Though late in the day but I feel one must explain a few simple facts to the uninformed.
Labour always gets the first few seats. Those safe constituencies always declare first.
The election was going to be won or lost on the marginal seats (these are seats where the current acting member of parliament does not hold a huge majority).
The BNP are totally irrelevant and were never likely to win a single seat, never mind the tales of doom and gloom that professor Afisoone was mistakenly telling here.
Finally, despite the numbers shown the conservatives actually did badly in this election. Three months ago the expectation was that the conservatives were going to win with an overwhelming majority, but here we are today when they can’t even win by a majority of one! This, against a background of a hated Labour government that has been in power for thirteen years, an embarrassing expenses scandal, an unprecedented credit crunch (that the sitting PM must shoulder the lion share of the blame for) and against a PM who committed a great faux pas by calling a member of the public bigoted live on air only a few days before the election. It must reflect badly on the conservatives that Labour managed to hold on to that many seats.
Time for deals to be made.
