UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

[Helsinkian]

Hearing and reading that the weather is dreadful - hard cold wins plus constant rain - in the midlands.

Isn't the impact of bad weather on turnout grossly exaggerated?

[Helsinkian]

Nice.

[Helsinkian]

So SNP with 55/59 Scottish seats but Tories still get 368 seats? Surprising!

[Helsinkian]

Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath to SNP.

The SNP candidate was suspended for antisemitism after the deadline for nominations, so presumably he will lose the whip on day one.

[Helsinkian]

Woke Twitter leftists analysing the results, basically:

"If only we had called those Brexiters racist a few more times, we would have won."

[Helsinkian]

As I've said, Labour doesn't need to win an overall majority, or even win more seats than the tories to get into 10 Downing Street.

They just need to make it so Labour+SNP is a majority. Assuming the SNP keeps 40 seats or so, that means Labour needs roughly 280 seats or so. Still an uphill climb, but not a net pickup  of 120+ seats and a 10 point lead nationally anymore

SNP would demand an independence referendum. Then, if they were to win it, Scotland would leave the UK and Labour would lose their majority mid-term.