[Politics] The General Election Thread

[Eeyore]

Sky reporting Kyle has held on in Hove. Brighton & Hove is all 'as you were'.

 

[Nixonator]

Has everyone else gone to bed?

Ears still ringing after Lucas’s hysterical rant.

 

[Sue1983]

Has everyone else gone to bed?

I'm still here, waiting to see who gets over the finish line 1st

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Tory wins in Stoke... Stoke... a Tory.

WTF

Slow clap to the Lib Dem’s

 

[atomised]

Still just about hanging on

 

[Sue1983]

Ears still ringing after Lucas’s hysterical rant.

She is a very angry woman !!!

 

[Titanic]

She is a very angry woman !!!

Passionate... and clear thinking. We would do well to have more politicians like her.

 

[atomised]

Trying to last til someone gets past the post.

 

[Sue1983]

Passionate... and clear thinking. We would do well to have more politicians like her.

I agree she is very passionate but I felt her rant was way over the top!

 

[Titanic]

Tories unseat Chris Williamson in Derby North. Crikey.

 

[Nixonator]

Passionate... and clear thinking. We would do well to have more politicians like her.

Comes across as an incoherent mad woman. Embarrassing stuff.

 

[Weststander]

Passionate... and clear thinking. We would do well to have more politicians like her.

I could understand her anger about no PR, the Greens and Brexit parties lose heavily.

But as a massive lover of Strasbourg, she had the air of an arrogant bad loser now that the UK really will be departing the EU. Other Remainers like myself, and Caroline Flint MP just then on TV, have taken it on the chin, respecting the result.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Jess Phillips next leader?

 

[Stat Brother]

Nice phrase from a Tory spin doctor:-


"The only way Labour can now win an election is regain the trust of the working class voters.
The only way the Tories can keep hold of power is to keep their working class voters".

That does give me a pinch of hope that compassion could reappear in politics.

 

[Titanic]

Kensington falls to the Tories by 150 votes.

I think I will have a small sherry, and toast the memory of Michael Portillo.

70% remain seat. Tactics seem to have failed.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Still here. At work. Heartbreaking and very worried for the future of the U.K.

Some will not realise for now, and we should let them have their moment but a huge, huge blow to the citizens of Britain. We will live to regret this. Of that I’m certain.

You may be right, time will tell. But the lack of any credible alternatives meant the citizens of Britain voted the way they did.

 

[Weststander]

Jess Phillips next leader?

Did you see her interview around midnight? Surprisingly to me (I remember her over the top rant in the Commons), she came across very well and was honest about the current failings in her party “Where do we start?”. But she’s not politically aligned to Momentum, plus in admitting that Corbyn, anti-semitism were/are real issues, she made powerful enemies in Thornberry, Abbott, McDonnell and McCluskey.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

70% remain seat. Tactics seem to have failed.

Another seat where Lib Dem’s gifted the seat to the Tories.

It’s amusing.

 

[Weststander]

Nice phrase from a Tory spin doctor:-


"The only way Labour can now win an election is regain the trust of the working class voters.
The only way the Tories can keep hold of power is to keep their working class voters".

That does give me a pinch of hope that compassion could reappear in politics.

Where did it all go wrong for Momentum yesterday?

 

[Weststander]

You may be right, time will tell. But the lack of any credible alternatives meant the citizens of Britain voted the way they did.

Is exactly what happened. The lesser of two evils was repeated over and over again in the last week or so.