UK General Election 2024 - Results Day (1 Viewer)

[Lucille]

How is BOB BLACKMAN a real person?

 

[ZenGiraffe]

I don't think anyone ever answered this, but I'm pretty sure it was Ian Duncan Smith's fault.

The exit poll really didn't know what to do with independents, so had him down as a 99% chance to lose his seat iirc. So when he ends up winning relatively comfortably, the model would assume that a bunch more Tories were incorrect, whereas in actual fact it was down to independents.

Once more seats came in that matched what the original exit poll was saying, it was then reverted

 

[lolly]

That was quite the joy for me. I went to bed thinking the Tories were going to end up on 160+, and woke up to them getting a quarter less

 

[Madison]

The sitting Labour MP that received the biggest increase in vote share was Ed Miliband in Doncaster North.

 

[Lucille]

 

[Madison]

If you count Chief Sec to the Treasury, there are three MPs from BLAIR’s last cabinet: Douglas Alexander, Hilary Benn, and Sir Stephen Timms.

 

[Lucille]

We really did DRAIN THE SWAMP.

 

[funky]

That was quite the joy for me. I went to bed thinking the Tories were going to end up on 160+, and woke up to them getting a quarter less

Same!

 

[big ron]

Was just reading there are more MPs from a comp in Didsbury now than from Eaton.

DELICIOUS.

 

[FetchFugly]

It really is so HAUNTING

The woman on her left shoulder has TURNED

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Someone is taking their loss well

 

[AGinAg (39)]

So Carla Denyer is now the first out LGBTQ party leader in parliament.

 

[Ill Advised]

 

[big ron]

The Greens have lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the lack of coverage they received on results night.

Greens submit complaint to BBC over failure to broadcast historic election wins

THE Green Party have submitted a complaint to the BBC after it failed to broadcast the party’s historic election wins during its coverage of the…

www.thenational.scot

GOOD

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Whole thread is interesting, but that headline should be concerning to the party of the working class

 

[funky]

The Greens have lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the lack of coverage they received on results night.

Greens submit complaint to BBC over failure to broadcast historic election wins

THE Green Party have submitted a complaint to the BBC after it failed to broadcast the party’s historic election wins during its coverage of the…

www.thenational.scot

GOOD

It really was VERY noticeable

 

[funky]

Whole thread is interesting, but that headline should be concerning to the party of the working class

They’re not losing blue collar votes to the Greens or Lib Dems! It’s all Reform.

 

[auretz]

 

[Evie]

They’re not losing blue collar votes to the Greens or Lib Dems! It’s all Reform.

There are quite specific areas where they are losing to independents and greens as well, but that’s mostly a single issue (Gaza) and not driven by class or income.

 

[funky]

There are quite specific areas where they are losing to independents and greens as well, but that’s mostly a single issue (Gaza) and not driven by class or income.

Agreed. They are specific instances.

 

[FetchFugly]

Thangam on Channel 4 news saying that she got a commiserations text from Keir on Friday morning, but he never learned to spell her name correctly.

 

[Lucille]

 

[ZenGiraffe]

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HATE the GHOSTLY APPARITIONS

 

[GNL]

Dear Thingamajig Deborah, sorry you lost your seat.

PS: Do you hate me?

 

[Tisch]

Thangam on Channel 4 news saying that she got a commiserations text from Keir on Friday morning, but he never learned to spell her name correctly.

She probably filled it in herself I correctly because there's no way that message wasn't automated

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Reform may be about to have a defection already

 

[octophone]

Reform may be about to have a defection already

Who to? Would the Tories take him? I suppose both they and Labour have taken worse.

 

[VoR]

I love this and also it is very clear that I do not live in the Lib Dem heartlands because I had never in my life heard of Gail's before now.

 

[Lucille]

It’s the PRET of the 2020s, you’ll be riddled with them in 5 years!

 

[big ron]

We’re getting a Gails soon - officially middle class!

 

[ZenGiraffe]

Give me an AULDS, none of this GAILS SHITE

 

[Lucille]

I’m still mourning PERCY INGLES!

 

[VoR]

There isn't even a Gail's in Harrogate, the only Lib Dem seat in Yorkshire.

How does it compare to PUMPKINS?

 

[Kate]

You don't need Gail's when you've got BETTY'S!

 

[Kate]

(I have genuinely never been in a Gail's but they are UBIQUITOUS in London)

 

[big ron]

I don't know why I am excited, I can see two places from my window that sell FIVE QUID loaves of sourdough.

 

[octophone]

The Lib Dems throwing everything at a relatively small number of seats was a genius move but, of course, very similar the Greens and Reform who did the same but at scale.

 

[lolly]

The DAILY MAIL has hailed Bristol as a CACOPHONY OF WOKE, and I couldn't be MORE THRILLED

 

[ButterTart]

(I have genuinely never been in a Gail's but they are UBIQUITOUS in London)

Literally never heard of them until this thread. I’ve rarely ever encountered a Pret a Minge in fairness, so we must not get the posh shite round here.

 

[lolly]

One opened here reasonably recently (in one of the most affluent areas), and there's been a few campaigns to boycott them in favour of local indies instead.

The Lib Dem would have finished last in that seat, had it not been for Kellie-Jay Keen.

But you know us, we literally RIOT over a Tesco Express in the same seat.