That makes sense. Looking forward to hearing the facts on this one!
Whatever the final outcome of the election, the polling disaster tonight might fuel demand for electoral reform.
ETA: one of the students on the Facebook group claims:
Clearly not. 
I shall race you sir!
I love Jeremy Paxman:
Jenny Watson (Election Commission): And anyone who violates election rules will have to answer for their actions.
Paxman: Yes, and suffer no consequences whatsoever.
You can see it in the US on CSPAN3, if you’re interested.
I doubt that this will fuel electoral reform (although I hope something does).
Did Fiona Bruce just say “the Labia deputy leader Harriet Harman”?!
Different Jeremy, Captain. The one you’re watching is Paxman.
Only a counting centre (according to the Beeb) so the vote wasn’t affected.
Two NI seats in as I prepare to go to bed. One Sinn Fein and one DUP, so there’s one MP who won’t be turning up to talk to a hung parliament :rolleyes:
Fivethirtyeight.com have predicted 312 Con, 204 Lab, 103 LibDem and the remainder to assorted others, a substantial difference from the exit poll being reported on television. The exit poll of course excludes postal votes which have traditionally favoured the Conservatives but may well boost the LibDems this time as they had to be sent in earlier when the LibDems were still enjoying a bounce in the polls. Normally I’d say that 538 had way overestimated the swing to the LibDems, given that the exit poll is pointing to 61 seats, but 538 had a very good result for the 2008 US election so we’ll see in the morning whose methodology gets closest to the actual result.
This kerfuffle about voters being unable to vote is ludicrous. Votes are important; heads should roll for this.
And Peter Robinson loses his seat in Belfast East!
[Nelson Muntz]
Ha ha!
[/Nelson]
Oh, and York announced it lost hundreds of postal ballots. There was a “printing error and a temporary closure at the local postal sorting office.” Given that the Lib-Dem majority in one of the York constituencies was only 206, that could make a difference.
Also, Peter Robinson, the NI First Minister just lost his seat.
I know. I’m Jeremy-confused.
Maybe a wee bit optimistic! Seeing people out voting and majorly pissed off at not being allowed to do so (despite her reasonable tone of voice and choice of words, did you see how livid the blonde woman was?) made me all giddy for a moment there.
US Dopers, if you are at all interested in politics, watch tonight. The BBC have some of their attack dogs on tonight, and also the comfortable presence of a Dimbleby, and a lot of randomness. Does this link work in foreign climes?
There’s very few results in, and there are some choice ones to come.
Seriously, if nothing else, watch for Jeremy Paxman being hilariously rude to politician’s faces.
That link doesn’t work in the US, but this one does: BBC News - Election 2010 - Live coverage - General Election 2010
Politics-wise, and with a huuuge amount of prurience, the most interesting Jeremy was former Liberal Party leader Jeremy Thorpe.
Cheers, it’s hard to test that from here.
A reasonably close thing given the reasonably staunch Unionist support in that area. He lost the seat to a member of the terribly middle class, middle of the road (politically) Alliance party.
Moves are being made that members of the Assembly (the devolved government in Northern Ireland) should decide to sit only in one body, Stormont or Westminister. Mr Robinson seems to have had that choice made for him.
Not to mention that thing with his wife and her lover.