: ‘what, if anything, about the voting system should change?’
Do I take it the results are not to the BBC’s taste, and they are already setting out to address this?
Not a force I feel serves democracy well.
OH the joy at the glum beeboid faces….rejoice at that news
Morning. Did I miss anything?
Hahaha LOL Vince Cable gonee. That’s made my year. Just hope Liebour here lost. The PPC knocked on our door a couple of months ago I didn’t answer as I saw them on the CCTV and thought they were trying to tarmac my drive,
Cable – soon to appear in the House of Lords on £300 per day tax free. Clegg will get his dream EU Commissioner job on £300k+ tax free (clearly part of the secret negotiations in 2010. I remember hearing him challenged to rule himself out and he waffled around the subject)
pleased with the result – it seems the majority of the population do have sense
I knew they had after Thatchers funeral and the way huge swaths of the public turned their back on the BBC and labours pet hate mongers in revulsion at their disgusting behaviour ! but they are the silent ones the BBC ignore and mocks ! now watch the evil and violence the minority left will unleash to pay back the majority !
Galloway gone Alexander gone Cable gone Hughes and Davey gone not a bad night mind getting a bit bored of the ‘small majority’ thing the Tory s [like them or not] and UKIP have a huge majority in the UK over all the left wing party’s combined so without the Gob roys north of the iron brew curtain making up the rest of the ‘coalition of hate’ then I would say the conservatives all of them in UKIP and the real Torys[not like Dave] have won a great night now just watch the BBC wail and rend those garments god it’s going to hate the public even more now !
Carswell is right. The electoral system is broken.
Farage is right about the interference of the press. This has been especially true in respect of the unprecedented attacks by the gutter press on Labour.
The lesson taken from this is ,the masters are clearly in charge of the plebs both in thought and deed.
Second lesson is don’t get ill.
Third lesson is train as a security guard. It will be the biggest growth sector in the country.
Education? Learn to pay for it.
The lesson taken from this is ,the masters are clearly in charge of the plebs both in thought and deed.
Second lesson is don’t get ill = like those in Stafford
Third lesson is train as a security guard. It will be the biggest growth sector in the country= due to labours unrestricted immigration voter fraud ,theft,street violence all up so yes your right !
Education? Learn to pay for it= and why not buy the best for your kids all the labour leaderships kids get it why shouldn’t the public you now hate so much !.
Funny but I use ‘plebs’ in a BBC mocking way yet you write it and mean it ? such contempt for the public such arrogance and elitist looking down on other humans ! your sick little puppet !
You’re only saying that because your masters are in charge.
Try reading the Stafford report instead of the gutter press.
Great example of a non thinking pleb. Thanks
Awww bless the monkey has a tantrum ! you lost your masters lost man up you whining piece of spew tum! Oh and I don’t want to spoil your propaganda but the report still ends with 1200 dead people all labours fault dahdah!
Pleb here Clapham T & GW member.
You are as deluded as comrade Livingstone on the radio. “We saw the vanishing of the working class vote due to people being conned into thinking only of themselves”. You see it’s all the papers fault.
Some points;
No comrade Ken, the workers saw the ” people’s party” just importing the poor of the world onto their doorstep taking their , houses, jobs, schools whilst the leaders of the proletariat indulged themselves in the trough and thought how wonderful the world now was.
The press ? What the press that’s losing sales hand over fist ? Try talking to anyone under 22, NONE of them buy a paper they ALL read everything on line including what the other trough eater, Brand says.
Stafford ? Don’t talk to me about Stafford, I live 20 miles from Stafford and I KNOW the horror that anyone from round here had when any of their relatives was taken to that place of death. I saw my mother in law suffer in Queens hospital Burton on Trent as the staff changed shift every 2 days and the new ones never knew what the last lot had done. Records lost her bloody teeth lost. Place was in chaos.
Security guard ? Don’t make me laugh, the Midlands is full of huge sheds full of imports driven in by East Europeans going past security guards who barely speak English. I have had to try and talk to these idiots, they just wave people in and out, maybe that’s why ***** lost a loaded Artic trailer when a thief was allowed to drive in and just hook on and leave.
As far as I’m concerned all the fault of your deluded leaders Blair and Brown. Don’t get me started on the wars.
Not to mention Labours smears against the Tories. Far more evil than mocking a man who is so out of touch he can’t eat a sandwich.
Man up and face the truth. Labour are shite.
What smears are they then? Trouble is my friend if you don’t understand the issues then you can’t make a judgment. If you’re stinking rich then I understand where you are coming from. If you’re not stinking rich you are and idiot.
It’s that simple.
Oh dear. Hit a nerve have I? The paedophile smears you oaf.
Bus man is touchy today, his P45 is in the post his bosses will not have money to pay for him as well as getting a big bonus before the licence fee gets cut
Just to ask Massivelooseronabus hows the arms after all the ballot box stuffing ? a full night of election fraud behind you now you should be resting as being a full time wa%ker needs those arms in tip top condition !
Strange how Labour and the BBC moan about how Milliplankton is treated by the press, but actively put the boot into UKIP on a daily basis.
can see the headline now ‘Balls castrated by a woman ‘ and on the BBC ‘Balls stabbed in back by ungrateful plebs ‘
Seconded.
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Oh the joy, sod off ed balls
Joy oh Joy , I see its all gone quite quiet in Foggy & Co`s corner . Back to Kipper HQ for them . For me to the bookies , ( a few Hundred Quid ) & off to the Pub , Yippee , Balls castrated a bonus too. The Evil BBC`s reign of terror is coming to an end .
Will you be giving Bob Cratchit the day off?
Just turned over to see look on faces of beeboids over balls to hear Nick Robinson say that Balls is the greatest economist of his time??????? WTF? Click
Balls gone! Today just gets better
Apparently in the future ‘we will learn to love Ed Balls’
Jesus Christ.
Do you have a link? That is one to capture for posterity.
The devastated faces on the BBC are a picture. Delicious!
Get some sleep you’re delusional.
Lol oh the irony !
Oh my! Oh my, oh my, oh my!
I posted here a couple of weeks ago about my dream that in the privacy of the voting booth a lot of people would not do what they told the pollsters they would do. They even did not do what they told the exit pollsters they had done!
Well, my dream was for a UKIP presence to be reckoned with but this result will do as second best.
As John Humphrys has just this second said on R4, “Well, that’s it – it’s all over.” He sounded as sick as a dog.
I thought the Humph was sounding rather chipper, especially if he’s been up all night. Think his Wsomething house would have been clobbered by MTax & he’s probably the Beeb’s highest paid radio presenter so would have been doubly clobbered by Balls with a 45>50% ITax increase.
If he’s sick he better hurry up before the NHS gets sold off!
BTW you could have kept some credibility had you left the UKIP comment out. it really shows you don’t have a grip on reality.But you will learn.
Oh dear. Wot a very good job your lot did not manage to scrape anywhere near to the keys of Downing Street.
Not only would you declare comments concerning Islam to be illegal, you on the bus would even forbid dreaming!
Go back and read my post: kl3w = look for the word dream.
Get back on your bus, cretin.
What a miserable creature you are.
p.s.
Cretinonclaphamomnibus – How old are you? I once read somewhere that it was a sign of failure to be using buses for transport after the age of 21. *Especially* omnibuses in Clapham!
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I haven’t got ‘a lot’ I don’t care. What I find amusing is the great British public not only have not had the opportunity to hear the real issues but have also been told by the gutter press what to vote.
Since I’ve never discussed Islam I assume you have included your comment because it comes as part of the script someone has given you.
This is a victory for the ignorant.You should be proud.
“been told by the gutter press what to vote”……….which is a bad thing as the pompous arse Kinnock made clear last night when he told us that the electorate were too selfish and stupid to vote correctly. However it seems to be a “good” thing when the BBC has been parroting labour lines from May 2010. Triple dip anyone?
The BBC is far worse than the ‘gutter’ press, and the fact that you assume that the population is too stupid to understand the key issues without being ‘told’ is very revealing. Clearly the enlightened commentariat got it completely and utterly wrong. Basically the gutter press pointed out that Labour ruined the economy and that the Tories had made some attempt to repair the damage. Those were facts
A large part of the blame for Labours defeat, and now the fact that they cannot form a majority at the next election either can be laid at the door of the greatest wrecker of a prime minister we ever had Tony BLiar.
Now Labour has to over turn a massive SNP presence in Scotland which they aren’t going to do in 5 years and it seems that the threat of a Labour party propped up by the SNP is anathema to the English people.
Then there’s Wales which didn’t vote for devolution but had it imposed on them sparking interest in Plaid Cymru and losing them even more seats. Now thanks to that crazy initiative Tony BLiar signed the death warrant for his party.
It was always said that without Scotland Labour could not form a government. Well now they’ve lost it, and it’s their own fault for that, it’s difficult to foresee a Labour government ever again.
I think their refusal to accept the spent too much, combined with resentment at the SNP gleefully stating that they’d run the show, was the clincher.
Not a good night for UKIP, but it is progress from 2010 and who knows what will happen in the EU between now and then. UKIP also qualify for £1.2 million of ‘short money’ (by my calculations), which will allow them to get a bit more professional.
MOCO, “the great British public not only have not had the opportunity to hear the real issues but have also been told by the gutter press what to vote”
If you believe that then you must also decry the BBC abandoning impartiality for this General Election & blatantly promoting Labour?
You do, don’t you? Do tell us.
Right then dave, out of the eu, cancel the telly tax, and control the borders. Over to you
Ed Balls still had the arrogance to make a departure speech; did somebody forget to tell him he is yesterday’s man and his opinions count for nothing.
Don’t think the BBC will be calling for electoral reform any time soon. If they do, they have to acknowledge that 1 in 8 of the turnout voted UKIP. Oh dear, what a pickle the BBC must be feeling it is in now.
Still a lot of pathetic whining from some on here who should just accept defeat and go away.
Balls will be commenting on the ‘Crisis’ de jour on the BBC from now until 2020 – the BBC have already set out the battle lines, Jockoslavia, Tory EU ‘Bastards’, the referendum we won’t be getting.
The BBC have already developed their narrative arc for the next five years, hinting about broken promises and failure on the very day that the Tories are elected with an astonishing mandate from the public. The BBC now see their ‘duty of impartiality’ to be one of opposition to the government.
Privitise the BBC now, sell BBC Jockoslavia to mad Meg for hard bawbees, sell the BBC archive to the highest bidder and sell off the regional structures in a series of auctions and sell of their online monster
The Tories are heading for an overall majority!
They’ll be suicidal in Broadcasting House. The lovely Emily Maitlis has had a deathly pall ever since it became clear that the exit poll was right and if anything, the Tory position was being underestimated.
For Foggy & Co , rumours in Essex that Carswell ,will go back to the Conservatives .
The BBC asks,
‘Want to know what Lily Allen, Katie Hopkins and other celebrities think of the night’s results?’
The answer is no, we don’t want to know the inane thoughts of the vacuous celebosphere.
Although Ed Balls’ defeat was fantastic, I’m personally delighted to see Ed Davey (LibDem) kicked out (he was the comically-named Energy and Climate Change Minister). He was a disgraceful champion and shameless propagandist of the CAGW fraud – I couldn’t be happier to see the back of him!
A great night!
No more fucking windmills in England`s Green & Pleasant Land.
No else there wont be room for the hundreds of thousands of new houses that will be needed for the millions of immigrants that Dave will flood the country with.
one of the great things about science is it continues to describe the realities of our planet . That is quite independent of Neanderthal thinking.
And the science behind global warming?
If you’re going to make statements like this then you should really make sure they have some basis in fact !
Only one side of the argument is funded. The ‘scientists’ have had to produce fraudulent results to keep the hoax going. As time goes on we see predication after prediction, and model after model proved wrong / false / lie !
I was taught in the 90’s that London would be underwater by now (best case scenario) with the UK resembling a small island archipelago with a few mountain peaks above the waves (worst case).
I’m calling bullshit on the whole thing. Temperatures are far below the IPCC’s ‘best case’. They don’t have a clue.
one of the greatest things about law is that it holds inquiries into threats that the country faces, takes evidence from witnesses, then the brightest legal minds in the country come up with solutions to the problem. so wheres the judicial solution to catastrophic climate change?
there isnt one, as only the loony left believe in man made global warming with their neanderthal stone age thinking.
no global warming for 2 decades, and let me tell u clappy man, when i take my lefty eating dog out for walks in the morning, im wearing a coat suited for the arctic and a wooly hat
Hmmm, how many hundred million people have died because of the utterly bogus concept of…..
SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM….. “is the term first used by Friedrich Engels to describe the social-political-economic theory first pioneered by Karl Marx. The purported reason why this form of socialism is “scientific socialism” (as opposed to “utopian socialism”) is that it is said to be based on the scientific method, in that its theories are held to an empirical standard, observations are essential to its development, and these can result in changes and/or falsification of elements of the theory.”
Yep complete sh*t but it didn’t stop the left pretending it was real and killing people who dared disagree…..
Hint to the bus driver, less than 1% of the worlds population cannot change the effects of a burgeoning world population whilst said countries, India, China, all of Africa build coal, gas, oil power stations.
The world like the UK does not listen to the Red or Green comrades, instead of trying to get us all to return to caves try and get the 3rd world to stop reproducing.
Science describes nothing.
Real scientists investigate *everything*.
First 15 minutes of R4 Today after 7am news was an inquest into why Labour lost, it’s problems in Scotland etc.
Isn’t the story “the Conservatives won” – not Labour lost.
BBC sounds like fans of the losing cup final team trudging sadly home, talking about why “we” lost.
Very logical. The thing that defines the election is the scale of the Labour loss particularly in view of the predictions.
Oh, are you talking about the “predictions” your left wing chums like the BBC, Guardian et al constantly spouted as opposed to the “gutter press” you keep harping on about?
Do you not realise that in a proper democracy the sanctity of the polling booth is absolute? In that place citizens make their own mind up: What they feel / what they believe in / what they hope for / etc., and they place their cross accordingly.
And in that sacred polling booth the attempted brainwashing of the population by that single broadcaster which reaches all of the parts no other broadcaster nor “gutter press” can reach, the people made their own minds up.
As you would probably say, “The people have spoken, the barstewards!” – (Dick Tuck)
Don’t have any left wing chums.
Regarding the media blatantly attempting to gerrymander the election look no further than the gutter press. What people feel and believe are exclusively related to the information available to them. This has been an election of the sound bite and vicious attacks against Milliband.
If the Tories have recovered the economy maybe you could show me the data that shows this.
“BBC sounds like fans of the losing cup final team trudging sadly home, talking about why “we” lost. ”
Exactly! This is one morning when I have [almost] enjoyed listening to Today.
No they don’t you’re making it all up. BBC coverage has been completely unbiased.
You are joking? Aren’t you?
Provide the evidence please. If you can’t the you will be reasonably regarded as delusional.
I’m afraid I can’t unfortunately Manon, as it’s the evidence of my own eyes and ears.
Clegg is a basically decent man and looks set to resign. Miliband will likely resign or be pressured into doing so. That just leaves whoever’s decision it was that the BBC should spend years shilling for Labour and especially in recent months attempting to subvert our democracy. Will they walk too?
Clegg is on a different planet to the rest of us! When you hear the man speak he just doesn’t have any connection with the real world. Stuck for all his life in a bubble of wealth & privilege, in a posh area of London, and working in Westminster, he doesn’t have the first clue about life in Britain today.
Clegg is so basically decent that he has probably already been on the phone to Brussels this morning.
Except there is no evidence other that the BBC is an establishment organisation that is inherently conservative.
You may have a lot of SKy shares which obviously skews your view. And let’s just face it that that is what this site is all about;making money out of BBC bandwidth.
An establishment organisation which recently admitted to seeding its audiences with socialists?
The DG’s In-tray should be filling up with letters (of protest) suggesting he sack a few underlings & then considers his own position pretty soon …
Gracious in defeat?
Deputy Political Editor for BBC News tweets
I am struck by the graciousness of so many Labour candidates in defeat. Not sure it is being matched by all Conservative victors.
James Landale
BBCJLandale
I am struck by the graciousness of so many Labour candidates in defeat. Not sure it is being matched by all Conservative victors.
7:58 a.m. – 8 May 2015
No bias there then!
No it’s a personal observation. That does equate to BBC bias.
a good loser is still a loser
Given the BBC bet the farm, and threw all, including credibility, at an Ed ‘you’ll be safe with me’ Miliband victory, the fall out will be interesting.
I see Mr. Javid has retained his seat.
It’s weird looking at BBC coverage and the frantic and often vicious reactions across social media.
Especially the ‘why did so many Conservative voters stay silent?”…. to both media pundits and pollsters.
One reason may be the unjustified dominance and arrogance of these unelected influencers. Why tell a person so vocally hostile to your wishes who you support?
Yet even in the face of the reality of the result of a secret ballot where those not represented by the national broadcast elite still get to speak silently, I am already seeing the usual suspects saying the public needs re-educating to vote the correct way next time.
In the face of massive BBC support for one party it supports (clearly in conflict of interest on top of shared ideological meddling) and denigration of those it did not, the public still voted… not the BBC’s way.
The BBC needs sorting out. If not they will retreat like a virus to gather strength to re-erupt the next time.
Explain why it’s given that the BBC ‘bet the farm’. Where is your evidence for this statement.
I think you’ll find that default common sense thinking is conservative because it isn’t defined by any education.if fact it is predicated on ignorance. So it isn’t an issue about reeducation.
They ‘bet the farm’ in that their actions in showing support for Labour in this election cycle were brazen.
If the Tories had the balls for it (which is by no means certain), this is a golden opportunity to seize the day and gut the BBC to the core. Cut its licence fees by 2/3 over a five year period, and implement a subscription model that ramps up over the period (so that theoretically the BBC can keep all the revenues it currently enjoys if people can be persuaded to subscribe).
Then, cut the cord completely after that period and let the BBC live and die by its own ability to attract subscriptions.
Sadly though, I don’t think Cameron has the stomach for the fight, no matter how much the BBC provokes conservatives.
So I get your opinion but you like the rest of the people on this have yet to provide any evidence.
Just repeating the same old thing endlessly doesn’t make it true.
I would argue that the BBC supported the conservatives throughout because at no time was there any close examination of austerity economics or the Tory notion that in some way they have rebuilt the economy on prime time TV.
This is a fairly crucial support for conservative thinking. Maybe you could explain these issues to me.
“Just repeating the same old thing endlessly doesn’t make it true”
Señor, you are idiota*. You say same old thing endlessly all the time. Why you think your same endless old things are more true than his endless old things?
¿Que? I no understand you. I from Barcelona. **
*I save you buying Spanish/English dictionary!
“English words for the Spanish word idiota:
berk, fool, half-witted, idiot, idiotic, moron, mutton-headed, stupid person”
** And I willingly pay for some things the BBC does/did well, like “Fawlty Towers”.
so you can’t provide any evidence then.thought not!
MOCO – What you think you’ll find has really been of little interest to me since it became clear you are no more than a one-man denial of service attempt.
I decline your demand to explain anything; the evidence has been laid out for you here since Ed told the BBC they were safe if they got him in.
Like the BBC you presume to speak for others and appear to think listening (in the bbc’s case via compelled funding) to those who shout loudest translates into agreement and support.
It need, and does not.
There are those who observe and say nothing, but are capable of making their own minds up. It is they who the secret ballot was enshrined to serve.
Your efforts here have not served the BBC well.
That could be deemed quite the result too.
You decline to explain. Well there’s a thing.
As to shouting loudest I think you’ll find that is the preserve of the gutter press.
I respect your right to be ignorant and delusional and undoubtedly you have voted accordingly but if you seek any credibility for your views you should support them by recourse to evidence . Because you can’t provide evidence sadly you will continue to be seen by any rational person to be exactly what you are.
Those miserable faces across all programmes today and the constant Labour post-mortems shows the bias laid bare for all to see.
“…I am already seeing the usual suspects saying the public needs re-educating to vote the correct way next time.
Perfectly predictable, from the Marxist left. They really don’t trust democracy at all. When democracy gives them answers they don’t like their first response is always to insist that there was something wrong with the question.
Expect a lot of ‘analysis’ from the apparatchiks at the BBC Politburo as to why the Great British Public gave the ‘wrong’ result in this General Election, given the sneering left’s belligerent sense of self-entitlement.
R5 reporting Wallace will stand down at noon.
They have been talking up former Para Dan Jarvis as a new leader who the Tories are scared of.
Surely the BBC will be backing Chukka?
Explain why they will support anybody?
Because they’re biased lefties, thicko. STILL upstairs collecting fares, I see.
But unfortunately you have no evidence thicko.
I hadn’t bothered to stay up for the election programmes but I knew things were bad for
Labourthe BBC on hearing the mourning tones of Mishal et al on the radio this morning. Moreover, for the first time for, what, 6 months the “news” wasn’t prefaced with the words “Ed Miliband/Labour will say . . . .”.However the BBC – through Today – has invented a new constitutional convention in the light of the Conservative victory. Apparently AFAIAA every interviewer of a Conservative and every comment of a BBC “journalist/commentator” has implied that a (nominally) right wing party like the Conservatives has no right to adopt “right wing” policies. For instance, in Humphrys’ grumpy interview with Osborne, Osborne was asked to deny that the Conservatives would pull to the “right” and was it Norman Smith who observed fearfully that the “bastards” (Major’s description of right-wingers in his cabinet) were apparently in the ascendancy in the Conservative parliamentary party and thus “right wing” pressure on Cameron could be expected?
The BBC won’t change until it is cut down to size as a one- maybe two- national TV channel outfit with a subscription-based financial model. A major investigation of its Labour bias during this campaign is the least a proper Conservative government would launch. But don’t hold your breath. It’s the CINOs who will form the next government. Yes, they’re preferable to Labour but the LibLabCon Party has won – again – so there won’t be any real changes: certainly not “right wing” ones.
I am surprised that having woken up you have bothered to contribute your biased opinions. Remember if you are biased you are simply not qualified to judge the supposed bias of others.
However, that is not why you contribute. Maybe you should tell us how many SkyTv shares you have.
“However, that is not why you contribute. Maybe you should tell us how many SkyTv shares you have. ”
You are very presumptious. If the bloke you are questioning truthfully declares how many – or maybe none – Sky shares he holds, will you in return declare your position at the BBC and also how much cash you receive p.a. from *me* and other licence payers.
Now, try to read/listen carefully:
Sky shares / Daily Mail readers / “gutter press” readers / etc., etc. are totally and absolutely immaterial.
Such shares/readership etc are *NOT* compulsory! A BBC TV Licence *IS* compulsory if you watch *ANY* live TV.
Try and get your tiny pea-brain around that *HUGE* difference between being compelled *BY LAW* to pay for something you do not want, or maybe deciding to pop round to the newsagents and buying a Daily Mail.
[DISCLOSURE: I have no shares in any company in any shape or form. However, I do seem to have an expensive levy laid once per annum against my assets by an outfit I would like to disassociate myself from. Apparently this would be *ILLEGAL* if I want to watch *ANY OTHER* live TV broadcasts.
Yes humphrys was ridiculous, no praise, no congratulations, straight into the BBC left wing agenda (but we are expected to share Balls’tears). In the same way interviewing the SNP we are expected to accept that that tail will wag the UK dog.
“news” prefaced with the words “Ed Miliband/Labour will say” . . . . I should imagine Ed Miliband will say … goodbye.
What percentage, supported UKIP, and how many seats?
Tories will alter boundaries straight away of course, possibly to asset another 20 seats.
Cameron will carry on lying, no change there, I would imagine his next one about the union, pretence about wanting to be all together etc, after shamefully driving more resentment for weeks.
Osborne will carry on lying, doctoring figures keeping his champagne buddies well in.
What is clear, if you are poor, the most vulnerable, the disabled, in limited hours work, low pay, suffering now
…… you can watch out
The whining losers think if they stick around they will spoil the victory party. Hahahahahahahaha
Take the electorate for granted, or treat them like idiots, and this is what you get at the polls. The BBC, in its monumental arrogance, probably doesn’t understand what has happened. After all, didn’t they give the electorate enough help in working out who to vote for?
For me, any victory that doesn’t involve a shade of red is OK.
Nearly forgot – Ed Balls…hahahahahaha
Except that the BBC exit poll was spot on and the non BBC polls were all wrong. Apart from that minute discrepancy you are spot on.
The Exit poll was on behalf of the BBC, Sky & ITV JOINTLY. It wasn’t “the BBC Exit poll”
There was only one.
There was a yougov exit poll – which meant an exit poll of yougov registees and, surprise, surprise, it suggested much lower conservative and higher labour seats.
Yes, someone on ITV commented it was a BBC exit poll and was told by the presenter there was only one exit poll and it was being used by all
Is it my imagination, or is Manon a trifle tetchy this morning?
Definitely not. I think your biased!
More than a little.
And those fat fingers and/or autocorrect are interfering with that educated brain to keyboard to screen transfer again. Even during the edit window as the next post is dashed to and off.
The schtick was entertaining to toy with but is getting boring now.
S/he/they are either a variably literate person/team from the rebutthead unit paid on a per post basis to clog up threads with distraction posts, or someone false-flagging to make the BBC look even worse than it is, by association.
If the latter: Dude… no need.
Either way, the effect is the same, so if lurking longer, something just to get used to and play with if bored.
Yes, it’s the poor grammar Manon / MOCO back again.
Very strange.
For some reason Sky are 3 Tory seats behind BBC and ITV. Anyone know why?
They are full of lefties. It’s obvious
Sky are now 3 behind so you must be right – it’s down to incompetence.
This tells you all you need to know about Labour’s fiscal abilities:
‘FTSE 100 surges on election outcome’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-32644523
Or the greed of the capatilists.
I was expecting my private pension funds and investments to be taking a pasting this morning if the polls had been right.
With working at the BBC that obviously would not worry you as the licence payer provides for any shortfall.
Breaking news THANET. Al MURRAY WIN!!!
Please don’t feed the manon troll. He isn’t here to engage in a sensible discussion; he is here simply to provoke a reaction for his own amusement. Ignore him long enough and he’ll get bored and go away. But be prepared for his trolling to get worse before it gets better. Patience, patience!
Well he did post this…
Manonclaphamomnibus
March 15, 2015 at 1:09 pm
” I contribute here because I am highly critical of BBC news…..”
Listening to the Labour pundits, those brave enough or out of favour enough to appear on TV, it is amazing to hear them speculate on which principles they should pretend to hold in order to get back into power. Should they position themselves to the left or the right. Or maybe they should just stand for what they believe in, assuming they do believe in something.
So, Farage is unelected. Cue conspiracy theories regarding the delayed arrival of the postal votes …
Farage has failed to win. Much gloating at the BBC et al; it is their last crumb and boy are they making the most of it. Nigel Farage has done a great job, 1 in 8 of the turnout voted for his party.
Al Murray polled 318 votes. That is the funniest punchline he has come up with in years.
Absolutely no gloating at all. You are completely making it up.
Evidence?
Yes exactly . No one was doing anything other than just simply presenting the result. maitless was putting forward Farages , imo, fully justified observations regarding PR. Absolutely no evidence of gloating!
Lets face it – this tribe just likes to reinforce its rather bizarre ideological views without recourse to the real world.
There is never any evidence and an obvious inability to provide any when requested.
Why do you post here?
Poor grammar again!
Soon be time for the old 100 lines punishment if you cannot improve or be consistent.
Sadly Nigel couldn’t get over the line, no two seats no short money, disaster. Why did he give them the incentive of announcing he would quit if he didn’t win?
bBC currently highlighting Farage’s call for PR. Right wing bias!
Ed Balls gone. Milliband, if he has a shred of decency, shortly to resign. The day just gets better and better. Mind you, it started well with Dimbleby reading the result of the BBC exit poll to the stunned silence of his colleagues. How could the electorate have got the answer so wrong despite all the BBC’s kind help. The sh*t sandwiches were then consumed thick and fast. No champagne to take away the flavour this year.
The whining will continue but what a sweet sound that is all of a sudden.
Shame about Nigel. I’d have loved to have seen him perform in the HoC. Nevertheless… Ed Balls GONE, Vince Cable GONE, Ed Milliband TO GO, Lib Dems STUFFED. BBC SHAGGED. Tory MAJORITY. It doesn’t get much better than this. BBC champers remains on ice.
“I am struck by the graciousness of so many Labour candidates in defeat. Not sure it is being matched by all Conservative victors.”
says James Landale (Online BBC tweet).
BBC bias…still.
Here is what has just appeared on the BBC election live timeline:
’10:51
Just a reminder that Nigel Farage previously said he’d step down as UKIP leader if he failed to become Thanet South MP. He made no mention of resignation in his speech, however.’
All very pathetic and spiteful BBC, you should be concentrating on the big resignation announcement that is imminent.
Well Nige did day that. Shame though. BBC now harping on about ‘slender Tory majority’ now. Too bad BBC, a majority is a majority. So all the polls and hung parliament bullshit they’ve been shoving down our throats has been show to be just that, bullshit.
It’s called reporting. Not bias. Huge difference
Suck it up Bus Boy.
Farage ‘might’ be back and Al Beeb just don’t like it! – listen to their comments now !
No empty champagne bottles over at Party HQ tonight! Grim faced, red faced humiliation, with the humble pie, and sour grapes going down badly. It’s all LIVE in glorious high definition, ‘shell-shocked’, misery at the PR communications wing of Old Labour! A meltdown of the PC, self loathing, cultural Marxist, Guardian reading twitterati of the very highest order! All washed down with a glass of bitter! Beautiful. Just wonderful to watch.
True. I’m just popping over to the Guardian to spread a bit of joy and rub some salt in the wounds.
Don’t pick up a copy while you’re there. They use long words.
Ooooh the biiterness!
It’s note the length of the words in the Gruniard; it’s the poor spelling wots the porblim.
So you do know its “you’re” rather than “your” as in previous posting.
Shift changed, or the other chap on his break?
Zero recognition yet of the dilemma facing Cameron. He was previously able to play Mr Progressive because he didn’t have a majority, but now he has no excuse over Europe. There are supposedly sixty Eurosceptic Tory MP’s; we’ll know soon if they are real or just paper tigers. Sadly; there’s no evidence of any Tories really wanting to restrict the flow of cheap labour – the one million Africans waiting in warehouses in Libya will be relieved this morning.
How is dismantling education legal aid,health,flooding Somerset,public health , invalidity and unemployment benefit as well a suppressing growth through austerity progressive?
And getting rid of Al Beeb.
Sign here …..
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/end-the-bbc-licence-fee
Austeriteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Grammar back to remedial level again.
Oh dear!
The benefits of an Oxford education:
https://twitter.com/claire4devizes/status/596544699529297921
Never forget, that once great university (now a mere polytechnic it seems) is the source of all the PPE wonks that have corrupted our political system.
The Fib Dems had a disastrous night, but the loss of MPs is only half the story.
Some helpful / unkind (?) soul has provided a twitter page on their lost deposits which currently stand at an eye watering £169 000 (ouch).
Tweets by LibDemDeposits
Cleggs summary of the real issues is spot on.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.
The BBC used its considerable weight, reach and influence to back Labour, as usual, while denigrating other parties, and still Labour performed miserably and lost so many seats.
Makes one wonder how much worse they would have done without BBC support.
But I guess it’s also possible that the BBC doesn’t have that much power to sway people after all.