UK General Election - May 7th 2015 (The Official Election Day & Results Thread)

[minionofmidas]

Richmond where William Hague evidently had a large personal vote.

And the new Tory candidate is not White British (Nor British at all, really*), never mind local, and a local councillor who stood in protest of the selection held his deposit.

*Actually, he's British born. But this still feels like a revival of the relationship between the Tory Party and the Native Princes.

[minionofmidas]

Didn't the Irish Parliamentary Party of old once return a member from a Liverpool constituency?

Yes, T.P O'Connor was Irish nationalist MP from 1885 to 1929 for Liverpool Scotland.

I just Wiki'd it for myself, but "Liverpool Scotland" is already confusing enough without having had an Irish MP for four decades as well.

When I first read that tidbit of information in an old book in the Frankfurt uni library, early this millennium or possibly very late in the last one, it said "the Scotland division of Liverpool". Now that was confusing. I did figure it out at the time, but I briefly wondered if there might conceivably be a town of that name in Scotland.

[minionofmidas]

The point of no return regarding Scottish Independence has very very very probably been crossed during this election campaign. It may quite plausibly take another generation, but my money'd be on rather less than that.