General election

[samale]

I agree, although I’m going to be optimistic for a day or two at least.

There’s things they can do, like immediately review planning applications, but most things are going to require a budget.

Very similar here in N. Ireland, for change to happen we need to generate money. Unfortunately most of it is poverty, so introducing tax increases/ rates/ water chargers is a sure way to losing votes. Rock and a hard place

 

[foxy]

Nigel Farage!

 

[Chippy_Tea]

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Labour 391

Tory 99

LD 7

SF 7

Reform 4

68 to go.

These are the only parties listed on BBC feel free to add your own to the list.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Summary​

• Labour wins the UK general election - Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister
• "Change begins now," Starmer says, as Labour is forecast to win a landslide with 410 seats, and the Conservatives on 144
• Rishi Sunak says Britain has delivered a "sobering verdict"
• High-profile Conservatives have lost their seats, including Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Penny Mordaunt
• Reform UK leader Nigel Farage becomes an MP for the first time, and the party's Richard Tice and Lee Anderson also win
• Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington North as an independent, and Labour's Jon Ashworth loses to an independent
• Green Party's Carla Denyer wins Bristol Central from Labour, while Scottish First Minister John Swinney says it's been a "very, very difficult and damaging" night for the SNP

 

[foxy]

Summary​

• Labour wins the UK general election - Keir Starmer will be the new prime minister
• "Change begins now," Starmer says, as Labour is forecast to win a landslide with 410 seats, and the Conservatives on 144
• Rishi Sunak says Britain has delivered a "sobering verdict"
• High-profile Conservatives have lost their seats, including Defence Secretary Grant Shapps, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Penny Mordaunt
• Reform UK leader Nigel Farage becomes an MP for the first time, and the party's Richard Tice and Lee Anderson also win
• Ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wins Islington North as an independent, and Labour's Jon Ashworth loses to an independent
• Green Party's Carla Denyer wins Bristol Central from Labour, while Scottish First Minister John Swinney says it's been a "very, very difficult and damaging" night for the SNP

Labour didn't win the election the Tories lost it, I blame the musical chairs of leadership, same thing happened here in Oz, to both parties. The electorate doesn't like it. A stable government is the key, the elected leader needs to see out their term, no chopping and changing.

 

[Kerby]

Labour didn't win the election the Tories lost it, I blame the musical chairs of leadership, same thing happened here in Oz, to both parties. The electorate doesn't like it. A stable government is the key, the elected leader needs to see out their term, no chopping and changing.

Agreed, and I think that is the case more often than not.

 

[Brew_DD2]

 

[klaus]

Labour may not have won the election .... but who's in government ???

 

[An Ankoù]

Labour didn't win the election the Tories lost it, I blame the musical chairs of leadership, same thing happened here in Oz, to both parties. The electorate doesn't like it. A stable government is the key, the elected leader needs to see out their term, no chopping and changing.

Utter tosh. @foxy, like most of what you write. Of course they won.

Even if Starmer did scrape in by the skin if his teeth, it's still a win.

Not for you, though.

 

[Bosch]

Lizz Truss has lost her seat

 

[Bzee]

I'm so happy to have a fresh faced labour MP the old conservative one had been there since like ABBA were in the charts change is good buckle up

 

[foxy]

Utter tosh. @foxy, like most of what you write. Of course they won.

Even if Starmer did scrape in by the skin if his teeth, it's still a win.

Not for you, though.

Never, it is like anything else in life if a team performs badly, or are perceived to perform badly they will get beat.

 

[JockyBrewer]

Some might argue that Reform lost the election for the Conservatives.

 

[An Ankoù]

Some might argue that a couple of pints of my Toolmaker Best Bitter would make an excellent start to the day. Who's round is it?

 

[foxy]

Labour may not have won the election .... but who's in government ???

The ones opposing the loser of course.

 

[foxy]

Some might argue that Reform lost the election for the Conservatives.

Never, the election was done and dusted before Reform entered the election seriously. I wonder how many deposed Tories will now join Reform?

 

[An Ankoù]

Lizz Truss has lost her seat

And her marbles.

 

[Covrich]

Labour didn't win the election the Tories lost it, I blame the musical chairs of leadership, same thing happened here in Oz, to both parties. The electorate doesn't like it. A stable government is the key, the elected leader needs to see out their term, no chopping and changing.

It is almost as if all that back stabbing and power grabbing and behaviours caught up with them.

Still, you need to have some kind of plausible opposition or you still get back in, look at Biden Trump.

I say this as someone who doesn;t really care for Tories and not convinced by Labour at all.. Never have done. But I hope at least we can have a government that can at least make a plausible effort to pretend they care.

 

[LeeH]

Fewer votes than in 2019 but Labour wins by a country mile.

Proportional representation cannot come quick enough, if ever.

 

[Covrich]

Fewer votes than in 2019 but Labour wins by a country mile.

Proportional representation cannot come quick enough, if ever.

Yep, and we might actually have people voting more and more and see some real investment into what could drive great leaderships and not power grabs.. But The turkeys will not vote for xmas.