UK Election Night Discussion.

[Pericles]

Starmer landslide but having to watch his back from the left is actually a great outcome. Just in general.

Hopefully he focuses on saving public services ahead of performative moderation.

[Joe Kakistocracy]

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[falling apart like the ashes of American flags]

Pretty happy to see the Tories crushed in Birmingham. Solidarity with the great city that shares its name!

[Badger]

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How the hell did Chingford and Woodford Green not flip?

[axiomsofdominion]

Labour on track to drop below 35%.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

A shame that this Bradford seat could’ve easily gone to a Muslim independent if there wasn’t more than one running and dividing the vote.

The success of Muslim Independents this election should make them consider being more organized and creating a party for them in the UK for even improved results. They could have gotten close to 10 seats and become a larger partisan force than Reform in UK politics, drastically shifting the center of discussions you usually see in a very racist UK.

Hopefully the 3 that were elected form this alliance or party for future elections. This could be the beginning of something really great.

If it could thread the needle and advance immigrant and minority interests without devolving into overt sectarian politics, yeah. I doubt it could based on the UK's past experiences with these kinds of parties, which is a shame.

[Compuzled_One]

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Whoever survived in that 1-2K seat should lead the Tories.

[Unbeatable Titan Susan Collins]

SCOTTISH TORY LEADER DOUGLAS ROSS DEFEATED IN THE SEAT HE STOLE FROM HIS SICK COLLEAGUE.

Very deserved. Despicable he did that.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

BETHNAL GREEN AND STEPNEY

Labour 34.1% (−39.4)
Independent Ajmal Masroor 30.5% (+30.5)
Green 13.7% (+9.5)
Liberal Democrat 10.2% (+1.0)
Reform 4.2% (+2.2)
Conservative 4.1% (−6.0)
Other 3.2% (+2.4)

[インターネット掲示板ユーザー Punxsutawney Phil]

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How the hell did Chingford and Woodford Green not flip?

Labour candidate liked something said about Gaza by Jon Stewart. They replaced her with a new candidate but she ran as an Independent. The Labor vote was split in 2 and mr. went down a log flume won over them both.

[Compuzled_One]

A shame that this Bradford seat could’ve easily gone to a Muslim independent if there wasn’t more than one running and dividing the vote.

The success of Muslim Independents this election should make them consider being more organized and creating a party for them in the UK for even improved results. They could have gotten close to 10 seats and become a larger partisan force than Reform in UK politics, drastically shifting the center of discussions you usually see in a very racist UK.

Hopefully the 3 that were elected form this alliance or party for future elections. This could be the beginning of something really great.

If it could thread the needle and advance immigrant and minority interests without devolving into overt sectarian politics, yeah. I doubt it could based on the UK's past experiences with these kinds of parties, which is a shame.

There was an attempt at a Muslim party before?

[NYDem]

A bit underwhelming in terms of vote share, but still an absolutely massive majority. Look forward to seeing what Starmer does with it, and if he manages to screw this up.

[100% pro-choice no matter what]

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)

Akeel Hussain not invited to Muhammad Islam's next holiday party

Muhammad Islam sounds like a comedy sketch character

Next up-Jesus Christian.

Moses Israel.

That actually sounds real.

He's a former Democratic Member of Congress from Miami.

[Horus]

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How the hell did Chingford and Woodford Green not flip?

Labour candidate liked something said about Gaza by Jon Stewart. They replaced her with a new candidate but she ran as an Independent. The Labor vote was split in 2 and mr. went down a log flume won over them both.

Honestly deserved for such pettiness. Jon Stewart? Really?

[Whale Psychiatrist]

Starmer landslide but having to watch his back from the left is actually a great outcome. Just in general.

When the Tories and Reform inevitably merge and go full populist, some portion will be unsatisfied and disperse itself to either New New Labour or the Lib Dems. That's a far more reasonable consistuency for Starmer's Labour to court than angry diaspora groups.

[AustralianSwingVoter]

There are only five Central Belt seats left to declare - Glasgow North, Edinburgh East and the three West Fife seats. Unless Alison Thewliss (a solid constituency MP) or Tommy Shepard work a miracle, we could be looking at the SNP locked out of that region entirely.

So hilariously it looks very possible that the SNP has been swept out of Central Scotland but will sweep Grampian & Tayside lmao. Tartan Tory retvrn.

[axiomsofdominion]

Liam Fox is out.

[Compuzled_One]

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)

Akeel Hussain not invited to Muhammad Islam's next holiday party

Muhammad Islam sounds like a comedy sketch character

Next up-Jesus Christian.

Moses Israel.

That actually sounds real.

He's a former Democratic Member of Congress from Miami.

Damn, life is odd. Good find.

[MABA 2020]

Fun night, but I need some sleep now. Goodnight

[Harlow]

A shame that this Bradford seat could’ve easily gone to a Muslim independent if there wasn’t more than one running and dividing the vote.

The success of Muslim Independents this election should make them consider being more organized and creating a party for them in the UK for even improved results. They could have gotten close to 10 seats and become a larger partisan force than Reform in UK politics, drastically shifting the center of discussions you usually see in a very racist UK.

Hopefully the 3 that were elected form this alliance or party for future elections. This could be the beginning of something really great.

If it could thread the needle and advance immigrant and minority interests without devolving into overt sectarian politics, yeah. I doubt it could based on the UK's past experiences with these kinds of parties, which is a shame.

There was an attempt at a Muslim party before?

The Respect Party was somewhat akin to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_Party

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

Starmer landslide but having to watch his back from the left is actually a great outcome. Just in general.

When the Tories and Reform inevitably merge and go full populist, some portion will be unsatisfied and disperse itself to either New New Labour or the Lib Dems. That's a far more reasonable consistuency for Starmer's Labour to court than angry diaspora groups.

I'm not referring solely to the ~Gaza Independents~ here. You're also seeing gains for the Greens and for Lib Dems running on a platform in the old radical tradition rather than Orange Bookism.

[インターネット掲示板ユーザー Punxsutawney Phil]

Fun night, but I need some sleep now

Good night.

[Compuzled_One]

A shame that this Bradford seat could’ve easily gone to a Muslim independent if there wasn’t more than one running and dividing the vote.

The success of Muslim Independents this election should make them consider being more organized and creating a party for them in the UK for even improved results. They could have gotten close to 10 seats and become a larger partisan force than Reform in UK politics, drastically shifting the center of discussions you usually see in a very racist UK.

Hopefully the 3 that were elected form this alliance or party for future elections. This could be the beginning of something really great.

If it could thread the needle and advance immigrant and minority interests without devolving into overt sectarian politics, yeah. I doubt it could based on the UK's past experiences with these kinds of parties, which is a shame.

There was an attempt at a Muslim party before?

The Respect Party was somewhat akin to this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_Party

Gotcha, thank you.

[Tintrlvr]

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Whoever survived in that 1-2K seat should lead the Tories.

LOL he already did

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

The tactical voting success in the this election seems pretty unprecedented….LibDems are winning a seat share almost equal to their 11% vote share.  Normally, the’d win like 2% of seats with this vote share.