winterbadger | (no subject)

I'm heading to bed now, but I have to say, it looks like Labour *and* the LDP are getting hammered. Labour have lost nearly a third of the seats they held and the LDP have lost a substantial number, though they've picked up a few. Still nearly 200 seats to declare, and there will doubtless be some kerfuffle tomorrow over the places people weren't allowed to vote, but it looks like just what the pundits were guessing this afternoon: a swingeing win for the Tories, but not swingeing enough for them to govern by themselves. I think a coalition government will emerge, Tory and Whig, and Labour will go and sit in the corner for a decade. My guess is that there will be a new Labour Party leader after this...