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5/6/10

British Election 2010: Nobody wins - its a hung parliament

The exit poll forecast of a hung parliament, with the Tories as the largest single party, was in tune with what most Westminster villagers had anticipated. The twist came in the BBC projection that the Liberal Democrats would suffer a fall in seats to 59, three fewer than they held in the last parliament. Could that really be so?

Could the Cleggmania bubble have burst so brutally that it actually saw his party fall back rather than surging?

Even Dimbleby, the grand witchdoctor himself, seemed doubtful. At the very least, his findings meant a long night stretching into morning, waiting not for the calculations of a computer model but for actual results: the word of the people.

For More: Election 2010: Exit poll forecasts Tories largest party in hung parliament | Politics | The Guardian

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