Kilmarnock to Labour, that's the first SNP loss and it's a pretty big one. It's been SNP for a decade and pretty strongly. Looks like a straight up swing of 10000 from SNP to Labour- Labour used to pretty much own the seat but they've had a different candidate every election since 2010 so that's been weird, at least one of them was a straight up nobody that they blatantly only put in because they had to have someone. Not sure how indicative it's going to be for that reason, but it's a big kick in the balls for the SNP.
Another tory share becomes tory/reform/nobody split in about equal parts, I reckon. And that's bigger than it sounds maybe, teh tories did pretty well here, I think they were third last time.
<edit- and another, West Dunbartonshire- similar story, another relatively big SNP hitter. Probably not as safe a seat, they've had a decent majority but it's been very variable.>
As a former Billericay denizen, this could be interesting. Reminds me why I left at 18 and never came back though...
Ha Christ Widdecombe is ****ing crackers!
Probably a price worth paying for the decimation of the Tories, but still…
I would have preferred more Tory wins and no Reform UK wins even if the Labour majority was a bit smaller.
I can't express my loathing for Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Although not necessarily for RUK voters.
I've switched to G and T.....aiming for 5am to see the main results. Need to start work at 9, then playing a gig two hours away from home tomorrow evening ?
Blimey, Keir Starmer saw the total number of his votes cut by half since 2019, I can't quite believe it.
And Andrew Feinstein, a good pro-Palestinian Jew, came second with over 7k votes, that's amazing.
Starmer's speech is very worthy and headteacher-y, slightly tediously laying out the purpose of things and how they work. But that's maybe what is needed when there is no consensus about what politics is for or how it should work. People have had enough of clowns and entertainers.
People have had enough of clowns and entertainers.
Agree. Hopefully this is the final hurrah for interesting politics.... lets have a return to boring please.
martinhutch
Free Member
Shapps gone!
Awesome!
Shapps ? off you **** pal.
Probably a price worth paying for the decimation of the Tories, but still…
Maybe, maybe not.
The question is around shifting the right wing vote from a party which, despite its recent screwups, is a party into a right wing vote controlled by farage ltd is a good thing.
Personally I would prefer a functioning tory party which gets back to the old one nation tory approach (actually believing in it vs the recent ones who heard the term and went "yup thats us"). Obviously a big step back in time and I dont really agree with their solutions but at least they identified the right problems.
IDS retained his seat, looks like an independent split the vote.
Sadly, some Labour infighting and idiocy means Iain Duncan Smith survives.
What were Labour thinking in IDS's seat?! He had a tiny majority
Shaheen looks livid!
Moggs seat declaring soon.
Grant Shapps gone! Excellent!
how the &*^% has ids kept his seat !
he should be in jail for what he did as work and pensions &*().
Shapps gone!
Thank **** for that.
It was close whether I would vote libdem or not thanks to Starmer but my dislike of Michael Green dragged me over the line.
The choice of labour candidate was really, really uninspiring. Replacing a web marketing prick with a pr person is a tricky proposition.
I am now tempted to head out and deface some of his signs on the Marquess of Salisbury land saying "loser".
That or bed.
how the &*^% has ids kept his seat !
A Labour screw up.
Faiza Shaheen huffing and stomping her feet.
Grant Shapps speaking under his own name as opposed to a pseudonym.
Keir Starmer's share of the vote has dropped from 64.5% in 2019 to 48.9% today, that's minus 17.4%
That is a terrible personal result for him. You would have expected his share of the vote to increase since 2019, not drop very significantly.
I can't quite get my head round it and keep thinking that it must be some sort of mistake.
Although I guess that the people of Holborn might just not be very impressed with Starmer since he has become Labour leader. After all at the time of the last general election he was still quite a radical leftie.
he'd have had more people standing against him.
Single issue indy did the damage there.
I doubt he had anything like this kind of opponent last time around.
he’d have had more people standing against him.
4 of the candidates got less than 80 votes!
I guess that Andrew Feinstein, a leftie pro-Palestinian Jew, has eaten into Starmer's vote. How embarrassing for him.
how the &*^% has ids kept his seat !
Ideological purity.
The original labour candidate got purged for not being a true believer but, sadly, decided not to accept the glorious leader pronouncement and stood as an independent.
Completely self inflicted by the glorious leader and his team.
Jeremy Corbyn won!
Blimey, Corbyn did it easily.
Ha Green candidate giving a round of applause to Corbyn
Corbyn! There is hope for democracy yet.
Corbyn romps home.
Yup, and it was supposed to be very close!
I'm really pleased that Corbyn has won. He might be a useless **** but at least he is generally right about most things.
Frogface up now .... schist
Farage Won!
21,225 votes!
Finally, in the 8th time he got in!
There will be party in Parliament.
**** Farage has done it.
The man-frog won. Well done Clacton FFS!
It pains me to say it - Farage is nailing his talking points and setting out his stall for the next five years. Ffffff...
bbc have updated the prediction to
lab 405
con 154
ld 56
snp 6
ref 4
oth 25
Ashworth lost to a pro-Palestine independent! Holy f***!
He’s going to strutting around like a toad with dicks.
I'm quite proud of the leftie voters in London tonight. I'm hoping that Diane Abbott's share of the vote goes up to 8O% That would round things off very nicely.
Jesus ****ing wept, Farage is an MP. What a disaster.
Is it just me or have labour done much worse than everyone was expecting?
dazh
Full Member
Ashworth lost to a pro-Palestine independent! Holy f***!
Yep, that's a surprise to say the least.
As for Farage, let's see how the work ethic holds up, not to mention the scandal.
Badenoch holds on in NW Essex for the Tories.
crazy-legs
Full Member
Badenoch holds on in NW Essex for the Tories.
Next Tory leader then.
I’m quite proud of the leftie voters in London tonight. I’m hoping that Diane Abbott’s share of the vote goes up to 8O% That would round things off very nicely.
I hope she wins too.
Farage is nailing his talking points and setting out his stall for the next five years.
I've just heard him claim that he will do his best to bring more tourists to Clacton. I would love to know how he intends to do that. I have never been to Clacton to and I'm not feeling the urge.
Is it just me or have labour done much worse than everyone was expecting?
lol
Updated forecasts looks better, don't think labour are doing worse, but exit poll bit lower than final polls. The scale of labour and lib dem gains are pretty big!
Edit: reform on 4 is better!
Badanoch ready to take over the leadership tomorrow afternoon when Rishi’s plane touches down in California
I suspect the people of Clacton will also have trouble getting an appointment in another surgery soon...
MoreCashThanDash
Full Member
Just got up. Already pissed about Reform.
3 so far, 13 predicted. A few more and we will have a "scandal" of Reform MP's.
That’s the people of Gaza saved then?
No it represents less friends for Israel in the UK parliament. And right now the greatest crisis Israel is facing is loss of friends globally.
Although I don't quite understand how anyone would trust a politician who doesn't condemn genocide to represent them in parliament. That must be a litmus test of their moral judgement surely?
lol
Tory seats at the upper end of polling estimates. Starmer’s majority cut in two, Ashworth defeated, Corbyn winning, labour majorities down across the board. It might be a landslide in seat numbers but doesn’t look great for 2029.
3 so far, 13 predicted. A few more and we will have a “scandal” of Reform MP’s.
it's been revised to 4 predicted
Wiggy fabricant also out.
Bassetlaw now Labour so...bye bye to clarke-smith.
This is the problem reform have, no idea if this guy is still a candidate or will win but they will be mired in scandal from day one.
Michael fabricant and his ludicrous wig have bitten the dust...
She got purged for shitposting online about the “Jewish lobby”.
Do you have a link please?
Since the closest I can find is she liked a Jon Stewart sketch about the "Israel lobby". Now at the risk of pointing out the obvious a)thats not "shitposting" and b)leaping from "Israel lobby" to "Jewish lobby" is a bit problematic.
frankconway
Full Member
Wiggy fabricant also out.Bassetlaw now Labour so…bye bye to clarke-smith.
Ha!
"Is it just me or have labour done much worse than everyone was expecting?"
If that BBC forecast is anywhere near correct, the Tory outcome is better than most of the polls were predicting so a bit worse but it is still a very big victory, albeit pretty soft, no great enthusiasm for Labour but a complete rejection of the Tories. The polls and leader's ratings have consistently been telling us that. Starmer is the least popular person to be elected PM. Labour's vote will be much more efficient, mainly because the biggest source of their inefficiency - Scotland - has disappeared with the complete destruction of the SNP's hegemony - are the BBC really predicting 6 wins for the SNP?
Good god Keegan lost by 12k!
Denyer ????
Is it just me or have labour done much worse than everyone was expecting?
Labour appear not to have done as well as all the opinion polls predicted. Plenty of opinion polls were suggesting less than a hundred Tory MPs and only a couple of days ago there was talk of the largest government majority since 1832
However the exit poll is now suggesting a Labour landslide but similar to 1997. Despite Labour only receiving about 36% of the vote.
It is the worse Tory result in 200 years though.
Gillian Keegan discovering that, in reality, people don't think she's been doing a 'bloody good job'. Off you trot
Greens have Bristol!
Carla Denyer in Bristol Central. Greens took nearly 11,000 votes in Bristol South, too.
Wtf is up with emojis
Tory seats at the upper end of polling estimates. Starmer’s majority cut in two, Ashworth defeated, Corbyn winning, labour majorities down across the board. It might be a landslide in seat numbers but doesn’t look great for 2029.
If the people are not happy with Labour, they will want a stronger change and that's where the term "reform" will coincide with the Reform Party.
It is the worse Tory result in 200 years though.
Will probably disappear totally as a political party
