Anyone else watching the British elections today?

Ah, ok, sorry.

  beggars belief at the intelligence of some voters!

I don't think it will really play out like that. With an actual majority, the Conservatives don't need the SNP to get anything passed, so the SNP have no bargaining chips left to play. 

Ed Miliband is speaking now.


And he's resigned, effective after the service for VE Day at the Cenotaph this afternoon.

Haha Barbara obviously types faster than me 

He probably believes in Karma  gar 

And David Cameron and Samantha have just arrived at the Palace for the official audience with The Queen gar - so we now officially have a Prime Minister again after the election campaign. 

You have to wonder don't you. Can you name any other Ukip members? I am struggling to....

I live in Nick Cleggs constituency. He is wet and ineffectual and has done the right thing in resigning. Am delighted to see that buffoon Nigel Farage has been kicked up the arse. Can't abide the man.

Am very interested to see how the Labour Party leadership contest will go. I'm guessing that Yvette Cooper and Chuka Umunna will be front runners.

Interesting that Nicola Spurgeon and the Scots Nats have had a resounding and yet hollow victory, with no prize and no potential for power. If the former labour voters had stayed with labour, things would have been quite different this morning.

Paddy Ashdown's hat is the most interesting thing about the whole event.

I see no chance of proportional representation any time soon. Certainly this government, with an overall majority, will have absolutely no motivation to go down that path!

I'm glad Milliband is going and only wish he had either let his brother get the job or resigned a couple of years ago when his unpopularity was already being discussed. His cronies love him,the public - don't.

I like Harriet Harmon and am happy for her to take charge for now- even for her to run for leader proper.

if only we had the likes of David Owen, Shirley Williams or the wonderful (deceased ) John Smith available. 

I had forgotten that story - thanks for the reminder.

I think our interpretation of a landslide might be slightly different in so far they don't have a landslide overall majority. It would have to include a good proportion of the other 87 seats held by others parties.  Yes, they do have 98 seats more than Labour but they only have a commons overall majority of 6 so that isn't really a landslide. And to be fair, they've gained the extra seats at the expense of the Lib Dems rather than taking them from Labour. The only party that has had a "landslide" victory over Labour is the SNP in Scotland IMO.