1. The Guardian live blog would stop beating around the proverbial privet.
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2. And the print edition would follow suit.
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3. The Mirror's website would lash out in rage and confusion.
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4. And the New Statesman would be inconsolable.
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5. The lack of Balls would also hurt The Independent.
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6. The BBC would tell it like it is.
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7. By mid-morning the Guardian live-bloggers would have lost the will to live.
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8. The Mirror would be printing a new edition hourly. At 2am there would be anger.
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9. At 3am, despair.
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10. At 8am, anger again.
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11. By 10am, there would be no words.
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12. And by midday, they'd be drinking heavily and slowly resigning themselves to the nightmarish hellscape of a Conservative majority.
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13. And The Sun, well...
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