European Elections 2019

[Dogsauce]

Magid Magid elected for the greens. I think most of the people I know in Leeds put a cross in that box!

 

[DexterTCN]

It's not binary. Brexit party is a brexit party. Libdems and greens are explicitly remain parties, as are Plaid and the SNP. Neither labour nor the tories are explicitly either.

That is true.

However...the tweet was about Scotland, even though it was only the second part. 60% (plus the unannounced Greens at 4%.)

I admit the main tweet was an arguable one about the UK.

 

[Dogsauce]

I thought the Wings Over Scotland geezer was on the list of Known Twats?

 

[Doctor Carrot]

Yaxley-Lennon got a pasting. I love how someone slipped in an extra name for him on his wikipedia

 

[Dogsauce]

He still got 38,000-something votes. That’s a lot of arseholes at large.

 

[Humberto]

Frank Field had the right idea.

 

[Wilf]

Mildly interesting that of the parties who actually have a position, I suspect remain (libdem lice; green; chunks, PC; SNP) may be slightly ahead of leavers (Brexit; ukip)

at the moment. No point posting figures as Scotland hasn't declared and there are plenty of other seats to go, but it might end up close.

I'd argue you can't spin that into a 'remain won'/'it was close' narrative as most of those voting tory probably want Brexit to happen. As for labour, fuck knows what they stand for... Anyway, all of that will be swept aside as the results will be taken as a simply story of 'farage won/the tories need to elect boris johnson'.

Edit: Brexit + ukip slightly pulling away after North West. London result was probably keeping Remain in the hunt.​

 

[Wilf]

Clare Regina Fox elected

 

[DexterTCN]

I thought the Wings Over Scotland geezer was on the list of Known Twats?

He's on the urban list of "do not visit the site and read the articles".

And one thing we know about urban anarchists...they do as they're told.

 

[Kaka Tim]

He still got 38,000-something votes. That’s a lot of arseholes at large.

fuck all as a percentage of votes - he even came in behind the CHUKs.

 

[Wilf]

fuck all as a percentage of votes - he even came in behind the CHUKs.

Chuks have been a bit short on marketing gurus so far, but they could now use the strapline 'slightly better than Tommy Robinson'.

 

[Rob Ray]

Tommeh just finished having a good old whinge about the dastardly censors on Rebel Media. TLDW: "The posties kept dumping my mail and the public kept trying to murder me, it's a conspiracy against Britain."

 

[Puddy_Tat]

and the public kept trying to murder me

some of those milkshakes looked very potentially lethal...

 

[Wilf]

I'm confused, how do we know what robinson got, but we don't know the North West result as a whole? I thought they just fed the figures into a formula that gave the seats per party i.e. there are no 2nd preferences to redistribute, counting stages etc?

 

[Rob Ray]

Fortunately thanks to the generous donations of gullible idiots true patriots he was able to hire security to keep himself alive. Otherwise he might have drowned.

 

[toblerone3]

Its a DRAW. Do we go for a replay?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Mildly interesting that of the parties who actually have a position, I suspect remain (libdem lice; green; chunks, PC; SNP) may be slightly ahead of leavers (Brexit; ukip)

at the moment. No point posting figures as Scotland hasn't declared and there are plenty of other seats to go, but it might end up close.

I'd argue you can't spin that into a 'remain won'/'it was close' narrative as most of those voting tory probably want Brexit to happen. As for labour, fuck knows what they stand for... Anyway, all of that will be swept aside as the results will be taken as a simply story of 'farage won/the tories need to elect boris johnson'.​

I agree that you shouldn't read too much into it, but I would dispute the assumption that the rump who stuck with the tories are majority leave. I don't think we can really assume that. And if you're going to assume that, the majority of labour voters voted remain in the ref, so you'd have to also assume the majority of labour voters this election are some kind of remain.

tbh I don't see how anyone can spin this in a way that isn't 'it is close between leave/remain'.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm confused, how do we know what robinson got, but we don't know the North West result as a whole? I thought they just fed the figures into a formula that gave the seats per party i.e. there are no 2nd preferences to redistribute, counting stages etc?

north west seems to have declared

 

[moochedit]

I'm confused, how do we know what robinson got, but we don't know the North West result as a whole? I thought they just fed the figures into a formula that gave the seats per party i.e. there are no 2nd preferences to redistribute, counting stages etc?

They did give a result for the north west seat allocation. Robinson didn't win one.

Only scotland and northern ireland not declared and i don't they are expected until tommorow.

 

[Wilf]

They did give a result for the north west seat allocation. Robinson didn't win one.

Only scotland and northern ireland not declared and i don't they are expected until tommorow.

Cheers. I was seeing reports of robinson's failure before the overall result had been announced.

 

[moochedit]

Cheers. I was seeing reports of robinson's failure before the overall result had been announced.

I think people in the counting room have an idea of how it is going at counts and info leaks out.

Results here:

The UK’s European elections 2019 - BBC News

edit - also the individual councils announce results before the regional total result is given.

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Silvio Berlusconi is now an MEP, apparently.

 

[Humberto]

as is Mad Frankie fraser

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

Cheers. I was seeing reports of robinson's failure before the overall result had been announced.

The local councils all post their results as they are done, so it doesn't take too many of them to make a good guess at the full regional result.

 

[Humberto]

Cockney villain. Mad frankie.

 

[moochedit]

as is Mad Frankie fraser

for which party?

edit - died in 2014 so I guess not

 

[Humberto]

for which party?

edit - died in 2014 so I guess not

Apparently Roy 'pretty boy' Shaw is the guv'nor so i've heard.

 

[redsquirrel]

If the GE happens before then this might suggest that far from the Remain surge being manageable in the South, Corbyn himself could lose his seat.

Absolute fucking cobblers. The idea that you can extrapolate from these results to GE shows that you have no clue what you are talking about.

Like I said before no intellectual honesty.

 

[YouSir]

Does anyone care about these results beyond Brexit Party headbangers, journos and people who spend all their time on Twitter? Also how fucking tedious is it to watch those people prophesying the political future like they're reading the entrails of a goat on the temple steps?

 

[Badgers]

At least Yaxley-Lennon lost his deposit