Which coverage will you watch?

[uncon]

I'm a little disappointed that from what I have seen elsewhere people prefer to watch their election coverage on channel 4.

Are we so incapable of taking on board facts and figures that we have to make it into 'election relief' with a bunch of comics desperately looking to slag off the results hour by hour?

That is for the period after the results, not an as you go lets clutch our sides and show our bias during the hours that the future of your life is being recorded.

I'm almost surprised that we are not about to feature commentary from Cheryl Cole and a man who has proved popular with elderly men who buy high waisted trousers from the back of the Sunday Express.

I'm with BBC1

[Don]

Ha ha! Well said. Mind if I save that and, with slight changes, use it over here when November rolls around?

[uncon]

Given my job it is a strange thing for me to say, but I wouldn't try and lure people to tell jokes about dead soldiers at Armistice and just this one day voting is a serious one.

[Don]

And I never meant to imply that it isn't serious. And I was serious about ours in November as that's what our election coverag reminds me of often. The last paragraph simply struck me as humorous.

[uncon]

Thank heavens!

if you had thought that we genuinely would believe Simon Cowell as a political barometer we would be buggered!

I was amused that on hearing about Cowell pledging alleigence to the tories Brown promptly dismissed celebrity endorsements while his activists were distributing free Ross Kemp videos

[Barry]

Actually I think it is a good idea, as Charlie Brooker can be hilarious.
However, as to which coverage I will watch - well, ALL of them!
I shall do some channel hopping, including the Channel 4 comedy stuff.
(If my Mrs tells me where the remote control is hidden)

[Don]

Thank heavens!

And here I thought you'd thank me!

if you had thought that we genuinely would believe Simon Cowell as a political barometer we would be buggered!

Teh only thing i would think you would take Simon Cowell as is a jerk of the first order and the antithesis of anything cultural. If I thought that he was typical of Britain, I'd stay home.

I was amused that on hearing about Cowell pledging alleigence to the tories Brown promptly dismissed celebrity endorsements while his activists were distributing free Ross Kemp videos

Did he throw in a bigot comment also? Poor Labor (american spelling don't you know) just can't all pull the same direction it would seem to this interested observer.

[rinks]

LIVE COVERAGE:::::

2052: Mr Cameron's repeated use of the word "difficult" stressed that the country has tough decisions ahead and that the Tories and Lib Dems face struggles in achieving a workable coalition, BBC political editor Nick Robinson says.
2049: A coalition will throw up challenges but the Tories and Lib Dems can start work on improving the country immediately, Mr Cameron concludes. He and wife Samantha pose for pictures outside No 10 and then enter the building.
2046: Mr Cameron says the UK's best days lie ahead. He adds that he wants to rebuild trust in politics. Mr Cameron promises to be "honest about what government can achieve" and pledges to build a more "responsible society".
2044: Mr Cameron says he aims to form a proper and full coalition with the Lib Dems.
2043: David and Samantha Cameron hold hands as they walk towards No 10.
2043: David Cameron enters Downing Street as prime minister. A large crowd claps and cheers.
2040: David Cameron's car is almost at Downing Street.
2039: The Daily Mirror's Kevin Maguire jokes: "Cameron's useless. Been PM for 10 minutes and he's done nothing. Absolutely nothing." Read Kevin Maguire tweets
2037: Crowds outside Buckingham Palace cheer as the new prime minister makes his way to his new home. Wife Samantha smiles as their car passes the dozens of photographers lined up.
2035: David Cameron is the new prime minister. He leaves Buckingham Palace for Downing Street.
2034: Many of David Cameron's closest aides and advisers are standing in Downing Street, waiting to celebrate the beginning of the first Conservative government for 13 years.
2032: John Prescott, former deputy PM, tweets: We've just witnessed the departure of a great man who with Tony Blair transformed Britain for the better. Read John Prescott's tweets
2030: The first prime minister the Queen dealt with was Winston Churchill, former Deputy PM Lord Heseltine remarks, adding that her length of service is "extraordinary".
2027: Lord Mandelson says Mr Brown "may not be faultless but he's certainly fearless".
2026: Lord Mandelson says Labour has had "a good, long innings". He praises Gordon Brown and colleagues for giving the Tories "quite a fight".
2025: Labour's Ed Balls, one of Gordon Brown's closest political friends, says the former PM made some mistakes but got many decisions correct. He wishes David Cameron and his family well.
2021: "I am Labour and Labour I will always be," Mr Brown told supporters. The party campaigned credibly during the election despite a "difficult media environment", he said.
2018: More on Mr Brown's speech to Labour activists. He praised Harriet Harman as "one of the best people you could ever have met". Lord Mandelson has been a "rock", he added.
2016: Gordon Brown will NOT resign as an MP, contrary to earlier reports.
2015: Tories have agreed to put marriage tax break and inheritance tax on hold it seems as part of deal, says the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg. Read Laura Kuenssberg's tweets
2012: The Queen will ask Mr Cameron if he is in a position to form a government. If he says yes, he becomes PM, just nine years after entering Parliament.
2009: Mr Cameron's silver Jaguar car arrives at Buckingham Palace. He should be prime minister within a few minutes. Details of any deal reached with the Lib Dems have not been revealed yet.
2007: Gordon Brown told Labour activists the election defeat was "my fault and my fault alone", the BBC learns.
2006: Harriet Harman becomes the acting leader of the Labour Party.
2005: Journalist Charlie Beckett tweets: Goodbye Gordon - you look incredibly relieved and human once again - enjoy the beginning of the rest of your life. Read Charlie Beckett's tweets
2004: Former Schools Secretary Ed Balls tells the BBC it's a sad day when a party leaves power, adding that Gordon Brown can look back with "great pride" at the last 13 years.
2000: David Cameron is on his way to Buckingham Palace, where the Queen will invite him to form a government.
1959: Conservative party chairman Eric Pickles tweets: Stood in leader of opposition's office at House of Commons with very happy staff watching history. Read Eric Pickles's tweets
1956: David Cameron, at 43, will become the youngest prime minister since Lord Liverpool in 1812, if he accepts the Queen's invitation to form a government.
1954: BBC World's Mishal Husain tweets: Transfer of power British style - David Cameron will be at the Palace within 15 minutes, at Downing Street within 40 minutes. Read Mishal Husain's tweets
1953: Conservative Charlotte Vere tweets: Excellent speech by Brown. My hopes and our futures are with David Cameron. Read Charlotte Vere's tweets
1951: Gordon Brown arrives at Labour HQ in Victoria Street, central London, to applause from party workers and members of his cabinet.
1950: David Cameron is expected to make the journey from Westminster to Buckingham Palace shortly.
1948: Chancellor Alistair Darling is leaving Downing Street.
1947: Gordon Brown is going to Labour HQ, where he is expected to announce his plans to stand down as an MP, which would force a by-election in his Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath seat.
1945: Gordon Brown leaves Buckingham Palace, having resigned as prime minister.
1944: There is much speculation in Westminster that Nick Clegg will be given the job of deputy prime minister in a Cameron government, BBC political editor Nick Robinson says.
1942: Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's former press spokesman, tweets: Fabulous farewell speech by GB to his stall. Laughter and tears. His boys provided the laughter. Read Alastair Campbell's tweets
1941: Some details of the coalition arrangements, including the cabinet jobs Nick Clegg and his colleagues will get, are expected to come out later tonight, BBC political editor Nick Robinson says.
1939: The editor of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson, tweets: What a graceful exit. Walking out with his family and to what he rightly says is the most important job of all. I wish him every happiness. Read Fraser Nelson's tweets
1937: Shadow foreign secretary William Hague says the meeting with Lib Dems had a "very positive atmosphere" and the negotiating team has "some recommendations to take back to David Cameron and our parliamentary colleagues".
1934: The meeting between Lib Dems and Conservatives, aimed at reaching a deal on forming a government, has finished.
1931: Some more of Gordon Brown's words from earlier: "I wish the next prime minister well as he makes the important choices for the future. Only those who have held the office of prime minister can understand the full weight of its responsibilities and its great capacity for good. I have been privileged to learn much about the very best in human nature and a fair amount too about its frailties - including my own."
1929: Mr Brown has told friends he plans to resign as an MP and leave politics, sources have told the Press Association.
1928: Gordon Brown and his wife arrive at Buckingham Palace. The meeting with the Queen is not expected to take long.
1925: As the car makes its way to Buckingham Palace, David Cameron and wife Samantha are waiting at Portcullis House in Westminster. They are due to see the Queen after Mr Brown, with Mr Cameron being appointed prime minister.
1923: The Brown family get into a Daimler, which will take them to Buckingham Palace.
1922: Mr Brown says he resigns immediately as Labour leader and thanks his staff who have been "brilliant servants for the country". He praises his wife and sons. "Thank you and goodbye" are his parting words. The PM takes his children and wife to the waiting car after posing for photographs.
1920: Gordon Brown says he will resign and suggests that David Cameron should take over.