Exit polls are in

[suityou01]

Pound selling off USD : 1.4750, EUR : 0.8565

Hell, I'm fed up with it already - I'm going to bed.

with whom?

The bond markets open at 1am. The exit poll should be enought to send the markets into freefall.

Take the blue pill.

HTH

[TimberWolf]

You girls and boys keep watching the election.

Im far more interested in the 10% drop on the Dow earlier and Im presently setting up all of my stock trades for the next month.

Whoever gets in, it's all down down down tomorrow!!!

Keep looking over there!

I haven't started watching it yet.

[NickFitz]

Not necessarily. I took my postal vote into the polling station as did a number of others judging by the pile in the room. So, equally, those people taking in the postals could have been included in the 'exit' poll.

I meant "postal votes" as in "votes that were sent by post", not by your unusual definition which excludes the "postal" bit

[NickFitz]

Still, all good stuff. I thought that I would have to make do with Radio 4 streamed over the internet but BBC World are showing the BBC's coverage. Thank you licence fee payers!

HTH

[BolshieBastard]

First result from Houghton South, Sunderland

Lab 19137
Con 8147
LibD 5292

Labour hold.

[NickFitz]

First blood to Labour in Houghton and Sunderland South.

[BolshieBastard]

I meant "postal votes" as in "votes that were sent by post", not by your unusual definition which excludes the "postal" bit

Obviously, you dont understand the concept of an exit poll. It means anyone entering the polling station to cast a vote.

Anyways, off to bedski.

[NickFitz]

... and now the pundits are pretending to be able to derive meaningful conclusions from a single result

I'm going down the pub. There might be some actual news when I get back

[portseven]

First blood to Labour in Houghton and Sunderland South.

though it appears that labour have lost share in that seat since the last election. i think it was a gain by tories even though they didn't win it.

[NickFitz]

Obviously, you dont understand the concept of an exit poll. It means anyone entering the polling station to cast a vote.

Which, as I said, excludes those who sent their vote by post.