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Conservative 10,091,687 36.1 +3.9

Labour 8,144,932 29.2 -6.3

Liberal Dem 6,400,096 22.9 +1.0


14.5 million people (who voted for the 3 main parties... so the full figure is considerably more) DO NOT WANT a Tory government!


I am hoping for a Labour/Lib Dem coalition...


what are your views...


ps bit muzzy headed as went to bed at 3 and got up at 6 so will definitely need that gin and tonic tonight at the Gowlett

[quote name=Well with that reasoning' date=' maybe we should just hand over power to a military dictator with voters not wanting a Labour, Lib Dem or Tory government

]




no matthew123... that argument does not wash... cos they did not vote and do not exist in the UK!!!!!

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jam Wrote:

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> Why does anyone want a Tory OR Labour Government? does no one believe in change?



Clearly not the sort of "change" that was being put on the table. One commentator was saying earlier that Immigration was one of the leading factors, and although lots of people liked Clegg, once they looked at the policies, they didn't like them. Guess that is a good thing in that people voted on policy rather than personality.


I am genuinely surprised how poorly the Lib Dems have done, but I think the waters were overly muddied by all this tactical voting stuff, which led to the same old "vote for one to keep the other out" type mentality. If I am honest, I was still undecided as I marked my ballot paper, and that is a first for me.


At least I new what I was doing in the locals, and I only realised yesterday that we had a mayoral vote for Lewisham too.


Congrats to Greens for first seat, and fuck off BNP, you're shite, and your leader could only come in 3rd in a seat that many thought he'd take.

Have I missed something, or has nobody yet commented that Tessa Jowell has not only retained her seat, but with a similar, maybe even increased majority. This is so out of kilter with the (clearly unrepresentative) EDF poll that put Labour in third place. I'm gobsmacked, it's as if the last four weeks never happened.

I was shocked Tessa still held to her seat. How is that possible?! And she has been in power too long that trying to communicate with her these days is impossible. Whereas James Barber was on the ball constantly and I thought the Lib Dem were going to win the seat in our borough.


I am pleased that the Green party finally got a seat. Seems pretty ironic that Green seems the common sense party to vote for, but everyone is stuck in the Tories/Labour Mode.

Well thank heavens the Blues didn't get in - a small mercy.


I don't feel so guilty over having voted Green now...indeed, well done Greens...hee hee. (Sorry Keef/Loz, I had a panic attack at the last minute :-S; but thanks ????/brum for giving me that push to vote with my heart and not get "sucked" into voting tactically).


I don't think the reds did as badly as predicted.


As for the Yellows...ha ha ha...that will teach Clegg to be so smug (bordering on cocky).


BNP? I won't even waste my breath.


I'm happy.

I was hunting them too then found this:


"Local elections

Votes cast in the local elections will be counted from 1pm on Friday 7 May 2010. Results will be published here as soon as they are available so please check back again."

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/news/article/18/elections-6_may_2010

DirtyBox Wrote:

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> 14.5 million people (who voted for the 3 main

> parties... so the full figure is considerably

> more) DO NOT WANT a Tory government!

>

> On that reasoning 16.5 million DO NOT WANT a

> Labour government



Possibly although I think it?s safe to assume that most Lib Dem voters would prefer a Labour government to a Tory one and that a significant number of Labour voters would have rather voted Lib Dem if they felt it would have counted.


I don?t know if I can count myself amongst these though.


Personally I can?t think which I?m more unhappy with, the idea of a party owned by big money concerns such as the Rothschilds where most of the supporters vote for it out of a sense of tradition engrained by a detestable class system or the idea of a party owned by outdated and irrelevant labour unions (but nevertheless the lap dog of large financial concerns) where most of the supporters vote for it out of a sense of tradition engrained by a detestable class system.

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