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    My seat of Brentford - in South West London - is going to be super tight, super duper tight based on the swings on the marginals between Con and Lab. I think Con need a 5% swing, gonna be touch and go.

    Holding onto Tooting gives me hope though. This is the most bizzare night, some seats with huge swings, most of the marginals not, but varient swings in the marginals too. Amazing. Call this at your peril.
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    Unbelievable we hold Geldling too with a swing of just 2.9% to the Tories?! Now we hold Exeter, not one of the prorities but one the Con's wanted. Maybe I am wrong to be pessimistic, after all we are picking up seats in Scotland and Wales.
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    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

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    There's a serious constitutional issue looming too. If the Tories form a minority government, it looks like it will be with almost no seats in Scotland or Wales. Essentially, a minority English government will be cutting massive public spending in parts of the UK that have decisively rejected that party. There's actually a swing TO Labour in Scotland at the moment.
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    It is a little worrying, no doubt.

    You know what though, the Nationalists are not doing well, so maybe that blunts some of that problem, I dunno though.

    This whole election is crazy - what the hell has happened to the Lib dem vote? Seriously, what the hell has happened?
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    Having just said that, the Tories have just taken two Welsh seats! Montgomeryshire by a 13% swing (albeit from the eejit Lembit Opik).

    The Lib Dem vote appears to have completely evaporated. That makes it much more difficult for Labour to try and form a coalition, because their partners won't have any sort of mandate, even in just popular vote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost View Post
    Having just said that, the Tories have just taken two Welsh seats! Montgomeryshire by a 13% swing (albeit from the eejit Lembit Opik).

    The Lib Dem vote appears to have completely evaporated. That makes it much more difficult for Labour to try and form a coalition, because their partners won't have any sort of mandate, even in just popular vote.
    Agreed. I am cheering on the Lib Dems here and they are seriously lettign me down. :(

    Needed them to take some seats from the Tories and hold their marginals, let alone give them 13% swings!!! Blimey, I have no idea what has happened to the Lib Dem vote, GAH!!!!!!!!!!

    Crazyness, Labour are holding onto every single marginal which isn't in the South and hasn't been super duper money'ed out by the Tories. It might be the Lib dems collapse which lets the Tories in.
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    INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
    GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
    INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.

    Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944

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    Now I'm really confused. Lib Dems held Huhne's seat which was a absolute priority for the Tories as he only had a 500 majority. And they gained Eastbourne.
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