Official STW General Election Night thread

I predict that Jeremy will be the big winner in this election.

He’ll be getting double time for a night shift jumping about on a big colourful map all night and Friday off in lieu.

It’s spelt “hanged.”

Wishful thinking?

that we’ll all sing along like before?
and nothing ever happens, nothing happens at all.. . . .

The young voters will learn from brexit and get off their lazy teenage arses and turn out in massive numbers, precipitating a hung parliament and a progressive coalition within a month 🙂

aracers prediction would be heaven,
jamba’s original prediction would be hell,
junkyard’s prediction would be purgatory,
A 68 majority for May would put us in purgatory, which is better than hell and slightly better than where we are now.

Only hte young voters registered too late to be on the polling station register (despite being officially registered) and so are being turned away in their hundreds… in Newcastle at least. Will be interesting if they don’t get to vote and it’s a very close seat

Prediction: Tory majority more or less identical to what it is now, total waste of time and money.

voters registered too late to be on the polling station register (despite being officially registered) and so are being turned away in their hundreds… in Newcastle at least.

Is this right?

Where did you hear about it.?

100 majority for the Nazis Tories

All the massive enthusiasm for Labour that I’ve seen will all be in vain.

Corbyn to win, huge loses in scotlandshire for the snp, as they realise they have no real power or money without being part of uk plc, and vote labour.

and probably on the off chance labour dont do well, possible unrest tomorrow night, and the police take a while to act as theyre getting their numbers cut.

Hopefully a victory for the party whose supporters are not narrow minded sore losers who spout equality and fairness for all but only mean fair for them.

Victory for the Greens then, Mattsccm?

Hung parliament, I’m still on the optimism curve

Nice idea, ie one thread for tonight. I have some replies to add to the other existing threads but will focus on this one.

May to deliver a 75-100 seat Conservative and Unionist Party win with;

Big gains in Scotland (not hard when you have only 1 seat 🙂 )
Historic wins from Labour driven by UKIP switchers
Sadly the loss of Jess Phillips from Parliament

Corbynistas will be happy enough with the polls over the last few weeks to keep him on.

Thats a win-win situation right ?

Lots of regional variation, expect Tories to do well in West Midlands, West Yorkshire, North East and Scotland. Labour will do well in metroplitan areas especially London. Tory votes gained will be more efficient leading to 80 odd majority but could be 100.

I’d rather have labour than tories but corbyn for me is not the man I want to lead us.

I decided to vote lib dem, not because I think they’ll get in, but because I’m sick of having to pick between the big two

I’m thinking if more folks voted for who they actually wanted rather than tactically or because their choice is seen as a wasted vote Then one day we may actually have a decent 3rd option

Unfortunately I think the result will be more or less the status quo. Announcements within weeks that x or y piece of EU-driven employment legislation is to be ripped up because it makes the U.K. ‘uncompetitive’. Clinking of champagne flutes heard around Ascot.

I can only pray that the younger voters have had a kick up the arse as a result of Brexshit and got out there to vote in numbers.

Tories proclaiming they are the ‘economically responsible’ party twelve months after playing fast and loose with our economic future to pacify the worst elements of their own party and/or UKIP.

Sensible people either laughing bitterly or reaching for a bucket.

I predict my border wall campaign will start sometime around 6.42am! 😆

my hunch is that May ends up with the same majority she started with; the tabloid press have made sure that tories will get in, the same way they delivered brexit and the 2010 silent tory win and Tony Blair when he did his deal with Rupe…

**** me do we need proper political reform in this country

‘Hundreds’ of students reportedly turned away at polling stations despite being eligible to vote

We’ve really had a run of shocking PMs on both sides 🙂

Tory landslide in line with the 100-150 seats Jamba originally predicted.

I’d like a hung parliament though.
A hung/hanged Jamba wasn’t an option on the ballot paper ,far too politically incorrect to the chagrin of some of those on here no doubt 😉
Tory win sadly so Jamba and his cronies will get their way

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home
The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight
Gonna kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor
Kill kill kill kill kill the poor tonight
Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate’s gone, feel free again
Oh, life’s a breeze with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it’s okay
So let’s…

I hope someone is busy in a back office somewhere working on a plan for Brexshit while all this is going on. . . . .

Tories to retain power, but only just – not the sort of gains May was hoping for – slight loss of seats

Labour to make some gains, larger share of the vote than last time

SNP to lose a few seats (pretty hard for them to make any gains)

Lib Dems might gain a couple of seats

UKIP see a notable drop in the share of the vote – no MP’s

All other parties pretty much unchanged

There’s a chance that Corbyn could be the winner. If Labour close or maintain the gap (by popular vote) then the PLP might realise it would have been better not to have been stabbing him in the back this past couple of years.

May is already damaged goods. Allowing the spotlight to fall on herself so much was a bad decision – one borne out of a misguided sense of her own capabilities.

Ruth the mooth will find her “vote Tory for no Indyref2” stance will come back to bite her.

Poor wee Kezia will be put out of her misery.

Just read the latest polls and now in the trough of disillusionment. Tory 50 seat majority

Twenty minutes left…

People are being turned away at the polling stations, even though they’ve registered to vote. Something to do with having “registered too late”, even though they’ve had a confirmation email etc.

My heart says Labour but my head says hung Parliament at best.

Too much media resistance.

As i think it is certain that May is going to win, i guess the question is how long till May gets replaced? I really can’t see her in power in 5 years.

broadcast exit poll

tories short by 12 😯

interesting……

just seen the exit poll…..

This might actually be interesting.

In which case, will May make it through the weekend!

Exit poll – tories 12 seats short.

On an interesting side note I sometimes meet Dimbleby whilst he’s walking his badly behaved dogs.

Omfg

Omg!! Exit poll is saying hung parliament. Unbelievable!!

That would be nice. It’ll do terrible things to the stock markets, but the Tories seem to be good at that recently.

Holy ball bags

Progressive alliance anyone?

It’s all cobblers and filling at the moment, till the first results come in.