So the exit poll was wrong for North East Wales - Labour hold Clwyd South and Wrexham, gain Vale of Clwyd. That's a swing of 3 seats from the exit poll predictions.
I think the Scottish Conservatives are going to do exceptionally well. Look at the huge rises in vote share in constituencies where they have no interest.
Might save me some money then.
Otherwise I'm sitting on big losses for the night.
I think the Scottish Conservatives are going to do exceptionally well. Look at the huge rises in vote share in constituencies where they have no interest.
So the exit poll was wrong for North East Wales - Labour hold Clwyd South and Wrexham, gain Vale of Clwyd. That's a swing of 3 seats from the exit poll predictions.
I think the Scottish Conservatives are going to do exceptionally well. Look at the huge rises in vote share in constituencies where they have no interest.
I think the Scottish Conservatives are going to do exceptionally well. Look at the huge rises in vote share in constituencies where they have no interest.
George Osborne - Ipswich Milton Keynes reading northampton looking very bad. Globalised connected towns
He must be laughing his tits off.
He's not, he's still a Tory. He seemed very glum when I watched him earlier.
Praps he has seen the less funny side of trolling his own party in his Russian friend's giveaway newspaper.
I think he is the single individual most responsible for where we are now. He's jointly responsible with Cameron, but he is by a country mile the cleverer of the two. He should have got on Cameron's case and sent him back to Europe to get a reform package on which to win brexit.
The Tories never attacking Labour on the magic money forest was bizarre.
What I never understand was why they didn't just make good on the £350 a million extra a week for the NHS (or a figure close to that).
If they said by 2025 or so i.e. when Brexit concluded, with inflation it wouldn't even be a particularly big jump.
Would have been an easy policy to spin. Could have had Boris and co doing their dance again.
I honestly think I might have been the first on here to suggest promising that £350M by letting inflation do the job, right after the referendum. It looked like a no-brainer to me.
Instead we get the stupid Social Care policy out of the blue.
George Osborne - Ipswich Milton Keynes reading northampton looking very bad. Globalised connected towns
That's all because of this dementia tax, WFA stuff, not Brexit (Northampton strongly voted for Brexit for example)
Yes, it's all down to Theresa trying to steal people's houses.
Yep. May actually got herself into a position where she was promising to keep the WFA for Scotland and letting her own voters in England have it snatched off them!
The anger this provoked in the Shires was unbelievable.
I wonder if Alastair Meeks had it right a few weeks ago. Tory manifesto should have been Brexit plus £350 million per week for the NHS, and not much else.
George Osborne - Ipswich Milton Keynes reading northampton looking very bad. Globalised connected towns
He must be laughing his tits off.
He's not, he's still a Tory. He seemed very glum when I watched him earlier.
He is heartbroken that in his view the Conservatives abandoned the center by trying to court leavers and kippers. It has completely undone the work Cameron and Osborne did to make the Tories credible again.
My Lib Dem friend in Sheffield Hallam says Clegg's a gonner.
Odd UKIP to Lab swing!
Our campaign completely failed to drag Labour into the same Hard Brexit box as us. Labour became an easy choice for remain voters and even soft Brexit UKIP/Tory Leavers voters.
Well we can now all agree that the dreadful Theresa May is gone. And, with her, hopefully, Hard Brexit.
I bet you can show me loads of posts in your diarrhetic output that shows that?
Hang on, you post every possible view nightly.
Eh? I fully admit I am absurdly bipolar but I've been clear from the start that I wanted Soft Brexit, and abhorred Hard Brexit, and I entirely lost confidence in Theresa May when she announced her Manifesto, as I said on here (and PB-ers will attest)
The problem is you track record is of supporting every possible outcome simultaneously. You are a Schrodinger's Car poster.
If you want your political comments to be taken seriously you should take this to heart.
In fact, the same applies to your so-called sad sex-life, you lonely, hopeless soul.
Well done Greening. At least now you can tell May to get lost with her grammar school nonsense
A plurality of voters backed some new grammars in polls, this was a vote against austerity and against hard Brexit in Remain areas, this was not a vote against having a few more grammars
I think we are on for 305-310, which is frankly, shocking. Fuck Theresa May. Fucking useless, the party needs to dump her tomorrow morning.
Gordon Brown's decision not to run for the polls and have snap election for "a personal mandate" looks like the greatest tactical decision of political history after this.
My Lib Dem friend in Sheffield Hallam says Clegg's a gonner.
Odd UKIP to Lab swing!
Our campaign completely failed to drag Labour into the same Hard Brexit box as us. Labour became an easy choice for remain voters and even soft Brexit UKIP/Tory Leavers voters.
The campaign was just horrible.
This is all the fault of Brexiters. It was totally avoidable.
Come on guys. We are a very long way indeed from Corbyn PM. The maths just aren't there for Labour.
You said it wouldn't get to this point in the first place (as did I), soI think I'll go with what I see of the trend- Wales is underperforming for Con on the exit poll, safe seats are being turned into marginals in England, and while they'll hold some, they're losing a whole bunch more, and too many for SCON to make up for. Lab have allies in the SNP and LDs (or at least willing to deal), Con have no one to deal with but SUP.
Thus, Corbyn PM - May won't be able to pass a budget.
George Osborne - Ipswich Milton Keynes reading northampton looking very bad. Globalised connected towns
That's all because of this dementia tax, WFA stuff, not Brexit (Northampton strongly voted for Brexit for example)
Yes, it's all down to Theresa trying to steal people's houses.
Yep. May actually got herself into a position where she was promising to keep the WFA for Scotland and letting her own voters in England have it snatched off them!
The anger this provoked in the Shires was unbelievable.
And then there's the Dementia tax...
A heads up on that this time yesterday would have been valuable...
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What I never understand was why they didn't just make good on the £350 a million extra a week for the NHS (or a figure close to that).
If they said by 2025 or so i.e. when Brexit concluded, with inflation it wouldn't even be a particularly big jump.
Would have been an easy policy to spin. Could have had Boris and co doing their dance again.
Otherwise I'm sitting on big losses for the night.
Odd UKIP to Lab swing!
@Carlotta, how many views for that dreaded video ? 5m , 10m ?
Carnage for the Tories.
Gain Twickenham, Vauxhall, Bath, Edinburgh West.
Knife-edge in Kingston, Ceredgion.
Sweet FA
They wobble.
But they never fall down.
I think he is the single individual most responsible for where we are now. He's jointly responsible with Cameron, but he is by a country mile the cleverer of the two. He should have got on Cameron's case and sent him back to Europe to get a reform package on which to win brexit.
Exactly. Labourites are spineless cowards who don't give a shit who, or how, wins so long as they have a bright red rosette.
Instead we get the stupid Social Care policy out of the blue.
The anger this provoked in the Shires was unbelievable.
And then there's the Dementia tax...
Same with the Brexiters, of course.
Lab +8.0
Con +6.8
Not as bad for Con as it feels.
The campaign was just horrible.
No need.
Con gain Angus
Con 18,148
SNP 15,503
Tory gain.
Congratulations to her for hanging on.
Huge vote against Justine Greening. Grammar schools I suspect.
Still, at least you're away from it all, eh?
Thus, Corbyn PM - May won't be able to pass a budget.
tories up, majority down in south norfolk