Why the hell didn't they do the boundaries when they had the chance? What a mess, no chance of that now, they've preserved Labour for a generation
They have, but the new boundaries don't come into effect until next year. Well in time for the scheduled 2020 election.
Sorry, what scheduled 2020 election?
Precisely. AIUI the new boundaries are locked in and will apply for any general election from next year. It'd take primary legislation to undo them.
The order still needs to be approved does it not?
They are still reviewing the initial BC proposals and have not issued the revised proposals yet , another 15 months or so to go before the whole process is complete .
No, this was an anti austerity vote, not an anti Brexit vote, soft Brexit maybe
Except Cameron was able to win in 2015 after 5 years of austerity. Indeed he made a virtue of sound money.
The same Cameron who promised no tax increases, spending increases across the board and whose government borrowed hundreds of billions more than it forecast it would.
Brexit's dead in the water, that much is for certain. It's over!
Corbyn likely to be Prime Minister in the days ahead.
How he lives up to the hope and expectation the Millennials have placed on him god only knows,
No he isn't, he will still be behind the Tories on seats, the SNP are also taking a pasting, most likely is Tory minority government, Hammond PM, with LD and DUP confidence and supply if necessary
I take it fully on the chin and hope out of this that we can end up with a goverment in the national interest and would expect that we will end up staying in the EU
There will be no consensus in Parliament and no strong hand to guide negotiations.
We'll end up leaving with no deal now.
Except, that the continent's leaders and euro-parliamentary parties are watching the situation very carefully. They know that a deferred decision and process, hopefully forever, would be hugely in the Bloc's geo-political and financial interest.
This might be something rather similar the ridiculous game-playing with Turkish membership *into* the Union, but in reverse.
Brexit's dead in the water, that much is for certain. It's over!
Corbyn likely to be Prime Minister in the days ahead.
How he lives up to the hope and expectation the Millennials have placed on him god only knows,
No he isn't, he will still be behind the Tories on seats, the SNP are also taking a pasting, most likely is Tory minority government, Hammond PM, with LD and DUP confidence and supply if necessary
The LDs won't C&S Hammond to push Brexit through. Indeed they won't really want any deal with the Tories at all.
Brexit's dead in the water, that much is for certain. It's over!
Corbyn likely to be Prime Minister in the days ahead.
How he lives up to the hope and expectation the Millennials have placed on him god only knows,
No he isn't, he will still be behind the Tories on seats, the SNP are also taking a pasting, most likely is Tory minority government, Hammond PM, with LD and DUP confidence and supply if necessary
Are you sure. If Conservatives are losing places like Putney and Witney?
IDS won't go. I was supposed to be at the count tonight, and was told that anything but 2 Lab & 1 Con from Waltham forest would be a political earthquake.
Corbyn has been clear on Brexit. As Laura K pointed out why should it be assumed Ukip voters would all go Tory? You've got a perfectly good Eurosceptic in Corbyn. Combined with the Russell Brand/Lily Allen vote it's quite powerful.
This is NOT a vote against Brexit, except in Remain areas (which are a minority of the country), elsewhere it is a vote against austerity, public sector cuts and inequality, that is the mood Corbyn has caught after 7 years of cuts. This result may well end austerity as much as it ends hard Brexit, soft Brexit is still likely. In Scotland it is a vote against indyref2
Brexit's dead in the water, that much is for certain. It's over!
Corbyn likely to be Prime Minister in the days ahead.
How he lives up to the hope and expectation the Millennials have placed on him god only knows,
No he isn't, he will still be behind the Tories on seats, the SNP are also taking a pasting, most likely is Tory minority government, Hammond PM, with LD and DUP confidence and supply if necessary
The LDs won't C&S Hammond to push Brexit through. Indeed they won't really want any deal with the Tories at all.
Indeed, it's why hard Brexit is dead. I think we'll end up with a second referendum with EEA/EFTA vs hard Brexit as part of the compromise for LD support on the Brexit deal.
Alison Holt @AlisonHolt1 4m4 minutes ago More Vauxhall constituency turnout 77% - Kate Hoey Constituency- Labour team feeling v confident despite fierce Lib Dem campaign #GE2017
Corbyn has been clear on Brexit. As Laura K pointed out why should it be assumed Ukip voters would all go Tory? You've got a perfectly good Eurosceptic in Corbyn. Combined with the Russell Brand/Lily Allen vote it's quite powerful.
@Mike_Blackley: Labour think they've won E Lothian as well as Rutherglen and expect Ian Murray to secure majority of more than 10,000 in Edinburgh South.
Can't wait for the polling inquest after this election. ICM and ComRes reputations trashed
Every pollster makes mistakes. But what really grates was that ICM guy sounding so arrogant that he was right, and trashing any pollsters showing more optimistic results for Labour.
Corbyn has been clear on Brexit. As Laura K pointed out why should it be assumed Ukip voters would all go Tory? You've got a perfectly good Eurosceptic in Corbyn. Combined with the Russell Brand/Lily Allen vote it's quite powerful.
Yeah to be fair it was always assumed that UKIP was taking votes off Tories but in 2015 they took more votes off Labour
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HARROGATE!!!
Jezza. When will politics become normal and staid again?
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A lot of posters need to send apologetic emails to Peter Kellner.
Please accept we're all tired and emotional - for different reasons - at the moment. People are blowing off.
I'm loving this.
Good news for Ms Swinson.
David Cameron, you were right about everything. I really liked the coalition too, and now the top figures are all gone.
You have to say that Corbyn's strategy of being equivocal on Brexit was right.
We're all going to become poorer.
The magic money trees we've been shaking since 2000 are running out of leaves.
That's something.
Its real
Well done to him. A relatively brilliant campaign.
Agreed.
Con +2.7%
LD +1.4%
Lab +9.9%
Ind +1.0%
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Vauxhall constituency turnout 77% - Kate Hoey Constituency- Labour team feeling v confident despite fierce Lib Dem campaign #GE2017
I hope so.
Turnout 72% in Dulwich and 71% in Streatham.
Moray, East Lothian, Refrewshire East???
These guys are wasted outside the Commons, and are clearly good friends.
******!!!!!
end of an era
Single Market membership
Maybe even EUref 2