UK General Election thread

[Santa C]

Essential viewing and very amusing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKAeO-5saqQ&t=28s



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[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

Essential viewing and very amusing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKAeO-5saqQ&t=28s



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Interestingly he doesn't swear in that as much as he usually does - there is just no need.

[Limpin' Jez McKenzie]

Meanwhile

Has everybody voted? Still a few hours yet.

[ChrisB]

Certainly have. If you don't vote, do you really have the right to moan?

[robertff]

Certainly have. If you don't vote, do you really have the right to moan?

Completely agree, especially as people fought long and hard, and some died to become enfranchised, we owe it to them whatever the outcome.

I believe in Belgium you have to vote by law.


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[Deebank]

We voted as a family bloc.
Our constituency is now the oldest continuously Tory seat. We’re now in East Exeter and Exmouth following the boundary changes.

The poling was a bit inconclusive and the tactical voting site suggested Labour OR Libdem. We got a helpful letter from Hope Not Hate which said Reform were actually ahead on 28 ish while Lab and Con where both on 24 ish.

So for that reason we voted Labour. All the other polls I’ve seen have the tories v in a narrow v lead.

Fingers crossed.

Who else is up all night?

[Rorschach]

I might well be.
I'm actually a bit worried. Reform are doing far too well.

[Rorschach]

And Labour are hardly doing better than in the last election. All that's happened, after 14 catastrophic years is that the right wing vote has split. If they merge before the next election we're in trouble.

[Darkness_Fish]

Certainly have. If you don't vote, do you really have the right to moan?

If you do vote, you don't have the right to complain. You've played your part and acknowledged your approval of a terrible system which discards a huge proportion of votes. Labour have held my constituency for the last 106 years. The only way to register my disapproval and disenfranchisement from the electoral system is not to vote.

[Darkness_Fish]

And Labour are hardly doing better than in the last election. All that's happened, after 14 catastrophic years is that the right wing vote has split. If they merge before the next election we're in trouble.

Only a handful of results in so far, and none of the totals of Reform and Tory votes would've beat the Labour totals so far.

But Reform are a concern, no doubt.

[Rorschach]

And Labour are hardly doing better than in the last election. All that's happened, after 14 catastrophic years is that the right wing vote has split. If they merge before the next election we're in trouble.

Only a handful of results in so far, and none of the totals of Reform and Tory votes would've beat the Labour totals so far.

But Reform are a concern, no doubt.

But most of these were Labour seats before. There's actually been a swing from Labour to Reform in at least two of them.

[Rorschach]

In seats that Labour have taken from the Tories, the combined Tory and Reform vote is a lot bigger than the Labour vote.

At the same time, I've been drinking all day and now I'm seeing double so who knows...

[Rorschach]

Oh fuck. 30p Lee won.

Easily.

[Rorschach]

Hurrah! Grant Shapps has lost!

Would have won easily if he'd got all the Reform votes. Obviously, he wouldn't have got them all, but I imagine he'd have had enough.

[ChrisB]

And Truss! And Reese-Mogg! And the smug and very odious Gillian Keegan! And Penny!

[Deebank]

And Truss! And Reese-Mogg! And the smug and very odious Gillian Keegan! And Penny!

Oh frabjous day, caloo calay!

Shame that smug cnut farage got in mind and my own constituency stayed conservative with a majority over Labour of around 100 fucking votes!

[Darkness_Fish]

Hurrah! Grant Shapps has lost!

Did Michael Green or Sebastian Fox beat him though?

[Samoan]

Rishi's child bride's daddio won't be pleased !

[Lord Rother]

I know we all know it but seriously - what a ridiculous system.

Labour receive just 1.5% additional share of the vote than last time (most of that in Scotland it seems), giving them fractionally over 1/3rd of the overall vote, and suddenly have a HUGE majority.

Lib Dems get 0.6% more votes and achieve a 700% increase in representation.

Reform get 2% more votes than Lib Dems and 67 fewer seats (although we all say TFFT of course).

[Tom Waits For No One]

Trevor Horn is our new PM?