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  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    Glasgow NE falls!
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,608
    IanB2 said:

    Don Valley Lab

    :(
  • Monkeys
    Monkeys Posts: 798
    This parliament is going to be a stupid amount of fun
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    Paristonda said:

    ITV saying Vauxhall Lab hold, Kate Hoey back sadly

    Gutted.

    (Almost)
  • hunchman
    hunchman Posts: 2,591
    Wirral long term drift to Labour continues!
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,806
    Hallam result incoming
  • llef
    llef Posts: 301
    labour 22k in gower
    tories 19k
  • Carolus_Rex
    Carolus_Rex Posts: 1,414
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    I hope you all followed me in when I tipped SCON 9.5+ seats at 20/1 in a thread header?

    I only got 14/1 but yes!
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    oxfordsimon said:

    Radio Oxford reporting that LDs have taken Witney...

    Well they put in place the groundwork in the by-election. Rest of the Oxfordshire seats may be close.
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,806
    Clegg's lost.

    Sad
  • alex.
    alex. Posts: 4,658
    Looks like Clegg's lost
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    Come on Clegg!
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    oxfordsimon said:

    Radio Oxford reporting that LDs have taken Witney...

    Serious?
  • AndreaParma_82
    AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Labour gain High Peak

    Con hold Thurrock
  • Pulpstar
    Pulpstar Posts: 79,813
    Chameleon said:

    Glasgow NE falls!

    Holy shit.
  • CarlottaVance
    CarlottaVance Posts: 60,422
    Clegg looking grim.....
  • hunchman
    hunchman Posts: 2,591
    Clegg utterly ashen faced
  • AlastairMeeks
    AlastairMeeks Posts: 30,340
    Recount in Peterborough. How sad.
  • JosiasJessop
    JosiasJessop Posts: 46,251
    Richard_Tyndall said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    EDW20000 said:

    I am buying pounds call options, Brexit is doomed

    Nope. Brexit will go ahead. And probably be far better managed than it would have been because it won't be May calling the shots.
    Desperate straw-clutching.

    The country may well be in chaos.
    No straw clutching at all. With both Labour and the Tories committed to Brexit and the main Anti-Brexit parties getting slaughtered the only question is what sort. If you think this will change the eventual fact of us leaving you are sadly deluded.

    To be honest if we get to the end of the night with the Tories with a small majority and May on her way out that would be just about perfect for me.
    I wish you could see it from the perspective of my family. But you've ignored such perspectives throughout, as your Europhobia overrode everything.
  • jonny83
    jonny83 Posts: 1,273
    Hope Clegg survived, Labour candidate looks very smug though.
  • Paristonda
    Paristonda Posts: 1,844
    glw said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    Go for EFTA membership and the EEA. The Norway option that so many Brexit supporters wanted anyway.

    That would probably work. It's more or less what Cameron should have recommended after his "negotiation" got nowhere.
    Yes. I would go for that and so would many remainers. Not perfect but certainly a decent compromise. The truth is that May offered sweet F all for remainers other than not being Corbyn
  • AndreaParma_82
    AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    Nick Clegg has lost
  • EPG
    EPG Posts: 6,739
    Lib Dems lost everywhere south of border so far. What was the point of that St Albans boosting so.
  • HYUFD
    HYUFD Posts: 128,924
    Sheffield Hallam
    LDs 19756
    Labour 21881

    Clegg Out!!
  • Drutt
    Drutt Posts: 1,125
    Clegg gone!!!
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    Clegg ;(
  • BenedictWhite
    BenedictWhite Posts: 1,944
    Nick Clegg out.
  • JosiasJessop
    JosiasJessop Posts: 46,251
    Good on Jo Swinson.
  • Sunil_Prasannan
    Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,077
    Clegg gone
  • glw
    glw Posts: 10,463
    edited June 2017
    Chameleon said:

    glw said:

    Chameleon said:


    kle4 said:

    Part of me wonders if Corbyn and co might not prefer to fall slightly short, as they've galvanized the youth vote, but no way they could deliver on all they promised.

    Hopefully Con will see what he's done and offer some things to the youth vote in the coming GE.
    I SHALL SPELL IT OUT IN ALL CAPS FOR CCHQ. GRADUATE TAX, IT'S "FAIR" AND IT CAN BRING IN MORE MONEY.
    There's already a graduate tax. 9% extra tax on all income above £20k. A graduate tax would also do fuck all to get the youth vote onside when Lab are offering free tuition.
    What I mean is roll all university funding and expenses into the tax. Tuition, the grant, and whatever else is "free" up front, and if you go to university your taxcode is permanently marked for a supplementary tax.
  • Pong
    Pong Posts: 4,693
    Clegg!!!!!!!!!!
  • Big_G_NorthWales
    Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,238
    jonny83 said:

    Hope Clegg survived, Labour candidate looks very smug though.

    He is gone
  • The_Apocalypse
    The_Apocalypse Posts: 7,830
    Clegg looks really unhappy, wow.
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,806
    Clegg's lost.

    I voted for him
  • Y0kel
    Y0kel Posts: 2,307
    alex. said:

    Sky projecting 308-328 seats

    That narrows it down....
  • midwinter
    midwinter Posts: 1,112
    Mortimer said:

    midwinter said:

    Mortimer said:

    Swinson wins!

    What are you thinking? Tiny majority? Just short?
    Majority of 2 of 4.
    Thankyou. Lets hope so.
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    edited June 2017
    Lab gain Sheffield Hallam.

    Tory vote doubles.
  • RobinWiggs
    RobinWiggs Posts: 621
    Clegg gone.
  • oxfordsimon
    oxfordsimon Posts: 5,845
    rcs1000 said:

    oxfordsimon said:

    Radio Oxford reporting that LDs have taken Witney...

    Serious?
    Serious.
  • SouthamObserver
    SouthamObserver Posts: 40,054
    Very sorry to see Clegg go.
  • Jonathan
    Jonathan Posts: 22,107
    Clegg. The man who gave us the Tories who gave us Brexit. No Flowers.
  • not_on_fire
    not_on_fire Posts: 4,451
    Poor Clegg
  • jonny83
    jonny83 Posts: 1,273
    Clegg gone!
  • EDW20000
    EDW20000 Posts: 138
    Clegg will be the next Tripod
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    spudgfsh said:

    https://twitter.com/IanClarke41/status/872992448355729409

    Normal Lamb could hold onto Norfolk North.

    I'm personally very pleased for him. He is a good man, and was a good minister.
  • alex.
    alex. Posts: 4,658
    Will Jo Swinson be able to scrape together sufficient nominations to stand for the vacant leadership?
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,608
    What an election :o
  • JosiasJessop
    JosiasJessop Posts: 46,251
    TheScreamingEagles said:

    Clegg's lost.

    I voted for him

    Thanks.
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    Clegg looking teary. I'll miss him.
    Blueberry said:

    Lab hold Vauxhall - ITV

    Damn.
    IanB2 said:

    Don Valley Lab

    Double damn.
    Casino_Royale said:

    Theresa May looking extremely stressed there..

    Fair to say that her private numbers did not predict this.
  • TravelJunkie
    TravelJunkie Posts: 431
    Clegg doesn't deserve this
  • waitingfortonight
    waitingfortonight Posts: 54
    Clegg over.
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    So sad that Clegg is gone. Genuinely devastated. I would have gone out and campaigned hard for him in a heartbeat.
  • KentRising
    KentRising Posts: 2,926
    Thurrock Tory HOLD
  • Sandpit
    Sandpit Posts: 56,045
    Clegg gone!!!!
  • AndreaParma_82
    AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    The Green candidate in Hallam is 10 year old?
  • ThreeQuidder
    ThreeQuidder Posts: 6,133
    Con gain Walsall North against the trend, to say the least.
  • Pulpstar
    Pulpstar Posts: 79,813
    edited June 2017
    Hope people were able to get more than the £2 I had on Labour there at 25-1.
  • alex.
    alex. Posts: 4,658
    Lab gain Gower
  • Carolus_Rex
    Carolus_Rex Posts: 1,414
    TravelJunkie said:

    Clegg doesn't deserve this

    No, he doesn't.
  • AndreaParma_82
    AndreaParma_82 Posts: 4,714
    edited June 2017
    Labour gain Gower
    Lab 49.9
    Con 42.7
  • Ishmael_Z
    Ishmael_Z Posts: 8,981
    Floater said:

    Ishmael_Z said:

    Floater said:

    I admit I am heading towards slightly pissed - am I alone ? :-)

    I had my last drink in 2005. There is however plenty of the stuff in the house. Not sure whether to put the cherry on top of a perfect day by falling off the wagon.
    Stay strong brother! Forget I mentioned it :-)
    OK. You have one for me, then.
  • Floater
    Floater Posts: 14,207
    Gower gone - about this majority....
  • JosiasJessop
    JosiasJessop Posts: 46,251
    RobD said:

    What an election :o

    Yep. Popcorn-tastic.
  • Casino_Royale
    Casino_Royale Posts: 63,687
    RobD said:

    IanB2 said:

    Don Valley Lab

    :(
    Blast.
  • jonny83
    jonny83 Posts: 1,273
    Wish Boris would lose his seat, won't happen though.
  • Nigelb
    Nigelb Posts: 79,356
    Balls. Clegg gone.
    Really liked what I've seen of him during this campaign.
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    HYUFD said:

    Sheffield Hallam
    LDs 19756
    Labour 21881

    Clegg Out!!

    Not even close.
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    Boris safe.
  • Essexit
    Essexit Posts: 1,966
    Cleggxit
  • FrancisUrquhart
    FrancisUrquhart Posts: 85,724
    edited June 2017
    Sad to see Clegg go. All the quad are now gone.
  • rcs1000
    rcs1000 Posts: 60,717
    I'm sorry Nick. You didn't deserve to lose. Sometimes doing the right thing doesn't pay.
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,806
    SouthamObserver said:

    Very sorry to see Clegg go.

    Agreed
  • RobD
    RobD Posts: 60,608
    ThreeQuidder said:

    Con gain Walsall North against the trend, to say the least.

    Every little helps...
  • Sunil_Prasannan
    Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,077
    Comrades gain GOWER
  • oxfordsimon
    oxfordsimon Posts: 5,845
    kle4 said:

    Clegg looking teary. I'll miss him.

    Blueberry said:

    Lab hold Vauxhall - ITV

    Damn.
    IanB2 said:

    Don Valley Lab

    Double damn.
    Casino_Royale said:

    Theresa May looking extremely stressed there..

    Fair to say that her private numbers did not predict this.
    I am not sure that any private numbers predicted this - all the reports from canvas returns from all parties never really gave us an insight into what is happening this evening.
  • Mortimer
    Mortimer Posts: 14,229
    midwinter said:

    Mortimer said:

    midwinter said:

    Mortimer said:

    Swinson wins!

    What are you thinking? Tiny majority? Just short?
    Majority of 2 of 4.
    Thankyou. Lets hope so.
    For our party and my holiday fund....
  • dixiedean
    dixiedean Posts: 30,316
    Jonathan said:

    Clegg. The man who gave us the Tories who gave us Brexit. No Flowers.

    Amen to that.
  • The_Apocalypse
    The_Apocalypse Posts: 7,830
    Feel sorry for Clegg.
  • Typo
    Typo Posts: 195
    Shame it isn't the lovely Oliver Coppard standing again in Hallam.
  • Richard_Tyndall
    Richard_Tyndall Posts: 33,463
    JosiasJessop said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    JosiasJessop said:

    Richard_Tyndall said:

    EDW20000 said:

    I am buying pounds call options, Brexit is doomed

    Nope. Brexit will go ahead. And probably be far better managed than it would have been because it won't be May calling the shots.
    Desperate straw-clutching.

    The country may well be in chaos.
    No straw clutching at all. With both Labour and the Tories committed to Brexit and the main Anti-Brexit parties getting slaughtered the only question is what sort. If you think this will change the eventual fact of us leaving you are sadly deluded.

    To be honest if we get to the end of the night with the Tories with a small majority and May on her way out that would be just about perfect for me.
    I wish you could see it from the perspective of my family. But you've ignored such perspectives throughout, as your Europhobia overrode everything.
    LOL. You have no special claim to sympathy. For every winner there is a loser and the more extreme the wins the more extreme the losses. That is why we should be seeking a moderate way as far as Brexit is concerned. It seems obvious that is what the majority want and hopefully now what they will get.
  • socialliberal
    socialliberal Posts: 41
    Lib Dems being wiped out in England. Just Scottish party. SNP decline amazing. Labour growth incredible. Tories - Idiots.
  • HYUFD
    HYUFD Posts: 128,924
    Floater said:

    Gower gone - about this majority....

    With DUP at least the Tories should have a majority I think thanks to Scotland, anyway that is where it is heading I believe
  • Scrapheap_as_was
    Scrapheap_as_was Posts: 10,069
    Tory voters do for cleggy
  • EDW20000
    EDW20000 Posts: 138
    Sad for Clegg, the coalition did for him
  • kle4
    kle4 Posts: 99,113
    Floater said:

    Gower gone - about this majority....

    It was their smallest majority.
  • isam
    isam Posts: 42,205
    RobinWiggs said:

    Clegg gone.

    Brexits back!
  • Beverley_C
    Beverley_C Posts: 6,256
    The Portillo moment of 2017?
  • hunchman
    hunchman Posts: 2,591
    ThreeQuidder said:

    Con gain Walsall North against the trend, to say the least.

    Hopefully Walsall South and Vaz but I don't see it
  • TravelJunkie
    TravelJunkie Posts: 431
    Labour gain high peak omg massive swing
  • Bobajob_PB
    Bobajob_PB Posts: 928
    Sad to see Nick Clegg go.

    Labour are rampant in urban England.
  • Paristonda
    Paristonda Posts: 1,844
    What a shame about Clegg. Didn't deserve this. 1st LD in 70+ years to enact ANY Lib Dem policies as part of a LD government.
  • llef
    llef Posts: 301
    plaid hold dwyfor - up to 3 seats with ceredgion (poossible) to come.
  • pinball13
    pinball13 Posts: 89
    PONCWAS
  • Typo
    Typo Posts: 195
    KentRising said:

    Thurrock Tory HOLD

    The ever indestructible Jackie Doyle Price! :D
  • spudgfsh
    spudgfsh Posts: 1,568
    JosiasJessop said:

    RobD said:

    What an election :o

    Yep. Popcorn-tastic.
    farron is close too... (aparrently)
  • Bobajob_PB
    Bobajob_PB Posts: 928
    kle4 said:

    HYUFD said:

    Sheffield Hallam
    LDs 19756
    Labour 21881

    Clegg Out!!

    Not even close.
    That's quite close TBF!
  • AndyJS
    AndyJS Posts: 29,395
    KentRising said:

    Thurrock Tory HOLD

    Exit poll wrong there.
  • Casino_Royale
    Casino_Royale Posts: 63,687
    Bobajob_PB said:

    Casino_Royale said:

    Tories really need to find an offering for the young pretty sharpish, who seem to find no threat or fear in pacifism or socialism.

    Agreed. Not sticking two fingers up to foreigners on the cliffs of Dover and pandering to the Mail and Sun would be a decent start.
    Without alienating traditional Tories either..

    Forgive me if we don't take advice from a core partisan Labour supporter.
  • tlg86
    tlg86 Posts: 26,950
    The_Apocalypse said:

    Feel sorry for Clegg.

    It's a bizarre night, lots of odd juxtapositions.
  • KentRising
    KentRising Posts: 2,926
    I would have voted for you, Nick :-(
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