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The General Election - June 8th 2017
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Alex Salmond loses his seat, Conservative gain Gordon!
F*cking cracking news.3 -
Liaisons and alliances to be sought. Perhaps.1
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Scottish Labour are gonna need a rethink to take those Tory seats in the next elections. And take even more of those SNP seats too.1
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261 - 233 now
At this rate the official exit poll won't be far off.1 -
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Gordon's been taken by Conservatives from SNP who seem to be flopping hard.0
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Well I am off to bed safe in the knowledge I could have just looked at the exit poll and grabbed 6 hours more sleep!Dazzler21 said:261 - 233 now
At this rate the official exit poll won't be far off.
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Can the results of this General Election realise a workable coalition?
Enough of the politicians.
What about the citizens? What works best for them?
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Just woke up and a mixture of excitement at a disaster for Theresa May and extreme jet lag probably means I won't get back to sleep now !3
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LAB gain Plymouth Sutton from CON.1
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I can't hear the name Keir Starmer without thinking of this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=StlMdNcvCJo 0 -
Some really tiny majorities winning/holding seats. You're talking less than a few hundred votes in places.1
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273 - 2410
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Having sat through the 2015 GE and the 2016 EU ref this is such a nice surprise.0
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Predicted vote share:
43% Conservative (+6%)
40% Labour (+10%)
8% Lib Dems
2% Green
2% UKIP (-11%)0 -
Could be the biggest Conservative presence in Scotland since 1992 if they gain one more seat above the border; pretty ridiculous how different their performance has been either side of the border. If that performance was UK wide, Theresa May would've got her (expected?) landslide.
As I say, I expect a sweetener to be offered to Ruth Davidson to try and get her to consider a position as a Westminster MP, with a by-election in a safe Scottish seat. Arguably she's got something about her which the Conservative party is missing in Westminster; perhaps she would rather hold out to be Scotland's First Minister in a few years, but I'd be surprised if nobody tried to persuade her to come down south.
On to local news: Conservative hold Beckenham, and a result is expected at Bermondsey & Old Southwark imminently. Labour have held Camberwell and Peckham.2 -
BBC Vote share prediction:
Conservatives: 43% +6
Labour: 40% +10
Lib dem: 8% +0.1
Ukip: 2% -11
Green: 2% -2
No way they can replace Corbyn now. Even talk of a break away party has died down.2 -
It's been a fascinating watch, some of the results have been ridiculous.Dazzler21 said:Some really tiny majorities winning/holding seats. You're talking less than a few hundred votes in places.
Always good to see the likes of Fishfinger and Lord Buckethead too; very nice to inject a peculiar dose of comedy in to the future of our country!4 -
Bucket head was great.
Does anyone else in the world do stuff like that with their elections?2 -
Yeah, America took it a bit too far last year though..Exiled_Addick said:Bucket head was great.
Does anyone else in the world do stuff like that with their elections?19 - Sponsored links:
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John Woodcock who said he wouldn't vote to make Corbyn Prime Minister has held his seat.0
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Could go either way. The vote share might lend Corbyn credibility north of the boarder finally, but It will make a lot of people laugh that they have a SNP govt and we have a Tory one thanks to them.Callumcafc said:Scottish Labour are gonna need a rethink to take those Tory seats in the next elections. And take even more of those SNP seats too.
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Within the next 10 minutes we may be losing our home secretary..2
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His next challenge is to deliver a majority or at least a party with 300 plus seats.mcgrandall said:BBC Vote share prediction:
Conservatives: 43% +6
Labour: 40% +10
Lib dem: 8% +0.1
Ukip: 2% -11
Green: 2% -2
No way they can replace Corbyn now. Even talk of a break away party has died down.
BBC predicting 265 which is well short of the kind of number he would need to push his manifesto through.
You can't have a party in power with so few seats - it wouldn't hold.
The goings on in NI will keep the Tories in until we go again - not that this will be good for the country or the Tories.
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An interesting dawn this morning.
The division in Northern Ireland is beginning to look more stark; and the Tories may need the DUP, which is never a comfortable place to be.2 -
IDS makes my skin crawl too.3
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A larger NI contingent in the government may introduce a more thoughtful Brexit negotiation with regards to border control, perhaps?
It's also clear from some of the interviews earlier, than the DUP would be unwilling to work with Corbyn for obvious historical reasons. Not sure if that's of any importance, but were the vote shares the other way around it certainly would be!1 -
Lots of Labour MPs with slightly red faces this morning after trying to run Corbyn out of town, turns out he's the most "electable" leader the party have had in a decade !10
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Too.Fucking.Soon.LuckyReds said:
Yeah, America took it a bit too far last year though..Exiled_Addick said:Bucket head was great.
Does anyone else in the world do stuff like that with their elections?7 -
Depends on how long they can hold it together. If it is a few years there is a real chance Corbyn will have stepped down, but the future direction of the party is assured and for that I am grateful.DamoNorthStand said:
His next challenge is to deliver a majority or at least a party with 300 plus seats.mcgrandall said:BBC Vote share prediction:
Conservatives: 43% +6
Labour: 40% +10
Lib dem: 8% +0.1
Ukip: 2% -11
Green: 2% -2
No way they can replace Corbyn now. Even talk of a break away party has died down.
BBC predicting 265 which is well short of the kind of number he would need to push his manifesto through.
You can't have a party in power with so few seats - it wouldn't hold.
The goings on in NI will keep the Tories in until we go again - not that this will be good for the country or the Tories.
These last few seats are so important for the stability of the next government and Prime Minister.0
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