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Graudian | 18:13 Fri 08th May 2015 | ChatterBank
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Surely it has when we heard that Ed Balls lost his seat!

We won't have to put up with his infantile hand gestures
& puerile heckling at Prime Ministers Questions.
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Yes definitely. Balls losing was the highlight of the night for me.

Close up second was Vince "Great Uncle Bulgaria" Cable getting the boot. Joint third were the Alexander brothers Douglas and Danny.

Does it remind you of the portillo moment ?
Yes I remember that too, Baz. But with far less fondness.
Not strictly election night but today also....
Labour getting trashed.
Balls getting trashed
Galloway getting trashed
Cable getting trashed
Harridan Harman to resign
thats enough for now.......
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I agree Baz that the 'Portillo' moment was a surprise but it wasn't
received with such glee as Ed Balls getting chucked out.

I read that his wife Yvette Cooper is considering putting herself
forward for the leadership. That would be the final slap in the face
for Mr Balls.
Filling my Hot Water Bottle.
Ed Balls going, the Cornish clotted cream on the ice-cream.

I was a little sad to see Danny Alexander sacked as he was actually the pick of the crop of the Lib ministers and secretaries and earned good kudos in the Treasury and the Cons.

Farage being dumped, what a face, and Charles the Drunkard going in Ross.
I rather liked the moment when Paddy Ashdown volunteered to eat his hat if the Exit Poll was wrong. I hope he has a strong stomach !
A Tory pollster I know was correct
73 seats of long knives
got rolled into a Number 10 or Scottish siding today
Demolition all night long
from the Countryside to the City
At dawn Emily Matthis marked with chalk
all the gains and losses



In a Labour-owned pub called “The Red Parrot”
hardened men are playing darts all evening long
To play darts in such an atmosphere all night long
while not taking off their jackets
Some blase agent offered to sell me a phony long knife
in the dark it passes quite well for a real one
but I excused myself awkwardly
I’m too much of a gentlemanly for such a political knife
He stared at me worse than if he had spat

More Labour morons in the city than car-horns
Several thousand City cats have cars
yet at each garret the City's horns
40 per head
Naomi's God manifests himself often to many different people
but he doesn’t usurp any influence on the course of events
he’s too sensible for that


Mikey doesn’t listen to what anyone says
He’s doing market research experiments
in his little room
not much bigger than a Gower rabbit hutch
as a result of which at the Plaid Cymru
their seart caught fire
11 Tories raced through the blazing Welsh bush
Leanne Wood was more miserable than all of Tora's visions
(this too is a made-up yarn)
This fascinating election
This fairy like Scottish deer
And this highlander lass wearing a hat made out of a yellow flag.

To a Labourite nothing matters one way or another
because a Labourite doesn’t own anything
except his wife, eight children and his workbench
and all the stuff which is his
no different from anyone else
The Labourite sat down on the town square

Knives sharpened!
Knives sharpened!

And he cried, cried and cried.
Miliband too and retired

Knives sharpened!
Knives sharpened!

Liberal crocodile tears too.
Cleggie squashed in Ming Campbell's stew.

The Night of the long Tory and SNP knives.
History made, demoliton oh so deliciously rife.
I suspect Ed Balls was more responsible for Joe Public not feeling able to trust Labour than Ed.
"I rather liked the moment when Paddy Ashdown volunteered to eat his hat if the Exit Poll was wrong. I hope he has a strong stomach !"

The exit poll was wrong. The Lib Dems did even worse!
I thought Vince Cable's loss was rather sad. He was not keen on the Coalition from the start, has been about the best politician at finances and has come across as a thoroughly decent man. The Lib Dems have become irrelevant now but if there was any electoral justice then Nick Clegg would have gone instead of Cable.
5 and 6 = 56 :)
Jim, I worked with Vince Cable back in the late 80s and he is a very nice, considerate man, a person who thinks very deeply about issues and subjects.
Not night, following day, realising we wouldn't have to do it all again in July
I went to Uni with Neil Kinnock........
Although a Tory, I will miss Ed Balls. Three great moments for me: my own MP being re-elected with an 8.2% increase, Boris Johnson returning to Westminster and the best of all, George Galloway being defeated. The overall result came as something of a surprise, but a very pleasant one.
my favourite moment was when I fell asleep at 1230am

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I went to Uni with Neil Kinnock........

What degree did he get, Daisy ?.
He went on to the University College of South Wales, obtaining a degree in industrial relations and history in 1965.

A year later, Kinnock obtained a postgraduate diploma in education.

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