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Ed Balls has gone, 5 years too late IMO for Labour.

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I suspect it will also hasten Miliband's departure as leader, which would be a good thing for Labour in the long run.

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Undoubtedly

He has lost the Shadow Foreign Secretary and the Shadow Chancellor in one go - that means it is certainly curtains for Miliband.

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What a pickle Labour is in now. It has to move back towards the Blairite centre to regain ground in the UK but must turn left in Scotland.

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Ed Miliband if he goes, then Harriet Harman has got to go.

Harriet Harman should have gone with Brown in 2010 but she stayed on as deputy. Mistake IMO.

This time, she has got to go.

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Andrea Jenkyns. What can I say? What a babe!

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The new Cabinet?

Osborne to stay on as Chancellor?

Home Secretary? Foreign Secretary?

IDS still in Cabinet?

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No doubt at all. Milliband and Harman will both go very quickly. Don't underestimate how badly Labour have done. It's not a mediocre 'holding' result for them. It's a disaster. Clegg is also going it seems. Must be exciting times to be a Lib Dem MP as your career progression prospects are now exceptional. 

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Here's a name to watch:

Alistair Carmichael

Apparently he's a Lib Dem MP. 

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Hardly a loss

 

 

He'll be the Scottish LibDem spokesman, with the sole Tory Scottish MP be the Scottish Secretary and the sole Labour Scottish MP being their Shadow Scottish Secretary 😀

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Has there been a competition among the SNP and their supporters as to who can say "Progressive" the most times?

If you think about it in the last 40 years, the only Labour leader to win a general election was Blair.

Miliband joins Gaitskell, Foot, Kinnock, Callgahan, Brown as Labour leader failures.

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That is because under Blair, Labour became a pro-capitalist party. That is the only way to win in England it appears.

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I agree. One thing I'd pick up on though is differences in Tory beliefs. Around here the only way the economy can function is with further immigration. If you have a wander down our high street and see the new restaurants and building work you're looking at a town with zero unemployment and a thirst for more labour. In other parts of England the picture may be very different and so could the view of the underlying Tory support.

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Conservatives have gained Derby North from Labour. Amazing stuff!

Only 41 votes in it.

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The Conservatives are on course to win the general election yipeeee!!!!!!!

Forecast at 7am 329 seats!

Nicky Morgon, Tory,  Loughborough winds landslide!

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Is that not indicative of how divided a country we are, even amongst Tory voters? I've really noticed this year how my customers from London who are Tories are pro immigration and pro EU, whereas in suffolk and Norfolk tory voters tend to be Eurosceptic and believe the tories will control immigration.

David Axelrod.

If I were Labour, I would be demanding my money back. He has been useless from afar.

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All he provided was vacuous US marketing speak lifted straight out of the Obama campaigns.

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Great news for the country but sadly awful news for the hardworking honest people of Blackburn, Kate Hollern our esteemed Labour gobshite saw her  increase the Labour majority. Time to seriously think of moving to the Ribble Valley.

Strong rumours now that Miliband will step down later. BBC quoting a couple of high level sources in the Labour party.

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