Official STW General Election Night thread

Well after Trump won and Britain voted to leave the EU, I said it would be interesting….and it certainly is!

However the sun will still come up and life will remain the same for 99.99999% of us.

75% turnout for 18-25 apparently. Gives me lot of hope for the future that.

Well I guess I was wrong, wasn’t a waste of £100m after all

I live in the Canterbury constituency…

160 odd years of conservatives.

Until last night.

lol

Was it just another protest vote?

Against May and Brexit in E&W and against Sturgeon and IndyRef2 in Scotland?

Also I keep hearing about very tight Tory victories (which may just be the ones the media are reporting) but would they want to go again on tight margins with the momentum against them? They could hand Labour a majority if they do.

Here’s DUP leader Arlene Foster (centre) with convicted terrorist Adrian Bird (right) of the UDA which murdered over 200 civilians. So someone remind me which party it was that was getting into bed with terrorist sympathisers?

Del – Member
the knives are out for may. she’ll be down the job centre before next week is out. t

unfortunate choice of words!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40216979

sounds like something out of I Daniel, Blake, which the tories obviously dismissed as fantasy 🙁

would they want to go again on tight margins with the momentum against them?

They’d be crazy to go again until they actually come up with some policies.
They already tried ‘stay mostly quiet and hope for 5 years of the same’ and it didn’t work.

Bit of a sore head this morning after we popped a cork when Robertson went, and another when Salmond went. Best hangover I’ve ever had!!

Here’s DUP leader Arlene Foster (centre) with convicted terrorist Adrian Bird (right) of the UDA which murdered over 200 civilians. So someone remind me which party it was that was getting into bed with terrorist sympathisers?

Oof.

did anyone see the Ed & Gideon show last night?

they were very good on ITV
not much good to say about Brexit or Maybot, mind

@igm I am prety sure the Tories wont be keen on facing the electorate in the immediate future but it is a question of whether they can get their act together to govern with the DUP

Not an easy ask with a weak and wobbly leader and a relatively unhappy and potentially divided party

I very much doubt she has the skill to do it but i do not see any obvious candidates to replace her – some may be popular with the tories [ boris] but electorally they do not have mass appeal

Boris v Corbyn really plays into the privileged elite argument he has had some success with for example.

The may be forced to do it again but i doubt they want to

Here’s DUP leader Arlene Foster (centre) with convicted terrorist Adrian Bird (right) of the UDA which murdered over 200 civilians.

front page of tomorrow’s Sun perhaps?

A weak and wobbly leader, in a coalition of chaos with terrorist sympathisers? I think we’ve just re-defined “irony”.

So I’m guessing Corbyn will be sticking around for the foreseeable? 🙂

I think what the referendum and GE show is a huge lack of judgement on the part of Tory party’s leaders.

Or just their usual breathtaking arrogance.

Which I guess amounts to the same thing

Yes but they are *our* terrorists so that’s ok…

ransos – Member
A weak and wobbly leader, in a coalition of chaos with terrorist sympathisers? I think we’ve just re-defined “irony”.

😆

Deal done with the DUP, that didn’t take long, did it.

I’d just like to register my statutorily mandated “LOL” here, please:
LOL. 😆

Our sitting Tory MP lost his seat last night as a direct result of incompetent campaigning by May herself. She turned up and rubbished the concerns of locals regarding the likely closure of Huddersfield Royal Infirmary A and E as ’scaremongering’, an astonishingly tin-eared bit of uselessness even by her standards. #HandsOffHRI is a massive issue here, even the Tory MP acknowledged this and was at least paying lip service to fighting the closure. I think May pretty much singlehandedly trashed his 5000-plus majority and handed the seat to Labour with her intervention. Well done.

Overall, nationally, I’m really not sure what to think, but I’m not particularly optimistic. Obviously I’m always glad to see the Tories get a bit of a kicking, because I’m not a hollowed-out husk motivated only by greed and loathing for anyone less fortunate than me. But on the other hand I’m not over the moon about a hung parliament, particularly one configured this way, what with the fuse lit on Article 50, a dying NHS, the economy looking properly wobbly, and an electorate that is heartily sick of being dicked about by politicians. God knows where this is all going to end up, but I fear that it’s not going to be nice for anyone.

Still, it’s funny to watch them all swinging in the wind for a bit, though, right? LOL.

the wilson minority government lasted 8 months 🙂

That was shockingly quick. What exactly have the Tories agreed to?

My sense of relief has taken a bit of a dive.

If anyone likes a bet Ruth Davidson might be an interesting choice to be the conservative leader to contest the next election…

If anyone likes a bet Ruth Davidson might be an interesting choice to be the conservative leader to contest the next election

Wouldn’t she have to be an MP for that?

They’ve agreed to no special deal for NI, so the wall-building is presumably about to start. Getting the RoI to pay for it may be a challenge though.

T1000 – Member

If anyone likes a bet Ruth Davidson might be an interesting choice to be the conservative leader to contest the next election…

Pretty small. I think she enjoys her position at Holyrood and would prefer to medium sized fish in a small barrel rather than risk being exposed at Westminster – and also she is not nearly right wing enough fro the tory party.

They’d be crazy to go again until they actually come up with some policies.

If they came up with some ‘compassionate’ conservative policies they’d walk it. But they have to offer positive vision of the future, in theory this should be relatively easy, but I doubt the folk at the top are connected enough to the electorate to get it.

Reality is Corbyn didn’t actually do very well, it’s only portrayed as good because the expectations were for a Labour wipeout. Fact is May lost this election, Corbyn didn’t win it.

Fact is May lost this election, Corbyn didn’t win it.

keep saying that to yourself

corbyn gained 20 points in 6 weeks of campaigning

a proper run at it, he could be sitting pretty by October

or you can keep saying that he will never be labour leader, wont survive a year as leader, no chance in a GE, he’ll loose 150 100 50 gain 30 seats

Fact is May lost this election, Corbyn didn’t win it.

No, that’s an opinion.

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corbyn gained 20 points in 6 weeks of campaigning

… in spite of the most openly hostile press I can recall.

I’ve never been a Corbyn fan at all, well not up until a couple of weeks ago. But as disastrous as the Tories campaign was, Corbyn had a blinder.

And he got a 75% turnout for 18-24 year olds

Yeah I’d be very much smiling as Corbyn this morning. He’s actively engaged the public and people were cheering him in the streets. This is Britain, people don’t cheer politicians in Britain they throw eggs at them.

Other than who the government is all other outcomes are slightly academic apart from settling party squabbles over leadership and policy?

Some comments just reminded me of the ’74 Election, and how the Heath-Thorpe pact broke down over a weekend.

Similarly, Heath went to the Queen, did all the usual, and still couldn’t make it work out as they couldn’t agree terms.

And he got a 75% turnout for 18-24 year olds

While this has been reported, not convinced it is true, pollsters are saying they haven’t done the work yet and it will be a few days before age group numbers are out.

So she’s made a deal with the DUP, eh. Now that’s going to cause touble(s).

Too many tory rebels to govern even with the DUP.