UK General Election 2017

[Humph Warden Bennett]

A para I posted elsewhere

Good luck to my friends standing to be MPs today, all of you, every single one really, even Bill the UKIP,, I mean I obviously don't want you to win Bill the UKIP, after all this is a friendship based on honesty if nothing else! And honestly Bill? The UKIP?

Is this Bill who insists that he lives in Cumbria, when that is nothing more than a mongrel creation of the seventies?

[Nearly Sane]

So I voted and being in 1 constituency where it it is an all female list, I wonder will I ever have that again. There were 104 all male lists this election, but only the 1 all female list. The last all female list was in 1992.

[Nearly Sane]

Is this Bill who insists that he lives in Cumbria, when that is nothing more than a mongrel creation of the seventies?

Different Bill, this one lives in on Harris and defaces Gaelic signs and keeps a whippet called Hereward. Though I am going to suggest Mohammed Al-Malarkey for his next dog's name.

[Humph Warden Bennett]

So I voted and being in 1 constituency where it it is an all female list, I wonder will I ever have that again. There were 104 all male lists this election, but only the 1 all female list. The last all female list was in 1992.

Tories are Tories, IMHO . Women Tories ain't any better.

[JP]

Tories win well, Corbyn does not resign, lefty Antifa types take to streets to protest / riot and destroy property.

My prediction

[Nearly Sane]

Tories are Tories, IMHO . Women Tories ain't any better.

I hope that one day this be unremarkable but at 1 constituency every 25 years, it's all a bit Brigadoon

[Nearly Sane]

Tories win well, Corbyn does not resign, lefty Antifa types take to streets to protest / riot and destroy property.

My prediction

Not property!!! Surely they know people are far more expendable?

BTW what is 'well' in terms of a Tory win iyho?

[Walt Zingmatilder]

Tories win well, Corbyn does not resign, lefty Antifa types take to streets to protest / riot and destroy property.

My prediction

I don't think so vegetarians aren't the rioting type and broken glass is bloody painful when you've got sandals on.

Violence as we know is proportional to the number of rolls of flab at the back of the neck.

[Sebastian Toe]

Just been to vote. The guy there said they were at 72% turnout so far which isny bad for a wee rural place where most people have to drive to get to the PS.

[jakswan]

Have you ever given IS (International Skeptics) a look? (I'm SusanB-M1 there.)

Ohh thanks for that Susan!

[Nearly Sane]

That is an interesting exit poll

[Aruntraveller]

That is an interesting exit poll

That is an interesting understatement.

[jeremyp]

I reckon, if the BBC exit poll is right, Theresa May will have to resign as leader of the Conservatives.

[jeremyp]

First result in suggests the exit poll is optimistic for Labour.

[Nearly Sane]

The exit poll looking weak and wobbly

[Nearly Sane]

Postal votes may be the issue?

[jeremyp]

Postal votes may be the issue?

Well yes. Also, I think that a lot of people who voted for the Tories probably lied about how they voted because it is seen as embarrassing.

[jeremyp]

Swindon is looking more in line with the exit poll.

[ProfessorDavey]

The exit poll looking weak and wobbly

Might be in time - but not yet.

In safe seats it is always going to be difficult for the party holding the seat to show a big swing in their direction. In uber-safe Labour territory in the NE the Tories are outperforming the exit poll - in the Tory south Labour are outperforming the exit poll.

What we can surely be certain of is that the Tory prediction of landslide 100 seat majority is non-sense.

[Shaker]

I rarely - very rarely in fact - get involved in political discussion or pass comment on political issues; but at this juncture I think a quiet, sober and dignified moment of reflection and contemplation is called for.

https://youtu.be/5QlCKNSBINA

[Aruntraveller]

Well I didn't expect that.

[Shaker]

Well I did say I don't comment much on politics, but this is special 

[Harrowby Hall]

I went to the polling station yesterday in the least enthusiastic state that I can ever recall. I have never refrained from voting but I came close to it yesterday.

In my constituency, my vote is unimportant - the Conservative usually has a huge majority. He would have to have been exposed as a child pornographer or something to have his majority seriously dented.

Last night, I went to Symphony Hall and and had my soul refreshed by the superb CBSO, came home and went to bed without turning on the radio or TV.

This morning, a few minutes ago, I turned on the radio and learned that the great British public had spoken. Mrs May's action in calling an election has proved that as PM she was out of her depth ...  Everything is now in the air.

[Nearly Sane]

What an odd night, the first hurrah of the exit poll, immediately restrained by the possibility of friends losing their sears, the little stramash between Curtice and Kellner, the slow realisation of Curtice being right, the worry that I might lose a good MP, the loss of the seats of some friends, the saving of the seats of others, hurrah my MP survives but also the sadness of the even greater tribalisation in NI, and the idea of a DUP backed up govt.



A waste of time election by a waste of time PM who should now bow out to run through the wheat fields.

[SusanDoris]

First Brexit, then Trump, now this.
I think people in each case have voted for change just for the sake of it.