Breaking news...

Ken Clarke: "I found your exit polls very boring... Peter Snow's getting awfully excited about a lot of results that haven't happened yet"
Paxman: "Well, Peter Snow gets awfully excited about just about everything"

KC: "I'm pulling your leg about your exit polls - of course, they're always wrong"

David Blunkett: "What are you going to ask me?"
Paxman: "I don't know, I think we might go back to Clarke rather than talking to you"
[later in same interview]
Paxman: "Well, there's no need to take that sort of tone" (turns round & cuts away while Blunkett still talking)

Also: new Labour slogan: Baseball Caps - Forward, Not Back.

[0:46] In more serious news: Putney Tory gain (see comment below), *massive* swing against Labour in Newcastle (though they still held it, obviously), & apparently 'very close' between Oona King & George Galloway in Bethnal Green & Bow.

[1:35] It's all just *entirely batshit*, that's what. LD hold Cheadle (Con target #1), but lose Newbury (Con target #30). Swings appear to be constituency-specific - although swings *away* from Labour, mostly.

On the upside, zotz's sister is now an MP (Ayrshire North & Aran, Lab) so go her. And I just saw Oscar that-I-used-to-know-at-Oxford on the telly at Newbury (Lab, -1%, but not bad in the context of the rest of the evening).

[1:43] Jack Straw saying 'oh fuck' under his breath whilst fiddling with his earpiece, unaware that he was already live.

[1:59] Teresa May has FLOPPY GOTH SLEEVES! And really fucking weird lighting - BBC camera really not up to scratch. In other news, batshit swings continue. And recounts all over the place. Robin Cook is quietly gloating - says his majority has gone up (though BBC says small swing to SNP).

[2:04] Blaenau Gwent: all-women shortlist, (some of?) local party felt candidate was parachuted in, independent Labour candidate stood against & won. Bah :-(

Further updates through the night, pop kids...

Breaking news...

Ken Clarke: "I found your exit polls very boring... Peter Snow's getting awfully excited about a lot of results that haven't happened yet"
Paxman: "Well, Peter Snow gets awfully excited about just about everything"

KC: "I'm pulling your leg about your exit polls - of course, they're always wrong"

David Blunkett: "What are you going to ask me?"
Paxman: "I don't know, I think we might go back to Clarke rather than talking to you"
[later in same interview]
Paxman: "Well, there's no need to take that sort of tone" (turns round & cuts away while Blunkett still talking)

Also: new Labour slogan: Baseball Caps - Forward, Not Back.

[0:46] In more serious news: Putney Tory gain (see comment below), *massive* swing against Labour in Newcastle (though they still held it, obviously), & apparently 'very close' between Oona King & George Galloway in Bethnal Green & Bow.

[1:35] It's all just *entirely batshit*, that's what. LD hold Cheadle (Con target #1), but lose Newbury (Con target #30). Swings appear to be constituency-specific - although swings *away* from Labour, mostly.

On the upside, zotz's sister is now an MP (Ayrshire North & Aran, Lab) so go her. And I just saw Oscar that-I-used-to-know-at-Oxford on the telly at Newbury (Lab, -1%, but not bad in the context of the rest of the evening).

[1:43] Jack Straw saying 'oh fuck' under his breath whilst fiddling with his earpiece, unaware that he was already live.

[1:59] Teresa May has FLOPPY GOTH SLEEVES! And really fucking weird lighting - BBC camera really not up to scratch. In other news, batshit swings continue. And recounts all over the place. Robin Cook is quietly gloating - says his majority has gone up (though BBC says small swing to SNP).

[2:04] Blaenau Gwent: all-women shortlist, (some of?) local party felt candidate was parachuted in, independent Labour candidate stood against & won. Bah :-(

Further updates through the night, pop kids...