Nobody should use the word Brexit tonight - it's irrelevant. Bugger, I just have.
But it rather looks to me as if Reform are severely damaging the Tories in Brexity-type seats, and Labour and/or the Lib Dems are going to slaughter the Tories in Remainy-type seats. So the Tories may well get lower than the exit poll suggests.
Quite.
It's why simple solutions are no solutions.
Yes, but if the overcomplicated centrist solutions do not work, people will do simplistic populist ones. Sorry, I'm ranty again. It's 1:44am my time
I'm enjoying C4. The interviews with reporters at different counts is feeling quite Eurovision. Good evening London, and here are the results from the Portsmouth jury...
Tonight is Eurovision for ugly people.
Rory Stewart is a beautiful man and I will fight you
“Tell Jabba I’ve got his money”
He looks increasingly like the love child of Mick Jagger and Edwina Currie.
I'm enjoying C4. The interviews with reporters at different counts is feeling quite Eurovision. Good evening London, and here are the results from the Portsmouth jury...
Tonight is Eurovision for ugly people.
Rory Stewart is a beautiful man and I will fight you
“Tell Jabba I’ve got his money”
He looks increasingly like the love child of Mick Jagger and Edwina Currie.
Why are the BBC so slow to get the results up for constituencies that have declared? Laura talking about "we'll get the full details to you soon", are they using a telex machine?
I'm enjoying C4. The interviews with reporters at different counts is feeling quite Eurovision. Good evening London, and here are the results from the Portsmouth jury...
Tonight is Eurovision for ugly people.
Rory Stewart is a beautiful man and I will fight you
“Tell Jabba I’ve got his money”
He looks increasingly like the love child of Mick Jagger and Edwina Currie.
Doesn't mean he's not beautiful, Farooq!
I think you'll find that, rather unfairly, it is external apperance that matters, and he looks like a papier-mache scarecrow with sixty teeth.
To misquote David Cronenberg: we don't hold beauty contests for livers
Basildon and Billericay is having a full recount! Suggest Richard Holden has a very close battle to 'hold' his new seat after fleeing to Essex from the North East.
Why are the BBC so slow to get the results up for constituencies that have declared? Laura talking about "we'll get the full details to you soon", are they using a telex machine?
There’s definitely a Labour ladies look of bobs and bangs
Moonrabbit did some really good commentary on this - she called them "the Labour fringes".
It's an interesting lens through which to view the current crop of top Labour politicians, as so many of them arrived in parliament at the same time (which goes some way towards explaining why they have such similar 2010-ish haircuts)
Partly its a result of the bottlenecking in the front bench-worthy Labour intake during the Corbyn years. The 2024 intake is going to make the party look very different, and it's worth wondering how soon the newcomers will find their way into ministerial positions.
Jeremy Vine said Labour are doing well enough in each seat to win with wildly different swings, suggests their targeting operation has been very advanced indeed.
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Edit: Who so far seem to have a habit of coming second to Labour.
NEW: A sizeable Reform vote is causing Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross problems in Aberdeenshire North and Moray Wast
If that’s true they have played this very smartly.
Con 17,756 (37.0% / -35.9%)
Ref 12,135 (25.3% / +25.3%)
Lab 11,823 (24.6% / +8.9%)
LD 4,068 (8.5% / +0.8%)
Grn 2,196 (4.6% / +0.9%)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001437
Early signs that Penny Mordaunt def in trouble in her Portsmouth North seat, source says
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Are the Tories really getting 25% based on these results?
Con 37
REF 25.3
Lab 24.6
LD 8.5
Gr 4.6
Doesn't mean he's not beautiful, Farooq!
Lab 25,630
Con 14,219
Ref 6,329
Grn 5,729
LD 2,913
Ind 261
Volt 163
Swing 12.4% from Con to Lab
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001529
Turnout 58.7% though, is that the real story of tonight?
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Mark Francois the first Tory to officially win in Rayleigh and Wickford.
To misquote David Cronenberg: we don't hold beauty contests for livers
I almost posted those numbers at 6:45 yesterday morning but held off. Wish I had now.
You can see those numbers at the bottom of this spreadsheet.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iFyVLRnJG_7HD1BrN6BQMzU_n2Vl-BjJEIz5H3qq6XA/edit?gid=0#gid=0
Labour 16,621
Cons 14,323
Ref 6852
Green 2847
LD 1735
Labour gain from Tories. Labour up just 0.3% though, Tories down 16%, Reform up 13%
Lab 18856, Ref 9892, Con 3354, Grn 2384, LD 1740, ADF 502
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001307
2019 figures (notional): Lab 19917, Con 9600, Brexit 3843, Ind 2662, LD 2649, Grn 1009, Ind 614, SDP 212
https://electionresults.parliament.uk/elections/2291
It's an interesting lens through which to view the current crop of top Labour politicians, as so many of them arrived in parliament at the same time (which goes some way towards explaining why they have such similar 2010-ish haircuts)
Partly its a result of the bottlenecking in the front bench-worthy Labour intake during the Corbyn years. The 2024 intake is going to make the party look very different, and it's worth wondering how soon the newcomers will find their way into ministerial positions.
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Lab 15216
Con 11737
Ref 9059
Grn 2894
LD 1340
WPB 967
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