The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[JimW]

Harper loses in Forest of Dean by a handful

 

[Epona]

Iplayer still says 99 for me

99 Problems and a Tory Majority ain't one

 

[Calamity1971]

Mark Harper, going, going, gone!

Have you got a gavel

 

[JimW]

105 scummers on the Sky ticker

 

[cupid_stunt]

Greens hold their Brighton seat, that's all four of their target seats!

 

[JimW]

Greens hold Brighton Pavilion

 

[cupid_stunt]

Have you got a gavel

Sledge hammer.

 

[Elpenor]

Greens hold their Brighton seat, that's all four of their target seats!

Greens hold Brighton Pavilion

Good for the greens

 

[Calamity1971]

Sledge hammer.

Your breezy house must be in a right state

 

[Elpenor]

Another Lib Dem gain in Mid Dorset

(For reference I’m celebrating Tory losses not Lib Dem gains) but they’ve retained Christchurch (elderly retiree seat)

 

[redsquirrel]

Have to admit Starmer getting fewer seats than Blair 1997 is a little amusing

It definitely is not the sort of win Labour got in 97. Then 43.2% of the vote, 30.8% of the electorate, not going to be anything like that this time around.

 

[Monte]

Greens hold their Brighton seat, that's all four of their target seats!

4?
Bristol, Waveney and Brighton. Who is the 4th?

 

[Dogsauce]

Looking at the BBC seat map, it looks like the east of the country is letting us down. I’m going to start cheering on coastal erosion.

 

[kabbes]

The Tories had held Dorking since 1885. No longer.

 

[Calamity1971]

Cleverly up

 

[Dogsauce]

4?
Bristol, Waveney and Brighton. Who is the 4th?

North Herefordshire.

Same number of seats as Reform. Wonder if they’ll get the same amount of media attention for it?

 

[andysays]

Analysis confirming that the Tories have lost rather than Labour winning

Sir John Curtice: The dramatic Tory decline behind Labour's landslide​

Labour are heading towards a landslide victory, winning previously safe Tory seats across the country. Their gains are largely on the back of a dramatic decline of 21 points in Conservative support. On the basis of the results declared so far, it is possible that Labour will secure its landslide on a lower share of the vote than any of Tony Blair's victories, including the 36% the party won in 2005. That itself was hitherto the lowest share of the vote won by a majority single party government. In many ways, this looks more like an election the Conservatives have lost than one Labour have won.

 

[redsquirrel]

Philip Davies gone in Shipley, good riddance to the odious prick

 

[SpookyFrank]

4?
Bristol, Waveney and Brighton. Who is the 4th?

Somewhere in Herefordshire I think

 

[Epona]

It definitely is not the sort of win Labour got in 97. Then 43.2% of the vote, 30.8% of the electorate, not going to be anything like that this time around.

It will be interesting to see if there's loads of people out on Whitehall this morning, I mean when Blair got in I worked in the area and there were empty bottles all over the road where people had been out celebrating and the streets were packed for his journey to Downing Street.
Whatever sort of shit Blair was, that was the celebration when Labour won that election. I wonder whether anyone will be that bothered this time.

 

[Calamity1971]

Cleverly held

 

[Fez909]

Cleverly up

Wins

 

[Dogsauce]

Cleverly held

FFS. He’s such a self-satisfied prick, really wanted to see him defeated.

 

[Calamity1971]

FFS. He’s such a self-satisfied prick, really wanted to see him defeated.

Yep. Of all of them I wanted him gone.

 

[kabbes]

There’s a lot of talk about the impact of Reform on the Tories, but much less about the high quantity of seats in the South of England that they lost to the LibDems. Places they’ve held for over 100 years. The Tories have lost much of Toryshire, and it’s pretty much for the opposite reason than the dominant narrative about why they’ve lost in other areas.

 

[JimW]

Cleverly's thanks to his wife makes you fear for the marriage

 

[Steel Icarus]

Melanie Onn has retaken Grimsby from Lia Nici, with the latter pushed into second by Reform

 

[cupid_stunt]

4?
Bristol, Waveney and Brighton. Who is the 4th?

North Herefordshire

 

[JimW]

Hunt turned up at Number 11 to starting packing the tea chests

 

[petee]

There’s a lot of talk about the impact of Reform on the Tories, but much less about the high quantity of seats in the South of England that they lost to the LibDems. Places they’ve held for over 100 years. The Tories have lost Toryshire, and it’s pretty much for the opposite reason than the dominant narrative about why they’ve lost in other areas.

i've been following Bloomberg and they have a crude map that shows this. the LDs did well across the southern tier, the rightwingers on the east coast.

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