The 2024 UK General Election - news, speculation and updates

[strung out]

If Labour hadn't shafted Faiza Shaheen she would pretty clearly have beaten IDS.

She was absolutely right to stand as an independent though.

I gave zero shits about whether Corbyn won or lost, but my heart breaks for Faiza and if there was one independent I wanted to win against Labour incumbents, it was her. She got treated so shabbily and Labour have got no-one to blame but themselves for losing that seat.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Just catching up. Shapps lost!

 

[tim]

Bollocks ian duncan smith still in

Pity about Faiza but at least the parachuting starmarite got her comeuppance. That shit Wes Streeting was also almost defenestrated by Leanne Muhammad

 

[Monte]

Didn't follow overnight, so apologies if this has been covered, but East Anglia looking rather 'patchwork', with quite the party spread among neighbouring constituencies.

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Yay, I now live in a Green constituency.

 

[BoatieBird]

I'm still waiting for my result in Northamptonshire South, formerly Andrea Leadsom's seat

Conservative hold

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

But that is true of the overwhelming majority of seats in the country, there are very few seats where anyone got over 50% (Corbyn coming close to being an exception to even running against Labour)

Sure and is a feature of fptp, whilst PR has many failings too, still is a bit urgh though, has taken some shine off the night for me.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Truss on the BBC, blaming the party for not turning right enough.

 

[YouSir]

Pity about Faiza but at least the parachuting starmarite got her comeuppance. That shit West Streeting was also almost defenestrated by Leanne Muhammad

My soul genuinely aches at Streeting surviving. The man should be locked in a small box at the bottom of a deep ocean, he disgusts me with every aspect of his being.

 

[TopCat]

I’m really pleased for my mum. Lifelong Labour supporter. Eighty this year. She will be chuffed.

 

[kenny g]

Truss on the BBC, blaming the party for not turning right enough.

If only the bank of England conspiracy had not stepped in with the moorcroft hospital to stop the eyes swivelling.

 

[TopCat]

No more Rees mogg

 

[Steel Icarus]

3 million fewer votes and a smaller % of the vote for Labour than in 2017. Wow.

 

[alex_]

Truss on the BBC, blaming the party for not turning right enough.

She accepts that she was prime minister though, so that’s progress.

 

[SpookyFrank]

3 million fewer votes and a smaller % of the vote for Labour than in 2017. Wow.

Watch nobody in the press ask Starmer about this.

 

[quimcunx]

Bell ribeiro-addy retains/wins new seat of clapham and brixton hill with 56% share. Left wing labour. 3 way split between libdem 6k , green 5k , tory 4k, after that.

 

[rubbershoes]

In the next door constituency, Refuk took enough votes away from the tories that libdems got in and long-standing useless twat Ian Liddell-Grainger is gone.

Thank you Nigel for splitting the right

 

[Cid]

Didn't follow overnight, so apologies if this has been covered, but East Anglia looking rather 'patchwork', with quite the party spread among neighbouring constituencies.

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I was in Suffolk coastal recently; the 'we want Coffey to go' posters (intentional pun, I might have gone for iced or ground) seemed forlorn and a bit of a desperate measure. But over the line nonethless. But yeah, it is weird seeing East Anglia like that.

Initial thoughts... Going to be interesting to parse out how Reform affected the overall vote. A lot it seems. Certainly in East Anglia, also in some of the seats just north of London (Herts, Harlow). It is not going to be easy for Starmer to hold on to many of those places, though obviously dependant on what reform actually do in 5 years time. Here in Sheffield Central impressive showing for the greens, 26% of the vote (up 15%). I'd like to take hope from that, from the various independents who've won or put in very strong competition... But nah, I suspect Starmer will learn that damage in places like Shef C is always going to be limited, and will probably assume that the protest inds can be swung in time.

 

[polly]

Steve Baker on the radio saying it's a relief that he lost and admonishing the electorate for putting tory staffers' mortgages at risk

 

[cupid_stunt]

3 million fewer votes and a smaller % of the vote for Labour than in 2017. Wow.

Watch nobody in the press ask Starmer about this.

Sky has been highlighting that.

 

[strung out]

Whenever notorious cunts (cabinet ministers, loudmouth backbenchers etc) get voted out, there's always a worry that they could get parachuted back in to parliament at the next convenient by-election, but the sheer scale of the number of wankers who have just been voted out means we're unlikely to see many of them ever again. Something to be chirpy about this morning.

 

[bemused]

The greens did very well. Be interesting to see if they get as much air time as Farage and his goons.

 

[baldrick]

Two more Devon seats stay tory by less than 200 votes

One of them's mine

121 votes in it. Fucking hell.

 

[Artaxerxes]

The greens did very well. Be interesting to see if they get as much air time as Farage and his goons.

lol no

Of course not, the only voice allowed on the tv is the one saying shoot the boats

 

[YouSir]

Living in the SE London Labour heartlands looks like Greens are the second party in every constituency. The 'there's no option but Labour' vote is going to look a lot weaker in future.

 

[rubbershoes]

Do we think there is going to be legal challenges over the postal vote issues?

J6 tomorrow. Storming the Dolphin Centre

 

[rubbershoes]

Just catching up. Shapps lost!

You've got a lot of catching up to do. Enjoy it. It gets better

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Absolutely spot on.

 

[cupid_stunt]

In the next door constituency, Refuk took enough votes away from the tories that libdems got in and long-standing useless twat Ian Liddell-Grainger is gone.

Thank you Nigel for splitting the right

This is good news, when I lived down that way, Bridgwater remained Tory, even when Taunton was won by the LDs.

 

[rubbershoes]

This is good news, when I lived down that way, Bridgwater remained Tory, even when Taunton was won by the LDs.

Bridgwater still tory due to lack of tactical voting

 

[moochedit]

Sky has been highlighting that.

Bbc just mentioned it as well.