General Election December, 2019 (U.K.)

BonnieSituation

North Down looking like going to Farry now with around 3000 majority

Bannasidhe

SNP take Rutherglen from Labour.

Letwin_Larry

huge swing to Tories in Workington. Lab since 1970. barometer for the rest imo. Darlington too.
that's it i'm off to me bed.

as Bob would say "a hard rain's gonna fall"

BonnieSituation

Colum Eastwood taking Foyle by about 4000 votes

fiveleavesleft

Sad that Dennis Skinner looks like he's beat. Represented Bolsover since 1970, gave his wages to the miners & now he's turfed out.

MPFGLB

Ben Done wrote: »

The primary emotion I have about it now is "You broke it, you own it" but on reflection ,the schadenfreude is misplaced.

Many parts of the UK are complete basket cases where your life chances are dismal.
People are dying under a horrifically cruel social care system.
Poverty means more food banks than McDonald's.

The only thing ordinary decent people can do in the face of 5 more years of Tory callousness is to organise locally, and bring back a sense of community.


My fear is that this thing that has taken over politics in the US and the UK is contagious.

And most of these places just voted Tory

If you are working zero hour contract with a family in Wigan or Hudderfield or Middlesborough how can you vote Tory who have cut NHS spending by 2/3rd in real terms since 2010 , have kept all spending on adult social care back for 10 years , have cut all youth programs and police to the bare bones so knife crime is rife and the probation service and prisons cannot keep up with dangerous criminals.Education has been underfunded so teacher ratios have declined and the NHS cannot get nurses a vast amount of who use food banks

This is the truth of Britain in the last 9 years yet the poorer areas in the country voted for more ..

Shows the strength of spin, soundbites and media slant over reality

Melanchthon

Turning of channel 4 now but I am sure the response in the morning when the full results are in will be how the UK (well really just England) is full of idiots that don't know what's good for them.
For any politico that's suprised by this result, remain have one every poll by variable margins, however only seen one poll on this but think there is more but 2nd referendum always polled as less popular than enacting Brexit, it's not a poll that get quoted as much though as it doesn't fit the online sphere s narrative.

MPFGLB

fiveleavesleft wrote: »

Sad that Dennis Skinner looks like he's beat. Represented Bolsover since 1970, gave his wages to the miners & now he's turfed out.

Yet a strong Brexiter

Arthur Daley

Staying up to see Swinson serve up the 'Portillo moment' of the decade is a must

Lucy8080

John Finucane predicted to have beaten Nigel Dodds in North Belfast.

Arthur Daley

fiveleavesleft wrote: »

Sad that Dennis Skinner looks like he's beat. Represented Bolsover since 1970, gave his wages to the miners & now he's turfed out.

Queen speeches will never be the same again. A proper old socialist. Like Tony Benn. Respect to men like that.

A Dub in Glasgo

Bannasidhe wrote: »

SNP take Rutherglen from Labour.

My constituency, happy with that. Now time for bed

Melanchthon

fiveleavesleft wrote: »

Sad that Dennis Skinner looks like he's beat. Represented Bolsover since 1970, gave his wages to the miners & now he's turfed out.

Genuinely feel bad for Skinner about this, even with the 2017 manefesto I feel he would have held on

BonnieSituation

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Staying up to see Swinson serve up the 'Portillo moment' of the decade is a must

Nigel Dodds' failure will be the one to watch. Edwin Poots is squirming. I wish I had some champers now.

Any idea what time Swinson's seat is likely to be announced?

MPFGLB

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Nigel Dodds' failure will be the one to watch. Edwin Poots is squirming. I wish I had some champers now.

Any idea what time Swinson's seat is likely to be announced?

which constituency for Nigel Dodds ?

BonnieSituation

MPFGLB wrote: »

which constituency for Nigel Dodds ?

Belfast North

Arthur Daley

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Nigel Dodds' failure will be the one to watch. Edwin Poots is squirming. I wish I had some champers now.

Any idea what time Swinson's seat is likely to be announced?

She's on the way to the count anyway, but it's Scotland so might take a while.

liamtech

Arthur Daley wrote: »

Staying up to see Swinson serve up the 'Portillo moment' of the decade is a must

Absolutely - one of the few happy moments of the night

That

and Nigel Dodds losing his seat!

Capt'n Midnight

Justin Credible Darts wrote: »

I believe each country should have total control of their issues without certain influences from europe.

Which issues ?

Specifics please or you may as well be handwaving or dog whistling

UK has control over the £ , Defence, non-EU migration (which is soaring)
(EU migration is reciprocal and the unemployed and criminals can be deported)

The UK SHARES and has a VETO on big issues like customs duties and health and safety and food quality and workers rights and access to hospital treatment and all sort of stuff that people who can't buy they way out trouble might appreciate.



The UK shafted steel workers all over the EU by allowing China to dump steel into the EU to save the average UK family an annual total of £4.80 on cheap Chinese shoes. Compare and contrast to Trump actions and tariffs on the same.

So I would argue that far from taking control an independent UK will continue to be China's bitch.

Seriously.

BonnieSituation

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Any idea what time Swinson's seat is likely to be announced?

Expected between 2:30 and 3:30 according to BBC.

Arthur Daley

Alan Johnson would have made a good labour leader at one time.

Shelga

Are the DUP expected to be decimated then?

One small relief.

BonnieSituation

Deleted User wrote: »

Expected between 2:30 and 3:30 according to BBC.

I don't think I'm gonna stay up that long so.

I'll wait for North Down and hit the scratcher.

BonnieSituation

Shelga wrote: »

Are the DUP expected to be decimated then?

One small relief.

Yup. Looking like 8 seats.

DUP 8

SDLP 2

SF 6/7

Alliance 1

UUP 1/0

Capt'n Midnight

Lucy8080 wrote: »

John Finucane predicted to have beaten Nigel Dodds in North Belfast.

A choice between the devil and deep blue sea ?

A pox on both your houses

But I want to believe

WhiteMan32

Alliance deputy leader Stephen Farry being hugged by party colleagues at the count centre. A confirmed win for him in North Down - Sylvia Hermon's former seat - expected shortly......

Capt'n Midnight

https://twitter.com/JonTonge/status/1205299409887670277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1205299409887670277&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsluggerotoole.com%2F2019%2F12%2F12%2Fthe-slugger-big-bumper-uk-general-election-results-live-blog%2F

Shelga

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Yup. Looking like 8 seats.

DUP 8

SDLP 2

SF 7

Alliance 1

Hmm going from 10 seats to 8 doesn’t seem that bad. I’d prefer if they went to 3 or 4... or ideally zero.

NIMAN

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Colum Eastwood taking Foyle by about 4000 votes

If that's accurate, its a massive result in Derry.

McCallion won marginally last time, and the people of Derry don't think she has done much since she got the seat. So it is good to see them punished. At last people have reacted against them not sitting in Stormont for 1000 days.

AllForIt

I hope the absence of the usual anti-brexit posters on this thread and the other one is a sign they've given up. I wouldn't count on it though, they might be regrouping and concocting Plan B+.