UK General Election 12th December 2019 |OT1| Hindsight is 20/19 (Tory majority confirmed)
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I’m taking solace in James Cleverly’s words about not taking it as a given.
That sentence made me feel sick.
That sentence made me feel sick.
The union is fucked. Brexit really has broken everything. Outside of the Tories and UKIP, nobody gave a shite about being part of the EU before the referendum, and now leaving come any cost has become the priority - for absolutely no reason at all.
I fully expect Scottish independence in my lifetime.
I fully expect Scottish independence in my lifetime.
Worst part of this is that it means we would have been far better off with May winning her election.
Not just the net, but communities in general. Rural are Urban England are like completely different countries. The dissonance between those who live in the major cities, and those who live well outside them, cannot be overstated enough.
Youth vote hiding from the weather, Tory making the right call by playing musical chairs with leaders, repeat the lie actually working, people being blinded by how good Corbyn actually is and not seeing his favorables for what they are: an anchor.
I can't see how Labour survive this. Their membership will install someone from Corbyn's wing and they'll get nowhere. England is a centre right country, you can't run from the left.
Yeah was expecting a small majority, hoping the estimate is still waited badly, but looks like I will seriously look at working abroad next year. I'd at least hope this gives labour the chance to get someone better than Corbyn
Sadly that’s what the man in the street wants. Last time the Tories were talking about forcing old people to sell their homes, bringing back fox hunting, loony stuff. This time they aimed directly at Sun readers.
After the whole Impeachment thing collapses once it moves to the Senate and gets rejected, it'll only get worse. Much, much worse. There will be zero mechanisms to do anything about that office, so the office will be hilariously emboldened.
Where the fuck do I go to find a livestream of the BBC’S coverage?? I’ve looked all over their website, all over Twitter, nothing!
Sometimes a society has to destroy itself so it can born anew.
Nobody wants progresive politics more likely, we better not foul ourselves.
More like "one simple policy is simple than many complex ones".
people in this thread totally misreading this result. any Labour leader would have struggled with this Brexit position. Labour are going to get hit most in the most Brexit-supporting seats. i'm afraid to say I think the second referendum position, right or wrong, has put off many voters and prevented scrutiny of the specific deal on offer. it probably would have been better for Labour to stick to the soft Brexit position
I mean, doesn't that show that reaching out to leave was a waste? Like, Tories didn't lose all their remain voters despite being very clearly hard Brexit.
Yep, after everything we've seen from the conservatives. Avoiding climate change debates, avoid difficult debates, outright lies and deceptions. All the shitty horrible things we know about Boris - his homophobic, poor hating, misogynistic, racist language - and people think "yeah I like to see him lead our country". People are fucking monsters.
The Brexit result, when factored through constituencies, is actually 65/35 Leave.
The Remain vote (like the Labour vote) is heavily concentrated in urban areas.
Make sure it's not to the US, we're going to pull our own "doubling down on our stupidity while the optimists swear we're too smart to" card in 11 months
Jeez. Well, once again and as per usual, the English are every bit as dumb as I thought. Still. I'm so sorry to the sane among you.
The exit poll would need to be wrong by historic proportions to make even a dent.
There was no clear Remain party though, which means that Tories could sneak by in those Remain seats through a plurality.
I said the same but was shot down in this very thread for saying it. Corbyn lost to Teresa May of all people, so he was gonna loose to anyone who was better at campaigning. He should have stepped down and let someone else have a go.
I think in these political circumstances a Labour majority is impossible, no matter the leader. Brexit has totally divided their base. But a different leader would almost certainly have done better than Michael Foot.
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