UK general election 2019: exit poll predicts 86-seat majority for Conservatives - live news
Source: The Guardian
Exit polls suggests Tories on course for majority of 86
Huw Edwards is reading out the exit poll results. Here are the main ones.
Conservatives: 368
Labour: 191
Conservative majority: 86
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/dec/12/general-election-2019-uk-live-labour-tories-corbyn-boris-johnson-results-exit-poll
There was a way to lose to Boris Johnson, and Corbyn figured out what it was...
brooklynite
(94,738 posts)...prospectively in support of an Independence/Secession Referendum.
brooklynite
(94,738 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,365 posts)I haven't heard of a percentage of vote from the exit poll - only the predicted seat totals. Is there a percentage somewhere?
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)PA Media has it all laid out. Tories got 43.6% of the popular vote, or a shade less than 4 million more than Labour's 32%; SNP took 48 seats with barely a million votes, Liberal Democrats took 11.6% of the popular vote (3.7 million) but only got 11 seats out of it. Others insignificant, although some seats were picked up here and there by the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein.
-- Mal
LisaM
(27,832 posts)about how we could have elected Trump. This is infuriating.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Link to tweet
Josh Marshall ✔ @joshtpm
So I guess we celebrate 12/12 as Scottish Independence Day?
5:12 PM - Dec 12, 2019
paleotn
(17,971 posts)Another prosperous, EU outpost on England's border. So much for English hegemony.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)This is disastrous news.
nycbos
(6,038 posts)They had a choice between two horrific people.
wysi
(1,512 posts)Political suicide now complete.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,022 posts)US and UK.
nycbos
(6,038 posts)I would not have voted Labour if I was a UK citizen.
I think I would have voted Lib Dem.
dware
(12,449 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)After the last disastrous election.
Probably would have been a whole different outcome if Corbyn wasn't at the helm of the Labour Party.
Wabbajack_
(1,300 posts)At the last election. THIS was "supposed" to happen last time. There was no way Corbyn was gonna be out after gaining seats.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)brooklynite
(94,738 posts)Last edited Thu Dec 12, 2019, 10:18 PM - Edit history (1)
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)He didnt even make it to Monday, let alone March.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)but apparently not as much as Corbyn.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)were pissed that it hasn't happened as promised and also that they basicially had to vote a second time as though the first vote didn't count.
paleotn
(17,971 posts)Brits and Americans have so much in common.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Comes from our British Puritan roots. Their colonial period was revolting.
Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)Farage, Bannon, LePen, Putin. If only we could get the truth of the global nationalistic, anti-immigrant push dominating so many countries right now. There is coordination at a yet, unseen level. Assange may have some insight, Stone, Flynn, Manafort, Prince, Igor/ Lev? I need a character/ player program as there are so many "evil-doers."
brooklynite
(94,738 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,773 posts)RelativelyJones
(898 posts)ArtTownsend
(439 posts)Wabbajack_
(1,300 posts)A seat that has never voted Con before. Ugh.
Lonestarblue
(10,080 posts)I hope for the best but fear that their troubles are just beginning. We should learn a lesson from this vote. Hatred of immigrants and rosy promises of the return of the great British Empire with no interference from the EU (like Trumps America First) are strong motivators. Lies speak much louder than truth these days, and we have expert liars in the White House and Congress who will make our 2020 election one of total lies and character assassination. Many voters will buy the lies.
paleotn
(17,971 posts)Now they suffer the consequences. A break up is inevitable.
heckles65
(549 posts)...when what was meant was "Serbia + Montenegro."
Now "United Kingdom" will mean "England + Wales."
(And eventually, Montenegro did split away."
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Game over for the UK.
budkin
(6,716 posts)Gotta hand it to Russia... they are fucking shit up big time.
Polybius
(15,483 posts)What were they predicting? And what was Labour's best case scenario before the election?
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Brits must really hate the EU?
sandensea
(21,670 posts)Corbyn's fatal mistake, I think, was to not define Labour as the anti-Brexit party.
Would've added several percentage points to Labour's total, most likely.
Be that as it may, it's 5 more years of Bleach Job Boris.
Although something tells me he'll resign in scandal well before then.
tenderfoot
(8,438 posts)Oh look at you Great Britain... why are all those people from the places you colonized keep going there?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)We will see a united Ireland before we see the divided Britain.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... not that twenty seats matters much in the larger scheme of things.
-- Mal
sandensea
(21,670 posts)I'm glad at least Labour stayed above the 200-seat threshold - a psychologically important number in UK politics, as you know.
But at the end of the day, it's 5 more years of Bleach Job Boris.
Although something tells me he'll resign in scandal well before then.
Polybius
(15,483 posts)Is it immediately, or does this new government have to wait a couple of months like in the US after Election Day?