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

[The Fits]

Hahahahahahaha

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Liz Truss …..please let the predictions be true!

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

 

[nwgull]

Jonathon Gullis out - great stuff (apols - just catching up)

Much as it’s worth celebrating, that was probably one of the most predictable losses of the night!

 

[TomandJerry]

Labour now with over 400 MP's

 

[Jim in the West]

Labour wins CHELSEA!!

 

[Pevenseagull]

David 'Mouthy daft old ****, much lover by similar' Starkey has already reiterated his stupid rant about Labour returning us to the stone age.


Evidently some old twats think he's Yoda or some shit.


He's a ****,

 

[Weststander]

It was terrible for the first hour with Dorries throwing a strop, but yes, once she went the analysis was really good. Even Widdecombe had some interesting points to make.

I liked it after Vorderman cut the shouting and celebrating. Not against her, a good LBC show on social justice issues. But during the grandstanding, there were seriously interesting discussions on the other 3 channels.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Has Truss bottled it? Nowhere to be seen at the count.

 

[wellquickwoody]

Yes Corbyn who we are all led ro believe is kryptonite to voters wins / holds his seat, on his own by the way, with a whopping 24,120 votes

It seems many still believed he was standing as a Labour candidate.

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Lib Dems picking up a lot of the rural seats.

Delighted to see Dorset West 18.5% swing from Tories to Lib Dem (along with a lot of the South West).

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Truss has done a runner. She isn’t at the count. The tosser.

 

[Machiavelli]

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.

I'm also surprised by the majority. Stunning result. I'm also up in Fiveways and have done some leafletting. Have to say the Greens were disorganised yesterday. Their telling system didn't work, and they seemed to be frantic about things. We voted at 7.45. There was only a Labour teller at that point but I went for a walk up Hollingbury Fort and on my way back, there was one who I gave our polling number.
At 1, I got a call asking me to vote. At 2.30, there was a bang on the door asking me to vote. At 9.30, my partner had a call asking me to vote. We did say that the overload might put certain voters off.

 

[The Fits]

Before I go to bed I just want to cheers Caroline Lucas. Megababe, intellectual heavyweight, and a constant inspiration amongst all the madness. This ones for you Caroline!

 

[jcdenton08]

It seems many still believed he was standing as a Labour candidate.

Wouldn’t surprise me. She doesn’t hang around places for long, vote counts, Downing Street…

Galloway left in a huff earlier - the prick.

 

[keaton]

So vastly less political coverage and media support and at the moment the Greens have as many MPs as Reform

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

Has Truss bottled it? Nowhere to be seen at the count.

Sums it up really. She messed up whilst PM and has since blamed everyone but herself and in my opinion shows further contempt of the electorate by, seemingly, not attending the result announcement.

 

[The Fits]

Delighted to see Dorset West 18.5% swing from Tories to Lib Dem (along with a lot of the South West).

I'm currently seeing only 2 (?) blues in SW. Tories just lost North Cornwall.

 

[Machiavelli]

Truss has done a runner. She isn’t at the count. The tosser.

@Springal indicated that there's local knowledge indicating that Truss is having mental health problems, so that might explain it, but equally cowardice might be it.
It's quite funny looking at the row of candidates, and there's now a slow hand clap from the audience.

 

[Randy McNob]

Truss gone !!
won't even go on stage - THAT IS A DISGRACE