Who Will You Vote For?

[MrLongbeard]

Exit poll

[ZRX61]

Now you're really fucked with Labour having a majority of 170.

[Dodgy69]

Life is brutal, it knows whether you're giving it 100% and it doesn't give you anything if you aren't.

Not least because we systematically keep voting in governments that don't have our best interests at heart... Whilst Snake Oil salesmen successfully continue to convince people to fight amongst themselves and support their particular flavours of cronyism, we stand defeated.

Live absolutely doesn't have to be this hard! The human race seems to refuse to want to learn the lessons of its own history, which means in essence, they are doomed to repeat those mistakes...

I'm only 43 and I'm tired... REALLY fucking tired... And I'm one of the relatively lucky ones, so to speak!

We are probably 20 years away from any "real" change. You will probably see it. Needs a good few more to drop off the cliff. But it will happen for sure.

[Saga Lout]

It doesn't matter if you vote of not, every heard of a seat being won with a majority of one vote? Of course you haven't. ...

Not just one vote, but there have been some pretty close results so a majority of 1 vote is not impossible, in fact, it's probably already happened. I could only find results going back to 2010. Also, I'm sure I've seen reports of local elections where the vote count has been equal and the winner determined by a coin toss or drawing lots. Anyway, here are a couple of close results:

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/g ... 3/majority
UK general election on 8 June 2017, North East Fife, GETHINS, Stephen, SNP, Majority 2

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/g ... 1/majority
UK general election on 6 May 2010, Fermanagh and South Tyrone GILDERNEW, Michelle SF Majority 4

[Taipan]

Déjà vu?

[ZRX61]

Local news here in LA has just informed us that the new UK PM is some bloke called "Keeer Stir meeer"

[Bustaspoke]

Usually I don't gloat,but I had to smile when they announced the Liz Truss result & the Downing st lettuce didn't even have the grace to congratulate the new MP.
True colours showing through there,no doubt she'll blame someone else.

[Bustaspoke]

Déjà vu?

I heard on a podcast that the Scum were telling their readers to vote Labour this time
Not that anyone reads it around these parts ..

[Horse]

Local news here in LA has just informed us that the new UK PM is some bloke called "Keeer Stir meeer"

I hope you corrected them?

Surrr Keeer Stir meeer

[irie]

“Labour is already peddling a narrative that this victory is down to a changed Labour Party.

The reality of course is Keir Starmer was holding the pass the parcel at the right time, when the Tories eventually imploded.

So they’ve won by default, on a lower share of the vote than 2017.”

In 2024 Labour will get about 36% (?) of the vote share and a landslide majority (over 400 seats), whereas in 2017 Labour vote share was about 40% (?) when it got less seats than the Conservatives.

FPTP has obviously failed yet again but Labour as beneficiaries this time will of course do nothing to reform the electoral system.

[Supermofo]

my old constituency of North East Hertfordshire. I usually get Tory, Labour, Lib Dem and sometimes a Green candidate to choose from, it doesn't matter who I vote for the Tories always win (maybe not this year).

Nope they still won Without reform they'd have steamrollered it. I've voted Tory once since moving here but as you say doesn't seem to matter. Had hoped for a better Lib Dem/Green result but they didn't get a look in. Dunno how we ended up in Broxbourne with the boundary changes, seeing as I'm less than 2 miles from Hertford and the Hertford Council offices but there you go. Seems Hertford and Stortford went red though.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/202 ... /E14001139


This is a depressing stat and says a lot about the current state of UK politics. Lowest share but still by far the biggest parties.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn09xn9 ... d6deb#post

[Supermofo]

Got this yesterday and out of date now but still nail on head. Not work friendly

[Mr. Dazzle]

Mrs. D's home area (where's she's never actually voted in a GE!) went to Reform Doesn't surprise me in the least.

Come to think of it, I've never voted in the GE at my home town either, despite voting in every GE I've been allowed to.

[Hot_Air]

I heard on a podcast that the Scum were telling their readers to vote Labour this time

Indeed, the Sun backed Labour on polling day.

[gremlin]

And after this cataclysmic change, the sun still came up*, it's still pissing down, the same old potholes are still in the roads and I'll still be paying tax and if I get burgled the police may turn up, eventually.

Any changes Labour instigate will be evolution, not revolution. Changes will be tinkering around the edges. The wheels will keep turning, albeit wiped with a different oily rag.

As you were.


*Haven't seen it today, but it's a bit lighter than at midnight, so let's give it the benefit of the doubt.

[gremlin]

On the plus side, Count Binface did alright.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/count-b ... ak-6038214

[Tricky]

This is quite a telling stat for me....


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[gremlin]

I was dismayed to find there wasn't a bumming party candidate on my ballot.

I got my pencil out and shoved my vote right up the ballot box.

[irie]

...
John Curtice: "Actually, but for the rise of the Labour Party in Scotland... we would be reporting that basically Labours vote has not changed from what it was in 2019"

Most people don't want Labour but they want the Conservatives even less

[gremlin]

Very low turn out too. Those voters who did brave to warm, sunny weather yesterday, driven more, I suspect, to get people out than to support the two main parties.