UK General Election 2019 - Election Day and Results Thread

[King of Kensington]

https://mobile.twitter.com/johnauthers/status/1205317958316253189

https://mobile.twitter.com/johnauthers/status/1205318275174981635

The ethnic diversity is misleading, the tories have gained amongst non-muslim BME voters.

Being Canadian, the idea of someone named Rob Ford being an academic expert on right-wing populism is quite amusing.

[King of Kensington]

20% for the Brexit Party in Doncaster North.  A Canadian academic I know who is very close to the Miliband family and the Labour left did some canvassing with Ed Miliband and he reported that Farage was popular and Corbyn was hated, even among old militants of '85 (he's an IRA supporter!)

[King of Kensington]

Why do the Lib Dems do so well in SW London?

[King of Kensington]

Whatever the many, many failings of the Labour Party in its present form, we can be absolutely sure that won't be the general reaction from it.

Of course, and this can't be pointed out enough, Labour fairly clearly didn't lose many votes directly to the Tories. The polling looks to have been correct: instead, they suffered serious bleeding to abstentions and to small/minor parties. The electoral system did the rest.

Plus those results in Kensington and the Cities of London and Westminster kinda defy the idea that the British Tories have become a "Trumpist" party.  It's still a lot more "respectable" to be a Tory in London than a Republican in Manhattan.