UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

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Geez, thats pretty horrid. Guess thats Brexit done.

And British class-based (as opposed to bullsh**t subcultural point-scoring based) politics done too, most likely. Sad! on a world-historical level.

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I don't really think Labour deserved to do any better than this--I've been probably the maroon avatar most critical of them on the antisemitism issue--but this is obviously a terrible result for British working people, and seeing the most personally loathsome individual on the forum gloating about this is enough to make me hurl. I'm going out to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe. I might be back for a hot-take postmortem later.

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I don't really think Labour deserved to do any better than this--I've been probably the maroon avatar most critical of them on the antisemitism issue--but this is obviously a terrible result for British working people, and seeing the most personally loathsome individual on the forum gloating about this is enough to make me hurl. I'm going out to celebrate Our Lady of Guadalupe. I might be back for a hot-take postmortem later.

It was only a little dig :’(

I wasn't referring to you.

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Tories will definitely govern for longer than they did under Thatcher and Major.

Yeah, well, that's, just, like, your opinion, man.

Welcome to the forum.

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Imagine being a 60 year old British guy from the northeast who has voted Labour his entire life, hates Thatcher with a passion, but looks at Boris and goes “hey I know he went to the most elite school in the country and was born into wealth but he wears his hair in a weird style so yeah I think he’s one of us”

Well Labour has never nominated someone as horrible as Corbyn before

You know what? That's fair. Not that it excuses opting for f**king Boris Johnson instead, but it is true.

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lmao bye-bye, Chuka. Good riddance.

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Interesting that so many specific despicable MPs are getting repudiated. It's almost like Providence is giving us some satisfying local results to make up for the horrifying big picture.

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BBC readjusted their projection, looks like they've revised Labour up a bit to 201 seats.

Who cares?

Labour remaining above 200 feels symbolically meaningful.

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Zac Goldsmith is ousted in Richmond Park.

LMAO BYE

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Swinson defeated.

Brutal defeat. 80% turnout.

AYY

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Labour holds Blaenau Gwent

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SDLP regains Foyle with 57% of the vote. CONGRATS, DERRY GIRLS CHARACTERS

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Dominic Grieve defeated.  Excellent.

Are you a Hard Brexiteer solely because it'll allow you and your fellow viperous ghouls to get your talons into Britain's public services, or do you have some sort of emotional reason to support tub-thumping English nationalism as well?

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Dominic Grieve defeated.  Excellent.

Are you a Hard Brexiteer solely because it'll allow you and your fellow viperous ghouls to get your talons into Britain's public services, or do you have some sort of emotional reason to support tub-thumping English nationalism as well?

Someone's mad

Yes, I am. Is there any particular reason why I shouldn't be?

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Given this majority victory by Conservative, will this result in two-party election like in the United States?

...huh?

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Labour oh-so-narrowly holds Alyn and Deeside, somehow. So North Wales won't be completely without Labour representation after all.

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Luciana Berger comes up short in Finchley and Golders Green

Dennis Skinner loses in Bolsover.

Oh, of course they did. RIP, FFs.

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Labor crosses the 200 mark.

Dayenu.

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Lib Dems hold Caithness, Sutherland, and Easter Ross. Davidson doesn't have to swim Loch Ness, or at the very least she gets to do so in her bathing suit.

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Votes/constituency right now:
Green: 829,049
Lib Dem: 379,089
Labour: 49,542
Conservative: 38,295
SNP: 25,961

This is some ed up vote efficiency.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: FPTP simply is not democratic.

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Wasn't St. Ives one of the last seats to be called in 2017? What's going on there? Does it have to do with the Isles of Scilly being in the constituency?

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Johnson is not going to run an austerity driven government like Cameron did.

But those assuming same thing will happen with Johnson need to remember it was austerity in big part there which Johnson won't do.

His Chancellor of the Exchequer is Sajid Javid.

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Honest question: Does anybody really think Corbyn's supposed antisemitism cost Labour a meaningful number of votes? Do working-class people in leave areas actually care about Corbyn's position on BDS or Israeli settlements? I personally doubt it but the media has been mentioning this issue non-stop as a factor.

That along with past support of IRA, Hamas and also supporting every SJW cause from university campuses was a huge turnoff.

I don't agree with pinning the rap on muh SJWs (whatever "SJW" means), but there's some truth to this--the sturm und drang around ~The Conflict~ and the spectacle of party infighting over minutiae of foreign policy that only a specific type of left-wing activist cares about probably made Corbyn come across as an out-of-touch woketariat type even to people who aren't exactly friends of the Jewish community themselves.

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Those aren't the official regions, are they? In most maps I've seen there's a separate Northeast (the historical Northumberland and Durham) and Northwest (the historical Cheshire, Lancashire, Westmorland, and Cumberland), and the East Anglia region also includes Essex and the northern Home Counties.

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Skilled tradespeople have been a Tory-leaning or at least Tory-curious demographic since Thatcher, haven't they?