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Libs have taken Epsom. Brilliant.
All down to my leafleting of course!
Liz Truss makes a bold first step in her political career...
she says she needs "a bit of time" to think.
Looks like Reform have got not far off the same number of votes UKIP achieved in 2015.
In our constituency - Surrey Heath - the Lib Dems - took the previously secure Tory seat. This would have been Gove's seat if he hadn't decided not to stand. A bit of tactical voting produced a good result.
No change in the King’s constituency. Another safe win for a new Conservative to replace absent Adam. Labour were second but not close (14% majority). Reform were fourth. Oh dear, how sad.
Didn't realise Mercer had lost as well.
What a shame.
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-5-biggest-uk-election-thrashing-since-1900/
Lists the previous 100 years largest majorities for anyone curious.
1924 — Tory majority of 209
Lucy Fraiser gone ?
Local result... Josh (Labour) is not only our MP (at last), but with a 9K majority... didn't see that kind of win coming here... ever.
Cons held my seat of South Shropshire but with a massively reduced majority. Down from something like 22,000 to around 1600. The LDs were hot on their heels. I wasted my tactical vote punting on Labour, they were fourth behind Reform! The tactical voting sites had it too close to call between Labour and LDs based on previous results.
Still, the world is feeling a whole lot brighter this morning!
"Looks like Reform have got not far off the same number of votes UKIP achieved in 2015."
If they stay below 6 MPs they dont get Short Money from the taxpayer, and considering they are limited company 53% owned by frog face, they shouldn't
Really pleased for Josh FG winning calderdale, it's always felt wrong that the place of my birth would vote in absolute shits like Craig Whitaker.
Well done Calder Valley, Labour take from Conservative. Sadly though, that is largely by virtue of people voting for Reform instead of Conservative. Only a 2% vote increase for Labour, 15.4% increase for Reform. Most of those Reform votes will have come from the area I live in too I'm sure, Craig Whittaker was very popular here. ?
"Lucy Fraiser gone ?"
Yes, my tactical voting worked. 32% change to get LD in.
From twitter
My favourite Tory defeats so far:
Michael Fabricant, the larval form of David Dickinson
Jacob Rees-Mogg, a haunted dildo with the moral depth of a graphene scorpion
Penny Mordaunt off Battlestar Galactica, who now has to return to her day job of Not Being In The Royal Navy
Sadly though, that is largely by virtue of people voting for Reform instead of Conservative. Only a 2% vote increase for Labour, 15.4% increase for Reform.
You say that... but look at the votes for LibDem and Green candidates... they took 12.7% between them... the right are just having to face what the rest of have known in politics for decades, a failure to get behind one candidate under FPTP can let others through. And a lot of past Tory voters might have just not voted at all. Getting your vote out is key, and the Conservatives have been great at that in the past with the "fear of Labour" approach... that doesn't look to have worked this time... although they pushed it hard in the last week.
> Lucy Fraiser gone ?
Oh yes! About time too. She was my MP for years until they moved the boundary.
Right-o.
I've got a riding away day tomorrow and a busy weekend (again). It's also the Les Gets DH, so I'll watch that if I can.
Everyone can have their pissups, dance their jigs (I'll be walking a lot taller and carrying a huge sense of relief too), but the real work starts Monday.
NHS on its knees.
HE sector in crisis and about to implode.
Putin emboldened by Biden's weakness/stupidity.
Far right government in France a likelihood.
Schools still crumbling.
Inward investment stagnated.
Reform will remain a cancer on this country's politics.
Starmer has the mandate. That is great. But it also means he hasn't got the excuse.
Mogg, Truss, Gullis, Keegan, Fabricant... they can **** right off. And when they think they've ****ed off, they can **** off some more.
Andrea Jenkyns kicked out ?
of note, the Lib Dem candidate in my constituency was a Michael J Fox. Suspect he already knew the result.
If they stay below 6 MPs they dont get Short Money from the taxpayer, and considering they are limited company 53% owned by frog face, they shouldn’t
That would be good news. I'm kinda not that bothered about Frog getting in, he's accountable to a constituency now, and he never needed to be an MP to have a high profile platform. Obviously I'd rather Reform got annhilated on all fronts but what I want doesnt impact Reform voters not getting what they want out of the Tories.
Wow - the SNP's collapse is actually worse than the Conservatives.
For the first time in my life, and I have voted in every election since 1982, I am represented in parliament by an MP that I voted for. I am very pleased.
I imagine a lot of campaigning for improving the water quality of the Wye swayed voters there
it had a part, but Wiggin being an arrogant and quite unpopular man locally also played a part. And, in all honesty, the 8000 votes for the Reform candidate probably did for him in the end
A max of 125 for the Tories now
That is amazing to see
I see plantation owner Drax has been kicked out of South Dorset - that’s a happy result.
Alas I’m still represented by a Tory simpleton with a quite unbelievable 9,000 majority. Lib Dem and labour tied for second place
“A max of 125 for the Tories now”
Oooh what do I win? Predicted 120 on pages passim. To be fair it was the median of the predictions across all polls and models published a week ago. Those polls are more predictive than you might think. Its just small sample sizes needs proper aggregation for accuracy.
I'm not sure I really believed Labour would get nearly 3.5 times as many seats as the Tories
I’m in Adrian Ramsey’s constituency and am pleased to say he won. The Greens really put a lot of effort in to their campaign up here in the Waveney Valley and it’s paid off.
The most incredible result in a GE in my lifetime. Fabulous to see the Tories out and all those vile folk like Mogg out of parliament.
Starmer is a very lucky man as its clear its a tory collapse and reform splitting the right wing vote that has created this situation not any great enthusiasm for labour. That can be clearly seen by vote % and by the marginal not labour folk winning - 4 greens and Corbyn etc. the myth making starts now.
Shame Streeting didn't lose. He is vile.
Personally - Glad to see the back of Deirdre Brock in my constituency. I do not like liars
Now the work starts. Can Starmer and co use this to find the courage to make the radical choices needed?
Edit - is this right? From the Gruaniad " Labour has won 410 seats with a 33.9% share of the vote." what an indictment of our crap pseudo democracy.
Well, I've woken up to the first Labour MP for Macclesfield ever. Like, ever.
And it's not like he scraped it. A Labour win with a nine thousand majority, overturning an eleven thousand majority that the Tory fella had last time. Bonkers
Wow – the SNP’s collapse is actually worse than the Conservatives.
Given recent track record on everything from fiddling the books, losing the green alliance, the whole trans-rights issue etc. and then pile on top of that independence being returned to effectively 'Pipe Dream' status its no surprise. For the people of Scotland the choice seemed pretty simple; would Scotland be better off for the next 4 years with a seat at the top table or shouting from the fringe? They have their own parliament for a lot of stuff unaffected by the GE so why wouldn't you give Labour a punt?
The surprising part is people still voting conservative; just determined to stay at the fringe still I guess!
For me the biggest disappointment will be Ricky Holden (As he's now known) winning by such a slim margin in Billericay. When I politely turned him down for a self-invited visit to our factory not so long ago (yes I was polite, despite not agreeing with his politics there's still no need to break rule #1) I thought I'd never see him pop up on tv again after this GE, but no, he's literally scraped by at the other end of the country. Never mind.
Round these parts the reform vote swings from 15-30% depending on constituency. There's a few where its clear reform kept the Tories out, so I thank them for their efforts! You can easily guess the number they polled by by the area. The worse it gets the higher the number; as I was saying yesterday, while I cannot abide the party or its politics, I am sympathetic to why this is happened. Labour has an uphill struggle to win these people back, as the only way its going to happen is to prove to them that improvement in their lives can and is happening without getting rid of immigrants, or being less woke, or whatever the Farage crap-du-jour is.
I stayed up until Richard Holden’s result came in. He was previously my MP and didn’t stay to face the music. Somehow, him hanging on is even funnier than him losing. He reduced a 20k majority to one of 20. The swing against him was something like 35%. He’ll surely be in the most marginal seat in the country now.
Green and deform on 4 seats each.
Let’s see who gets the most time on telly.
Let’s see who gets the most time on telly.
I think we all know the answer to that.
Still, we have Labour, LibDem and Green MPs where have never had them before. Pause to reflect and celebrate that change in UK politics. Let’s not join in with the over the top focus on Farage and Tice’s current vehicle for spreading hate for Putin.
Wow – the SNP’s collapse is actually worse than the Conservatives.
I say this as a long term SNP voter, but it’s not surprising unfortunately; whenever a political party’s internal machinations become bigger news than it’s achievements in office, they’re due a wake up from the electorate. This result leaves Anus Sarwar with a conundrum I’m not sure he has the savvy to negotiate - he’s now sitting on a massive majority at Westminster, but has 2 years to the Holyrood elections, so he’ll need to figure out a way to deliver a result without making the SNP administration look good along the way. Interesting times ahead, but at least the relentless Tory rolling cluster**** is paused for a few years.
