UK general election 2019: exit poll predicts 86-seat majority for Conservatives - live news

[brooklynite]

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

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There was a way to lose to Boris Johnson, and Corbyn figured out what it was...

[brooklynite]

1. A huge shift of seats in Scotland from Labour to SNP...

...prospectively in support of an Independence/Secession Referendum.

[brooklynite]

2. Lib Dems in single digits. Have they lost the ability to actually play a role in Parliament?

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. 13 seats is one more than they got in 2017

I haven't heard of a percentage of vote from the exit poll - only the predicted seat totals. Is there a percentage somewhere?

[malthaussen]

40. Well, if you Google "British General Election"

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]

3. If they knowingly keep Boris Johnson as PM, then I don't want to hear a thing from anyone in the UK

about how we could have elected Trump. This is infuriating.

[Dennis Donovan]

4. Josh Marshall: "So I guess we celebrate 12/12 as Scottish Independence Day?"

Link to tweet

Josh Marshall ✔ @joshtpm

So I guess we celebrate 12/12 as Scottish Independence Day?

5:12 PM - Dec 12, 2019

[paleotn]

22. By all means, yes.

Another prosperous, EU outpost on England's border. So much for English hegemony.

[Mike 03]

5. BBC World Radio has also gone into live special programming.

This is disastrous news.

[nycbos]

7. I feel bad for my British friends

They had a choice between two horrific people.

[wysi]

8. The UK is finished

Political suicide now complete.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. how is this even possible? we are witnessing mass insanity in both

US and UK.

[nycbos]

11. Corbyn, Corbyn, Corbyn.

I would not have voted Labour if I was a UK citizen.

I think I would have voted Lib Dem.

[dware]

12. Because Corbyn is highly unliked in GB. nt

[BlueIdaho]

13. Corbyn should have been removed from Labour leadership

After the last disastrous election.

[dware]

14. Yep.

Probably would have been a whole different outcome if Corbyn wasn't at the helm of the Labour Party.

[Wabbajack_]

16. Labour did better than expected

At the last election. THIS was "supposed" to happen last time. There was no way Corbyn was gonna be out after gaining seats.

[BlueIdaho]

23. Corbyn will be gone by March. nt.

[brooklynite]

24. Corbyn will be gone by Monday...

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[BlueIdaho]

34. Corbyn is gone NOW.

He didn’t even make it to Monday, let alone March.

[OliverQ]

26. So is Johnson.

[dware]

33. True,

but apparently not as much as Corbyn.

[SharonClark]

18. People I know who voted to leave

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]

21. Pissed that they've not screwed themselves faster.

Brits and Americans have so much in common.

[OliverQ]

27. We should have just stayed as one country instead of splitting apart.

[Drahthaardogs]

28. Why? Most of what is fucked up in this country

Comes from our British Puritan roots. Their colonial period was revolting.

[Evolve Dammit]

19. It is truly unbelievable and I believe, part of an international effort to destroy democracies.

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]

31. Labour activists selecting Corbyn was part of an "international effort"?

[Evolve Dammit]

43. I was referring to Boris.

[RelativelyJones]

10. Total rejection of Corbyn and Corbynism.

[ArtTownsend]

37. This

[Wabbajack_]

15. Cons first gain

A seat that has never voted Con before. Ugh.

[Lonestarblue]

17. I'm sorry to hear this result, but UK voters now own whatever happens.

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 Trump’s 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]

20. They've made their beds...

Now they suffer the consequences. A break up is inevitable.

[heckles65]

25. Rather like how in 1995 I kept hearing the word "Yugoslavia"...

...when what was meant was "Serbia + Montenegro."

Now "United Kingdom" will mean "England + Wales."

(And eventually, Montenegro did split away.&quot

[roamer65]

29. The EU will make Scottish EU membership and independence terms for a trade deal with England.

Game over for the UK.

[budkin]

30. Putin is the big winner again

Gotta hand it to Russia... they are fucking shit up big time.

[Polybius]

32. How bad is that?

What were they predicting? And what was Labour's best case scenario before the election?

[Baclava]

38. Labours worse loss since the 1930's, yes, that bad, historic blowout loss

Brits must really hate the EU?

[sandensea]

42. Well, the Tories got 43% of the vote. Labor and LibDems together got 44% (plus 4% for SNP)

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]

35. Boris Johnson - Making the word "Pickaninny" Great Again

Oh look at you Great Britain... why are all those people from the places you colonized keep going there?

[roamer65]

36. Former Scottish Labour leader on BBC.

We will see a united Ireland before we see the divided Britain.

[malthaussen]

39. They were a litttle off...

... not that twenty seats matters much in the larger scheme of things.

-- Mal

[sandensea]

41. Final results: Cons 365; Labour, 203; SNP, 48; Lib Dem, 11.

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]

44. When do they take office?

Is it immediately, or does this new government have to wait a couple of months like in the US after Election Day?