Caroline Lucas

Well done Brighton. Surely only a matter of hours before she's asked to lead a new government!

A few other thoughts from a long night:

1. Finding "factors" undervalued by the market place is of course the best way to make money. There was a factor staring me in the face this time round. Anne's mum, sister and friends all said they were voting for their existing MP, because (a) their MP wasn't tainted by the expense scandal, (b) their MP did good work in their constituency and (c) they couldn't decide how else to vote.

This "incumbency factor" was massive this time round. Obviously I spotted this trend weeks ago and made a million exploiting it....

2. What exactly is the fucking point of students? Let's leave aside the obvious thought that if this was 1977 there'd be bankers hanging from gibbets from Millbank to Chelsea, Guildford to Richmond, Leatherhead to Canary Wharf.

What seems to have happened instead is that most of them, when they pressed the Facebook button saying "Who would you vote for if you could be bothered to get off your arse and move our tired country forward as is your youthful obligation ?", thought that they had actually voted for real.

The rest of them wandered along to vote on their way to the pub, once they'd watched all the soaps, turning up without their fucking polling cards and ID, leaving hundreds of people disenfranchised.

I blame their parents.

3. One half of the country will now say the country voted for the Tories, and the other half will say the country voted against the Tories. As a betting man I'd put Cameron's performance up there with Jean Van De Velde's (Carnousite 1999).

4. Apparently a new government won't be formed today. Not least because the Queen is out.


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