“A majority of Thatcherite proportions”
Tonight.
Hard Exit polls following today’s UK General Election shows the Conservative Party looks set to win 368 seats to Labour’s 191.
This could mean Jeremy Corbyn’s party may lose not just seats in marginal constituencies but even in districts that historically voted Labour.
More as we get it.
Meanwhile…
If the exit poll is correct, it’s an extraordinary result for the Conservatives in the #UKElection. I think we can finally stop with the ‘they didn’t know what they were voting for’.
The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016 and two GE’s later, they still want out.
— Robert Burke (@robertburke84) December 12, 2019
We’re going to hear the Corbynistas blame it on Brexit and the Labour Uber Remainers blaming Corbyn. Both are to blame for what looks like a terrible night for Labour. Both have taken for granted Labour’s heartlands. Sorry we couldn’t offer you a Labour Party you could trust.
— Caroline Flint (@CarolineFlintMP) December 12, 2019
Labour sources suggesting they’ll lose Sunderland Central, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Sedgefield, NW Durham and Hartlepool – could be a 2015 type Scottish Labour wipe out in NE heartland -remember tho it’s still early!
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 12, 2019
Labour sources suggesting they’ll lose Sunderland Central, Darlington, Bishop Auckland, Sedgefield, NW Durham and Hartlepool – could be a 2015 type Scottish Labour wipe out in NE heartland -remember tho it’s still early!
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 12, 2019
It’s going to be a long night.
Meanwhile…
🚨 NEW: Leaked copy of Labour's briefing to shadow cabinet and other MPs on broadcast
Says the defeat is "overwhelmingly down to one issue": Brexit. Also points the finger at the media
Allegedly penned by Seumas Milne earlier pic.twitter.com/ph7iXHfEe2
— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) December 12, 2019
That is genuinely shocking.
Wow.
It’s unreal. If it comes to pass Labour really messed up and put forward the wrong leader. Johnson is an outright liar and he still crushed them.
I’d hate to be living in the UK now. Hope Scotland can get independence from them but now very doubtful.
Not particularly shocking at all. Read wider Bryan.
It’s not shocking in the slightest.
Thinking it’s shocking is the surprising thing
Dismaying then.
even those who were convinced that there’d be a strong tory majority werent anticipating anything like the landslide it looks to be so “shocking” isn’t exactly hyperbole
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I expected a Tory win but the scale of it is shocking.
Should have been more clear.
So that’s what you’ve been up to Ro
In off-site training for last night/ today
Good to see it paid off
Since you’re back in shape like
just a flying visit to see what all the Corbynites here in meltdown are saying.
It’s not even remotely shocking.
The polls were all pointing to this.
And Corbyn is a terrible leader. They were spouting off about re-nationalising the energy market ffs. What nonsense.
Even against a buffoon he couldn’t make ground.
Personally I reckon it was the idea of Corbyn as PM
In No 10
That made Tories of them
I hear ya. I’m sitting here searching for a more nuanced reaction but… just wow.
Hope did they rule half the world?
Gobsh1tes.
If true, then life won’t be worth living around here for quite a while. Charger Flanagan will have a field day.
Kinda predictable. I mean, Corbyn…
… if you cannot get elected as a Tory in this one, forget politics.
+1
Who would have thought a Jew hating, terrorist sympathising Communist would have trouble becoming prime minister of the UK.
“Jew hating, terrorist sympathizing Communist”?
gosh… glad that person didn’t get in
who is it?
+1 MaryLou
Well that could mean a 32-county tax republic for us and an Irish Sea border, come Jan 31st. How did Arlene do????????????
From what I’ve read, they’re putting it down to:
(a) the “shock and awe” style media campaign by the establishment against Corbyn since he became leader (particularly in the last few weeks). He really was the “people’s candidate” looking to shake up the status quo and tackle soaring wealth inequality in the UK, but no political figure could withstand that level of propaganda thrown at them and come out unscathed.
and (b) by positioning themselves as an “anti-Brexit” party, Labour made the mistake of alienating themselves from a large section of the electorate. Corbyn himself didn’t spearhead that drive but nevertheless acquiesced to others in the party
Labour are going to lose by one of the largest margins in memory and against a Tory party that is deeply divided and you think it has nothing to do with their policies? just how deluded do you have to be?
This result had very little to do with a right wing conspiracy and everything to do with Corbyn and labours lack of direction with Brexit and their hard left policies which the UK has no appetite for with Brexit coming
Except that statistical analysis shows that there has indeed been a sustained “conspiracy”.by the British press against Corbyn since the day he became leader. To dismiss this as an irrelevant factor is not credible.Here’s an analysis of the bias by the London School of Economics and Political Science – and this dates back to before things really become ramped up.
http://www.lse.ac.uk/media-and-communications/research/research-projects/representations-of-jeremy-corbyn
“Journalistic Representations of Jeremy Corbyn in the British Press
“Our analysis shows that Corbyn was thoroughly delegitimised as a political actor from the moment he became a prominent candidate and even more so after he was elected as party leader, with a strong mandate. This process of delegitimisation occurred in several ways: 1) through lack of or distortion of voice; 2) through ridicule, scorn and personal attacks; and 3) through association, mainly with terrorism.
All this raises, in our view, a number of pressing ethical questions regarding the role of the media in a democracy. Certainly, democracies need their media to challenge power and offer robust debate, but when this transgresses into an antagonism that undermines legitimate political voices that dare to contest the current status quo, then it is not democracy that is served.”
I agree that that Brexit seems like the decisive factor but putting it down to Labour’s “hard left” policies that the British people have “no appetite for with Brexit coming” I think is more your own right wing mindset framing and projecting a reason onto the result.
And let’s not forget how the BBC panel shows ganged up and made fun of poor Mr Corbyn.
That analysis is of just two months, and 8 print titles, nothing more.
It’s a snapshot of a time Sept / Oct 2015, not an analysis of any sustained or continued practice. And again, only print media and their online editions.
Needs more analysis
Add to that the LSE has a dislike of conservatives and may have their own bias in that “analysis”.
Here’s an example of that bias from their Sociology department Profs https://youtu.be/m6qJDUIhHqw
Dude, try, the “shockin’ awful” campaign by Corbyn and Co.
lib dems fairly fupped up too
Swinson could lose her seat to the SNP.
Oh Brits. You really don’t deserve democracy… and don’t worry, Boris will sell it soon enough.
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Is this the Broadsheet comment section equivalent of a butt dial?
Hahahaha, you are on a roll these days V !
jaysus how long did that take, I like !
copy/paste!.
Christ almighty! They reject loony failed socialism and you’re questioning that wisdom of that? The British electorate are more capable of critical thinking than the Irish are, that’s for sure.
The only good thing about this result is that the airheads ranting about “Unelected” leaders can stop beating that particular illogical horse
The Lib Dems will have an actual unelected leader by daybreak.
hahaha
She couldn’t even define “woman” on radio a few days ago…. but that had nothing to do with the £100,000 donated to LibDems by a puberty-blocker pharma company, I’m sure… >_<
you called it
I think if my bottom cheek (either one) was leader of the Labour Party they’d win more seats.
I’ll slap either one. I’m a swing voter.
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Heh, no?
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I’ll get me coat, and table tennis bat so.
Oh Brits. You really don’t deserve democracy… and don’t worry, Boris will sell it soon enough.
Turkeys voted for Christmas, but all you’ll get is chlorinated chicken.
…bye bye blighty…a triumph for democracy…
I’m lost – It’s just an exit poll?
Yes, but it is accurate to +/-20 seats… and the majority is well past that, and growing.
The exit poll predicted that former mining constituency of Blythe Valley might go from Labour to Conservative, it just did.
But Labour voters are “still loyal” according.to the Guardian… heh
Shameless Milne still talking about ” smears ” . Nasty Tankie that he is.
this is a victory for racism and hatred, there is no doubt Putin had a hand in this
Now is the time for Nicola to really go for broke!
The Tartan Tories will fold over with a bribe
“better things aren’t possible” – the British electorate