How bad is tonight's result for the Labour Party?

[brooklynite]

The Labour Shadow Defense Minister and Chair of the national Party campaign, lost his seat to a 20-year old student from the SNP.

[JaneyVee]

1. Isn't Labour up 14-4 on Cons?

I mean, obviously its still very early and exit data not looking good.

[brooklynite]

4. Currently 17 LAB - 8 SNP - 6 CON - 5 DEM UNIONIST

But this is just the idiosyncrasy of which districts are counted first. Labour is being wiped out by 25-35% ranges in every Scotland constituency.

[JaneyVee]

6. True, SNP is purging all party's in Scotland.

[shenmue]

2. I'm still pulling for the Silly Party

[sufrommich]

3. The twitter feed is pretty sad to read. A lot

of stunned disbelief from the labor party voters.

[onehandle]

5. Exit polls put the Tories far ahead, but not a majority.

Idiot moron Brits.

[pa28]

7. Any link?

[brooklynite]

9. The Guardian...

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2015/may/07/election-2015-live-final-votes-cast-as-battle-for-power-looms

[pa28]

11. Got it. You meant the shadow foreign secretary.

That was what threw me off.

[sufrommich]

10. And Twitter feed:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ge2015?f=realtime&src=tren

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Losing 50 seats in Scotland is a bloodbath, but it's also expected, I think

the Scottish independence referendum failed, but it was 55% "no" to 45% "yes". If you translate that 45% nationalist/SNP support into parliamentary votes and consider that the unionist vote is split between Labour and the Lib Dems (and to a much lesser extent the Tories)? It's not much of a surprise that Labour are being wiped out.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

12. So Canada, Australia, and the U K have conservative leaders...

There's a cautionary tale there but I would bet my life people here will miss it...

[Ghost Dog]

14. Not UK. Only (South) England. n/t

[WorseBeforeBetter]

13. The 20-year-old SNP student rode the *patriotic* Scottish independence wave.

For those interested in details, rather than just swipes at Labour:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/scottish-national-party-heads-for-landslide-in-u-k-election-2015-1431036232

[BooScout]

15. It's a disaster.....

They have lost hugely!

....and the Lib Dems have been virtually destroyed.

On a more humorous note.......Boris is back in Parliament.

[Throd]

16. After looking at The Guardian and UK Daily Mail web sites...no bueno...muy malo.