No Tories in Oxfordshire. You can now walk from Oxford to Berwick and Eastbourne without entering a Tory held seat
Suggests that their 'last minute, stand in every seat' election campaign may have backfired. Might have been better to have picked fewer, more credible candidates and focussed there. But frankly, I'm personally happy with that quirk.
please log in to view this image One of these blokes is a laughing stock. The other is wearing a bean balaclava.
Reform UK have by their own admission operated a low "actionable data" campaign (their lack of funds being the primary cause) . They have now got : 1. increasing financial donations 2. a seam of good electorate data from this and the 2019 elections Expect them to use the above to more devastating effect in the elections to come.
They were being heavily and suspiciously pushed all over social media, though. Their Tik-Tok presence was incredibly dubious, by all accounts. It's just another one of Nige's Putin-backed spamfests. Time for someone in authority to deal with him.
It gets worse. Reports are in that regional manager Starmer got LESS votes today than comrade Corbyn did in 2019, but is 200 odd seats better off.
Completely normal under our winner takes all system. In the last election the right and centre had a majority of the popular vote which inevitably leads to a Conservative majority. This time the left and centre had a majority of the popular vote and the right was divided so this is amplified into a huge Labour majority.
Annoyingly, we were only about 500 votes away from Wes Streeting being left in a skip The fact he got 10,000 less votes than he did in 2019 and 15,000 less than 2017 is hopefully eating at him
Sunak was absolutely ****, but at least he went with a bit of decorum and sanity: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1xnzlzz99o Not sure why his missus is pretending to be a brolly stand, though. Nice to see that Steve Baker's still an enormous, raving twat. Batshit Brexit ****er.
I know. All that is demonstrated is that as a mathematical system FPTP is utterly chaotic as a function of proportional vote. And on that basis, someone with nominal intelligence would avoid mocking those who appear to have suffered worst at the hands of it.
One loss that many people probably missed was Ian Paisley Jr in North Antrim. His father won it in 1970 and held it until his retirement in 2010. Jr picked it up that year and held it until now.
I hear they're selling tickets for the moment Farage has to declare his members interests Mainly to see if he actually ****s himself
