Bloody disillusioned working class.

Michael Foot was leader of the Labour party at the time, he supported the Falklands war, despite being a CND member and generally anti-war. He basically took the view that Galtieri was a fascist dictator who was trying to seize the islands through force, and needed to be resisted.

Less than 5% swing on the last one.

From the reaction of the politicians being interviewed on tv I would say that labour had been expecting a massacre and are actually gloating slightly in Cameron's apparent failure to return a majority government.

Mandelson dangled the electoral re-form carrot nice and early in the evening.

Labour win every seat. The major party in British politics up to now

Did you vote Sally or did you get up too late to beat the queues?

Are they counting and announcing local election results tonight too?

Yes I only had to queue for about 5 minutes. The polls are open till 10pm, can't see why people left it so late to go down?

Its amusing how Peter Mandleson and Alan Johnson have both been on banging the drum for electoral reform. It's a shame we've had a government for 13 years who was opposed to it.

What will also be funny is if we have a Lab/Lib coalition government, whilst the Conservatives are the largest party. Then hopefully the Conservatives will accept that the priority is having a firm decisive government tomorrow and not squabbling about electoral reform like some soft wooly liberals.

Most will be counting local results tomorrow. Concentrating on the general election result tonight

I can see Brown seeking legal counsel to see if there is anything to gain from an action to support those s who couldnt manage to vote on time or elect to vote by post in the name of democracy.

I'm very confident the Tory support were out bright and early this morning to place their vote.

The sucking up by Mandelson et al to the LD's is sickening, it's not as id the LD vote is looking anything like decent.

But I expect the LD's to do better where there is a realistic chance of a seat.

I voted UKIP, I'm a centre of right person, i honestly can't see the Tories be anything different to New Labour.
I know my vote is wasted but hey oh. When i'm qualified in a couple of years i'll be voting Green for the rest of my life but till then i'll waste my vote in a different way.

I think it's unfair to criticise people like that. Many people who are getting kids up for school, going straight to work and back feeding kids/bath/homework/whatever may not have had chance to vote until later one and got caught in the unexpected queues. Equally, who on earth would have expected a queue at 9pm? Maybe some people thought it was a better time to go as it wouldn't be busy.



That's because the average Tory supporter has nothing better to do, like go out to work, because they're too busy sitting on their big fat inherited fortunes

LABOUR HOLD WARRINGTON NORTH


Helen Jones Labour 20,135 45.5 -7.3
Paul Campbell Conservative 13,364 30.2 +5.9
David Eccles Liberal Democrat 9,196 20.8 +2.1
Albert Scott Independent 1,516 3.4 +3.4
Majority 6,771 15.3
Turnout 44,211 61.7 +6.4