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Robin Smith
Dr Rohen Kapur
Pseudonymous blogger
and, as mentioned, little old me (to be fair, I was standing for UKIP, so probably nobody voted for me personally, they just voted for the party with the best policies - very few people will know that they voted for a blogger).
If I missed anybody off, then please leave a comment and I'll add you to the list.
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At least you weren't beaten by the Monster Raving Loony Party, like poor Robin Smith.
I'm really very, very sorry for this, Mark. It is not the end though [although financially it's hard to take]. We are in the Weimar Republic time now between the election and the crisis and there's still all to play for.
You're to be respected for what you've done so far.
B, true.
JH, I'm not too bothered for me personally (getting my £500 back would have been nice, but it's only a fraction of what I spent on posters and leaflets), I feel terribly sorry for UKIP generally. But we'll pick ourselves up and keep going.
To be honest I think UKIP higher-ups decided it was more important to get rid of Gordon than to get as many votes as possible.
I think they're right too.
Commiserations but even with my vote for Dr K in Hornsey & Wood Green didn't get him up to 100.
Incredible as it might seem the local elections in Haringey (which before yesterday had Labour hanging on by a 1 (possibly 2) seat majority over the LibDems) returned a Labour majority of about 12 seats. This after the baby P affair and Haringey throwing £36 million down the Icelandic bank crapper. You don't have to be brain-dead to vote Labour - but it helps!
Umbongo,
Postal Vote Fraud?
OTOH I know there are lots of people who want to keep the government dipping in other peoples wallets at ANY cost.
ACO
I wouldn't accuse any of my Haringey fellow-citizens - or their representatives - of vote fraud although this custom is a conspicuous part of the rich culture of their homelands. They don't have to.
Labour in Haringey ticks all the right boxes for the ethnically- and religiously-challenged work-shy parasites in the eastern half of the borough. Moreover, since actual payers of council tax are very thin on the ground in those same districts, it's a no-brainer to vote Labour - which is convenient if you haven't got a brain.
Well done for standing up and being counted Mark - respect!
Robin Smith beaten by the loonies eh? Well he did run on a making house prices go down ticket.
May I convey my apologies to the brain-dead who (I implied) uniquely vote Labour. I was wrong, as the example of brain-dead Conservatives in Buckingham returning Bercow to the Commons demonstrates.
U, to add insult to injury, Farage was came third after John Burkha and some former Tory MEP who
a) quite clearly claimed massive allowances to which he was not entitled, even under the generous EU rules, and
b) who campaigned on an anti-sleaze ticket.
Voting for him is even brain deader than voting for John Burkha.
MW
I'm not sure what happens now in the Commons vis-a-vis the Speaker but the only hope left is that a brave soul (Carswell?) will insist on a fresh election for Speaker. In such a case the (now) minority of Labour MPs would not be able to force one of their own (Bercow is - and was when he first became Speaker - for all practical purposes a member of the Labour Party) into the Speaker's chair.
Why hasn't UKIP made more of the 6 hours free advertising the three main parties shared between them; plus the hundreds of hours of discussion as a result? There are very strict rules about election fairness which appear to suddenly have been ignored.
J, UKIP complain bitterly about this, but the powers that be keep rewriting the rules to suit themselves.
My take on the election is this...
The problem with this election was that all the Labour haters were so terrified that labour would get in, they voted Conservative, and visa versa all the Conservative haters voted Labour.
People voted from fear rather than vote for who they positively would have wanted to vote for. This is why all the small parties lost out.
So now our collective fear has given us more of what we feared in the first place!
The only positive for me in this election is that I voted for someone, rather than against. I voted with my heart.
But now my heart is broken.
I went to the polls with the intent of voting UKIP, when I got there there were only four alternatives.
Con.
Labour.
Lib-Dumbs
Someone else (Not UKIP)
Under the circumstances I voted Tory. Sorry, the Lib-Dumbs took the seat.
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