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[Descan]

@RedKing: There's going to be no non-Scottish SNP. They don't run outside of Scotland.

[RedKing]

@RedKing: There's going to be no non-Scottish SNP. They don't run outside of Scotland.

Pah! Don't bother me with details! I'm still getting the hang of this whole multi-party, parliamentary democracy thing.

Besides, that's a poor excuse. They should run EVERYWHERE. Hell, I'm tempted to run as SNP in the next town council elections, just because.

[Owlbread]

The SNP just won Glenrothes on a 35% swing

[Grim Portent]

Amusingly a large number of english voters expressed a desire for SNP candidates in their constituencies back around the TV debates.

[RedKing]

Question -- how do the Northern Irish parties (DUP, Sinn Fein, SDLP) factor into the equation? Do they have any seats in Westminster, or are they kinda doing their own thing over in Belfast? I forget the particulars of how the Home Rule agreement works.

[Grim Portent]

Question -- how do the Northern Irish parties (DUP, Sinn Fein, SDLP) factor into the equation? Do they have any seats in Westminster, or are they kinda doing their own thing over in Belfast? I forget the particulars of how the Home Rule agreement works.

They have votes, but the SDLP (I think it's them at least) abstain from all Westminster votes on the grounds that the NI membership of the UK is invalid, so any seats they hold are informally discounted from the total needed for a majority.

The DUP are basically the Irish version of the Tea Party by my understanding and are offering support to the Tories.

Sinn Fein are part of the progressive alliance of the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru.

EDIT: Of the seats currently declared the Labour party has more seats counting the progressive parties, but pretty much all those seats were secure ones. 

[Owlbread]

SNP just took Gordon Brown's old seat.

[Graknorke]

And Labour blaming the SNP for their own failings. Who would have guessed they'd do that

[Grim Portent]

SNP just took Gordon Brown's old seat.

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA!

Now this feels good. 

If I drank I'd raise a toast to this constituency being free of the useless arse and his useless party members.

[RedKing]

Yeah, so far it looks like all the seats have been holds. The only flips have been SNP pickups.

EDIT: See, this is why SNP should run everywhere. Imagine the sheer fuckery of SNP forming a majority government in the UK. 


Updated totals:

Cons -- 16
Labour -- 25
SNP -- 17
LibDem -- 1
PC -- 2
Assorted Irish parties -- 13

It would be jaw-dropping if Plaid Cymru winds up larger than the Liberal Democrats.

[Graknorke]

First Conservative gain of the night, from the Lib Dems. Brecon and Radnorshire.

[Owlbread]

The SNP beat Labour Leader Jim Murphy by about 5 or 6000 votes. I don't know what to say.

[Graknorke]

It's a bit of good news I guess. Over the country as a whole I can't see any way that we're not going to be stuck with more Tories in charge.

[Grim Portent]

The SNP beat Labour Leader Jim Murphy by about 5 or 6000 votes. I don't know what to say.

You could always just laugh boisterously.

It's a bit of good news I guess. Over the country as a whole I can't see any way that we're not going to be stuck with more Tories in charge.

There's still a chance of a Labour government. Exit polls aren't the be all end all of this after all, and there's still a big chunk of places that may have voted Labour.

[Caz]

SNP just took Gordon Brown's old seat.

Douglas Alexander's seat gone to the youngest MP (ever?? well, since 1667), Mhairi Black.

Lulz. Murphy's seat gone as well.