The British Election

[Blackleaf]

BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said if the exit poll is broadly correct then Conservative Party leader and Prime Minister Boris Johnson will get the backing he needs in Parliament to take the UK out of the EU next month.

It would be the biggest Conservative victory since 1987 and Labour's worst result since 1935, the poll suggests, with the party forecast to lose 71 seats.

The exit poll suggests the Tory strategy of targeting leave-voting Labour seats in the Midlands and North of England might have paid off, with Boris Johnson's party expected to have made gains at the expense of Labour.

In contrast, the Conservative share of the vote is expected to fall back on the 2017 general election in those areas that voted most strongly for Remain in the 2016 EU referendum, while Labour's vote is expected to fall back rather less, according to polling expert Sir John Curtice.

As a result, the Conservative share of the vote is expected to be slightly lower in London and Scotland and do little more than replicate the 2017 result in the South East outside of London.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50765773

 

[Blackleaf]

The New York Times is stating the same thing, BL. Hope it is true as it would be a great win for Britain.

Good to see the British have the good sense to reject the Far-Left Marxists who would have ruined this country.

And good to see the British saying, yet again, that we want to leave the EU. We won't be ignored this time.

 

[Blackleaf]

Not a good night for anyone who is Labour and/or a Remainer. It's looking like it will be the Tories and Leavers victorious tonight.

So we're finally going to get Brexit. There can be no going back on that now. I'm looking forward to hopefully seeing several smug Remainers get their comeuppance tonight, such as Anna Soubry and Emily Thornberry. There are also reports that Dennis Skinner, who has been the Labour MP for Bolsover in Derbyshire since 1970, may be ousted tonight. If that's true, then things are parlous for Labour. I'm also expecting Corbyn to announce his resignation as Labour leader tomorrow after losing TWO elections.

 

[Blackleaf]

First result of the night is Blyth Valley in the north east of England and it seems to support the exit poll predicting a resounding victory for Boris.

Blyth Valley is (or now was) a Labour heartland, a former coalmining area.

But the Tories have taken it from Labour. It had been Labour since 1950! Labour are onto a drubbing.

Former Labour MP Kate Hoey - who backed Brexit - says if the predictions are correct, it shows Labour has "lost touch with its working class decent supporters in areas of the country that voted to Leave".

She says: "The difference between 2017 and now is because then both parties were committed to Brexit.

"Once that changed - and there are other issues too about the direction of Jeremy Corbyn - but Brexit has really changed things up there, with the Brexit Party having taken votes from Labour.

"It is a very, very damaging night for Labour."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2019-50755004

 

[Serryah]

So the Tories win.


We'll see now if they can give Brexit deal or no deal...

 

[Blackleaf]

So the Tories win.
We'll see now if they can give Brexit deal or no deal...

Brexit will happen now. That's what the experts say.

A jubilant Boris Johnson has tweeted: "We live in the greatest democracy in the world."

 

[Blackleaf]

So Johnson is predicted to get 368 seats. Labour are predicted to get 191, their worst performance since 1935.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Brexit will happen now. That's what the experts say.

A jubilant Boris Johnson has tweeted: "We live in the greatest democracy in the world."

translated: " I am so glad I WON."..Phew !!!!.........

watching the results on BBC.......it is quite profound..

;-)

 

[Blackleaf]

translated: " I am so glad I WON."..Phew !!!!.........
watching the results on BBC.......it is quite profound..
;-)

So what the Tories need to do is finally get Brexit done. It took nuclear bombs to finally end WWII. It's taken a General Election to finally end the three-and-half year Brexit political civil war in Britain - and the Leavers have won it.

What Labour need to do is to oust Corbyn and his fellow Momentum Marxists who have taken over the party - apart from those elected democratically, of course - and to elect a new leader who will return the party to its working class roots and make it electable again. I'd like to see Frank Field stand to replace Corbyn.

A Labour woman stating the obvious right now for Corbyn's defeat - his anti-Brexit stance, his anti-Semitism, his Marxism, his support for the IRA, Hezbollah and Hamas. That's why they are predicted to lose 71 seats.

 

[Ocean Breeze]

So the Tories win.


We'll see now if they can give Brexit deal or no deal...

And just think........Boris did not have to involve another nation in getting help to get him elected. No extortion for this chap.;-)

 

[Blackleaf]

And just think........Boris did not have to involve another nation in getting help to get him elected. No extortion for this chap.;-)

No. That was Comrade Corbyn. And he and his Russian pals failed.

 

[Serryah]

Brexit will happen now. That's what the experts say.

A jubilant Boris Johnson has tweeted: "We live in the greatest democracy in the world."

Again, believe it when I see it.

 

[Blackleaf]

The Tories have gained Darlington from Labour, in England's North East, another former Labour stronghold.

Another sign, with just a handful of the 650 constituencies declared, that it's going to be a bloodbath for Labour.

Wrexham, in north east Wales, Labour since 1935, looks likely to fall to the Tories too.

It's going to be a long night for Labour.

 

[Blackleaf]

The decent-sounding defeated Labour candidate in Blythe Valley saying Labour's defeat is down to them not honouring the referendum result and that democracy cannot be ignored.

Remainers wanted a second referendum and now they've had it. And they lost again - resoundingly this time.

 

[Blackleaf]

It looks like my man Johno Lee isn't going to win here in Bolton South East and that it will remain Labour (Yasmin Qureshi). But he's saying he may cut in half her majority.

Still, it's the national picture I'm much more concerned about, and that's looking good.

 

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Live pictures of a forlorn-looking Corbyn turning up for the count in North Islington in North London, looking like a man whose political life has just days to go. His fans giving him hugs with fake, brave, smiles. Dramatic scenes.

 

[Mowich]

I don't trust polls - any polls. When will the results finally be official. Is this an all-night affair?

 

[Blackleaf]

I don't trust polls - any polls. When will the results finally be official. Is this an all-night affair?

Pretty much all night.

Don't forget it's really 650 elections.

Each result comes in one by one.

 

[Mowich]

Pretty much all night.

Don't forget it's really 650 elections.

Each result comes in one by one.

Thanks for that, Blackie. I'm really hoping the polls have it right. BTW, who controls your media - the ones that were predicting a down to the last vote race thing and, that there would be a very poor voter turn-out???

 

[Ocean Breeze]

Again, believe it when I see it.

Me too.