my seat is now not going to declare until 7am. the delay is down to a large turnout (rumoured to be a lot of false proxy votes) and because there is a referendum for a mayor of tower hamlets (hoping the answer to that is no).
darn eric pickles has been re-elected.
labour 113, conservatives 131, lib dems 22, others 24.
labour hold rochdale. seems that duffygate hasn't made a difference there, but it was another nail in the brown coffin.
they keep talking of a variety of swings. so it does seem that the tories will win, but not convincingly. so peter kellner says it is the electorate is saying we don't like labour, but we don't actually like the tories very much either.
dimbleby really lays into a bloke about how shameful the electoral process seems to have been.
labour 116, tories 141, lib dems 23, others 24.
304 seats declared out of 650.
barking - it seems that the bnp are in third place, and so have not challenged labour for the seat. still not declared.
paxman is chatting to david davis - and he thinks that there will be an absolute tory majority. he says that first past post means that labour and lib dems shouldn't be allowed to have a compromise government. though i am not sure how does a minority conservative government work? oh because he expects the other parties to act responsibly, which is short-hand for agreeing with the tories.
labour 121, tories 150, lib dems 23, others 25
so as it stands even with labour and lib dems coming together they don't have more than the tories.
oh well we all knew the tories were going to win.
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