Absolutely the only single GE 2017 results thread.

[YouSir]

Jack Straw - Here are all the reasons why this is nothing to do with Corbyn.

 

[Sue]

Jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack Straw, first of the cunts.

He's fucking hating this.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

cunt cunt cunt

 

[YouSir]

Blanked out there, did he just say Labour had to compromise with the Tories?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

McDonnell you fuck Not fucking McDonald.

Wanker

 

[kabbes]

This psephologist is such an academic.

 

[Ted Striker]

A gay friend on FB just commented this is 'Eurovison for heterosexuals'

 

[nogojones]

Jack Straw. What a wanker

 

[pennimania]

This psephologist is such an academic.

Bring back Anthony King, I had a massive crush on him from age 12 just because I loved his accent.

Sadly, he died quite recently.

 

[bimble]

This psephologist is such an academic.

He has good hair.

 

[mauvais]

Wasn't there a swing to the Tories?

I will be delighted if I'm wrong

More complicated than that. UKIP vote went mostly but not entirely to the Tories. So if only considering Con & Lab, a swing to the Tories, but then that's a questionable representation. Either way, daft to extrapolate in such a divided landscape IMO.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Kelner thinks the exit poll is worthless, he just won't admit it

 

[littlebabyjesus]

This psephologist is such an academic.

Bless im. I quite like him.

 

[kabbes]

A gay friend on FB just commented this is 'Eurovison for heterosexuals'

I watched Eurovision too, though. Although mostly for the voting, admittedly.

 

[CNT36]

Fuckng Clegg on ITV.

 

[Plumdaff]

If they had got their position right they would have done better than average

They won, comfortably. They could have traded doing better there with doing worse in more marginal constituencies, I think that would have been a mistake.

 

[danny la rouge]

What's wrong with the Scots? Wasn't the situation a few years ago that the Tories looked like they were going to be extinct ?

It remains to be seen what will happen, but it could be that Labour becomes the 2nd party in Scotland. It may be that the SNP seat losses will mainly be to Labour.

But the idea that Tories were extinct in Scotland was always a myth: the truth is that their distribution was non optimal for FPTP purposes.

But hold off before expecting a Tory surge in Scotland: it might be a Labour surge. And if so, it was with no campaign at all. It's all overspill from Corbyn.

 

[Raheem]

Fuck off Straw, the party hasn't got behind Corbyn at all, you disingenuous shite.

The PLP did manage to suspend its practice of immediately moving to undermine his every movement for the duration of the campaign. Straw is a cunt, though.

 

[CNT36]

Fuckng Clegg on ITV.

Still pretending we'd of been Greece without him.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Kelner thinks the exit poll is worthless, he just won't admit it

tbh he doesn't know what he's talking about, surely. Two fucking safe labour seats.

 

[emanymton]

Majority of 80 still possible.

Stop fucking toying with our emotions.

 

[Raheem]

Kelner thinks the exit poll is worthless, he just won't admit it

He doesn't want it to be true, that's all.

 

[Lord Camomile]

Fuckng Clegg on ITV.

Gideon and Ball too. What the hideous fuck?!

 

[littlebabyjesus]

The PLP did manage to suspend its practice of immediately moving to undermine his every movement for the duration of the campaign. Straw is a cunt, though.

That interview was him congratulating himself for not sabotaging Corbyn. Fuck me.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

He doesn't want it to be true, that's all.

Who does he work for? Has he been predicting tory majorities? Bet he has.

It's professional jealousy.

 

[kabbes]

tbh he doesn't know what he's talking about, surely. Two fucking safe labour seats.

I certainly think I prefer a carefully calculated consequence of a 30,000 person poll than an extrapolation from two highly unusual safe Labour seats.

 

[Lord Camomile]

The PLP did manage to suspend its practice of immediately moving to undermine his every movement for the duration of the campaign.

Only nationally. Locally in a lot of places it was still "I'm an independent MP, vote your constituency, not the party leader" and all that bollocks.

Not trying to actively sabotage your leader is not the same as support, which is what Straw said (or words to that effect).

 

[phillm]

Watching CNN - YouGov saying a small Tory majority - apparently postal votes could make a difference re exit poll.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

He doesn't want it to be true, that's all.

If the exit poll is remotely correct I think his shares in Yougov have just soared

 

[8den]

The view from Brussels right now.