The general view is already explained here. But isn’t this just iced cake?
The other big loser of the night was Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson, who lost her East Dunbartonshire seat
Sadly she’ll be right back as Baroness Swinson but still, nice to see.
Served her right for not getting them out for the lads.
Is there anything to be said for a second, confirmatory election?
Well, that £3 I invested in the Labour leadership election a few years ago has just paid a handsome dividend. 🙂
It’s been a bad night for Hugh Grant, Stan Collymore, Owen Jones, David Duke and Nick Griffin.
Wondrous night, I thought brexit was lost back in September, but flexible BoJo secured a deal with the EU which I believe was the foundation of last night’s thumping majority.
Interesting to see how flexible BoJo will now be given his large majority.
And the best thing: the people’s vote lot and their sycophants and enablers being completely buggered
If you combine the vote share of Labour, Lib Dems, SDP & Greens you get more than 50% so obviously Boris has no mandate…
Place your bets on how long until we hear that argument.
SNP obviously… whoops.
“Is there anything to be said for a second, confirmatory election?”
Only after Gina Miller challenges the GE result in the courts…
Sanctimonious Jo is now self-identifying as an ex-MP. She may well try to re-transition after counselling…
@JD
The “if you add up everyone who didn’t vote Tory (including people who didn’t vote at all) then we won” brigade is already at it over on the Guardian.
DJ
We actually had a SDP candidate in my seat. He earned 190 votes.
Wasn’t Rod Liddle campaigning for the SDP?
Vote for Jo Swinson, Britain’s next geography supply teacher.
If you combine the vote share of Labour, Lib Dems, SDP & Greens you get more than 50% so obviously Boris has no mandate…
Place your bets on how long until we hear that argument.
I heard it on the BBC this morning when they had the obnoxious Ken Loach, a Momentum woman and some other Labour bigishwig.
The counter is:
1. LibDems claimed that if they’d won that in itself would be a mandate to Revoke A50. See, a GE does give you a mandate no matter what the size of the vote in percentage terms, Blair had 35% in one of his victories.
2. Those who didn’t vote were saying they accepted the decision of those that did, so should be added to the leave column.
@Tim W
Sadly the other big loser of the night was Liberal Democrat Jo Swinson, who lost her East Dunbartonshire seat to the Scottish Nazi Party giving the Turdgeon dictatorial regime a monopily
Let’s hope she’s not right back as Baroness Swinson, but becomes a housewife
@Steve
Very good, new keyboard please
@Dongguan John December 13, 2019 at 9:58 am
C4 News were promoting “majority voted remain” view tonight; I expect Marr et al will be pushing that on Sunday
Sky Aus happy: Jump in pound after poll close reflects ‘new confidence’ in Britain
Forex – look at surge when exit poll released
https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/data/currencies/live-gbp-usd-exchange-rate
https://www.exchangerates.org.uk/data/currencies/live-gbp-eur-exchange-rate
Looks like Swinson unseated by Labour voting SNP – the Corbyn effect
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/politics/constituencies/S14000018
Scotland
SNP +8.1%
Con -3.5%
Lab -8.5%
Lib +2.8%
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/2019/results/scotland