Election Night

[such_heights]

Okay, here we go! Who else is staying up to watch the UK general election? Exit polls look worrying and suggest another Conservative government is likely, but it's not over yet, and in the meantime I'm looking forward to hearing from Sheffield Hallam and South Thanet, and the fates of Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage especially.

Here's the BBC livetext feed.

eta: tumblr is bringing the lulz in this time of strife, reblogging the good stuff.

eta2: welp, it's 3am, the Lib Dems are being annihilated, Labour are underperforming, meanwhile Scotland have collectively decided 'fuck this shit' and are doing the electoral equivalent of sawing through the boundary and setting out to sea, not that I blame them. *starts drinking*

Comments

[usuallyhats]

Not sure how late I'll manage to stay up, but I've put BBC1 on and am trying not to panic...

[snorkackcatcher]

I'm not entirely surprised because I was kind of expecting something like this, but I'm pretty much looking at this in disgust at what it says about the state of the country right now.

I'm not sure I can stomach staying up for a rerun of 1992 -- i.e. results showing that people had apparently been claiming not to be voting Tory in polls, and then furtively doing so. Of course, six months afterwards buyers remorse started to hit, but we were stuck with them until 1997.

Labour strategy has been utterly idiotic in buying into all the Tory narratives. FOR THE LAST FIVE FREAKING YEARS. They've missed so many open goals it's not even funny.

[brainwane]

Watching live in New York City.

[such_heights]

Pretty much! Also keep a look out for happydork, she's down with the big hexagon map while Awesome Housemate K potters behind the scenes.

[such_heights]

Absolutely. It's all very nerve-wracking, and the only possible consolation from another Tory govt is the idea that Labour might get its shit together.

[thefairymelusine]

Staying up anyway, as on the final push of coursework, but have it on in the background.

[usuallyhats]

I'm looking out for her! They haven't even shown the hexagon map yet, I feel very cheated.

[such_heights]

Good luck with the coursework!

[such_heights]

Hello across the pond!

[antediluvian]

Fingers crossed. I'm going to bed because I've got to be up early for work, but fingers crossed all the way. Can't face another Tory government. I'm genuinely terrified of what it'll mean for the country.

[such_heights]

Oh I know, it's a horrible prospect. D: Sleep well, and I hope you get to wake to promising news!

[snorkackcatcher]

A very big might unfortunately.

So in addition to more cuts followed by an easing up nearer 2020, we can look forward to quitting the EU, Scotland breaking away, and the fanned flames of the undercurrent of English xenophobia possibly turning into something nasty. It's easy to see this country sleepwalking into something really nasty.

So yeah, let's hope Labour get their shit together.

[netgirl_y2k]

Dear all other Scottish people,
WHY DIDN'T WE LEG IT WHEN WE HAD THE CHANCE?

Dear Labour Party,
If you hadn't given Scotland up as a lost cause, and played right into fearmongering Tory hands about Scotland and the SNP this wouldn't be happening.

Right, I'm going to bed, wake me up in 2020.

[forthwritten]

Watching live too. I have no beer and no whisky, only despair.

[lilacsigil]

I really, really hope those exit polls are wrong. And I hope your booze is strong.

[antediluvian]

Thank you! I'm going to be on tenterhooks today.