UK election 2019

[Nearly Sane]

So with the Blyth Valley result the Corbynite Manoeuvre is over. Runners and riders for next Labour leader? Obviously dependent on keeping seat.

Not easy as party members still the people that voted Corbyn in but you can't surely just move to McDonnell?

[Aruntraveller]

Oooh - impressed with working a star trek reference into the election thread. Not impressed by anything else this evening.

[Nearly Sane]

We are where no man has ever gone before

[Nearly Sane]

And unfortunately we are now in a five year mission to seek out new lies, new fridges

[ippy]

I'd have preferred to see Scotland stay in the union, it no longer looks like it will be staying, shame.

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[Nearly Sane]

I'd have preferred to see Scotland stay in the union, it no longer looks like it will be staying, shame.

ippy

Well if you lot will vote for a lying racist cowardly dangerous incompetent liar...

[Walter]

Well if you lot will vote for a lying racist cowardly dangerous incompetent liar...

GIRUY

[ippy]

GIRUY

STIPQ

[Sriram]

Sorry to rub it in folks...but you are in a serious minority it seems.   

Better start believing in a God...I say! 

[Nearly Sane]

GIRUY

Bet the lying cowardly racist dangerous Etonian likes you tickling his arsehole with your tongue

[Nearly Sane]

Sorry to rub it in folks...but you are in a serious minority it seems.   

Better start believing in a God...I say! 

Viewers in Scotland have their own programme

[Sriram]

Viewers in Scotland have their own programme

You mean starting the fight for independence??!!

That's very sad. You must have heard the story about the benefits of staying together.....

[Nearly Sane]

You mean starting the fight for independence??!!

That's very sad. You must have heard the story about the benefits of staying together.....

No, I mean your post just showed ignorance about some of the posters on here. As so often you slipped into a lazy generalisation.

As to stories, surely you've heard the one about standing on your own 2 feet? (Which is a vacuous point other than to show that your 'story?' was vacuity in words)
 

[Nearly Sane]

To adapt Monty Python, Swinson's loss was like a stream of bat's piss. A golden light in the dark.

[SusanDoris]

It would seem that those who voted leave in the referendum realised that the only way their wishes would be achieved was to vote Conservative.

[Nearly Sane]

It would seem that those who voted leave in the referendum realised that the only way their wishes would be achieved was to vote Conservative.

While those who voted Remain got confused.


The problem is despite the branding on Sky this was so much more than a Brexit election.

[Robbie]

Viewers in Scotland have their own programme

Take the High Road?

Gutted but not surprised. Just got up and put news on.

And unfortunately we are now in a five year mission to seek out new lies, new fridges

In less than five years Con. voters will realise what a mistake they've made. Ooh 'con voters' is spot on.

[Nearly Sane]

And of course viewers in NI have their own programme too. Some very interesting results.

[Stranger]

As somebody pointed out on the radio, the one positive is that it might be better than a very slim Tory majority, because the Brexit ultras will have less influence and Boris the Liar can take a more pragmatic approach. He has no morals, doesn't care about breaking promises and lying through his teeth, so who knows what he will end up doing, but he won't have to please the ERG who might push for no deal ("clean break") at the end of next year.

Doesn't stop it being a total fucking disaster for the UK, of course. As BHS said earlier, better not get ill, poor, or old. Perhaps in five years, when the NHS is in even worse shape, Brexit has caused job losses and loss of workers' rights, there are even more homeless and food banks, the country will come to its senses. Then again, perhaps not.

Anyway The Expanse season 4 has arrived on Amazon today, so that's good news.....

[Gordon]

Delighted my one vote helped get rid of Swinson, but angry that the uselessness of Labour in England and that so many of their ex-voters were perverse enough to vote for the despicable Tories to the extent that Scotland is dragged out of the EU. In spite of the obvious fact that the Scottish electorate have made their opposition to Brexit and the Tories very clear no doubt this will be ignored in the 'isn't Boris amazing' hysteria - and in the lie that the UK is 'united'.
 

[SteveH]

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. 

[SusanDoris]

Do the Labour voters here really, really believe that if that Party had achieved a majority and Corbyn had become PM the country would have been significantly better governed, prosperous, confident, with public - no longer privatised - services running more efficiently with better pay structures, massive government loans gradually being paid back, that there would be well-funded welfare systems country-wide, and that there would be flourishing trade agreements with Europe?
Would they have made more trade agreements with the USA and would that  help, bearing in mind the transport costs and environmental pollution an associated global warming dangers?

I am just so glad it is all  over for the moment and I no longer have to think about the election.

Irrelevant P.S.: That fixed/arranged film and outrage about the child having to sleep on the floor in an A&E, along with, apparently, someone dressed up as a nurse, was a disgrace. One advantage of social media is that it was quickly debunked.
Yes of course there were lies all round but I just mention that one.

I'm going to the gym this morning to help keep me fit enough to still be alive at the next General Election.

[Gordon]

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind. 

Not sad (even ironically) Steve: since many of us locals are delighted to be rid of her.

[Nearly Sane]

Irrelevant P.S.: That fixed/arranged film and outrage about the child having to sleep on the floor in an A&E, along with, apparently, someone dressed up as a nurse, was a disgrace. One advantage of social media is that it was quickly debunked.
Yes of course there were lies all round but I just mention that one.

If you mean this one, then you got it wrong.

https://bylinetimes.com/2019/12/10/trolls-sock-puppets-and-useful-idiots-an-anatomy-of-an-election-disinformation-campaign/

[Gordon]

The Guardian live blog precis of Johnson's thoughts has him opine that they 'must recognise that they are now a one-nation party, representing everyone from Kensington to Clwyd South, from Surrey Heath to Sedgefield.'

So I think we Scots know where we stand now: we aren't part of his 'one nation', though to be fair many of us don't want to be part of it anyway.