UK Election Night Discussion.

[All Along The Watchtower]

Not great that there are going to be fifth-column supporters of a genocidal terrorist organization, who have expressly stated their desire to wipe out all Jews, in Commons.

The DUP?

The DUP is probably the least anti-Semitic party in the House of Commons not in ideology but in terms of actual risk to the Jewish people.

I’m not saying that he was referring to the DUP. I was just confused by his “fifth-columnist terrorist supporter” comment. Especially because calling someone a “fifth columnist” is a very nasty thing to say about people, the kind of thing a McCarthyite or indeed, anti-Semite would be expected to say…

But this is an election thread, so that’s all I’ll say on this subject.

[Compuzled_One]

Is Reform expected to gain any more seats?

Wild guess, but maybe some rural ones?

[adma]

Cue "Cuthbert Cringeworthy in trash bin" picture re NE Somerset & Hanham.

[Progressive Pessimist]

cut to a US Pundit trying to write their "Dems should get their own Keir Starmer" editorial

Ironically, Biden is sort of our Keir Starmer. Just with worse luck.

[Aurelius2]

https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1809080274631655717

That isn't worth much when the Tories blame their loss on Farage and on their government somehow being woke liberals.

That's only half of it, but they're not wrong. The Tories have been so pathetic the last few years that they've managed to piss off both the right and the left, and for damn good reasons in both cases. What a pathetic husk of a party.

Less on the "woke liberals" thing,  which is a bunch of nonsense, but they made such a royal mess of the economy they ended up having to effectively raise taxes, while also deciding around the same time to start letting in eleventy billion migrants for some reason (while simultaneously making a bunch of sound and fury about attempting to send a few of them to Rwanda).

[axiomsofdominion]

Last Tory seat down in Wales.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

SDLP crashes down 17% in Foyle, holds on with the majority slashed to 4,166. They're currently down 4.5% NI wide, and their vote is down in all but one of the declared seats.

[Nitos Mederandel]

Labour is going to end up winning less than 35% of the vote. At 35.5% right now. That’s absolutely mental.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

Wow Iain Duncan Smith holds on.

So theresa villiers has a chance!

She's gone, though on a surprisingly small swing.

[Migrant Crime]

Wow Iain Duncan Smith holds on.

So theresa villiers has a chance!

She's gone, though on a surprisingly small swing.

Its the Tamils.

This is disgusting.

[Torrain]

SNP hold Arbroath with a 700 vote majority over Labour.

[axiomsofdominion]

cut to a US Pundit trying to write their "Dems should get their own Keir Starmer" editorial

Ironically, Biden is sort of our Keir Starmer. Just with worse luck.

We can't use the Starmer strategy anyways, we are a two party country. Starmer's plan was to get an abysmal vote share on super low turnout and just get efficient votes.

Odds on that the US voter turnout will be higher than that of the UK. This is a horrible embarrassment for the UK to lose to the US on this, especially when they had 10+ parties that got into Parliament.

[Red Velvet]

Labour vote share just absolutely in the gutter currently. They better hope some high turnout, high margin seats are still out.

Labour vote share is ridiculously low considering this supermajority - evidencing how they only benefited from the fragmentation of the Right, result has not anything to do with a Labour success or anything.

They grew a lot in Scotland, that’s for sure. But considering their national vote share was kept basically as the same as 2019, that means they LOST vote share to other options as well (like Greens and Leftist Independents) in other places that aren’t Scotland.

Their vote share currently stands at 35,7%, a 1,7% small growth only that was certainly mainly driven by Scotland.

[Citizen (The) Doctor]

cut to a US Pundit trying to write their "Dems should get their own Keir Starmer" editorial

Ironically, Biden is sort of our Keir Starmer. Just with worse luck.

If he were even 10 years younger he'd likely be cruising to reelection.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

cut to a US Pundit trying to write their "Dems should get their own Keir Starmer" editorial

Ironically, Biden is sort of our Keir Starmer. Just with worse luck.

I was thinking about how lucky both of those are. Biden's luck was mainly in 2020, though.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

GREENS GAIN WAVENEY VALLEY

[RBH]

GREENS GAIN WAVENEY VALLEY

the name makes it sound like a very green place (no word on what it's like in reality)

[Torrain]

Labour win Dunfermline & Dollar - locking the SNP out of the Central Belt.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

GREENS GAIN WAVENEY VALLEY

I was hoping this one would have a crazy swing that we could easily see like their last gain, but it's a new constituency.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

BRADFORD WEST

Labour 34.0% (−42.2)
Independent Muhammed Islam 32.1% (+32.1)
Green 10.7% (+8.9)
Independent Akeel Hussain 10.3% (+10.3)
Reform 8.6% (+5.1)
Liberal Democrat 2.2% (−0.9)
Conservative 1.0% (−14.1)
Independent Umar Ghafoor 1.0% (+1.0)

[Harlow]

GREENS GAIN WAVENEY VALLEY

Incredible. They're likely to win all four of their targeted seats this election since the only one remaining is Brighton Pavilion. They certainly called their shot.

[axiomsofdominion]

Nigel Farage, hero of the left wing and the UK, how much did Labour pay him I wonder?

[Paul Biya isn’t going far enough]

It’s a shame Labor will get so close to 417.

[Trump v. Wong Kim Ark]

Alliance loses North Down to a Unionist Independent. 7k majority.

Well that's a disappointment. DUP held Belfast East too. Damn.

[MillennialModerate]

Curtice says if Reform voters voted Conservative…Tories would have 293 seats. Labour 283. Lib Dems holding the balance of power