[Politics] The NSC 'up all night' election night *** OFFICIAL MATCH THREAD ***

[Mike Small]

Will Widdecombe survive the night? This is nail biting TV!

I though Nadine had aged badly in an hour for a moment there.

 

[London Irish]

Curtace reckons less than Corbyn 17.

Yep I think fairly obvious that, the interesting thing is how much less. If it ends up nearer Corbyn’s 2019 result than his 2017 one, I don’t know how our current electoral system is defensible. And I’m something of a sceptic of PR but there may be no alternative if you get a nonsense of 410 seats on 36% - barely more than a third of Britons on a much lower turnout

 

[BadFish]

Will Widdecombe survive the night? This is nail biting TV!

Can we vote them off?

 

[Bodian]

Swindon - first seat to change hands. Labour vote greater than Tory & Reform combined, so would have won even without Reform

 

[Pevenseagull]

Here we go

 

[HangletonGull]

So what’s the latest seat predictions ?

 

[BadFish]

I though Nadine had aged badly in an hour for a moment there.

@HangletonGull still would!!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Swindon line up

N n n n n n n

 

[London Irish]

In Sunderland Central - zero change from Labour’s 2019 result. In 2017, a whopping nine thousand more people voted Labour than tonight

 

[HangletonGull]

@HangletonGull still would!!

Didt realise she was late 60s nearly as old as my mum so a no now

 

[BadFish]

Didt realise she was late 60s nearly as old as my mum so a no now

Widdecombe?

 

[Hugo Rune]

Buckland fisted.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Swindon South Lab Gain. 16.6% swing to Labour. Turnout 61% but down 6.5%

 

[HangletonGull]

Widdecombe?

No Nadine

 

[Ethelwulf]

What a c u n t Steve baker f***ing brilliant he has lost his seat

 

[Hugo Rune]

In Sunderland Central - zero change from Labour’s 2019 result. In 2017, a whopping nine thousand more people voted Labour than tonight

An astonishing achievement seeing reform were +15%

 

[Pevenseagull]

Oyster number 1

 

[HangletonGull]

Turnout down again

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

PR will facilitate it. Reform want PR. That's all I'm saying.

Right, I'm just going to emphasise something again. Neither I, the Electoral Reform Society, or the Lib Dems, advocate for PR in anything like the form that the Reform bloke was bleating about earlier. But this isn't the thread for that.

Anyway, I look at France, and its system that everybody thought made it impossible for the nutcases to get in. And over the last decade or more that vote gets higher and higher to the point where suddenly it feels inevitable that the Far Right will win and will not just be the third largest party or whatever, but will have the keys to the whole country handed over to them.

Trying to keep the nutters out with a system where huge swathes of people think it doesn't matter who they vote for is not a safe or long term solution.

 

[happypig]

Buckland, former Justice sec and Lord chancellor, gone.
That's a big enough scalp for me to open the posh biscuits.