Election Night

[hellzabeth]

Submitted my vote a few hours ago, now just watching the results since I can't sleep.

Please god don't let it be Tories please please please I'll take the goddamn GREEN PARTY over the Tories. (Though I hear they have a seat in somewhere tiny like the Birmingham constituancy in which case good on them)

Edit [1:00am]: UKIP have 7,630 votes.

God fucking damn people are you that desperate to be isolationist? And even worse, the British Nazi Party have 8,735 votes. Hello guys, we are not the empire anymore.

Lib Dem's kicking some Conservative ass though. Labor's surprisingly ahead.

*Waits for Scottish results to come in because she's terrified of the Scottish National Party*

Edit [1:05am]: Plaid Cymru have a seat what. The Democratic Unionists have two what is this madness.

SINN FEIN HAS A SEAT?!

Wow Iggy you sure are unpopular; your brothers want to leave pretty sharpish.

Bet the only reason Scotty's not got a seat yet is because there are so many votes to count.

Edit [1:10am]: Democratic Unionists are coming out of left field with 3 seats already. Labor's got 7, doing surprisingly well considering how everyone was predicting they'd be kicked out of office.

Scotty's got 7,564 votes. Ahhhhhhhh. And BNP and UKIP have hit 5 figure digits shit.

Edit [1:25am]: Labor has 11 seats, against all predictions. How desperate are people not to have Cameron? This desperate.

*watches the Lib Dems do their sneaky ninja thing and suddenly gain seats from nowhere*

Edit [1:40am]: Labour have... 19 seats. I bet all the newsreaders are cacking themselves right about now.

On the up side, Lib Dem's catching up to Tories. Come oooooon Clegg--

GAH SINN FEIN HAVE 2 SEATS NOW WHAAAAAAAT N.Ireland do you hate us so?

Edit [1:50am]: Wow, Conservative just shot forward into 12 seats, though Labor's got 26. Lib Dems are trailing behind... COME ON CLEGG!

Comments

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

They predict the vote counting will end at about 3:00am or so and I can't sleep right now so yeah. >>

Eh, with the major parties that's how it works, like Labor (Gordon Brown), Conservative (David Cameron) and Liberal Democrat (Nick Clegg). You go for the leaders. But the others have ideologies and stuff you're meant to get behind.

The way the system works makes sense in a weirdly convoluted way. Each area of England is divided up into Areas, and then further divided into Constituencies within this. Each Constituency votes for people from their area that have chosen to represent a party (my area only has 5; UKIP, Lib Dem, Conservative, Labor and BNP orz, while other areas can have more or less, and therefore less options) and the votes are tallied. Whoever wins the most votes in that Constituency gets a seat in Parliament and a chance to shout their ideas and hope someone hears. Get enough people from your own team and you're bound to be heard.

Ah, England, you're so schizo.

[lovelylurker.livejournal.com]

If this were Hetalia, all of the brothers would be tied up and gagged in a padded room (separated from each other) and would be alternately trying to yell random political statements and foam at the mouth while rolling on the floor.

[hellzabeth.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha oh god with Scotland occasionally being like "I AM SO FUCKING SEPERATING YOU GUYS" and Wales being alternately "you say that all the time" and "I'M SEPARATING TOO" and Northern Ireland's all "FUCK THAT BULLSHIT I'M GOING TO JOIN MY SISTER-- NO WAIT ENGLAND PLEASE DON'T EVER LET ME GO LET'S ALL JUST GET ALONG!"

England froths at the mouth with the effort of trying to shout "ISOLATION FROM EUROPE" at the same time as "TRADE DEALS WITH FUCKING EVERYONE" and "GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY YOU FUCKING FILTHY IMMIGRANTS" and "EVERYBODY CALM THE HELL DOWN AND LET'S SORT OUT THE FINANCIAL CRISIS" and "so... who wants to legalise marijuana?"

I love Hetalia. Makes things so fun.