Saw that

Boris has it on 2nd preferences.

Confirmed?

Yes

Edit

Edit, I take that back Sam - not confirmed, but expected.

Patience.

If highly skilled and ambitious professionals like me flee the country, you are going to be even more fucked than you already are. Who's going to pay for the social welfare and benefits handouts for the millions of lazy useless worthless chav scum that blight the nation?

You may be an arse wipe, but you give good comedy value.

Latest news I have seen has Boris 108,000 votes ahead but with two seats left to count, but that Ken is expected to close that gap by only 30,000

Shitting yourself Bill?

quite relaxed actually - im much more interested in the news that chelsea have bid for battersea power station

plus I have just seen Ed Milliband gurning on the BBC news and am reassured that this mid term result will mean he is retained as labour leader!

As mentioned before it's definitely Boris - most journalists who would know (via Twitter) have said so and a person I know who works for him has also said on Facebook.

Yes, Ed is an ugly fucker.

Predictions that Boris may be a lame duck at City Hall if Labour and Lib Dem members (are there any?) come together to block his budget plans.

A woman in Bradford on BBCnews 24 earlier saying she voted Labour, her mum always voted Labour and told her to. She was easily in her 70s. Bloody hell.

Ken lied about Boris, he was a hypocrite over his tax issues, his key policies of tube reduction and EMA allowance he can't deliver on, he has corcodile tears at a staged video but like sheep people have voted for him.

I wish we could move away from party politics and perhaps then we'll start getting more MPs etc who have the job because they deserve it rather than because of sheeple voting along party lines when there's actually bugger all difference between them.

I dont think it will come to that but a couple of big hitters/mouthy cunts have been turfed out of City Hall, that would have been on his side.

Lib Dems look to be the 4th party in London now - x100

Apalling turnout nationwide.

Looking at the votes cast so far, only about 1 in 7 Londoners chose Boris as their first choice to be Mayor, same for Ken (though a bit fewer obviously).

That for me is the big story, people don't care, politicians ignore them apart from election time, manifesto's are works of fiction and they're all the same so why bother.

This.

British politics is incredibly underwhelming

Always makes me larf when Boris criticises the RMT if they don't get a mandate from more than 50% of their members before going on strike.....

Good to see the BNP do absolutely nothing again.

No councillors at all across the country, Mayoral candidate bottom of the list by a stretch.

Hopefully they do poorly in the London wide results too.

Why dont they get on with it - cunts!

so possibly Ken makes a gain here, and narrows it on second preference too?

It' close.

How many irregularities have there been in Tower Hamlets?

I think Boris will be 80,000 to 100,000 to the good, so not mega close

I've given up with this waiting, well done BoJo, hope the assembly fuck your plans. Time to watch HIGNFY

Good grief, they said 6pm, then 8pm, then 9pm then 9:30pm. any advance on 9pm.

Can we do anything without fucking it up.

Apparently they've suddenly 'found' two more ballot boxes in Brent

I hope the North Korean observers are paying close attention.

they have found two more 'lost' boxes of votes in Brent

our electoral system is no longer kosher

THey need to stop postal votes unless you are confirmed as bedridden/infirm or can prove you're abroad.

I for one welcome our new banana republic status. Now who wants to buy an AK-47?

They ignored us during this election too in my area.

Mind you any coverage seems to be why the other cunt is a cunt and not what that cunt can do for me

They don't bother with my street either. It's a Labour area, so why bother. But I think in 2006 they finally got sick of Labour and elected Lynne Featherstone Lib Dem, 2 years ago labour fielded a union stooge. There's a lot of shitty areas in the constituency, Labour cut youth services by 75% but they still get away with it. Sheeple will still say though that Labour looks after the poor. That must mean the councils senior staff are poor because they're certainly looking after themselves.

And all this with a 30% turnout...


At the general election I went to my polling station (which is opposite my house) only to be told that I wasn't allowed to vote because I was listed as a non-EU citizen. I explained this was highly unlikely given that I was born in the UK and there was no such indication on my polling card, and they ummed and ahhed and decided that despite the fact this was all very odd, I had to go to work and call Lambeth Electoral Services when they opened at 9.30am.

So I went to work, called Lambeth who said that of course I was eligible and a UK citizen, and I should go back to the polling station and call them from the polling station if there were any more problems.

I went all the way home from work, got to the polling station, and the tellers said "Oh thank goodness you came back. We looked again after you left and realised we were reading the wrong line of the roll."

Looks like confirmation to come within 20 mins

Sam, what happened to your confirmation hours ago?

Huh?

Edit: Sorry, I did use the word 'confirmed', so I will rephrase to "official confirmation by the returning officer within 20"

Why would someone put a locked ballot box in storage. They're wired shut when transported, it's obvious whether it's an processed or not box.

I so regret deciding to wait for this result...