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

[The Fits]

Really suprised (and delighted) by Reform. 4 is 4 too many but was fearing much worse.

 

[jcdenton08]

HOOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[nwgull]

Horsham going LD has made me quite emotional. I cast my first ever vote there when Major got stuffed in 1997, and even in that election it was an easy Tory win and just felt like a futile exercise.

I’ve also won a few quid!!

 

[HalfaSeatOn]

Biggest yippee of the night/morning. Well done the peoples of Horsham.

 

[nwgull]

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HOOOOOOOOOOO!

Jim Duggan has been running as The Peace Party since 1992. He’s quite a character in the town.

 

[Weststander]

All goes to proves the horseshoe theory .. vile individuals at both political extremes, they’re so close to each other but they’d hate to think so.

 

[The Fits]

How many seats left? Tories are getting nowhere near 140 surely?!

 

[nwgull]

Biggest yippee of the night/morning. Well done the peoples of Horsham.

This outweighs Rees-Mogg and even Truss, if she loses, for me!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Disgraceful scenes as she tried to make her acceptance speech...Workers Party not happy with democracy.

Catching up on it.

Jess Phillips is f***ing great

 

[Randy McNob]

We do have to be cautious of one party holding so much power, as long as it in the right hands.

Labour will not need any help from other parties and even only need about half their own MPs to get bills through, which is not very democratic. Beware

 

[BrightonCottager]

Yes! So happy that Sian Berry won Pavilion. To answer @Weststander 's question, I wasn't confident. I'm genuinely stunned by the margin though. Up until I left , the local (Hollingdean and 5ways) activists were worried by the number of Labour waverers and Labour was bussing canvassers in from all over.

Perhaps Labour's candidate didn't help himself on the doorstep by being abusive about the Greens and promising that the city wouldn't get funding if he wasn't elected.

 

[HyperTony]

48 to go

 

[Weststander]

How many seats left? Tories are getting nowhere near 140 surely?!

Throughout the Friday, Tories normally mop up farming/rural seats.

 

[Machiavelli]

Jess Phillips speech something else.

Oooo. Thanks for flagging this up. I'll have to check this out. So much to do ...

 

[Pevenseagull]

We do have to be cautious of one party holding so much power, as long as it in the right hands.

Labour will not need any help from other parties and even only need about half their own MPs to get bills through, which is not very democratic. Beware

Wasn't an issue when the Tories had 'super dooper' majority. Was it?

 

[The Fits]

And we are signing some decent players. What a wonderful week.

 

[The Fits]

Yes! So happy that Sian Berry won Pavilion. To answer @Weststander 's question, I wasn't confident. I'm genuinely stunned by the margin though. Up until I left , the local (Hollingdean and 5ways) activists were worried by the number of Labour waverers and Labour was bussing canvassers in from all over.

Perhaps Labour's candidate didn't help himself on the doorstep by being abusive about the Greens and promising that the city wouldn't get funding if he wasn't elected.

It's an amazing result.
Well done!

 

[Weststander]

Yes! So happy that Sian Berry won Pavilion. To answer @Weststander 's question, I wasn't confident. I'm genuinely stunned by the margin though. Up until I left , the local (Hollingdean and 5ways) activists were worried by the number of Labour waverers and Labour was bussing canvassers in from all over.

Perhaps Labour's candidate didn't help himself on the doorstep by being abusive about the Greens and promising that the city wouldn't get funding if he wasn't elected.

Well done you guys. The Green’s worked so hard here.

The Labour canvasser said to me that it was vital for Brighton Pavilion that a link was kept with their likely government. He was a nice bloke, got the impression it was a stock statement.

And quadrupling your presence in the Commons!

 

[chickens]

I have to say Channel 4’s coverage has been superb, Maitlis, Guru-Murrhy, Campbell and Stewart have been excellent and asked decent questions of the candidates.

Genuinely very impressed.

 

[TomandJerry]

Liberal Democrat Charlie Maynard has won Witney, beating the Conservatives in the seat which used to belong to former prime minister and current foreign secretary David Cameron.